Moira - you can fade Omni directionally with no teammates needed, dps on right click, makes you immune to most big ults
Zenyatta - kick the enemy, no teammates needed just the enemy , dps on left click and right click, can ult self making them immune to most big ults
Ana - you can sleep one person, you’re better off using it for engagement because the entire team will dive you, no teammates needed at best, dps on left click, still can’t nano self in match but should be able to. Rip to the team I made a sacrificial god moment against as ana, you will be missed.
Brig - self heal in inspire, plus passive, self peel with dash bash, whipshot like link for the good ole bonky. literally a god if you can shield dance , don’t touch her she feels amazing
Bap - has immo on top of verticality, dps on left click, ult is amazing for dancing around
Lucio - boop, wall ride, wall jump , dps on left click, ult makes immune to some big ults takes timing and feels satisfactory.
Kiriko - wall climb, teleport like mercy but better because objects don’t matter! Teammate needed but better! Dps on right click . Ult is amazing at push but is countered by mirror which is common rn so feels boring.
Mercy - maybe you’ll get to prop jump, predictable flight patterns, no personal zoning tools like essentially all the other supports. No dps until you switch to gun putting you at disadvantage. New infinite ga is time gated on who is alive and who is in respawn. Things like infinite ga are not made known and easily accessible to the public putting the player base at probably 20/80 split on who knows/who doesn’t which you can feel. Very much so. In game. It’s palpable.
Rez needs buffed or replaced with a more functional zoning tool. It doesn’t feel impactful to use half the time because everyone can up and die in the time it takes to cast, nobody dies in a decent enough spot, no brawlers look to help with rez, other supports wouldn’t be able to heal in the time it takes to rez for a fight etc. It’s bad for the game now unless you add a level of interaction to it to make it actually feel beneficial. Or remove it entirely for self zoning/self peel. Mercy is a hero that doesn’t have dps on her basic level like mostly every other support has. She needs a rework away from rez or she needs an immediate access to dps/zone to make up for her outdated kit IMHO. like please I get told I’m throwing just for playing mercy now.
I think mercy should heal more per sec if she keeps beam on tank so it ramps up a,lil. JUST For tank otherwise pharmercy op and shes never drop beam from a pocket to heal lol
And even if you hold right click, it doesn’t feel it’s getting it’s value until probably high level play. And even then so much damage happens you’re mostly stuck to a mitigation role on a lot of the cast.
Mercy needs buffs yes, but the devs and the ow team have completely abandoned her, they want to put a healing nerf on her and lower her from 50 hp/ to 40 hp/s, leaving her even worse than she is.
Mercy used to have this thing that negated big ults, it was harder to use than Zen’s, and in many ways it was worse because it was more an oopsie undo than a prevention. Mercy also had to not be killed to use it, unlike Zen’s which makes him immune. But streamer’s cried rivers about it and they reworked a fun hero to a less fun hero. And now ppl want to rework her even more.
but you also just said you don’t like the current state of the hero as much. Thats the great thing about a rework, it doesn’t have to go 1 way. Theres many directions it could go, maybe more beneficial or maybe similar to symmettra (yikes hopefully not).
I try not to let bias get the best of me, because ngl I don’t like pocketing Mercy’s and I’ve met many Mercy mains that call it kind of boring to play. I’d like to see Mercy much more fun to play.
In a leak posted this morning… from an OWL Streamer… they have already deleted it but it mentioned a nerf in the healing of supports, they have totally lost their way.
Her original theme of an angel that can do mass resurrection was so fun. Streamer’s that railed against it should’ve just been cancelled or coped. The game doesn’t revolve solely around using ultimates combos now so it’d likely be less impactful than before but it was still super fun to use. Her ult now has no bang to it. It’s just now I do the same but better.
Mercy without Rez isn’t mercy. It’s core to her identity as a hero. It should go back to her ult and be as impactful like it was. Her current ult has never been nearly as popular or fun.
The new format doesn’t really revolve around ult combos as much, so something like a temp healing buff and cleanse AOE that resurrects downed targets would be good.
If you’re still going to give her an E after that, make it something for when she has no one to GA to, or make it a self heal.