It’s got nothing to do with ult charge. Even though it would be easier to actually pull it off than E Resurrect… this theoretical Mercy wouldn’t have the nearly guaranteed value of Valkyrie to fall back on if they use it at a bad time.
That alone makes this theoretical version of Resurrect not a “near zero risk move”.
It does mean that they don’t have much impact on an “overall” number.
As for balance, it means that Mercy isn’t the best healer for high ranks, but that she still has strong situations where she’s useful. She doesn’t need to be the best healer for all situations to be balanced.
Before her rework mercy was fine statistically for both higher and lower ranks. After her rework she was broken, now she is only fine in lower ranks if we’re basing it off statistics.
Idk about you but that screams to me of a unbalanced mess of a hero that could obviously be balanced.
Dunno about you, but Mercy now seems a lot more balanced than Mercy then.
It’s like you forgotten that Moira and Brig didn’t exist back then.
Also pick rate is one thing. I am talking about win rates. Her win rate was healthy. Right now it isnt.
It’s like Mercy didn’t have any strong main healers to compare against back then, and comparing her then to Moira/Ana now, doesn’t make much sense.
That’s my point, you are showing me pick rates. Idc about her pick rate it can be less than 1% for all I care. All that matters is her win rate. And right now it’s approaching the lowest out of all heroes in GM which is terrible, that’s not balanced at all.
Exactly. Mercy had no competition for her slot unless your team was running full dive. Looking at Reinhardt vs Winston it is pretty easy to see that that didn’t happen often until Diamond+… which, based off your other modified graph, you seem to think is unimportant 
Her being literally the only decent option doesn’t make her OP.
Doesn’t mean reverting her to that state would be balanced relative to the current meta either.
Mercy has been in a relatively overpowered state for the past year.
Is it possible that some Mercy players now cannot maintain their rank, and are deranking?
Brig/Moira/Lucio aren’t hard for anyone who reached GM on any hero before. In fact I would say as someone who has Ana as 2nd most played she is pretty damn easy too if you play a lot of support.
Mercy mains aren’t deranking. They are trying to play mercy, aren’t succeeding because they can tell how bad she is and then they switch to a better support.
If they switched, then they wouldn’t have a negative winrate on Mercy.
True. We don’t know how old Mercy would do if you plopped her into the game. So since we can’t know how she’d do and there’s been about 500 different variations of tweaks for old mercy…
How about we do the thing that keeps everyone happy? The thing that doesn’t straight up rob anyone of their favorite hero?
Bring her back in, tweak her, then release current (maybe slightly buffed Mercy) as a new hero because people who (somehow) like current Mercy shouldn’t be robbed of their new favorite hero either.
I say they try to play her. They lose a couple of games, they switch to a better support in following games or maybe in the same game who knows. I lost games because I tried to play mercy, because I love her that much but I realized how sh** she is even with a pharah on my team. Then in following games I just gave up on mercy and played Ana or Brig.
K, but unless they do that every day, the winrate would have gone up by now.
Notice how her pick rate went down? Yeah that’s the realization settling in.
So a negative winrate is just a leading indicator on her pickrate and will improve as soon as her pickrate stabilizes?
Which one is, out of curiosity? Do we have any?
Edit: wow thanks for the reply
Don’t make me laugh. We had this situation before with Ana. Her win rate went down and then so did her pick rate, how’d that stable pick rate - win rate work out for her? Even with mercy being OP Ana still deserved the buffs she got it helped her a lot below master, if it wasn’t for buffs I think she’d be below 50% in plat right now.
Well Moira has a high winrate in GM.