How’s that for a controversial title. Lets be real though, mercy being a part of the meta AS A MAIN HEALER makes the game fun (or as fun as it can be at this point). She also doesnt need to be super hard, unreplaceable meta. This way supports can flex to other healers depending on the situation. Outside of the busted mercy meta, when mercy is played as a main healer people have a lot of fun. She doesnt ruin the fun of the game like most other supports, especially now that rez ult is gone and new rez is only really good for staggers and early picks. Her sole job is to heal and enable her team to have more fun essentially. She does no cc, no dmg, her ult is balanced, and she has no truly overpowered abilties. Some people may not like to play her but with role q that is less of an issue. The reason she needs to be a main healer is because another healer being main healer (i.e. moira bap) causes smothering amounts of healing and mercys healing is consistent and near balanced. Who honestly likes having a reaper ult or a focused dive negated by moira healing or a brig?
Also, lucio is a good example of a support that can create good metas, but sometimes that doesnt work out.
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Really don’t understand what you are trying to say with all that.
She is a main healer.
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And yet the meta is to play her with a main healer (eg; moira,) and playing her with an off healer (zen) is basically throwing.
She is not a main healer.
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She was a main healer, she no longer truly is one sadly. She has to be played with another main healer, unlike the other main healers who can be played with an off-healer without concerned teammates. It’s saddening that she has to be played like an off-healer these days, not particularly fun to play the hero as. I honestly don’t care about mass resurrect, but her current design isn’t that good either unless you’re claiming that opinion from the perspective of playing against Mercy. The only real remaining quality she has is her mobility, otherwise most other aspects of her kit are either a shell or just in a somewhat messy state.
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Yeah, when the game is a sniper meta due to Mercy and the games are decicded by the Widow duels the game is great /s
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Rez isn’t fun to play against, imagine hitting 2 or 3 headshots in a row getting your team a pick then Mercy presses E.
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She cannot sustain tanks under fire and has no burst or aoe healing to match the likes of Ana, Moira, or Baptiste on a moment-to-moment basis. Valkyrie isn’t enough.
She’s an off-healer/situational pick like Lucio/Zen/Brig.
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Sorry but Mercy meta was the awful ‘meta-phase’ of dive, resurrect really nullifies bad players getting caught out of position
Ana/Zen/Lucio support metas are my personal favourite
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Nope, she is a main healer and will always be. Because you decide to play different playstyle with her does not mean that playstyle is what said hero is. You play her as an off healer? sure, go ahead but she’ll always be a main healer.
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The moth meta can easily gets into top 10 of worst things that happened to OW.
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Meta is fun when heroes in it are fun for you. For example i see dive as one of worse metas, but many see it other way
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Shes been in the meta once and that was during double sniper. The most hated meta ever.
Ugh, not for us support players, mercy meta has been the only time I’ve almost quit this game.
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yes the game is surely fun for the Mercy player and her Widow duo.
I have no problem being the main healer when playing Mercy. I often queue with another support and he usually goes Zen or Lucio. I play Mercy, Moira and Ana but I prefer Mercy on a lot of maps. Never had an issue with main healing as her.
She was also meta for most of dive.
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I didn’t liked double sniper meta…
So we are ignoring the fact, that Jeff basically stated that “Main” and “Off” are not role disparities they deal in, just like Sigma wasn´t a “main” tank, but another “Barrier” tank.
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OP, people just dislike Mercy. It doesn’t matter that her kit functions well with most dps or that she tends top promote fast paced metas, people only remember her for being the moth that enabled everything (including never-ending games) and sniper meta (because that’s totally not in part because snipers were busted but whatever). People will rather romanticize Ana metas despite them mostly being tank heavy and slow (which I personally like but people here tend to complain about).
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have fun watching your tanks dieing.
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