Mercy idea from someone who doesn't play Mercy

[Yara-11173]

@FistOfDoom-21550

I wanted to understand WHY.

Gotta appreciate someone trying to understand an issue instead of just dismissing it.

Here’s a topic I made on the subject awhile ago, one I think covers the gist of Valk’s issues. In hindsight there’s improvements I would make, and it’s not original by any means, these issues have been brought up ever since Valkyrie first hit the PTR.

Valkyrie is poorly designed and doesn't fit Mercy's kit

Valkyrie has been meta-defining broken, overpowered, nerfed 15 times and now it even has been buffed a little bit. She’s arguably balanced at this point. tldr: Valk covers way, way too many skills deficiencies of Mercy’s already shallow skill pool, It’s too forgiving and lacks room for player expression, it’s a design issue, not a balance one. Throughout those balance changes, from must pick to balanced and everything in between, negative feedback has remained and a considerable amount of it r…