Ana and Kiriko are utterly and completely oppressive. Like its hilarious how far overtuned they are
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One OP hero at the time.
Mercy is not OP. Ana is disgustingly OP
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no one wants mercy nerfed. they want her changed. she is poorly designed and interacts with the game in an unhealthy way.
all the nerfs people want are to make the pocket playstyle less broken but the actually way to fix that is to remove blue beam.
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They also require the player to do more than be able to hold m1 and follow their teammates around
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Ironically, in light of LW’s recently release she’s an amazingly designed hero that hasn’t really been very meta. The most recent exceptions being when you allow DPS to have a near 1shot hitscan ability such as Ashe at 80dmg or Sojourn with exceedingly spammable 100 energy rail gun.
LW’s design is what happens when you try to make a slippery character that can just heal bot with no offensive utility they just become the gutter of the support roster while dmg bst keeps Mercy viable.
Even when viable there are often other meta support picks. Anyone can look to top 500 to see Mercy hasnt’ been the msot picked support since season 2. I dont’ think anyone can ask for a better situation. The easier to play support is not a gutter character to use, but there are stronger options.
Compare this to LW who has been a throw pick for multiple seasons at causing extra strife for players than need be.
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Mercy WAS the worst support and Ashe was released gigabroken and was made to be op with mercy as mercy’s buff. We play this song and dance every time a burst mid range hitscan gets overbuffed and or released as OP ever since
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I’ll go with how people seem to respond on forums these days…
Umm… they’re fine… just shoot them… wait out their abilities… not oppressive at all… get good… counter them… it’s a you problem…
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This is just whataboutism. If you were actually trying to defend Mercy’s current state you wouldn’t do it by throwing other supports under the bus.
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People arguing mercy is OP never use any sound arguments. They always use bogus points.
“Her healing is OP” bottom 3 in terms of potential healing output if you accoubt for AoE she is bottom 2.
“Damage boost” Is only good wheb midrnage burst hitscan is overtuned. Its almost always a worse discord.
“Shes so mobile”… Yeha thats the only good thing about her, yet Lucio and Kiriko perform equally to her in survivability…
“Rez is super duper impactful.” Used 2-3 times per 10 minutes. Mercy is essentially a one ability herofor 90% of the game
“Valk makes mercy unkillable” and does nothing else… Its bottom 3 worst ultimates in the game. Its pathetic bootleg trans
I do thi k Mercy should be reworked (after which rework she should be stronger)
But Ana is the real problem. Im not throwing anyone under the bus. This disgusting thing has been left giga overtuned for a year. She needs to be gutted. She has an ultimate on a 10 second cooldown
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Even T500 want her movement tuned down. She’s nearly untouchable in the right hands.
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Wahsed df mains that want his dps state back of force stunlocking someone into a oneshot combo from the other side of the map aside? Who? Eskay? God she needs the clout after they made dps lucio bad I feel so bad for her
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Thats a lie. She should be meta right now. Its a poke meta. Mercy is a poke meta support… Yet she isnt as good as the top 3. This is a good sign she is very under turned rn
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Thats exactly the poibt bruv. The game should be in a state where mercy is preferable. That is not the case since she is under powered.
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the thing you responded to wasn’t about mercy.
unless ive misread it and he brought up lw for no reason?
Talki g about LW? He has no meta. He needs more… I suggested his platform being a fire rate boost as long as you stay on it so he ebcomes a poke support
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nah i think you might be right and he was talking about mercy.
i was wondering why half of it didnt really make sense
It’s not that people complain about heroes that gets me, it’s that some of them use points which are often demonstrably untrue. It feels like they’re parroting someone else.
The bandwagoning is not helped by people who don’t really care what they say so long as it kicks up a stink. So you end up with a whole bunch of spammy threads whose sole purpose is to just cause mindless circular arguments.
I feel that for certain characters/comps there is a point of hard counter there that goes against what Blizz said they would be doing (which is moving away from hard counters.)
I play a lot of both and don’t feel like I’m ‘one man army-ing’ the other team (won’t ignore the possibility that’s a skill gap on my part 
.) However, if someone plays hog into my Ana I feel like mistakes were definitely made on their part.
I’d argue the problem with Mercy is long range damage boosts. So just disable damage boost benefits at long range.
At medium range, almost any other Support is offering more firepower than a damage boost.
Yeah… Or make it not stack with crits.
But then we need to buff her. She is already miserable
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