Suggestions for Mercy from someone with too much time on her šŸ“

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Ok but still. Having to charge it up feels like charging another ultimate. Where an ability is supposed to be flexible to use to give a slight advantage to your team. Thatā€™s why Valkyrie would fit better as an E ability. Having it up frequently as an ability to help aid in the push or the peel would be much more effective.

Resurrect as an ability is a HUGE advantage. Thatā€™s why I discourage it to be on a CD. I wouldnā€™t mind having it on a meter but I feel Mercy would be a lot more flexible and engaging without the penalties the ability puts onto us for having it their in the first place.

Getting rid of that mobility penalty and adding the blockable by barriers element would be a much better sacrifice iā€™d be willing to make. Since this is barrier watch it would be much harder to pull off a Resurrect as I suggested and encourage Tempo Resurrecting which is what we want all players to be doing in the first place.

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Ok itā€™s third, it goes Lucio,Moira,Mercy,Zen then Ana. (Stats taken from Ult Eff)

Thing is, Mercyā€™s ult is supposed to allow you to win fights while Zenā€™s ult is supposed to help you defend against other ults. Lucioā€™s ult is the most flexible which is why itā€™s first but I donā€™t actually know why Moiraā€™s ult is second.

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Raises hand

I just realized somethingā€¦ with this suggestion Mercyā€™s rez is on a meter and Valkyrie, regardless of if itā€™s the suggested setup or the current one, results in Mercy healing/boosting moreā€¦ wouldnā€™t this in effect mean that Mercy during Valkyrie could have rez available at a higher rate? So if Mercy normally needed around 20 seconds wouldnā€™t it be much less in Valkyrie? I know they donā€™t stack, so it might not make much of a difference, just something I was thinking about. Also, how would this synergize with Anaā€™s Nade as it amplifies healing?

Sorry if this has been answered before.

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He suggested Valk be 12 seconds instead and itā€™s a 50% increase so the charge would be about 15 seconds meaning you canā€™t pull 2 rezes in 1 Valk.

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I wonder if theyā€™re would be able to fit your suggestion on console controls? Mercyā€™s contols are already weird. For example, Damage Boost is on the console equivelent of E.

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Perhaps not, but you might be able to get enough to have one ready as soon as youā€™re out. I guess it would depend on which setup you use (the suggested single beam would probably give Mercy less healing in total than the current setup).

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It would probably be the same as normal ult charge. It increases the charge rate

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Thatā€™s a developer problem not a me problem lol! But Iā€™m pretty sure it could work. Whatever old Resurrect button was on it would go back to that. Valkyrie would take place of Resurrects button and maybe reroute where Angelic Decent is on the controller because I think Resurrect and AD share the same button.

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In theory, it would take an entire valk to charge up a res and some change with constant healing - If you are a god with damage boosting, thereā€™s a chance you could get a couple in valk, but weā€™re talking examples like this: https://youtu.be/mgpTKkx1IdA?t=3

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Ult eff takes into account regular out of ult winrates. It is a terrible stat because bad heroes with decent ults look like their ultimates are broken.

If you actually knew what the data meant maybe you would know why Moira was second.

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Thatā€™s why this game itā€™s dying, this guy says that we need to NEGATE THE COUNTERPLAY OF MERCY, THAT MERCY CAN GO ON MY FACE AND REZZ HER TEAMMATE WITHOUT CONSECUENCES?

THATā€™S CALLED COUNTERPLAY GUY, YOU DONā€™T REMOVE THAT, STOP TRYING TO REZZ 1 VS 6, aimless mercy player

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It does. The reason is because you pressing jump means you have to let go of the joy stick. For PC, it would be like your mouse freezing in place when ever the space bar is pressed. I just wonder how mangled the controls would be since theyā€™re pretty weird now.

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No one ever said that. You need to calm down.

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Thank you for answering! Do you think Anaā€™s Nade could have a noticeable impact on the Mercyā€™s rez-gain? I would like for Ana to synergize better with more of the support roster. :slight_smile:

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Tell that to all the Genji mains pissed off their Deflect now has counters.

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Would the chain beams be removed or not then?

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I think a cup of coffee and some hard problem solving I think they could do it.

What Iā€™m thinking is
Left Trigger -> Jump? Might solve flight issues
Right Trigger -> Heal/DMB/Pistol when changed
Left Bumper -> GA or AD
Right Bumper -> AD or GA
(Whatever would be more comfortable)
Triangle (PS4 and whatever equivalent for XB1) -> Resurrect
Square -> (Change between Pistol/Staff)
X -> Activate Valkyrie?
Right Joystick Button -> Melee

I wonder if that would work?

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I do strongly feel Ana nade will always go well with Mercy, either antiā€™d and then Amp down targets quickly, healing making her ultimate rate charge 50% faster over the duration of the nade - Which is why I loved Mercy during tank meta if D.Va wasnā€™t being used, it was a team res in 11 seconds LOL It was soo broken, but thankfully thatā€™s no longer possible.

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It was a typo, was referencing originally all the support ults, but then made it so that it represented the proposed mercy changes, not existing. Fixing now, thank you for pointing it out.

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Thank you, I care much for Ana and anything that would give people reason to pick her is something I will support. Itā€™s not too common to run both on console (with Ana being even less powerful there) but I do find that she and Mercy can work nicely together with the right comp. :slight_smile: