Mercy is one of the highest pickrate and winrate support so their is always a lot of lies floating around about her being bad.
The best overall support setup right now is Mercy Ana the same for like the last 15 seasons only difference with Mercy taking about 30% of the skill requires to play ana.
She is horrible to play against and is now back to pushing Sorjurn and Genji into busted mode with the 30% damage boost.
She is often untouchable while rezzing tanks and is often too hard to focus down so she just gets ignored.
She makes all of the balance problems much worse with pocketing they nerfed the 30% damage boost for a reason no idea why they decided to revert it.
Mercy winrate is very high considering her very high pickrate only behind Ana.
They need to revert the 30% damage boost buff and stop her being able to rez tanks while flying and sliding down behind walls nowhere near the actual spot where the tanks died.
She is hands down the best healer in the game right now Diamond and below without a doubt , and overall Mercy and Ana are the best healers in the game.
She makes the game unfun, encourages pocketing and ruins game balance.
Sorjurn and Genji right now are completley busted with her.
Don’t listen to the Mercy mafia lies about her being weak , she is extremely strong for how easy she is to play. Best to just look at stats on Overbuff and not listen to the Mercy Mafia on these forums who desperately need a hero that requires no aim to win so they will do anything to stop her getting nerfed.
Baptiste and Lifeweaver are the 2 worst supports right now and Mercy is S tier.
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prob cause the casuals left for rivals, so the ppl left actually understand the game
It all started with the 1st rework, when Seagull, Jeff Kaplan, et. al. decided to pour disdain and hate on Mercy, and it’s been like that ever since. I don’t play OW2 anymore, I only lurk once in a while in these forums to check out the game state, and ho-hum, there isn’t that much to be excited about. As a Rein main, I played Rein for less than 2 minutes to find out he’s still weak, I did Zarya to win the game despite not having perks since my custom control settings interferes with the perk controls.
Same on support, I did Mercy only to switch to Ana to win the game. Much as I want to play Rein and Mercy, they’re still ridiculously weak, and I don’t want to play OW as long as it does not allow me to have fun on heroes I care about.
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I’ve been playing since OW1 beta. I don’t think Mercy was really, generally, ever ‘revered to have on your team’. She’s a popular hero because uwu female model go brr, and Mercy mains like playing her, often to their detriment, but she has mostly, generally, been kind of not liked to have in the game period. She is not as useful on your team, as a whole, as most other support options, she forces a team to be built around her with minimal flexibility, a lot of people feel that someone playing Mercy will often not be able to ably swap to something else useful should the need arise, she is obnoxious to kill and promotes an even more obnoxious and disliked comp -hard pocketting-. From a tank standpoint she offers low healing and almost no utility. From a support standpoint, you know you need to do 1.5 your job to make up for Mercy doing her job. From a DPS standpoint…she works well with a few heros, and the heros she does not have excess synergy with, she is an inferior pick for.
She’s not fun for a lot of players to play as unless they are just Mercy enjoyers. She’s not fun for most players to engage with because she is one of the frustrating ‘difficult to kill’ supports while also enabling a (generally thought of) unfun playstyle, and she’s not fun to have on your team because she forces a niche playstyle that is easily countered, and does not feel like she contributes equally.
Hero bans have just brought that concept back into the discussion. I expect, in the support role, to see a lot of Ana and/or Mercy hero bans.
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mainly chasue of pharmercy as they wont ban that combo in matches but i will be honest endorsements was the msot stupid thing they have added to the game
When was this?
People have hated mercy since 2016. Probably the most consistently popular character to hate on. If mercy is strong people hate seeing her in every game, and when she’s weak they hate having mercy OTP on their team. Nothing is new under the sun.
You put “hate” in the title. That can lead to heated discussions.
Do people really hate Mercy? I thought she was chill and well-liked? 
It’s not lately. Mercy has always been hated for several reasons but mostly because it feels like they are… ladies… perma pocketing the carry player and they are hard to kill.
The average player is in gold and gold Mercy’s don’t heal or damage boost and are most likely locked onto the tank. They do have slightly more awareness to heal than silvers but will still let you die often. So if that is the Mercy they’re getting, then I don’t see why they want that Mercy on their team.
However, in gold Mercys will also fly out in the open making themselves the freest of kills. So why do players complain about free kills?
It’s a mixture of bias (if you play Mercy, you may be more keen to seeing hate against her than other characters, even though just about every character gets a lot of hate from some group or another. Some characters maybe a bit more than others, but generally all characters have some hate group).
Mercy’s hate probably comes from two main reasons.
Most players would rather have any other support character on their team due to Mercy lacking utility. The strongest part of her kit is her rez and it can be easily stopped and often even get Mercy killed when she attempts it.
She also isn’t great unless her team has at least one hitscan in most ranks… and if that hit scan isn’t very good, it’s like being down two players on your team.
The other reason is the flip side. If your team isn’t great at stopping the enemy Mercy from rezing for free, it can be frustrating as they just got a kill just to have it be reversed. Especially on a Tank. All the work and the cool downs used to secure the kill, was basically for nothing.
