Unhealthy? Unfun? Sure, that’s a subjective point but I can see i.
OP? Not at all, she was an incredibly niche/troll pick before invul, and only became somewhat largely picked after Ana got nerfed really hard.
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Yes, and you seem to be unable to learn what an implication is. If you are only able to read everything at face value, then I don’t see the point in you repeatedly replying to me.
Please, stop.
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Your job as a main healer is to heal most of the time. Yes it’s perfectly fine to pull out your pistol and get a few hits off on a low enemy (people used to do that to get that extra 5% to get Mass Rez too you know) but for the most part you should be healing.
Well clearly the 3rd one is something people don’t understand too well.
By making a hero that’s already in a safe position in the backline and then allowing them to be in an even safer position behind a wall and still be able too ult was a recipe for disaster.
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There were no changes to mass rez regarding this issue, though.
Here’s a brutal truth for you:
Mercy had the lowest GM pickrate out of all healers when she had mass-Resurrect. She was virtually nonexistent in the pro scene unless played with a Pharah. Ana, who was regarded by many as a “troll-pick” during the Dive Meta, had a higher pickrate than Mercy in the top 33% of the playerbase at that time.
In other words, no, Mercy was not overpowered. If she was overpowered, that would have been abused in the pro scene and high-ladder play, as we saw when Mercy truly became overpowered after the rework.
No such abuse took place. Those players literally picked every other healer more than Mercy.
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I don’t understand why a misrepresentation of a simple fact needed to occur at all, tho to be fair many in the anti-Mercy faction seem to do so on a regular and repeated basis, especially with this particular fact, ie Mercy’s slowdown during rez
Don’t pick up on bad habits. Pistol is last resort only
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If it was OP, she would have been used more. She was not because it was not OP. Valk was OP on release… And thus she was always picked.
No one is avoiding Op heroes out of courtesy ![:woman_shrugging:t5:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/woman_shrugging/5.png?v=6" ":woman_shrugging:t5:")
A misrepresentation never occured, you just misunderstood it.
I believe this is ad hominem 101, calling me anti-Mercy for simply holding an opinion you don’t like?
Mercy’s pistol is part of her kit, same as her staff functions, GA, and etc
There are no actual restrictions on when one can use the pistol, and in my opinion a good Mercy player uses it when it is the best option under the given circumstances.
Choosing to believe it is there for last resort only is a self-imposed restriction, same as a Torb player deciding in a given match that he will only use his hammer to attack with
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I’m beginning to assume that anyone who hates and complains about old Mercy and her Mass Rez ult, just ignores her all game.
I mean, if the enemy Mercy consistently pulls of a 5-man mass rez, you and your whole team are doing something wrong.
Mercy wasn’t even a top support back then.
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Goodbye mass ress.
Kindly never come back,
thnx 
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That’s where you’re wrong.
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Isn’t that what everyone who’s arguing for Mercy to stay the way she is now has for their Goal? o have Mercy be good in low ranks and bad in High ones?
Since there is no self stun involved in any of Mercy’s kit, factually, this was (and is) a misrepresentation of the facts
Given my definition of what anti-Mercy means, there is no ad hominem involved.
Anti- is not innately a bad thing, such as its use in the word “anti-terrorism”
I mean her being op in her 1.0 state is very debatable. She didn’t really jump to being overpowered until she was reworked.
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Since in my opinion there is an ability which functions more like a self-stun than not, this is a misunderstanding 
Anti implies I am against Mercy. I am not against Mercy for simply holding a different opinion to you.
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Uh, it was very much a winning strategy. That’s why it was used so often and why it ticked off so many people (even after they patched it people still did it).
think of it like rounding pi.
pi is 3.141592653589793238 there’s more of course but I didn’t want to copy more than that.
However in most practical applications, if you round it to 3.14 you’ll be close enough and save yourself a headache.
That’s what most Mercy players are doing when they say she’s stunning herself with Resurrect. She technically isn’t, but in their minds it is close enough that they are mentally rounding her 1.75 second cast time and 75% speed reduction to a stun.
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Do you have proof to suggest this?
There were large concentrations of Mercys in high ranks with sub 40% winrates because SR calculations said “These Mercys are reviving 4x as much as everyone else! They must be doing 4x as well as everyone else, so they must be the best!”
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