"Only bad Mercies hide & rez"

[anon1217192]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4roack/advanced_mercy_tips_for_players_give_me_your/

789 votes, 93% upvoted

“A good Mercy is never on the Capture Point unless she’s very much needed. In Volskaya Point B for example, there are tons of hiding spots and corners for both the attacking team and defending team. In most cases, the attacking team will do a coordinated push. Throwing down all their ultis and hoping to capture the point. This is where you completely stop healing anyone and hide. That bright yellow/blue stream is very obvious and the enemy DPS will ALWAYS go for the Mercy by chasing that stream to it’s origin. So hold your healing and let them die before swooping in and res them.”`

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4z5y70/playing_mercy_hide_then_res/

620 votes, 89% upvoted

Top upvoted comment (103 net upvotes):

This is actually the right way to play Mercy.

You hide before the enemy storms the point/before your team takes an objective so that after they blow everything on your allies, you can swoop in for the save.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OverwatchUniversity/comments/6gma2w/mistakes_commonly_made_by_platinum_mercy_players/

541 vote, 93% upvoted

Literally has 3 sections about hiding.

There were more similar threads but they didn’t get nearly as much traction as these.

Also, there were literally multiple “mercy hiding spots” guides out there.

The best Mercy Resurrect hiding spots on King's Row – Overwatch

Overwatch - Reading Comments & 72 Mercy Hiding Spots

The Best Hiding Spots For Mercy Rez! (Overwatch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_bV4Mw-hGI

And here’s a good example of it in one youtube video. In fact, there’s quite a few more examples of it in other videos, most involve either hiding away from the fight and then swooping in once everyone died or just hiding near spawn or even getting killed and then getting taxied to point by someone.

'Huge Rez' (Overwatch Mercy Montage)

“Plan: Everyone go and die and I’ll get a huge rez”

The entire thing was super-cancerous and I’m super glad that it’s gone. It should never come back. Any form of anything that gives mercy an ability to strongly impact the fight after things already happened has no place in the game. And designwise, giving the main healer something akin to a defensive ult is a bad design practice. Especially if the character has an extremely low skill floor (And ceiling) compared to other supports.

What’s the point of this thread? To prove that everyone hide & rezzed while letting their team die? No. Just to show that it wasn’t really some fringe scenario as some people like to claim that it was. In fact, according to various guides, it seemed to have been the “proper” way to play her. Because there are daily threads popping up essentially downplaying the whole issue and claiming that it was a myth or that it didn’t happen frequently, which simply isn’t true. It happened in every ELO quite frequently.

And here’s the famous video from our “villain” Seagull that illustrates it well:

I Hate Mercy So Much