So some believe that she’s frustrating to have on your team as it’s possible for her to get very little value except for brief moments during the game where she rezes someone (which may or may not be a good rez and may result in her getting killed in the process).
And she’s frustrating on the enemy team because even though it’s not very frequent, if she rezes at the right time, it can flip the fight.
You’re also probably seeing more players speak out about Mercy due to the hero bans that are coming and the train of thought of wanting to ban enemy heroes can quickly go to wishing you could ban heroes for your own team.
There’s a few characters that players would like to prevent their teammates from playing. Mercy is one of them. Other characters commonly mentioned are Widow, Sombra, Doom, Ball, Moira and Junkrat.
All for their own reasons. Most are the bias of “the player on my team playing x character is ‘always’ bad with them and the enemy player that is playing the same character is ‘always’ good.” these characters I have mentioned stand out to them.
i.e. “I always get the Widow that can’t hit a shot, but the enemy team has a Widow that is wiping out half my team every fight” or “My Doomfist always feeds and dies, their Doomfist kill everyone on my team”.
Because when mercy and lw in team it is 100% autoloss. They add no value apart healbotting.
And usually from my experience, they are not good players, zero game sense.
Few days ago, enemy tank before match said i will uninstall , again mercy Lifeveawer. Free win for me, autloss for them. I also thought where this curse of mercy +lw comes from…
Please stay away from ranked.
Mercy lost nearly all versatility and reason to be picked with the S9 changes
She used to be kinda decent before that, obviously not as strong as she was in S3 tho.
The S9 changes in combination with balance changes made to Mercy resulted in a lot of her former strength just no longer existing.
To name the main problems:
- DPS passive making her formerly consistent medium healing now consistent low healing, causing her to lose all support synergy with heroes that didn‘t have Ana levels of healing and overall significantly making her Ult weaker
- bigger projectile sizes making her easier to hit in combination of her nerfed mobility
- bigger health pools making pistoling in Valk almost pointless unless an enemy is already low health
- bigger heath pools making pocketing and boosting in general weaker because dmg boost no longer pushes certain breakpoints
The herd generally accepts that its okay to hate on her , same with Genju , Ana and Kiri
Its just what kids do because they heard Jay3 say it 
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With have the rest of the support lineup are balanced especially with perks now, Mercy just cant cut it now. She lacks enough utility to keep up with the rest mesning having a mercy on your team can be a real disadvantage.
If you have DPS which are POPPING OFF it can work, overwise just making the game hard for your team.
Theres for sure a lot of unnecessary hate towards the hero but at the same time i can understand the frustrations when youre forced to play with one.
Because Mercy creates a DPS gap in the team, she feels too slow compared to other supports. I think she needs a rework, where her skill kit and weapons are completely changed, turning her into a true “Battle Mercy.”
I have no problem with Mercy. I don’t find her annoying. In fact, I would prefer to see her as a more potential-driven hero. However, with her current skill kit and weapons, it’s not really possible.
In short, Mercy needs a complete rework.
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I agree they should remove auto lock on healing and damage boost and make her more fun to play doing more damage while being able to fly around would be way more fun than pocketing somebody.
And she is not weak at all Mercy and Ana are the best healers in the game right now.
Sorjorn Mercy right now is destroying the games the 30% damage boost is totally busted.
He said “sometimes too” which means he often does not have the luxury to do so because Mercy mains instalock their OTP hero and force the whole team to play around them and they rarely if ever switch when needed. And if it so happens that they do switch once in a blue moon it is either to Lifeweaver or Moira which also does not end up being that more helpful. I as a second support am forced to switch way more often (which I personally do not mind since I can play variety of support heroes well) and very often feel like I have to do the job of two supports and not because the Mercy player is necessarily bad but because the hero provides little to nothing to the team. Not to mention people generally hate playing against a DPS with his umbilical cord e-girl glued to him with names like “hispocket” and “hercarry”.
The issue people have with Mercy players is that those players expect everyone to play around them and switch for them but they never do the same. They all have the same mindset of somehow being invaluable and irreplaceable as a teammate. They are never the problem but the rest of the team is. They instalock Mercy with Brig/Lucio/Zen/Lifeweaver while their Tank is Rein/Mauga/Orisa then blame the tank for not being able to stay alive and then call it a team diff while the enemy Ana is having a field day with her purples while your Tank’s supports are completely selling out the game.
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Y’all are in for it when bans are here. People are going to ban Mercy and Kiriko just because they get too many skins.
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Its worse since S9. As DPS get healing reducing effect, Supports who just focus on healing are less efficient but Mercy as a character has no real other choice. Because if Mercy draws her gun out, people would still get mad at her.
Also depending on meta / popular strategy, Mercy can be an easier target and feel less useful.
As for bans, I think Ana and Juno will be more banned. Mercy is popular but its almost impossible to guess before the game if she gonna be annoying or not. Ana and Juno on the other hand are always considered as annoying.
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The majority dislikes playing against mercy cause of pocket and rez. The majority dislikes having a mercy on their team coz pocket. Healing is low enough as it is for a lot of people cause people have insane egos and deliberately do not heal for whatever random reason, on top of the obvious fact of skill diff. Which does make playing dps and tank miserable if you are on the lower healing output team.
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