We once again have a trend of mercy climbing to a must pick nearing %100 gm pickrates again. Gm being the highest most skilled level of play.
16.67 = %100 percent pickrate. %100 means never not picked.
GM ONLY
for comparison Ana pc 1.92 = %11 Moira PC 0.82 = %5
Jun 25 2018
Mercy.
PC 14.77 = %89.
PS4 16.7 = %100
Xbx 15.97 = %96
Jun 26 2018
PC 14.74
PS4 16.39
XBX 16.00
6/27
pc 14.68
ps4 16.15
xbox 16.03
6/28
pc 14.74
ps4 16.02
xbx 16.04
6/30
PC 14.86
I will not comment here on if we feel she is balanced or not. We are simply going to track her pickrates day by day.
Gm only bc we assume the hard healers should be able to enjoy a competitive advantage there since it is the highest level of mechanical gameplay.
The other heros in the current meta did not have insane pickrates in the previous meta so rein, zarya, Hanzo, brig… While their pickrates are shocking are not as concerning bc they do not remain dominant from meta to meta. Zen also seems problematic due to his pickrates also being high but nothing compared to the Queen’s.
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quick advice: count the picks for BOTH teams. when she gets picked by one team, its only 50%. only when both teams pick her its 100%. i hope you were doing this all along anyways. otherwise, your information will be pretty much worthless
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Nerf Hanzo before you do anything. She is getting picked because she can damage boost dragon.
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Wow you can damage boost Dragon Strike but not JR tire? I am really getting tired of Blizzards way of thinking.
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Mercy has always been a victim of the meta
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Mercy will always have a very high pick rate. She is loved by many and many will continue to play her regardless of her status in the meta. Even during the Ana triple tank meta she was like 4th most picked hero. None of this is to say she’s not op because she is, but pick rate, especially for heroes like Mercy or Dva who have huge fan followings is not an accurate metric to go by.
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I love seeing all the salt from players thinking Mercy needs a nerf. Protip: shes fine, and there’s no nerf incoming.
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hes getting an ult charge nerf… nothing will change by that
B-B-B-B-B-BUT The overbuff pick-rates say!!11
Her been 4th picked hero when she was utter garbage (seasons 2+3) really shows her popularity with the player-base.
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Thanks everyone but This thread is not meant to discuss our personal feelings on mercy just to track day by day pickrates and statistics.
There is a huge thread committed to discussing personal feelings on her state please post there if you wish to comment
And you will see now with the moira nerf.
Mercy has had a close-to 100% pickrate for nearly 9 months, it has nothing to do with Hanzo. Hanzo needs a small nerf for sure, but it’s nothing compared to Mercy, nor the type of play she enables. She’s way too low risk high reward. Her ratio is completely out of sync.
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Just waiting for that revert
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You are conveniently forgetting about the various incarnations of rez that made her the most obviously broken hero in the history of OW.
Separate entities (things with their own hp pools) can be damage boosted everything else can if you want jr tire to be boosted you either have to remove it’s hp pool or make it so torb and symm turrets can be damage boosted too
Blizzard never ever revert any changes. It’s an ego problem they have. And will be the downfall of this game.
It’s time to let go.
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I’m not forgetting at all, that’s part of risk/reward. She is minimal risk to play -not particularly difficult to get use out of- and very difficult to kill, even if you’re not adept at playing her (her kit is too generous for her survivibility), and her rewards for that (which is her ability to use Rez as it exists (and has existed, all iterations) on a CD) are far too much.
Mercy needs to be harder to play -tone down her self-heal, tweak Guardian Angel- and rez needs to be behind the barrier of an ult. ‘Big Rez’ should never and will never come back, but she should only be able to rez -one instant charge- during her Valk.
They reverted the lucio change in PTR
And partially the ana dmg nerf
Or do you want even more.mercy nerfs? Its literally imposible to nerf her more
She is an very likable hero overall where people like to play her. Also, Zen,DVA, Genji, or Tracer. Should we nerf Rein because of his pick rate but he is currently underpowered.