So this match seems to be going rather poorly

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We’re on Shambali Monastery, couldn’t cap second on attack, and what we did manage to get felt like pulling teeth. What to do now on defense hmmmmm

OH I KNOW

I shall play Mercy :raised_hands:

Do I have any idea what I’m doing on Mercy? No I do not :raised_hands:

But we have a Soldier and now a Junkrat, and I’m sure they’ll magically start blowing things up by the power of my blue beam. Maybe they just need that LITTLE extra bit of damage to secure their kills. And I’m sure the tank will do tank things too. We’ll get through this fiiiiine

(Narrator: They didn’t)

I really don’t know what I was thinking :sob:

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Mercy is basically a legendary artifact. You are just adding stats onto your carry. But if your carry has low base attack, that sick piece means nothing. It’s just pretty. But is it truly so bad to just look pretty?

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It really was nothing like my own experience when I’m the one on Soldier and I end up with a Mercy pocketing me. Apparently not every Soldier turns into a death ray when you hit them with a blue pool noodle :pensive:

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When I see the blue beam I hit even worse, it’s gone, boom headshot :crazy_face:

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But when i get the blue beem i aim much better :rofl:

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Don’t swap to mercy if your dps are bad :sob:

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that is exactly what you should be doing.
why try to carry when you can sit back relax and blame anyone else?
Its not your job to deal dmg as a healer. :face_holding_back_tears:

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I-I can’t do it while you’re watching!!

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Mercy does damage through damage boost

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I wish Mercy get’s credited with damage on the scoreboard through damage boost.

I know it’s superficial but eh.

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I have experienced both of these myself on different occasions. :stuck_out_tongue: I’m beginning to think it depends on how much you trust the Mercy, or at least that’s probably how it is for me. If I don’t trust her enough, then there’s a subconscious concern that if I don’t land enough shots, she’ll fly away to someone else, so I start to miss. But if I trust her to not abandon me like that, then I have noticed I start to play better, probably because I know how much of an advantage she’s giving me

Just yesterday, I had a random Mercy in QP help me downright carry a match on Midtown defense as Soldier. We were such a team, it was beautiful. And she kept thanking me when I went out of my way to do little things to make her life easier, like even just not activating the third point defenders’ elevator until I was sure she was ready to hop on

And the tragic thing is that I know this, but my brain panicked and fizzled and randomly decided THIS is the play when Mercy isn’t even a hero I normally pick :skull:

My brain does weird things sometimes when I’m afraid of suffering a loss on Lifeweaver. Maybe we would have actually even managed to fend them off if I had just stayed on him

I have thought about this exact same thing before, because it really does make sense. That extra damage wouldn’t have happened without her. Then people could get a better idea of how much she’s actually contributing to the team’s damage output

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and you carry games, eliminating the entire enemy team by boosting a player that shoots a wall? :sweat_smile:

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Look if your dps are hitting nothing but the wall, it won’t matter which support you play.

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maybe if you are at a rank where that is a death sentence, if I can get enough kills to somehow down the enemy tank I can win as support.

but nobody expects this, which is why you can just afk healbot and throw and nobody would ever complain.

its not expected but pretty sure a good player can win woth bots against golds. Just saying, but I guess anything on the forums is a owl top 2 teams face off.

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I’m not talking about winning in gold… You don’t even need to deal damage to win in gold. You can rank up by just healing people who need it. Look, when one of your dps is going negative you have to hard carry the match to compensate because it is a borderline 4v5. You can balance damage and healing all you want on support but you can only do so much when you’re missing a team mate.

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You weren’t thinking, not thinking is what mercy’s do. owo

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I mean… sure but isn’t that a lot harder than just making sure the enemy team is always 1-2 down befor each team fight?

I can heal my Teammate all game long but he won’t make a smart decision necessarly.

For each kill I can secure, a teammate is allowed to feed like crazy. balancing out the most questionable teammates.

I don’t say you have to do this every game, I believe we both agree that no game is equal to the next one.

Which makes it a game of feeling how you can help the team the most.

And I won’t lie, when my higher ranked buddy gets 3 or 4 picks, I do consider this a lot of help.
while he healing me until I die 10 sec later without getting much done isn’t that much value.
On the other hand, Keeping me alive those 10 sec can be the difference of me getting a pick or even 2.

So in short, losing a teammate is heavy, but its not impossible to also eliminate a enemy as a support.

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If no one’s killing the enemy supps that keep the enemy team alive through all your team throws at them, it’s going to have to be you who distracts or kills them.

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Sure it’s always easier to kill two enemies every fight. But if you heal everyone when you need to in gold then you will still climb because the enemy supports aren’t as attentive. Doing damage is still good obviously. I’m just saying gold is low enough of a rank that you can climb by healbotting. This stops working as you climb.