Mercy was meta for a long time

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Much of this isn’t true.

Mercy wasn’t always meta. Mercy is not currently fine. The current support balance is worse than it was four months ago and is likely to get worse.

The myth of support balance

There’s a narrative that’s prevalent in the Overwatch community. Most players believe it. The Overwatch devs support it as well. It goes something like this: The support class is finally set right. After a long year of all the other supports living in Mercy’s shadow, we are now playing in a support utopia where all the supports are viable and support diversity is at an all time high. The support balance patch was a rousing success. The problem is that this narrative shares as many attributes i…

It is however true that you can’t get everything that you want.