Healbot plus no skill
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Yes but no
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3/10 rage bait.
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Mercy do take no skill so I’m not surprised. People only play her cuz she is a beginner support
I wouldnt say she takes ‘no skill’, playing Mercy well is definitely a skill, and I would go so far as to say her skill ceiling is higher than Moira’s is.
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I started playing mercy my first time and it’s not hard
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Mercy is the core of this game, I instantly endorse all Mercy players on both teams.
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True its not hard, but a good mercy is often overlooked and its infinitely easier to screw up on Mercy than it is on Moria.
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most based thing i read on the forums all day
[silky bob flips as I turn to you and say]
so… what now?
I don’t mind Mercy if she’s on the other team
She is low effort low reward. Even the best Mercys look like idiots when they die, and they die a lot.
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you’re right, Mercy should get flash heal in her base kit so she can healbot harder
she’s not a healbot because her healing is so useless you should be using damage boost basically 95% of the time.
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Bait used to be believable.
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Let them believe the bait, then Mercy will be banned less.
Upper rank Mercy gameplay is focused primarily around damage boost. Even lower tier mercy mains that are smurfing will focus damage boost more. My favorite one was like Samito doing a GM run on Mercy and pulling out blaster more in lower rank.
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Mercy should be using her blaster more. The RoF plus it’s surprising damage means if everyone of healthy, gun should be out
Maybe you could get away with dmg boosting an ashe or someone with equally high power, but I mean those characters usually work in the backline. yeah the dmg boost isn’t going to turn a two tap into a one shot, but it makes it easier for your team to clean up.
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The reason the blaster is not used more often in higher tier is the swap speed is terrible. Mercy does only 100 DPS with 0.5s delay between each swap which is horrendous.
While the delay between shooting/heal on Illari, Baptiste, Kiriko, Zenyatta, Brigitte, Moira, Juno, etc. is almost nonexistent or lower than 0.5s. 100 DPS is atrocious when the projectile speed is so slow.
Mercy got a HUGE buff going into S9. Previously, damage boost would not turn many 4/3/2HKOs into a reduced hit. Damage boosting was primarily for edge cases like range drop off or extra damage for another player someone else has weakened.
Characters going up exactly 25% hp 200 → 250hp means EVERY character benefits from Mercy’s damage boost because she cuts through the 25% hp boost everyone gained in S9 to bring every character back to their 2HKO or 3HKO levels pre-S9.
Cass does 70/140/210/280 NO dmg bst
Cass does 91/182/273 WITH dmg bst.
Without damage boost Cass is a 4HKO bodyshot on ALL heroes at 225/250/275 hp
With dmg bst added, Cass is now a 3HKO on 225/250hp heroes. If you include his nade or headshot, he’s back to a 2HKO. This applies to many characters like Ashe, Pharah, Mei, Torbjorn, Freja, etc.
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oh what a suprise, the gold dps thinks mercy takes no skill
Did you only play her in b5, or at your actual skill level?
Mercy gets harder the higher up you are due to people actually shooting at you and chasing you around.
You can literally end with 10k heals, 22 elims and 1 death as mercy in silver.
In higher ranks than that (like plat) you actually have to focus on your survival and be good at her movement or you’re just playing respawn simulator.