"Mercy is fun as she is, no changes needed"

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@Mordecai-2739

People just dont want Mercy to exist tbh.

To me, this is painting with far too broad a brush, as there are many, many, many players who enjoy Mercy as she is right now and ergo would not want her to cease existing

@Mordecai-2739

People complain that she shouldnt get changes and be better because she is too easy to play

I dont usually see that stated as the reason

Usually, I see it stated that she is either fun to play as she is, or she is balanced as she is, or she is impactful as she is - or any combination of those three

@Mordecai-2739

but at the same time, they dont want any changes to her that would allow for more expression of skill.

As I see it, more commonly it is a “if it aint broke, dont fix it” position.

and she isn’t broken

Specifically regarding more skill expression, I think BigMainLittleChains might help without disrupting the game much for those without the desire for more sill expression, but honestly, if one wants a more skill based character one need not change Mercy, rather, play one of the more skill based characters that already exist n the game…and there are several available

@Mordecai-2739

Mercy as she stands is a bot. Her ultimate performance of skill is staying alive (que the music).

I don’t see it that way, personally. Nothing robotic about her as a whole.

@Mordecai-2739

Primarily tho Mercy is a rez bot, thats her ultimate utility.

Actually, Rez is one of her cooldown abilities, not her ultimate

@Mordecai-2739

1. Rez in Mercys current state (and i personally believe overall) should never be on a flat CD, it needs to be earned to theres reward for both Mercy players and her enemies. If you kill the Mercy she wont have rez, if the Mercy is good she will have rez more often than the bad Mercy, it rewards both good play on Mercy and it rewards countering her. As it stands killing her doesnt matter, especially considering how low impact Valk is.

I dont see the need to make rez be earned like Valkyrie (or any ultimate) is

@Mordecai-2739

2. Valk is good, but its not amazing. Which is fine, if Mercy would get another ability to work with and have something to do with the team, it wouldnt matter as much, I only think rezz channel time should be halved during Valk. Enhanced abilities- enhance (also if the ‘‘earned rez’’ would be implemented it would have more interactions with this, cause killing her and denying her rezz change might mean you wont have rez even for Valk)

In my opinion, Valkyrie is one of the strongest and most versatile abilities in the game

@Mordecai-2739

3. Mercy needs another ability to work with bar some bigger changes to her kit. Mercy for all intent and purposes is a channeled hero, she can only do one thing at a time, she effectively channels her heal, her dmg boost and her rez. Such is life. But it also means that with her current situation (rez on 30 second cd+Valk basically being a low mass heal or mass dmg boost, again leaving her in channeling and giving her low agency or decision making or execution), she doesnt have much to do. Compared to basically every other healer that has at least 2 cds to manage depending on the situation. So for example Ana, can weave dmg into her healing without missing a beat due to the nature of her primary healing and dmg, she also has 2 abilities on about 10 second cds which she needs to think about and what she can do with them. Does she use them offensively or defensively? is there an ult or flanker or other engage she needs to save her sleep or does she go for an aggressive sleep? Same with nade, it can be used defensively during an engage, it can be used aggressively to start an engage, it can be used aggressively to stop a support ult/ability. Theres decision making and ways to distinquish one Ana player from another. Mercy basically boils down to dmg boost when you have space to and rezz when you need to/it is available, and thats only every 30 seconds.

There is an issue with adding an ability (even assuming she needs one, which I dont agree with) when console has no remaining buttons to assign said ability to

@Mordecai-2739

Her primary mode of skill expression is staying alive and her healing is too low to actually really save anyone

I save teammates all the time with Mercy’s healing, and find her healing to be quite strong

@Mordecai-2739

, making her role in team fights extremely limited, compared to any other healer.

I as Mercy am heavily involved in teamfights, personally, same as any other support