That’s definitely part of why you see Mercy banned a lot more than the average person would assume, and it has nothing to do with Mercy mafia or whatever, or people just hating on her as a character. She’s too much of an enabler.
You can take out Pharah and all of the boosted hitscans in 1 ban along with people disliking the spectator hero. So she kind of gets a lot of ban votes from all sides.
I’ve played as and against Sojourn dozens of times without a Mercy pocket. She’s still oppressive. Just because you played with a bad player doesn’t change the fact that Sojourn is still a problem without Mercy
Mercy being problematic and Sojourn being laughably overpowered aren’t mutually exclusive.
Is Sojourn busted and deserving of nerfs both with or without Mercy? Yes, absolutely.
Does that absolve Mercy of also being a large part of this exact issue literally every time this discussion pops up? No, it doesn’t.
Can’t we say the same about you? If you can’t beat a Mercy, work on your mechanics. It’s a hero that doesn’t even fight back when you shoot it.
Now, that’s not to say pocketing isn’t a problem, but why are Mercy players pocketing Soujorn instead of, say, Symmetra? Why aren’t they pocketing Reapers? Ventures? Why aren’t they pocketing Hanzos? That’s because Soujorn is strong by herself, and Mercy intensifies it by holding the hand of a bad player by erasing their mistakes.
It does, it’s the exact reason Pharah got reworked so she cant sit in the sky box with mercy all game, it’s the reason Ashe got her damage/ fire rate changed
Mercy is a throw pick if you aren’t pocketing a dps, playing Mercy with dive heroes, nobody to pocket is throwing
Soldier is a trash hero, you give him a Mercy pocket he becomes oppressive
Mercy is the only hero that is both OP and trash at the same time. Banning her literally means killing minimum 5 birds with one stone. Sojourn is disgusting without a Mercy definitely but with a Mercy it literally makes you want to uninstall the game, especially when those 2 are duo-ed.