Mercy is one of the most powerful supports in the team based shooter game overwatch. But yes in the solo que overwatch Mercy is insanely difficult to maximize her immense utility.
My best advice is to try befriending the few rare people you find who can utilize your mercy skittles to the benefit of the team and play together for more consistency
Otherwise the new role que is about adapting on your role and learning other heroes within it for X situations to the benefit of your team. If mercy isn’t cutting it in your current match try looking towards moira, Lucio, or even Brig to changing up the flow of battle and turning the tides in favor for your team.
Good Game sense is learning when and where a different hero would be the most beneficial for the team. Maybe you need lucio’s speed on assault. Maybe you need brigs brawly aoe healing on hybrid. Who knows, but I do know that the game is designed for you to swap heroes mid match to adapt tot he enemy strategies and the maps you’re on
You don’t expect it to be so far down either. It’s an indication she’s being propped up by someone else in the meta. Reinhardt was the same. And he crashed for a reason after it was done.
This is a perfect meta for her. It couldn’t be better. She’s got lots of space to fly around, can damage boost snipers, easy rezzes. You’d expect her to have a higher one because it is her meta. And yet she’s pretty low. She should be around Hog and Widow, but she is not.
Sadly, few people want to accept that the “problems” they attempt to point out could possibly related to their skill. I see stuff posted every day that makes me scratch my head. Heads are so far in the sand it’s not even worth making counterpoints.
She’s not perfect, and she has weaknesses, but a not-insignificant amount of complaint posts are scapegoating to the point of becoming a meme.
The devs were gonna buff Moira because she’s objectively not fine. Mercy should be around the winrate of Widow if she were fine. And it’s really obvious to see why she isn’t. Because she mostly is only good as a pcoket to snipers and Pharah. That’s like four heroes. If you try to use her outside of those things you’re probably gonna lose.
Yeah, widow has half mercy’s overall pick rate, and a subpar win rate overall
And In GM widow is only doing one percent better than mercy overall which when you account for how mercy is still the second most played support in GM, is totally fine stats wise.
No, she doesn’t have lucio s 54% win rate…but she also has twice his pick rate.
She’s statistically fine. I don’t have an issue with not liking her design or play or whatever. But to say she’s performing poorly, as a top pick across every rank and every platform… It’s fair to point out that that’s objectively false.
Widow is 9 spots above her, even though she’s often used as a counter for herself. Who cares about Bronze win and pickrates? It has no meaning towards her balance.
She’s only good when paired with four specific heroes, that’s why her winrate isn’t higher.
This is her meta. And she’s barely average despite not being her own best counter. That isn’t fine.
Mercy seems in a decent spot to me, if they buffed her a little that would be fine but i would not say she’s the weakest support by far. That honor goes to brigitte.
