God it is so frustrating how people don’t understand the difference between Mercy’s case and how other heroes have been handled, and constantly flame and harass Mercy players for being “whiny” or “entitled” when they would be completely outraged if their own character was mistreated this way.
Genji still functioned after the triple jump nerf, or the DB nerf. He is a mobile, flanking, dps hero. He still has mobility. He still does okay damage. He can still dash around and flank and do Genji combos, and most importantly, he is still able to kill people and retains impact during dragonblade. It’s not like after the nerf, he lost his ability to do his job as a dps and kill people.
Mercy, on the other hand, basically does one thing, and one thing only. She is the only dedicated healer in Overwatch, to the point where she has practically zero combat ability. The devs themselves have said in plain text, Mercy was designed to be a powerful, dedicated single target healer as outlined by her design philsophy. Yet, after the most recent nerfs, she is consistently being outhealed by Moira with Lucio and Ana close behind, despite doing practically nothing except heal all game, in which even her ultimate, her ULTIMATE ABILITY as the one and only dedicated healer, could not outheal a Winston’s damage. Mercy is literally designed to be a dedicated healer, yet consistently loses in healing output to her competition. She fails at the one thing she was designed to do.
And you don’t see a problem with that? It baffles me how people can look at the state she is in and not remotely see any kind of problem with her in where she is now.
And so, after an unjust nerf that had absolutely nothing related to why the character was so dysfunctional to begin with, now that it isn’t even fully reverted, just partially, we’re expected to be happy and “grateful” for the “buff” she gets? It’s like slapping someone in the face, and then telling them they should be grateful as you give them a bandaid afterward.
Literally, think about if they treated Genji, or anyone else people use this way. If they just completely gutted Genji, so that his shurikens did practically zero damage, and he could not kill even the squishiest characters like zen, and made him slow and sluggish to use, making deflect root him in place unable to move for 3 seconds, halving the dash distance, and then after several months of having him be completely dysfunctional and unable to do any significant damage or ability to get picks, they only partially revert him, ONLY DURING HIS ULTIMATE, and then people have the gall to yell at you about how your “whiny” and “entitled” for not appreciating the buffs.
I dare people to actually think about what it would be like if their own mains and characters were treated this way, and dare them to see if they would not also be infuriated, offended, and outraged.
The comparison you draw isn’t fair at all, and isn’t an apt analogy. Mercy literally does not function in the one role she was made to do. You can’t compare that to minor nerfs to Genji’s kit that have left him otherwise largely unaffected in terms of playstyle and effectiveness.