Yes, she’s within the Support category but she does not define the whole Support category, yet with how Mercy-Mains went on about it back then, you’d think that every Support hero was in the same state as her.
STOP. PUTTING. WORDS. IN. MY. MOUTH.
Nowhere did I say that Mercy is “fine”.
Heck, I’ve recently advocated for Mercy changes myself:
…but you automatically assumed my stance on her and the fact that I was criticizing a small subset of the Mercy-community and lumped me with them.
The reason that Mercy-Mains have a stigma (and again, it’s a specific kind of Mercy-Main) is because of knee-jerk responses, their tendency to make everything revolve around them, and the horrible tendency of taking things out of context.
You literally couldn’t do anything.
Your entire kit was countered by D.Va & Winston.
Healing? Nope; Projected Barrier & Defense Matrix.
Damage? Wrong again; Projected Barrier & Defense Matrix.
Biotic Grenade & Sleep Dart??? HA.
PROJECTED BARRIER & FREAKIN’ DEFENSE MATRIX.
The best you could do was try and Nano someone and even then, all it took was one Discord Orb to make your Nano Boost useless (either that or the person you boosted being an absolute troglodyte).
There was a reason for the ungodly amount of “Ana is a Troll Pick” posts.