Mercy is a terribly designed hero

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Ok , before I start I want to mention that I’m a former Mercy main

So , Mercy - the most commented hero here , on the forums.
I’ve played her since season 5 and now I realize how badly designed she is.

Mercy is designed to be the best main healer in terms of consistency.
But here are my issues with this hero:
1.Her recent changes only proved that Her Ressurect is dragging her down.
Even though there are million of suggestions given by the players - it’s still remains the same and no one is happy with it’s state.
This ability will always be an OP or a really weak ability - nothing in between.
2.Her Ultimate ability is really weak - A lot of you might think “It’s good for a push or when you want to keep multiple targets alive” but it’s not really. The recent changes made it even weaker than before.
3.Every hero has something to do on their own - defend themselves , punish someone , kill someone etc. , but Mercy - she has to rely on her teammates. She can’t defend herself (yeah , she has a gun but it doesn’t really help), she doesn’t bring anything but a consistent healing , oh and REZ. I’ve always said that Mercy can perform as good as her teammates allow her to. And this is probably the main reason I don’t like her - she’s way too much team-dependent.

If a rework happens soon (AFTER THEY FIX EVERY OTHER HERO THAT NEEDS HELP RIGHT NOW) I hope that they give her something so she can feel more of a hero than a sidekick or a flight health pack with a staff.

Note: This is just my opinion on the things.

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yh but her personality being a swiss doctor and a futur angel fit her very well
:smiley: i agree with u

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*terribly re-designed hero

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That’s literally her design, that’s as she’s intended. Mercy is the pocket support hero, she relies on having someone else there to give them a boost. It’s why she has a great mobility skill but it’s dependent on teammate locations, it’s why her primary weapon (“weapon”) only boosts teammates, it’s why her only other ability is to bring back a dead ally.

Unfortunately for you I don’t think this is a design decision that will be curbed. This is how Mercy is intended to be, a support hero reliant on others to be there, and given the tools to be there with them and always provide useful support.

Resurrect debates aside, this is how she’s made, and that largely isn’t going to change. Resurrect on cooldown and Valkyrie were tooled the way they are to offer some independence and to have big moments of her own, but the core of the hero is still to tag along and pocket individuals, more so than it is any other support hero. If that isn’t the style of hero you want… you might want another hero to play.

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A lot of heroes are terrible designed, it’s not fair to just point out Mercy.

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i agree, rez should have never made it as an ability or ult in a game like this, it should be entirely removed and then they can think about how to make her ‘fun’ again. Otherwise, keep her as she is rn because she’s finally not a mandatory pick :smiley:

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Her design was fine in 2016.

Her healing rate is awful. A Mercy was healing me in combat and an encroaching DVA’s primary fire actually killed me because it out-damaged her healing beam…blasphemy.

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Thems the breaks. Mercys entire schtick is that she’s a pacifist and a medic. Much like a real field medic, her role isn’t to do much on her own. It’s solely to treat the casualties.

Was that a smart design choice? Surprisingly yes. Well for Blizzard anyway. Think about how many people who don’t play other FPS games play OW specifically because of her.

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Rip to 2016 Mercy who had her own hero moment.

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Lol, OP I think you need to change your title.

It should be “Mercy is a terribly reworked hero”.

Originally from a simple main healer with a straightforward and consistent healing, with an ult that requires players to time their ult or making it fail.

To an off-healer with an ult that lets her do exact same thing only this time she heals with chain beams and can independantly fly now.

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Nah

Mass rez was worse

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Valkyrie is way worse imo.

Like you press Q and you can heal more now.

Wow. I didnt know Mercy could be more engaging by holding left click and pressing space now. Whoop di doo

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ill do you one better, terribly designed then terribly redesigned

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Rez is terrible ability should never been added to the game in first place, doesn’t matter if it was ability or ult it will be still problematic, mass rez will be either useless very easy to counter or broken guarantee entire team revive.

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I actually like her being team dependent (although not in her current state), since I enjoy being able to help others perform at their best.

I just wish people would stop being so toxic towards people playing Mercy… Just earlier today I got called a fa**ot and much more because I didn’t rez a Genji when he died in a stupid spot and I didn’t even have rez up (it got worse when I said I didn’t have rez since they heard my voice and the feminist comments came flowing in from him and his friends).

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that’s wrong tho

her kit was amazingly designed originally, your dislike of Rez blinds you from the truth

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‘your dislike of rez blinds me to the truth’ or the knowledge that rez as an ability was never even remotely good design and mercys entire kit is the definition of braindead and still is the easiest kit in the game.

Mercy was never a good design. Your bias towards mercy is what is keeping the truth from you

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Except was conceptualized as an ult not a mere ability. Rez ult was trash when at launch, it became problematic when invul buff was introduced. Ya know a good middle ground for this? They couldve added damage reduction instead

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doesnt matter, resurrect is unbalanceable, back then and now, resurrect was either a very bad ult, or a guaranteed overpowered team revive. Like i dont even come close to understanding how anyone could possibly think mercy was even remotely close to ‘good design’ pre rework.

And i played the character

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Only became overpowered because someone got reworked.

shrugs

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