Blizzard is fantastic at hero balancing! 
/s
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One thing i’d like to add is the fact that healing stats aren’t adequate arguments without context. For example, Lucio has higher heals than Ana, but most of those heals are trash, small healing and not the awesome burst heals Ana gives that tilt team-fights.
Mercy may have the second best healing stat, but that doesn’t mean she is a main healer. The little, fragile healing she gives to a single target won’t make a difference if they are bursted down immediately, but that will still pad her stats.
The potential to save an ally in danger is more important than the potential to have high healing by keeping everyone topped-off.
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I created a comment earlier if you wanted to read. But I basically said that I also hate the idea of exclusive pocketting and explained why. I also showed my playstyle with Mercy that works and that doesn’t involve exclusive pocketting.
It’s quite long that’s why I’m only linking it instead of quoting.
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This, we’re supposed to accept her being unfun, but the reason she got reworked was because she was unfun. Its a double standard.
I add, the blizzard has made it clear that they want mercy to be a healer with the highest healing media in the game, but it is now behind moira.
Yeah, I don’t like the concept of exclusive pocketting either.
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I agree with you that stats aren’t adequate. Even if I had the highest heals in the game, it won’t matter if our team dies in every team fight anyway.
But I don’t agree with your other points.
- I don’t really care about padded stats. Although it does feel good, nobody sees your stats anyway unless they dig for it.
- Although her healing has been reduced, it could still be a difference of 1-2 additional hits before your heal target dies. You can’t deny the importance of an additional hit.
- Ana should be able to burst heal a target since the enemy has the ability to block her line-of-sight so she can’t heal said target.
- When I play as tank, and we engage an enemy, I usually position myself at the side of the enemy so that their Ana can’t heal our target.
- In that situation, I’d say that an Ana’s burst healing is useless compared to a Mercy’s “trickle” healing. Even Zen’s minimal healing is better in that situation, but of course, the higher the heal the better, so Mercy or Moira takes this position.