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

[Ryan-111758]

@enferreine-1976

You say that you enjoy it but ignore the fact that people have given a multitude of very precise reasons why they dislike it and give huge reference to how her kit enforces the behaviours they dislike.

@enferreine-1976

You see a difference, I am looking at Mercy’s kit and explaining what in her kit creates this feeling of lack of enjoyment and engagement.

I can agree to disagree with someone for coming up with their own reasoning for it enjoying it when asked, but “because she is”, isn’t a suitable answer.

Lmao, you must not come on the forums very often, I’ve writen many, many, many LONG posts about WHY exactly I love current Mercy and find her fun and strong and impactful. I don’t feel the need to retype up paragraphs to “explain myself” when the Devs are basically already on my side in supporting and keeping the rework. Why do I need to defend something that is going to stay? lol…

But I’ll humour you

@Goldlantern-1543

I love the flow. She’s the only hero who has to combine her movement and abilities in a really seamless way. I like to do “drive-by heals” where I GA to one far away target and turn and heal another one while I’m passing by in the air then go straight into the healing the next target. That combined with launching myself at creative angles and flowing right into the next thing is great.

@Ryan-111758

I beam juggle, prioritize, and it also helps that I never die. I also use damage boost to bolster my team’s ult economy and secure kills, thus reducing the amount of damage I even need to heal in the first place. I main healer with Mercy almost every game and always get gold healing, a card for 35-45% of team damage healer, and my tanks are always the first to compliment me. I can sustain my tanks and enable my DPS, all while peeling for my off support, because I’m good at the hero and know how to milk maximum value from her.

Or me explaining why I think Mercy is super strong and impactful (and why I enjoy her)

@Ryan-111758

Hi! GM Mercy main here, been playing the hero since launch, have almost 800 hours on her, yadda yadda who cares.

She is so much more than a damage boost bot, to call her that is to utterly disregard all of the value and impact her kit has to offer.

First off, calling her heals bad is just wrong. Her healing has unique properties which no other main healer does (no reload, no aiming, very loose LoS restrictions, and healing through shields ) which alone makes her way more valuable as a healer in certain situations, such as if you are playing against Dive heroes like Winston. No other healer can pocket their squishies or second support better than Mercy can.

Rez is not at all too risky to use. The cast time is very easy to work around, you just need to use your knowledge of the game, teamfights, and the terrain to look for a window which you can safely rez in. You have ten entire seconds to press E on a soul, that’s a lot of time for a safe oppurutnity to present itself. Use her spacebar passive, use cover, use shields and LoS, ask for heals/bubbles/etc. And in many cases, valuable teammates like Widowmaker will die in super easy to rez places on highground.

You are also underselling her mobility. Supports are the most valuable parts of a team comp, when they die the team falls apart. Mercy has the best mobility and survivability of all supports, and thus she dies less than the others. She is alive more, and so has more uptime and value being output over the course of a match than say, an Ana who spends all game fighting off flankers and dying. Not only does her mobility allow her to stay alive, she can bait out enemy abilities and ammo and thus waste their resources and time, taking pressure off of her team is the process, as well as reach her teammates in situations where vertical mobility in required, which is hard for the other healers.

I always laugh when someone claims Valkyrie “doesn’t have anything impactful whatsoever” LOL. It’s probably one of the most versatile and useful support ults in the game. First, you have to keep in mind that it essentially makes her unkillable for 15 seconds. That’s 15 seconds of guaranteed healing/boosting output to your team. Then, it multiples her potential healing output by so much. Normally, Mercy can heal 750 health in a 15 second timeframe. During her Ult, Mercy can heal a potential of 4,500 healing in 15 seconds. That’s an INSANE boost to her healing potential, and the fact that her beams become AoE in this also drastically improve her life-saving potential. When you use Valkyrie, you are basically summoning 4 other Mercy players onto your team for 15 seconds, with all five of you each pocketing someone on your team with 60 HPS or 30% damage boost. How is gaining 4 more Mercys for 15 seconds “not impactful”. That’s not even taking to account how strong chain damage boost is for securing kills and bolstering your team’s ult economy.

I love Mercy. I’ve poured almost 1,000 hours of my last 4 years into the hero, because she’s so fun to play (after the rework, she became even more fun to play). The GA changes and buffs added new layers of depth and complexity. E rez brought new power and utility to the table and gave me more decisions, power plays, burst impact, and carry potential, while also raising her skill ceiling and reward signifigantly (contrary to what bad Mercy players will say lol), and Valkyrie is so much more useful, fluid, and fun to me than waiting for my team to die and pressing Q for insta-mass rezz W0oo.

I love Mercy 2.0 and am so glad she is here to stay. I love it much more than 1.0 which had toxic, unhealthy gameplay that promoted hiding to get maximum value from her ult, a less fun GA, and a lack of E ability utility. Not only was Old Mercy was more passive and reactive, she was way less complex/more easy to get value out of. Many of the Mercy players I see complain that current Mercy is “bad” or “useless” are actually just horrible at playing her, and that’s the tea. I’ve gotten to GM on 5 separate accounts playing Mercy exclusively, a good Mercy can carry sooo hard. I even had the enemy DPS streamer Kabaji tell him stream I carried the game as Mercy after we beat them:

h ttps://clips.twitch.tv/EndearingSucculentAxeStinkyCheese

Yet all the RevertMercy people will claim and claim that “current Mercy is useless and has no impact and can’t carry !!” which is so untrue it’s not even funny lol.