Easy to pick up and semi decent to master, shes probably the most feminine and mature female in the game, she has probably the best skins and she can be fun to play if you learn how to deviate from pocketing 24/7. Mercy is what I call an ADHD players dream hero, mercy is the type of hero you want constantly moving around the map and never having to stop. Her revive is really good and her healing is the best consistent heals you are gonna get from this hero. I can see the appeal, my 8 year old daughter also likes mercy but mostly because of the skins lol.
Mercy has always been treated that way for not requiring aim. The reality is that most people that believe it would never post a replay because they know they cannot play Mercy and everyone would mock them for their terrible gamesense.
Yeah, My friend also started as a Mercy OTP, and remained that way for years, and I saw many such cases.
Some people argue that there should be characters for beginners, but Mercy is a terrible choice imo. It doesn’t teach any FPS mechanics and your rank will be way above than your skill to pick other normal characters, so you are half-forced to be an OTP as a result.
She is easy to play despite what anyone wants to claim, for beginners or new players it isn’t hard to hold left click, eventually learn that right click and the shift key does things, and trickle into learning about rez. It’s probably so easy that anyone can do it with the monitor off. They won’t know how to super jump right away but eventually in time they’ll figure that out too(since they made it too easy to do).
The other simple reason, she is an attractive woman to most people, who has mostly attractive skins that are easy free money for Blizzard. I mean why else is she getting the lunar new year skin?
Mercy can always get good value, so if you are going to one trick a support, she’d be the one to one-trick. You can’t really say that about most other heroes. They just don’t really work as one trick because so many of them have hard counters.
Who would be the easiest hero if you think mercy isn’t?
If you are confident that mercy is hard in some capacity then you must have a hero that can be easier then mercy, aside from moira she still has the resource to manage so who would be your easiest hero if mercy isn’t one of them in your hero selection pool.