Why Do So Many People Like Mercy?

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Title. She’s what, the second or first most popular hero in the game? Anyone know why?

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First main healer, accessible, easy to learn.
I assume.

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  • Easy to pick up
  • Doesn’t rely on aim or any other mechanically advanced skills, perfect for people who have never played a shooter game before
  • Cool lore I guess?
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Idk, for me she is just has the style of play that I prefer and I like her as a character.

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Only healer that doesn’t damage by default and beautiful design. Resonates with a lot of people.

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She’s a blonde white girl with blue eyes nice body and provides healing and pewpew advancement

What’s not to like?

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She’s one of the characters that really goes against the traditional FPS format (The other poster child of this being Reinhardt), so people who may not like a traditional FPS enjoy her.

Also her visual design and lore is pretty sick.

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A lady support hero with wings and the only hero that fits the Priestess role.

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I always like playing the role of a support that can’t do anything but support their team. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling especially when people compliment or thank you. Plus Mass Rez gave you that spotlight moment DPS ultimates give them.

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“traditional” healer archetype.

And mechanically, she was designed to attract people who wouldn’t normally play an FPS, so her playstyle isn’t fully transferable to any other hero

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She’s relaxing to play and flying around and rezzing feel fun.

Not everyone is trying to pretend to be a God tier FPS player, some people want to chill and forget about real life.

Not everything has to be a white knuckle ride (cue someone being offended by the word white, lol).

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That’s actually one of the reasons I like playing Mercy, the cat and mouse game while still supporting your team

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  • Easy.
  • Reliable kit.
  • Is a healer.
  • Character design.
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  • Because she’s relatively easy/consistent
  • Has great self sustain
  • Since the beginning of the game up until 50hps you could play her on every map, every comp, and all but the very highest skill tiers and be fine.
  • For a 1-2 years it was “Pick Mercy or we lose”.
  • She’s got a selfless pretty-girl literal angel aesthetic which a lot of people like.
  • Mercy players are usually much more attentive to healing teammates than heroes that get distracted by DPSing, which makes them usually appreciated.
  • Except for the rare times she was considered too weak (even when she wasn’t after January 2017), you’d get almost no complaints for picking Mercy.
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I mean I picked up Mercy because of her general design of easy to pick up, consistent healer. Her visuals are pretty good too, the wings specifically.

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The role, voice acting, character design, playstyle, and accessible base kit.

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She used to be the most popular hero in the game, in both Quickplay and Competitive. Now she’s 6th in Quickplay and Competitive.

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I’m a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic!

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To be fair, the vast majority of people picked her because she was considered the most effective healer for their skill tier.

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Going back to season 3?

I don’t think so.

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