Support Hypocrisy

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So basically the last patch buffed most of supports.
Both Ana and Lucio got a pretty big buff, yet a lot of guys, because of Mercy nerf complain that:
DPS nerfed the supports. Supports unplayable.

Finally the supports who takes the highest amount of skill are best at, you know ”supporting”.
Finally it takes skill to play a support, not just positioning and gamesense which are nedeed for every hero.
It’s a lot more enjoyable to watch Ana or Zen doing outstanding plays, than a Mercy holding her beam.
It should have been like this from the beginning of the game.

I don’t have anything against Mercy players, but requesting Mercy to perform better then Ana or Zen is not fair from my point of view.

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I miss seeing mercy. She was the second easiest support character to kill as tracer, the first being zen. And you don’t even see zen much anymore, because he formed a dynamic duo with mercy. Now every match has an Ana. First you gotta dodge the sleep dart, then you gotta dodge the bio nade, then you gotta dodge her primary attack, before trying to burst down her 300 effective health self sighs

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I missed these kinda posts. It used to be all Ana is a throw pick but now people are complaining about her again

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No one ever will be happy

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Being happy isn’t cool or smart. Being cynical is

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The skill ceiling is higher too… I think this is how it should be, the higher up you go the more skillful heroes you see. Heroes like mercy should stay in lower elo imo…

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Thanks :smiley:

Stupid 20 characters thing

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I am very confused about these types of statements, I’ve never seen anyone ask for Mercy to perform better than Ana, I dont think Zen is comparable to Mercy since Mercy is a main healer by design and Zen is an off healer. Ive only seen people wanting to have all 3 main healers viable and solid pick on all levels of the game. You guys seem to forget Moira even exists in the game. Its the people saying Ana is the queen of supports that keep saying Ana should always be the best support in the roster, and the rest of main supports should be worse than her base line, I dont remember Mercy mains saying every other support needs to be worse than them.

Saying supports are in a great spot when 1 out of 3 main healers is near uplayable from plat and above and 2 out 3 are barely playable is kind of a joke.

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Mercy is still a good healer pick and always will be. Especially with Rez. Just so you know, positioning and game sense are consider “skill” in OW. Positioning probably the most important in my opinion. I think you should mention (and fix) in your post is that the “new meta” requires healers that require aim. Ana, Zen, and Lucio require aim to be effective.

I agree with your post though. The game is more exciting with Ana/Lucio as more meta healers. However, what I’m finding is tanks are always wildly out of position. This leads to an “early pick” causing a lot of 4/5 v 6 engagements. A tank should always know where your healer is. Even if you’re not there, you should be able to dive to your back line and peel. Problem is, at low elo, literally nobody knows how to properly play tank and peel for Ana/Zen. Then you hear complaints in comms about “no heals? what? come on” … LINE OF SIGHT DUDE … PHARAH/TRACER/REAPER/DOOM ARE PWNING ME 1V1 IN BACKLINE

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She literally can’t. Her whole kit is just healing, damage buff and fly.
What do you want her to do. Be far away and heal when her healing would reach. Or do you want her to fly and do a rain dance in the sky.

I don’t play mercy. But Ana or Zen or are pseudo dps healers, mercy is not despite her having a pistol. Plus their kits are meant for neutralizing enemy’s. Mercy is purely for aiding allies.

So lemme ask You, what exactly do you want?

The only buff Lucio got was more shields during drop the beat. I dunno about Ana. They still require exactly the same play styles. Mercy is pretty big. Unless they brig another healer who can rez, no one is ever not gonna want a Mercy. So i suggest you just deal with it.

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More so meaning like they shouldn’t be something you shouldn’t see every game, there will be mains for every hero at every elo, and the people who play less mechanically demanding heroes who are in higher elo are there for a reason.

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You are ignoring that his aura range was increased from 10m to 12m which feels great for Lucio Players and his teammates.

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I used to love playing mercy, I think I had 400 or so hours on her - I don’t think she’s “bad” now, but I do think she’s not fun. Being able to mega-rez was a pretty sweet ability, if only it weren’t for people hiding to get huge resurrects. The continued changes to her made her less and less worth it, and it’s finally hit the point where she’s a valuable tool but she’s not fun to play. Whether this is because I finally hit enough hours that I got tired of her or a combination of that + the nerfs I don’t know. I do wish you could right click to cancel a rez though :slight_smile:

I’ll still bring her when required, but I won’t actively choose her unless I am in a very particular mood. In QP I’ll just rambo with her for funsies sometimes.