Every game a Mercy is flying around in the open and people refuse to aim at her. You think this far into ow2 life people would know she has to die by now. The sheer volume of dps you see who refuse to do something as simple as this is amazing.
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well it depends on your rank
in lower ranks its because the players dont have the mechanical skill to even hit them, in higher ranks it depends largely on where the mercy is and if the person thinks theyāll be able to kill them.
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Theyāre too busy pumping the double pocketed tank to boost their damage numbers but still get zero elims
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Itās not people refusing to aim at her.
Itās that Blizzard have made her movement so absurdly random, broken and overwhelming that aiming at her is insanely difficult to do for hitscans below high Masters.
Anywhere below that, Mercy is virtually immortal if they know how to move.
People simply canāt hit her, so they stop bothering even trying to hit her. Her mobility is too strong, too versatile and has absolutely no tell.
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Her slingshot momentum is stronger than in OW1 and anyone can do it easily in any direction.
Her SJ complaints are more laughable, but the slingshot ones have some merit.
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I play a lot of projectile heroes so you better believe shes not my priority target. Although I do take a shot if I know I can take one, you never know when the mercy will get sloppy and make a mistake.
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Admittedly she is incredibly flighty, but in most situations, if you can kill a Tracer, you can kill a Mercy. Barring your ability to do that, if you absolutely can not hit her, then kill her heal target. She canāt out-heal everything, so go for crits and her heal target goes down. She has 2 options then, die rezzing her ally or flee to her team.
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Because they THINK sheās too hard to kill so they donāt even bother trying
Itās infuriating when Iām the only DPS shooting her and getting her 20 HP every fight and all it would take is ONE other member of my team to tickle her and she would be dead every fight, but instead they all just ignore her the entire game
When I play Mercy I only get shot at probably 20% of the game.
Sheās NOT that difficult to kill if you have any modicum of focus fire (aka two people shooting her)
She literally has to stand still for like 23-2.8 seconds now in between those slingshots though, they should shoot her in that downtime. I have to whip out my own glock as Mercy myself to pew pew the enemy Mercy after her superjumps since everyone just ignores her. If I can do it as Mercy then my Soldier and Cass shouldnāt be having problems.
When she got changed in Season 3 to have a 2.5 second CD, which was a 67% nerf to her mobility uptime, the Devs said that after a month her death rate and damage taken rate had no changed at all.
Which goes to show that players just outright donāt even bother shooting at her even when she is marginally easier to kill.
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I played with a tracer today who complained about not being able to kill mercy even though she ressed in the middle of the openā¦ I nearly killed that mercy myself but Lucio booped me away. That extra damage from tracer would have secured the kill.
I donāt understand this. Isnāt it much more fun and satisfying to kill squishies?
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People donāt even try because her mobility is too much. She is also a less of a direct threat due to lacking any offense abilities.
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She isnāt that good at fighting back, which is why she has such mobility.
If you want to tone down mobility in the game, Iām all for that, but I am sure the flanker players will hate that even more.
They have mobility AND lethalness.
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Itās hard to aim at Mercy because (take your pick):
- Mercy also has a hard time aiming at others.
- Mercy is harmless since she is too cute to be harmful.
- Itās a you/your teammatesā personal awareness + aim skill issue.
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Mercy is just too lovely so my hand just locks and I cant click if she is in front of my crossair, very sorry but it is deep overwatch conditioning. 
What? I donāt believe iāve ever seen a Mercy even hit the ground in Overwatch 2. She is permanently airboundā¦
Her āattachā breaks terrain, corners and all forms of LoS
She has full access to all vertical LoS (Only her and Pharah have this, Echo to a lesser extent)., aswell as horizontal LoS (she still has the same LoS possibilities as every other none flying hero in the game).
She only requires 0.1 seconds of a GA to cancel it and revert back to whatever LoS she was in, whilst getting FULL value of her entire beam, either damage or heal or switching between.
Iād probably say with a Mercy at my ranking is probably ākillableā for about 1-2 seconds every 20 seconds. The rest of the time theyāre completely unhittable, not down to aim, but down to terrain.
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Teammates bad. A tale as old as time.
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Aiming at Mercy stirs up a biological version of an inverse triggerbot hack in our brains, momentarily disabling our ability to shoot her when the crosshair is over her, thanks to all that conditioning, yasssā¦
Iām tired of this āit depends on the rankā BS. Shoot the Mercy, even if you just are forcing her to relocate and you canāt kill her, take it. Do something. Mercy can only use team mates to position and under pressure people make mistakes, if Mercy has 0 pressure, she will make less mistakes and harder to kill. You also will never kill anything if you never try. Practice killing Mercy. Start by just trying to pressure her. Pressure her to get her to leave her team mate and then try and kill the team mate that is now isolated. Countering heroes isnāt just about killing them, if you canāt kill her at least make her game hard.
- A Mercy main who has literally stood still beaming my team mate while a single enemy dps tries to fight him, completely ignoring my existence, enemy dies and then flames my dps for being pocketed. Like ? lol ?
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Oh so you havenāt played the recent patches where her GA cooldown got increased. She plays more corners and around terrain more now than the use of her micro-movements
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a straight line.
and if she jumps?
she has a 3sec cd of floating/falling.
so tell me again how it has no tell?
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