With the amount of changes that have taken place to Mercy (all nerfs) since her rework, it is clear that it was a failure.
Whether Blizzard will accept this, ignore this, or do what they did last time and claim it was still a success, is to be seen.
Many people have said it before, including high ranking Mercy players such as Animetic, that resurrect is what is keeping Mercy at a huge pickrate over the other healers.
I seriously question your logic, the rework catapulted Mercy into must pick status, how is that a failure? increasing ten fold the pick rate and win rate of a character is a fail in your eyes? the changes came because they over did it, they have to balance it out and the goal has never been about throwing mercy in the dumpster, just to bring her in line
Weird you say this when old Mercy did in fact earn Resurrect. Instead of acknowledging that, people complained about a BS strategy that one, wasnât even viable in most, if not all situations and two, wasnât even used by the majority.
Her being OP and broken which then lead to her controlling the meta for the past months is a sign of a clear failure. You and the devs, pick rate doesnât determine the successfulness of a rework.
First: pickrate and winrate IS the main reason to rework characters, there are other factors too of course but they are included on the metric
second: controlling the meta is not a bad thing, meta is subject to constant change, mercy being a constant influence is not a bad thing, the bad thing is that other supports are being left out, nothing else
third: Pick rate DOES determine the succesfulness of a rework because it is the only metric that can speak about it, everything else is subjective
An easy character like mercy should not be dominating at all levels of play. Mercyâs pickrate is so insanely high, she overshadows every other support, and when the most mechanically demanding healer is considered a throw pick at even grandmaster, thatâs when I consider mercyâs rework a failure.
Your logic is more questionable. The reason they reworked Mercy was because her play style and Mass Resurrection as a whole was considered bad for the gameâs health and made her âimpossibleâ to balance. Her rework, in the end, only made Mercyâs situation worse, thus it is a failure. You just have to think outside of the box and think about how else this rework would be a failure.
Well guess what, none of those reasons were stated in the developer video that told us about the Mercy rework. Weird?
I wonder why the supports are suddenly being left out after her rework. Surely, itâs because Mercyâs rework was a successâŚ
So say for example a hero after their rework had a 95% pickrate. Do you think that shows a successful rework? Disregarding all the other points that determine the successfulness of a rework because they are subjective is just dumb imo.
It was an Ultimate. What I am suggesting is retain Valk in itâs current state and move Res to a pool charge system. Valk is still an Ultimate, res functions the same.