Uh no, its like one and a half players working together. The mercy sacrifices only half their brain to play by holding down right click and pressing shift
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I mean if the player knows anything about mercy, then they wouldn’t be sticking to a single target. Nor would they want to move towards the player they are healing, do to that putting them into los of the enemy.
Even in a Pharamercy comb the mercy can is able to jump between pharah and the grounded players that might have otherwise been out of LOS.
Even then GA has some of the greatest mobility tech’s in the game. Allowing mercy with a target to sling shot over, to the side of, and well above the target in question.
Yeah but most mercies dont do that, they just hard pocket all game and let the actual main healer do the heavy lifting
Depends on the rank really, plat and above you see decent mercy plays. Outside of the that you mostly see players that don’t know how to supports jump on her or ana depending on how comfortable they are with their aim.
A good pharah player will more likely to outsnipe any hitscan player if played properly and knows the engagement (when and how). Damage boosted spam barely peeking the corner and having more cover and view will not allow you to do anything w/o dva helping you and mercy pocketing your hitscan with falloff damage nerf. Watch some YZNSA on twitch to debunk the myth about “flying in the open” and stuff like that. The value to effort comparison that this synergy has is unfair compared to how your team has to play against that.
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This ultimately depends on if the Pharah knows the widows position before hand, And ultimately becomes a game of educated Guesses, predictions if you like.
Be it that a set up widow does overall have the advantage over a pharah, as in many cases she will see the Pharah before the Pharah can spot the widow. especially with her ult.
Be it that of course this down to mechanical skill and game sense mostly, as their are way to many widows that tunnel vision on like one lane and get flanked or hooked at odd moments.
I am unsure why this would be, given that neither character in this combination is invincible
I hate pharmercy, but that’s just because I’m a projectile player and I hate having to switch to hitscan. I am significantly worse at hitscan than projectile and having to aim up makes it my aim even worse.
It has been an issue for more than a year now.
It is a miracle just having a balance patch that actually addresses a real issue in the game.
You don’t get to pick who plays dps in your team unless you queue for such.
Unfortunately a majority of people dont think about this when it comes to pharah.
They just think pharah is pharah aka just sh00t her lulw.
Once you start playing against masters+ pharahs it’s technically impossible and really unfair in ladder games to quickly response and adapt against ahmed and lisa. And then the only way of responsing is picking hitscan…
not sure what name you once went by, but…almost every character is able to “shoot at” Pharah.
It is not now and never has been the sole responsibility of the dps player(s) to address Pharah
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Yeah all the tanks their short range or any of the healer with their slow fire rate. 
as I stated before, whoever you once were…almost every character can engage Pharah, and dps are never - ever - solely responsible for dealing with her
“engage” is not the sameas being capable to deal with her?
And we are not talking just about pharah either. We are talking about pharmercy.
actually, it is
as I have stated three times now, almost all of the characters can do so
I agree
everything I have stated in this side conversation applies whether one (whoever you once were) is playing against a Pharah or the Pharmercy combination
given that I have now fully clarified these items and provided the truth of the matter, I wont be engaging further in this side chat
Mercy pocketing anyone means she’s not helping four other people. That’s called: balance.
It’s pretty busted in low ranks, as Pharah can be effective with meh aim which is common in low ranks, but a hitscan can’t.
So while no, this isn’t going anywhere, I have sympathy for you.
Every character can by definition engage them yes, but how far are you really going to get trying to punch, hammer, land air mines, biotic grasp, etc pharah out of the air.
All of the characters being “named” above have more/other attacks that are more effective against a flying target than the attack named
I have no idea why anyone would try to claim/allege that Rein (one example of those identified above) only has his hammer when it comes to the question of dealing with Pharah
Yeah if they’re a bronze Pharah???