No matter how hard mercy mains delude each other in echo chambers that they are skilled at this game. They’re playing a low skill hero specifically designed to be playable by casuals that don’t play videogames.
She is meta.
How she became or is meta does not matter.
She is meta.
We also need to stop acting like mercy is weak or something. That is wrong.
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Someone is a bit salty
“B-But she was a throw pick last season!”
The fact that this blatant lie is a rallying cry now is ridiculous. These people have convinced themselves that “Not meta = Throw pick”, but only when it comes to Mercy.
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With Roadhog I’ve seen people saying he shouldn’t be allowed to be meta, how he shouldn’t get any compensation with his one-shot nerfs, and people calling for him to be outright deleted or permanently dumpstered.
I think I’ve seen one person call for mercy’s deletion pretty much ever, and almost every nerf thread (particularly WRT damage boost) suggests buffing her in some way or replacing it with a whole new ability.
And I can all but guarantee that by even making this post someone is going to call this not an apples-to-apples comparison and try to justify why all that needs to happen to Roadhog and none of it needs to happen to Mercy, without realizing even for a second the irony of what they’re saying.
I have heard maybe one instance of someone saying all of that, and I’ve heard way more people constantly want heroes like hog widow or doom dumpstered. If anything doomfist mains have the right to this mentality more than mercy ever did
Especially when it comes to the support role. This “she’s meta because of sojourn”… ummm yea…
Support picks usually are directly based on what is strong around them. That’s like the entire point. Outside of ana / kiriko who can literally play whenever wherever, which is why they bottleneck the support role in the first place.
But like… lucio? Pretty much only good with rush style / brawl.
Baptiste? Pretty much only good in brawl / bunker.
Mercy? Only good when there is a DPS to pocket.
Moira? Rush / brawl
Like this has been a thing since FOREVER and now all of a sudden mercy players act like it’s some new anti mercy thing??? But what is new, literally every week is some support player acting like a victim. But that’s also been a thing for years too so surprise surprise.
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no they removed its boost because tanks wouldn’t be able to survive on the outer edge at least that’s what they said.
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…erm no, the people that hate are responsible for the hate…? 
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I’ve seen posts where people take issue with her healing even, and want that nerfed. I dunno how often you frequent the forums, but you don’t have to look very far to see the pretty laughable suggested nerfs.
I have seen those tho, however they always come off as obvious ragebait. People know they can upset mercy mains like no other hero mains. Trolls will troll.
I mean, She was always a pocket based character. Just on OW1 launch she had gigga value ultimate. I think people just don’t want to admit or don’t understand that they dislike the pocket style of play and attribute their issues elsewhere.
The biggest revelation to me is that you’re a hog main. I don’t know who I pictured you to main, but it wasn’t Hog.
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Didn’t really know that was a mystery.
I’ve stopped checking profiles when private profiles came out. That said, I realize I could have just tried to check if I was so curious.
I don’t know. I imagined you were more of a Soldier 76 guy.
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the devs ARE the reason why the community hates mercy and that is literally due to the character as a whole. she has always been the easy healer. its just that for the skill she takes she gets WAY too much value. if you take a gm mercy main, and a gm ana main, you see that there is a GIGANTIC skill difference between then, but mercy can be meta because of how overloaded her kit is.
i think that if a support can be played in every game then that support is terribly designed. that also goes for ana and kiriko
It means, that support is designed great, to allow versatility of team compositions.
Which is why she wasn’t pocket based character, until her ultimate got destroyed. As pocketing isn’t best way to get your ult ASAP.
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No, her design was always a pocket based character. Whatever was “optimal” for her to play back then doesn’t change how the kit was designed. Healing AFAIK has always been the fastest way for supports to get their ultimate. If it wasn’t always that way then feel free to correct me.
In case of Mercy, all 3 methods of gaining ult has similar value.
Give her actual ult back, and pocketing will be gone.
If by actual ult you mean mass res that doesn’t solve anything. That just moves us to a different problem. It doesn’t remove her ability to pocket by doing so anyway.