At this point a lot of players would agree with me if I told them 6v6 was better than 5v5. This last year of Overwatch has pretty much proven that statement. A lot of heroes needed reworks in order for this 5v5 format to be as “balanced” as possible, but we all know the blizzard developers don’t know what they’re doing.
One of the biggest elephants in the room has got to be Mercy. Before all the Mercy mains start getting angry with me. Just read everything I have to say please. I am not here to rag on Mercy players. Your hero is a part of the game, which means she is not safe from genuine criticism.
I am no Mercy specialist, but I do have an unreasonable amount of time on Overwatch across several accounts, playing mostly dps and support. That being said, I will not speak on the tank role because I’m honestly just not versed enough in it’s gameplay to make comments on balancing.
Mercy has been for years, a problematic hero. Notice how I said problematic, not overpowered. On one hand Mercy can feel like a liability. She doesn’t really interact or even attempt to confirm eliminations, and her kit requires a teammate to be in her LOS at all times otherwise she’s a sitting duck. On the other hand, she can be extremely frustrating to play against. You can spend an entire team fight chasing her to no avail because there simply isn’t a hero on the dps roster that can realistically keep up with Mercy without getting shut down trying to chase her. Let’s also not forget that she can give any hero a damage boost, and anyone who has played this game for any amount of time knows exactly how it feels to start a game, look up, and see pharah and Mercy attached to each other. enough said on that topic lol.
Now let’s get into the actual problematic part of Mercy. It’s not the fact that she can move fast around the map. It’s not because she has a smaller hitbox than every other character. It’s because there is no part of Mercy’s kit that requires her to actively engage in the team fight and to top it all off a lot of Mercy “techs” are just bugs that blizzard never fixed. She is literally by design, tilting to play against.
Did you have to burn all of your resources to kill that Orisa?? Too bad because Mercy just revived her and there was nothing you could do because she was behind a solid wall. Did you want to try and dive that Mercy in the enemy backline? You can’t do that because it’s first choke on King’s Row and Mercy is attacking so she’s not even going to be on your screen.
The bot tier spectator style gameplay has no place in Overwatch. We need more people to say this stuff because its blatantly obvious that Mercy is one of the outliers of OW2, but everyone is too scared of the Mercy community (including blizzard) to speak the truth.
Well, idgaf. Mercy is an issue and she needs to be reworked into something other than a pocket hero that spectates the team.
