I can’t talk for OW1-era forum, but since the launch of OW2, I’ve not seen any character get as big of a hate train as Mercy during S2. People are more trigger happy with flagging posts about Mercy because of that, and I think Ana post will end up being flagged just as much if the hate train continues.
I think fellow Mercy player Niandra explained this pretty well, in February, talking about S3’s nerfs : “I could write the most calmly stated opinion piece about the changes and I would still get people in my comment section being like “haha whinny Mercy main, lol, Mercy tears, L, Mercy crying”, so at that point why shouldn’t I just fling my sh*t around the monkey cage if I’m gonna be treated like that regardless”.
You did not ?
Rez :
GA (also talked about in every topic about Mercy) :
Pocketing :
Blue beam (and by extension her glock, as they’re always talked together ) :
I couldn’t find a post Valk being boring. You win this one, out of your 6 points, one has not has a single topic I could find in the last 18 days.
Sadly, when it comes to your conclusion… it’s not really “new”…