Since when does Mercy heal more than Ana?
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Since anas first nerfs.
I’m only talking about averages per game.
No other context.
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If Ana uses nade to burst heal it means she puts her personal viability in danger as she has no way to heal herself or escape consistently.
If the nade is use for offense or self heal, Mercy is meant to have golden in healing.
Moira has burst healing while having no utility whatsoever. She is made to heal like this, mainly heavy tank compositions.
Mercy bounces between 2nd spot and 3rd, there is legit no reason why she should be first with the current kit she has. Boring ? She can be, but that’s no reason to be better than a Moira and an Ana who risks more than her.
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Mercy has a number of advantages over Ana and Moira. She is more mobile than them so being able to escape danger is not even an issue, healing is more consistent because of her lock-on beam and no ammo for healing, damage boost is available at any moment. Why have all those advantages and be able to give the same healing output at the same time? Don’t you think that’s a little too much?
For the amount of utility Mercy provides and the effort (or lack of it) required to play her, Mercy is in the perfect spot right now imo.
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Resurrect needs to be reworked back into an ult or removed tbh. It’s a parasite on her kit at this point because it prevents her from getting any meaningful changes in her kit while it’s on E. Legit they had to nerf every part of her kit one way or another but non-Valk GA just to keep it on E which is pretty insane.
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That nerf was a revert though.
I feel like her beam should do 55 hps and during ult 60 hps cause the healing nerf is what ruined her tbh
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Mercy’s healing output is right where it should be, above Ana and below Moira. By design, she’s the best main healer for overall sustain and the worst for directly outhealing damage threats. Increasing her base healing any further will give her too much of both, and Mercy will once again become “the best” main healer while also bringing strong utility.
This is Ana right now, which is the real problem. Mercy and Moira can’t compete with Ana’s combination of high-impact healing and utility in most situations. They are situational alternatives for Ana, but Mercy is still being overplayed as a go-to main healer, which she is not.
To make Ana less dominant, Mercy needs better ways to compete with her utility and Moira needs better ways to compete with her healing. Or we could just bring Ana under control, but the forums won’t like that…
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She’s one of three main healers in the game, she does have to be viable
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Mercy should not heal more, her healing is fine now.
Most consistent healing, you don’t need to aim or worry about shields, to a degree not even about LoS (healing by peaking around a corner constantly), that’s the trade off.
Mercy’s healing output has never been a problem. She is designed to be a strong single target healer. They even buffed her healing in the past from 50-60hps with the developer comment stating that the change is to solidify her role as a strong single-target healer. Her healing output post-rework has not gone up much considering Valk provides a chain healing effect. You cannot justify the validity of the nerf by saying well she has more consistent healing than other heroes so that makes it okay. They are literally nerfing every aspect of her kit to make her less of a must pick because they refuse to realise res on E is the problem. She is not in the perfect spot right now, shes balanced but unfun, not impactful and rarely capable of making big plays.
Mercy is fine - if people want her to be the strongest healer, then she needs to lose dmg boost, rez, or GA
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She deserves to be the strongest healer due to the fact shes incapable of both dealing damage and healing at the same time. Damage boost and GA have never been an issue before… Rez however belongs as an ultimate ability not a basic one.
Why does she deserve to be the strongest healer if she already is the most mobile one? Also, she got easy self regeneration, other healers need to use their abilities to heal themself.
Mercy still does MORE healing than both Ana and Moira according to Overbuff at least in low ranks, then Moira slowly takes over ever so slightly the higher you go.
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Because these aspects of her kit have never been an issue… I’ve never heard anyone complain that Mercy heals too much
Of course did she heal too much, she was a must pick for a whole year even after so many nerfs until they nerfed her healing.
Nor can Moira. Neither of them deserves to be “the strongest healer” just because their kit is extremely simple to use and require low to no mechanics.
Her healing output has been relatively the same for much longer than the rework. The reason she was a must pick was her exceptional healing in addition to res made her so. Now its simply better to choose other supports that have strong midfight capabilities that are comparable to the impact of rez. I.e nano boosts new healing can effectively save an ally from dying. While anti-healing the enemy team can sway the fight in your teams direction.
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