The mercy situation

[BadWidowEU-2419]

Lol, firstly, okay? Secondly, how is that relevant.

@Musica-2488

Hey, i’m kinda interested in the actual good threads. Can you link more of them please?

Sure!

We Need to Dispel Some Myths About Mercy

Is Mercy overpowered? The short answer to this is “probably”. I’m not one for half-measures, so I’m giving you a longer answer as well. Let’s head over to Overbuff to check out Mercy’s statistics. Starting simple, Mercy’s overall competitive pickrate for this month is 11.08%. What does that mean? Nothing. Statistics without context or precision don’t indicate anything. To throw in some context, Mercy’s competitive pickrate before her latest nerf in was around 15%. You can see this by looking …

Why I Despise Mercy's Current State

Some of you might have seen this coming… Hi! I’m making this post to spell out exactly what I hate about the current iteration of Mercy, being a former Mercy main. Technically, this is part three of this thread, but because it is the first version of this thread on the new forums, I conveniently decided not to add that to the title for maximum clickbaitiness (that’s a word now). For those of you who did not see the two previous threads when they were on the old forums, here they are: https://…

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/why-i-still-despise-mercys-current-state/129928/2

Mercy Mains - Are you currently happy with the Rework?

Fellow Mercy mains, What are your thoughts about Mercy’s current rework? Statistically, she is said to be more balanced now than she was previously, but has dropped quite a bit in terms of her overall pickrates, so I’m pretty curious. Are you guys overall happy with the changes? Why or why not? Post below! Note: If you are NOT a Mercy main, and if your most played hero is NOT Mercy, I’d kindly ask if you please DO NOT share your views of her in this thread. This is just to ONLY get the opini…

On Mercy and data

This post was conceived as a companion piece for evaluating my previous post (A month of Mercy nerf in numbers). Other than that, it’s not really going to be about Mercy (though I use her to work out examples). It’s about everyone’s other favorite subject - math. More specifically, I want to address the question: how much trust should we place in Overbuff statistics? I’ve seen a lot of people claim that Overbuff’s numbers are meaningless due to private profiles (or due to the fact that even bef…

A month of Mercy nerf in numbers

The support patch came out on August 9th, and no part of it has generated as much discussion as the Mercy nerf. I’ve seen a lot of claims since then about Mercy’s state in the game that need clearing up. In order to address these claims from an informed position, I’ve looked at one month’s worth of data from Overbuff. I separated the data into four weeks - August 9-15, 16-22, 23-29 and September 2-8 (Note: September 1 was the first day of season 12. Overbuff has no grandmaster Mercy data for th…

A quick Mercy Survey

Update: Survey is now closed. Thank you so much for all who participated! Results can be found here. Alright, so as we all know, Mercy has been a popular subject around here. As such, there have been many opinions on how to handle her, as well as many accusations thrown around on both sides. That said, I prefer data over opinions. So instead of all this back and forth “he said she said”, for the next few days I’ll be running a survey so we can finally sort through what’s actually a popular opi…