at least ana takes twice as much skill as mercy
That line usually isn’t enough to satisfy the DPS getting shot to death sadly.
Mercy is absolutely fine people are just moaning cuz she’s not perceived to be op for the 1st time in 18 months.
She’s still op btw!
He lost 66% of his damage on PTR? Seriously? Are there patch notes?
well like over 60% of the dps are trash rn like reaper cough buff reaper cough hes been f tier for 9 seasons
Yep, couldn’t agree more. They need to fix Symmetra, Bastion, Torb, Reaper, Sombra and Roadie and we in the Golden age again.
And only mercy is the only fully unrewarding one out of the healers, no matter how good you happen to be with her. =p
Both moira and ana’s all winratings are above 50% tho. And that’s the average.
How is negative winrate at GM OP to you? Logic would dictate that if the character is actually really good and OP, their winrates and pickrates would rise… not drop like a rock.
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Oh she’s fine, she’s just not a Swiss Army knife hero anymore, I guarantee her pick and winrate will recover back and then the next nerf can go through.
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honestly if it does trickle its not going to go too far down the ladder bc it needs far too much coordination, in the same way that true dive didn’t
She’s ‘fine’ because rez as an ability is overtuned, while the rest of her kit is underwhelming. Therefore, it balances out and leaves you with a balanced hero. Issue is, it’s not fun having all your power put into a slow, boring ability that has a 30 second cooldown.
Idk man about having underpowered hero every 30 seconds and then balanced hero for that one second where I MIGHT be able to resurrect someone and then continue to have an underpowered hero for the next 30 seconds again.
One ability should not be the key balance aspect for hero’s kit, I agree.
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Exactly. Even her ult’s underwhelming, unless you go battle Mercy. Mercy’s supposed to be a healer. When the most engaging part of a healer’s kit is flying around shooting people, there may be an issue.
She’s not undpowered, people who think that are not making use of her amazing kit. She can damage boost teammates which results in faster fights and quicker wins or she can heal not be able to keep up and drag out fights resulting in a loss.
The “amazing” kit that you talk about got a direct 17% nerfbat to it, which resulted in -8% overall healing done on average across all ranks and -24% damage boosts, which means people will die far more often, she gets far less ultimate charge in general, she can damage boost far less often due to needing more time to heal people and her ultimate became really bad as a healer ultimate with the lackluster heal beam.
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at least she was overpowered for over a year thats more then you can say for like 95% of the roster
The only buff Reaper needs is for shadow step, everyone else listed needs more extensive help. But I agree, everyone besides the heroes you listed are in pretty good spots.
nah reapers only problem isint trash step Pablo anyone who thinks hes fine otherwise isint good
The statistic that determines whether or not you climb in rank in not pick rate. It’s win rate. You can pick her all you like, but it you lose games you’ll drop.
Right now Mercy is the lowest win rate healer plat - gm. In diamond - gm she’s the lowest win rate healer by far (she’s also in the bottom 1-2 characters period there). There is a 3% gap between her and the next lowest healer. For comparison, the entire spread of commonly played characters is about 6%. Furthermore, in every one of those tiers Mercy’s win rate is also well below the average win rate for the tier. For instance, you have to win about 53% of your games to stay in gm. Mercy’s win rate there is 49.54%. If you want to climb, you absolutely should not pick Mercy. She will cause you to derank.
In bronze-gold she’s only the second worst healer. Unsurprisingly, Ana’s not great when people can’t aim. But even in those tiers Mercy’s win rate is below the average. She’s still causing you to derank, even in gold.
Her pick rates have been going down strikingly fast. And in the higher ranks, where people are better at picking out which character is good and which is not, her pick rates have been dropping even faster. The fact that they haven’t vanished over night is not an indication that she’s viable.
Right now if you want to climb ranks it’s never a good idea to play Mercy. In platinum and above you are much better off picking any other healer. In gold or below you are better off picking any other healer that is not Ana.
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Cries in a corner
Wrong way round DMG boost and then heal!!!
it’s never beneficial to drag out a fight, better to be clumsy and fast than slow and deliberate. Healing is a supply and it runs out if the fight lasts too long, therefore you are far better to DMG boost and then heal up at the end of a battle.
Good Mercy players will be unaffected by the changes, bad ones will suffer without their OP healing.