This is not a tilt. this is not a rage situation, nor a skill issue. Hear me out.
It’s just boring and unfun. It’s a terrible design. Now that the second tank is gone, there’s less mitigation and everyone else except tanks are super exposed of being 2 shotted by pharah’s boosted damage.
“JuSt TaKe A HitScAn aNd ShUt HeR DoWn!!1!1!” has many issues.
First of all, people from bronze to diamonds are the huge majority, like more than 85%. And many of them don’t have the aim required to land 4-5 shots in a row with ashe, for example. (And don’t forget the mercy res after that).
Second, same low rank supports don’t know that they actually need to support their hitscan to kill pharah. They just expect you to switch to hitscan and the job is done.
I don’t know about others, but 9/10 in my games that I play junkrat, they will switch to pharah mercy. And in gerenal, I rarely see pharah mercy from the beginning of the game. It’s always picked to create unfair disadvantage. I am so tired of being forced to switch from junkrat and mei to cassidy and ashe. I don’t want to play these chars.
And no, echo is a different story, because echo needs much much higher skill to perform, while pharah just needs to press left click on others from the sky, and even if misses, the splash damage will do the job.
Here is the list of heroes who can kill pharah.
Widow, Cassidy, Ashe, Bastion, Soujourn if conditions are good (5). IF!
Here is the list of the heroes who can reduce her health, sometimes even kill, but it’s much harder than the heroes above and will most likely lose against pharah mercy.
Soldier, Dva, Sojourn, Ana, Baptiste (5).
Here is the list of heroes that can do absolutely nothing against her.
Doomfist, Junker Queen, Orisa, Ram, Rein, Hog, Winton, Sigma, Ball, Zarya, Echo, Genji, Hanzo, Junkrat, Mei, Pharah (yeah, it’s such a terrible hero desing that they can’t even duel each other properly), Reaper, Sombra, Sym, Torb, Tracer, Brig, Kiriko, Lucio, Mercy, Moira, Zen (27).
27 heroes that can do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING against her. And the other 5 hitscans who can must be either very high rated skilled people, or meet perfect conditions to shut her down. And if you are a tank or a poor support against pharah mercy, good luck losing 9/10 your games.
You can always give suggestions that will slightly increase your chance against her, like hiding, switching to a pocketed hitscan, and etc, but pharahs will always have an answer to that. And I know all these suggestions, that’s not the problem. Again, people below masters ranks will not be able to constantly shut her down. Just sometimes, or even never. And it’s absolutely a horrendous gameplay when there’s a hero that forces everyone to hide just by left clicking and existing. I don’t want to hide, I want to play my game.
Yes, skill issue can be a reason to lose against pharah mercy, I don’t deny that. My main point is that it’s very boring and unfun to play against, and it should be removed, or reworked to something else completely. And from now, new heroes need to be designed like ramatra, which means they should have powerful abilities (xcept for his ult which is kinda op i think), but they should not create huge disadvantage just by existing.