So many heroes need reworks, but Mercy the most

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I know people have talked about Mercy needing a rework (myself included), but it’s so true it’s not funny.

She was given a joke of a rework: broken beyond any conceivable notion. Then, nerfed into oblivion to where she could barely be viable in any team comp and left there.

Her abilities make no sense where they are. Why is resurrection a NORMAL ability while free flight (why many others can do) is her ULTIMATE? It makes no sense. Reviving someone, even in solo player games, is a big deal. It should be an ultimate (look at Adam in Rivals).

In Rivals, Rocket has a solo rez attached to his beacon. But it doesn’t make him completely vulnerable to use. Resurrect has been so neutered that it isn’t worth using in many cases where it could help. But, it has to be that way because it’s her normal ability, and she is guaranteed to have rez again after a certain time. Plus, Valkyrie sucks compared to the other ults. Its long duration stretches its power budget thin, and it has no flash to it other than her iconic “Heroes Never Die!”.

I think it’s time we made Resurrect her ult again. A solo rez to be exact. Something with some flash and swing potential that can be used more freely than current rez. And here’s how it would function.

Ultimate: Resurrect

Charge Required: 1625 (same as Mass Rez)
Range: 15m (Line of Sight required)
Effects:
Instantly revives one ally.
Ally gains 150 overhealth and has 25% damage reduction for 3 seconds.
All living allies within 10m of the revived ally receive a 75 hp heal.
Mercy becomes invulnerable for 1 second.
Guardian Angel cooldown is reset.

This brings back the old powerful Resurrect, but toned down. I designed it similarly to Nano Boost, where it’s affecting one ally mainly, but it does give a burst heal to allies and can be used strategically (wait to revive the DPS with ult or use on random dead ally to save yourself).

Her new E could be a toned down Valkyrie or her Flash Heal perk made into an ability. I don’t mind losing Valkyrie’s chain beams. I’ve kept my team alive with one beam as a solo healer since 2017. It’s part of the skill to Mercy: how well can you balance your heals.

Mercy players and others alike, let me know what you think.

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Nobody should get a rework before Sombra.

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I could also see ult-Rez working somewhat like Flash Heal

You can target anybody in range to get a burst heal after a short channel, including dead allies (who get revived by it)

Full invulnerability might be too much, but a ton of self-healing or overhealth during the channel might be cool.

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Just bring back mass rez in its entirety in 6v6. For 5v5 this could work.

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im reworking heros in a little google keep thing im gonna make into a google doc for fun that im gonna post on here to show people how stuiped my brain can make heros if you wanna see some of those im posting them here to get critisism

but i think mercys ult has needed an update for a while

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I played during the mass Rez era, it was truly not fun.

Fights just never ended if both teams had a Mercy. She charged it so fast. “Hide and Rez” wasn’t really a thing, but she could just undo an entire teamfight if the enemy didn’t pick her off first, it was oppressive.

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Mass Rez was stupid. You could win and outplay the other team and the whole team gets rez’d. Or she could pop it mid team fight and get it back in 30-40 seconds. The Support meta was Lucio/Mercy and if you didn’t have them you lost. Evein modern ult building it would just support degen behavior.

Get over it, it didn’t promote good gameplay.

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Rez should be deemphasized as much as possible because it’s a stupid ability that shouldn’t exist. Just give her one charge of it during ult and replace it in her normal kit with something that has playmaking ability but requires aim or timing or something. Also put damage boost on a cooldown or a meter so she can’t pocket one dps all game.

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Sorry, I dont like this retro-worked Ult! Valkayrie is one of my favorite Ults. Its great as it is. She should only be able to fly durinf her Ult.

Sure, Mercy will die in many different Resurrect attempts, but thats part of the challenge.

I would like to rework some of her float-to-allies mechanics. Sometimes it feels a little awkward/over-reaching.

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Than you have to make her a proper DPS. With all these changes.

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She fine as is and her mobility is fun and enough.

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Ok. So people are saying Valkyrie is fine. My question is: what ultimates can it protect your team against?

What ultimate is Valkyrie better than in certain situations?

I’m sorry, but if a support ultimate cannot outpace even normal enemy damage, then I do not see the point of it.

Is it the flight? How is that ultimate worthy?

It’s a lackluster shell of what it was meant to be because the devs didn’t think through making Resurrect a normal ability. As showcased by 6 months of her being nerfed and gutted.

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I’d hate this. She would resurrect a tank and you can’t do anything about it. :expressionless:

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The buffs go away after 3 seconds, and it’s less buffs than a Nano Boost. It’s meant to keep them alive. This would be her ult. If you could just instantly kill them again, what’s the point?

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Yeah no KEKW.

I lived through the mass rez meta in OW1 and it was utterly ridiculous-and it was what made me stop being a Mercy main. It encouraged the most brain dead strats I’ve ever seen in an FPS game so I chose others hero’s that required skill.

I’m glad it’s never coming back.

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I think the constant damage boost is much more problematic than rez.

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No thanks.
I like flying around.
Chain beam can do plenty.
Rez on ult feels like garbo. And the only way to make it “worth” being an ult means it goes back to being aggressively annoying.

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The only buff I would want. Is when Mercy is resing. And someone changes character. a prompt can come up from the other person to end the res. It’s refunded. GA is refunded.

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That would be nice. Cause I have literally had people complain that I rezzed them, then suicide to switch.

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Some Ultimates she would be powerless against such as Junker Queen’s, Reinhardt (if she got hit with the smash), Mauga’s, Genji’s, Hanzo’s, Sombra’s, D.Vas (if positioned correctly), Pharah’s (if positioned right) but if the enemy didnt time/position these Ults correctly, Valkryie Mercy could definitely help teammates alive. A Nano-boosted Tank is a great opponent against a Tank super-healed by Valkryie Mercy.

Typically, I find Valkaryie is most useful when not going against an enemy using their Ultimate. The exception is if the enemy Ultimate is not directly at your entire team (like I mentioned above) and is limited to a few friendly teammates.