How about Doom gets frozen after mei is punched into a wall, then we sleep him, teabag him, nano-noon him.
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I disagree Mercy should be damage boosting, it is the Main Healer’s job to keep the tank up. Mercy is an off healer.
She should prioritize healing if the incoming damage is too great or the dps can’t hit anything.
Or in cases where someone is about to go down and needs heals.
Blame the mercy if you want, but if the other healer is Baptiste, Moira or Ana it is on them.
It’s like yelling at lucio to heal.
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You should never think in trade mentality as a main tank. You should be thinking “Don’t die, run away before you die, even if you have to leave your team there”
I also would like to add, that mercy gameplay is very situational and pulling out a gamechanging play is more dependent on your instincts, experience, creativity and gamesense than with any other hero, at least that’s how it feels for me
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Oh, I’m in the Elo where my tanks stupidly push with no shield or corners so I hopelessly pocket them and pray that they realize I cannot outheal all the damage they are “strategically” taking.
So…
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Sometime you just have to go, though. If you try wait until everyone is standing together and at full health, you’re probably never going to find the window to go that you’re looking for. I’ve won too many fights by just pushing onto the point myself as DPS/support when the tanks won’t go. People usually follow as long as somebody goes, mostly because they have to now that I’ve committed. If it works, though…
Honestly, at that point you’re better off taking mercys staff, turning it around and aiming for every orifice you can see.
Just turn to your team and say “I AM THE CARRY NOW” and shoot off with valkyrie and pop off.
No point healing them if any healing you do instantly becomes ult charge for the enemy team right? It’s honestly how I played support and I’ve just this season broken GM with that role… and honestly, sometimes you just have to get a kill and call it out over comms and your team perks right up. You are the teams teladafil, and you are charged with keeping them standing tall 
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“Just press W 4head” -Someone who doesnt follow their tank in.
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I have been DPSing a lot more with Mercy, although usually it’s to secure a kill. I guess the only answer is to DPS MOAR!!!
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If your team is grouped up and the tanks don’t push they are throwing - the only exception might be if you are a long ways from your own spawn and want to be extra careful and only push when you have an advantage.
Oh believe me, I have double digit deaths these days thanks to inattentive supports failing to pay basic attention or a team failing to captialize on my breaks through defensive lines, whenever I play as a tank. It happens, it will continue to happen. It is inevitable, it is frustrating, but until Blizzard builds some in-game tutorials so that everyone is on the same page, players will continue to struggle.
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Better yet, what if I just heal everybody like a support character 
That’s just plain heresy. If you don’t pocket someone, you are toxic.
Or was it the other way around?
But I get flamed if I leave them to go heal DPS 
Didn’t you get the memo? Nobody likes DPS, they are like a 3rd Team in your game. You can’t kill them, but you have to avoid them and remind them that they are trash whenever you can
that’s right, the tanks are the ones flanking and avoiding the team, you got it 
- I was joking dude, read my post again, especially the part where i say DPS
- When i tank, i mainly play Zarya. And with her i barly ever have the problem to create space that people follow.
My Support is probaly loosing his friggin mind and swearing on me when i charge forward and they try everything to keep me alive, thus they follow. DPS are wherever (most of the time flanking as they should) and my main tank suddenly sees his whole team before him instead of behind his barrier, so he charges forward.
Maybe that’s just a Zarya thing, i want charge thus i go in to get focused, everything else somewhat falls into place.
But as Main tank… well i am plain bad 
I am right next to you. I am amped speed. I am saying “GO GO GO GO GO” in the voice chat. You are holding still for some reason. I can complain.
Honestly you can tell who’s just queuing for main-tank for faster times. As a Rein player i know which choke points i can stand in and when to hold a barrier down and allow my team to slip through and where not… nowadays you see someone standing under the bridge at anubis point A at or Eichenwalde choke 1 like “DPS do something!” you know they are hot garbage. What kinda angle are you supposed to give your DPS like that?!
You have to advance and make opening for your flankers to get around and i see some tanks standing like a deer in headlights when they should be moving forward and letting your team crossover into the next safe room.
My job as Roadhog is to run up to them and shoot them in the face and pull them to me to shoot them in the face to drink and shoot them in the face. You guys just use my body as a shield. We’re going to the point or bust.
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