Why is mercy the Main Healer

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Sorry to say this, OP, but while Mercy has a bit of a flawed kit at the moment she is balanced. She’s also not by any means really an offensive healer unlike the other healers in the game. Her primary role is to keep teammates alive, as well as herself with her mobility and positioning.

All I’ll agree on is that her resurrect is unearned and too strong as a standard ability. It needs to be earned somehow in my opinion. Secondly her Valkyrie is more effectively a standard ability in regards to the potential impact it has, it doesn’t feel right as an ultimate ability. A decent Mercy can already do most of what Valkyrie can do outside of Valkyrie, it’s essentially lazy mode for 15 seconds.

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because she’s ez clap just like moira and brigitte.

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Her healing is the most reliable healing in the game. But she sacrifices all the killing and damage potential for that to compensate.

She has GA cooldown to manage because her range is limited and no other means to defend herself. This is even worse if your team has pharah or if your team run dive heroes.

Ana has the smallest hitbox in the entire game. Current Hog can OHK mercy, even pre-nerf hog wasn’t able to one shot with his combo which has 285 damage hs not included.

Rez is the most powerful non ultimate ability in the game and should be removed on cd, it should be only avaiable during valkrie.

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It isn’t exactly going to help the case of the other healers when the only somewhat challenger to Mercy’s throne (Moira) get’s destroyed when the PTR nerfs comes in. Back to the lab with our biologist when she can’t heal anywhere near an enemy shield anymore. :frowning:

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the problem is, this game still has only 3 heroes you can call mainhealer.

ana has a bad heal meachanik, mercy can negate rnd oneshotkills and works well with hanzos ultimate, who flys all 20sec trough the map and moira has no abilities, only heal and dmg.

i hate playing tank without one of them.

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Me too, I refuse to play tank if there’s noone of these 3 heroes. :confused:

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same, i switch from tank to one of the three all the time, sometimes i even switch if there is only ana healing, i dont think i can trust that inconsistent healing at the best of times

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Mercy can fly anywhere so high ground isn’t a issue compared to Ana and Moira which makes her better in literally 50% of the game maps

She heals constantly and consistently while Moira and Ana cannot

She priorities healing over anything else

Oh and she is easier to play

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To be fair, Mercy brings good utility. Moira, meanwhile, brings ****-all. 50 DPS is a bad joke that will be ridiculed by enemy Zenyatta.

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It’s gotta be rez and the fact you can literally heal at a 180 degree angle with no limit because Moira has much higher healing output but runs out. If you have a Pharah, gg easy escape mechanic.

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  1. her heal is the most efficient of all healers. its probably 90% efficient if not more with good management (by heal efficiency. I mean how often is she healing when she can heal an ally)

Because she’s healing/buffing 99% of the time. That’s her character design.

  1. she has no god damn resources to manage. ana has bullets, moira has to do damage to keep getting her heal bar

Mercy players have actually been asking for this.

  1. she is the hardest healer to actually hit. her hitbox is small for a 200 hp hero. why doesn’t she have 150 hp?. have you tried to hit her during her flight? its near impossible.

That just sounds like an aiming issue. Also, have you not tried shooting Speedy McFrog?

  1. rez. its better than many ultimates because it gives her a choice. in many chokes where killing THE main target be it the other healer. or the other support. or a tank or a dps. she can just rez them back and you’re back at square one

I agree with this, the current rez is dumb and needs to go.

  1. her heal is really fast for a lock on. also. her heal being a lock on in the first place. now. by itself. thats fine but you have to consider her healing efficiency as well and the fact that its infinite

There are many damage sources that can surpass 60 HPS easily.

  1. mercy has no resource to manage like moira and isn’t restricted by cooldowns to heal allys like the other ones. and her heal isn’t incredibly slow like Lucio neither it is slow to swap targets like zeny.

Again, Mercy players have been asking for some kind of resource to use, and If Lucio and Zen had a higher healing output like Mercy that would make them a little too powerful because they can multitask.