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In your own safe space maybe.
Yeah, and one man can be a rocket scientist while another can work at McDonald’s. That doesn’t mean that the man working at McDonalds is just as impressive.
You don’t know what a struggle looks like untill you see one of those Mercy players play dps lol.
Yeah, because it’s toooootally fine for the easiest character to fit that shoe, because she’s not the first to wear it, right?
Yes, because what you’ve said screams ‘‘effort’’ to anyone reading this.
Lot’s of effort, blocking someone on the merrit of calling out your blatant bias.
Its fine that you have the opinion of her being the “easiest” support, but at the end of the day it’s just an opinion and doesn’t make it a fact. Some people are so stuck in their thinking, that they can’t see the other peoples point of view, which is just part of human nature.
I consider myself a Mercy main, but I still play plenty of Ana. Do I think Ana is more difficult to get started with as a new player? Yes, I do…because you have to have decent aim. However, just because a character is easy to start out with doesn’t mean the character doesn’t have depth, there is plenty of learning to be had on Mercy that is unique to her compared to Ana. Ana is very slow and i immobile, she is a slow-paced character while Mercy is a very fast paced one. That in itself poses different challenges.
At the end of the day though, you can hold onto your opinion and other people can hold onto theirs, we don’t have to be in agreement.
Ever since it was suggested in the Megathread I love this idea;
Have Mercy build UP her 60hps heal. Have her start at 30hps and the more teammates she heals, and the longer she stays in the more it build (keeping the cap at 60hps). Rewarding her for using her kit and not just have her as a pocket.
She is very mobile, but it’s locked behind needing to have teammates in position to use it. (Cannot count how many times I try to GA away when the party I’m healing is focused down, but a teammate moves just out of sight and I can’t get away and end up dying)
Damage Boost has always been there but really wasn’t seen as useful until the broken rework that had people going; “Ya know this Boost really isn’t all that bad after all!” It provides her a utility that, at the time, all healers had.
Ressurect on CD will never be balanced in a small team, fast paced game like OW. It should be locked behind an Ult because of it’s power. Revive mechanics have worked in FPS games but they had larger teams, longer matches, and (usually) more than one person on a team can use it.
And that AoE? Thanks Rework for giving her something she really didn’t need in the first place.
Mercy does indeed need a rework or at the very least looking at. She has everything in a very easy to use bundle.
Ah… so we agree 60% win rate is a bit high. Good, let’s do a tiny, smidgen of math.
Mercy’s pick rate (according to your given site of Overbuff) is 12.56%(GM). There are 12 players on a team, so x / 12 = 12.56%. There are ~1.5 Mercys in a game. So, if Mercy is in every game, there are only 50% of those games where she isn’t on both teams. Obviously her win% against herself is 50%. So… add together the averages of her against herself and someone else, divide by 2 and set equal to her win%:
(50 + (x)) / 2 = 54.36
x = 58.72
Mercy has a ~59% win rate against teams that don’t have her on them (in GM). Mercy’s pickrate goes up as you go up in SR. Her win rate also goes up as you go up in SR. As a counter point, Ana’s pick rate goes down as you go up in SR and her win rate goes up.
Mercy is used more and wins more. Ana is avoided unless she is somewhat viable. Which is ~31% of games, compared to to Mercy’s 150% of games. It only gets worse if you check this week vs this month.
Compare to Brigitte (who you say is OP because of her win rate).
After the same math Brigitte is in 41.28% of games. Brigitte has a 54.8% win rate all together. So…
Brigitte vs Brigitte is 17.47% of games (not really ubiquitous).
Brigitte’s win rate vs non-Brigitte teams is 55.81.
Going by YOUR definition of OP. Mercy is more OP than Brigitte.
Homie got that math game, respect. I’ll call you math homie.
but that wasn’t my final form.
I’m pullin that trump card like my hottest mix tape, ya feel a brotha?
They ain’t gonna nerf the homie my guy, but they’re already working on buffin ana. It’s more likely for the other heroes get worked on first before we touch the mercy homie again. So don’t know what you be spitting about my defoneesh, but real talk, she at 50% and they ain’t changin her lmao. Hit me up with that fire response doe
Shouldn’t a character’s win rate always tend towards 50%? That’s the point of matchmaking. It will eventually put you at a place where you win ~50% of your games.
Mercy is in 150% of games. 50% of games she is going against another Mercy. The other 50% against a team without a Mercy.
50% of games are guaranteed to have a Mercy winning. 50% of the remaining 50% will have a Mercy winning to (her win rate is 50% according to that dev).
That means a Mercy is on ~75% of all winning teams. Oddly, Brigitte isn’t on nearly as many, having half the pick rate of Mercy in GM.
Nerf Mercy, or buff Ana, whatever. My only point is that Mercy is over represented AF in the current meta. But, so are Rein, Zarya, and the snipers. That’s the nature of Overwatch metas. A handful of heroes will have SUPER high pick rates.
It is however VERY annoying that Mercy has had a SUPER high pick rate for a LONG time now. One day maybe we’ll get a meta where there are multiple viable team comps that counter one another.
Preciate the kind words homie! Yeah I had friends who been on these old forums and they tell me all the time how some of these playas be waitin for the meta to change, blame everything bad about it on mercy, get her nerfed, and rinse and repeat. when she was OP for 4-5 months that was legit reasons, but now some of them so accostomed to blamin her when things go bad you can spot the blind hateboiis saltin fries with their rage from a mile away XD
Really nerfing mercy wouldn’t do anything. Before I couldn’t agree with the buff other healers argument, but some of the other supports just need a buff like Ana and Lucio.
Exactly… it’s beyond ridiculous at this point. Her kit hasn’t changed at all for 5 months. How can something go from balanced to OP in 5 months without any direct influence
I mean, ya’ll can’t be hatin on a grill cuz she popular and yours aint tho. It ain’t her fault she looks fire and people want to play her, specially now that she isn’t a guranteed win like she was before. That’s the point I’m tryin to make. Like some of ya’ll be straight hatin on her even though she ain’t even OP anymore, just cuz the homie has a big fanbase. Like real talk when she was OP she was a straight up NIGHTMARE, but now? Nahhhh fam get outta here wit that cuz. She’s aight now, we need to work on some of these other heroes who are trash tier instead of nerfin everyone else cuz our hero be trash.
You right, I think tho that people just hate on everything. Like fo real some playas just love hatin on whats hot, they don’t even care if the homie balanced or not, just “if they popular, yeah i needa hate that” but then those same homies be desperately asking to have the Mercy homie on their teams, like I can’t even. So fake Lmao
I mean I have two former Mercy Mains as friends and they hate the fact that no matter the instance, no matter reason, no matter the comp…Mercy is always going to be the better choice.
Why we stay out of QP and don’t bother with Comp. Don’t need to worry about that anymore when you can play just to have fun.
