Can we stop this belief that Mercy is meta because of her insanely good no aim healing.
Prior to her rework, she also had this no aim healing that could peel for weak allies, yet she was considered a weak hero, only being ran with Pharahmercy.
She’s meta because of her ressurection and if you want something changed it’s her ressurection. I know a lot of people hate Mercy, but stop perpetuating the myth that Mercy is the best support (Zenyatta is btw) because of her incredible no aim healing, as it’s extremely misguided.
She’s ALWAYS HAD THIS and prior to her rework was never ever a meta pick (not counting the start of the game as it doesn’t mean much) .
Seriously people want to nerf her healing, guardian angel, beam on healing because they absolutely hate her :)))))))))) Nothing to do with fairness, it’s because they have a divine hate for her. She’s meta because of her ressurection.
And people are on about nerfing her damage boost. I thought we agreed that we wouldn’t nerf heroes based on meta? The grav, dragon strike, damage boost combo has always been a thing. Why do we pick on Mercy? Not Hanzo? Not Zarya?
When people say she is OP, I never know if i should disagree or not. She ‘feels’ balanced, sorf of in tune with the rest of the game, doing her allocated job well and not to an overpowered extent. However, she will always have a massive advantage over Ana and Moira because of Res, to the extent that they will never come close to her due to her ability to completely flip a flight with a well timed res. I’m okay with damage boost, I think it’s okay as it is, and it’s part of the pharmercy busting combo (Mcree/widow + discord + damage boost = goodnight pharmercy) so it should remain.
As an ex-Moira main who has pre-emptively abandoned her in anticipation of the forthcoming nerfs completely wrecking her, I look back and realise even with her strengths (massive burst heals, best escape in the game, decent damage potential) she was never able to hold a candle to Mercy because of res. It kinda feels like I was just wasting time because Blizz loves mercy too much to bench her for a while.
I have some inner conflicts whenever I see this kind of discussion in regards to Mercy. On the one hand I understand how powerful the ability to nullify death is in an ideal scenario. On the other hand the majority of OW players don’t get ideal scenarios.
What I mean by this is that the ranks of bronze through to platinum play in such a way that makes rez a gamble at best. Speaking anecdotally I find most deaths are just not worth the risk of rezzing because the player that died was mostly likely way out of position and no one else on your team has the mindset of “protect mercy while she uses rez”. And a rezzing mercy is a beacon for low ranks that says “Stop whatever you’re doing and shoot at me despite any risk”.
Rez is powerful, maybe a bit too much, but unless we all start playing like we’re teams in the OWL then rez has very diminishing returns in the real world.
Mercy is meta simply because her kit is applicable in this current meta + she is less situational compared to other “main healers” like Moira or Ana
She is mobile, meaning she can get away from STUNNED or being flanked, has consistent heal that goes through the barriers (Moira is going to lose that soon), and is the only healer that may help against a one-shot. Doesn’t matter how good your Ana is at aiming and keeping herself alive if you get an arrow between your eyes. Plus she enables some of the required picks atm, which keeps her relevant. It is harder to nail a biotic nade in the grav (hence less consistent results overall) than to damageboost a Hanzo. Easier to play Pharmercy against a Brigitte than coordinate an assasination of Torb Jr. with other means
People play in uncoordinated mess that is ranked, where you can’t rely or sometimes even trust other players to even call stuff out, meaning they choose what guarantees the biggest chance to success. No need for Mercy changes as far as I am concerned
Firstly, can we stop this whole beginning threads with “Can we stop this”?
Your post just tosses a bunch of opinions out there and then tries to frame them as facts. For example, you’re telling me that Zen is the best support? Okay… well, he’s an off support with DPS like damage capabilities? That’s great but you can’t quantify what he brings to the team and then compare that against what a Mercy brings because her healing capabilities and his damage done are not equal quantifiable factors. Zen is a great DPS/healer supplement support and Mercy is a great main healer support. It’s like comparing apples to oranges.
Mercy is “meta” because her entire kit fulfils required roles in the game. It’s not all due to her healing output and it’s not all due to her res. It’s due to all those things plus many more such as her mobility, damage boost and everything else in her kit.
Am I the only one that thinks the only time the “no aim hero” stigma was used was when people spoke about whether or not the heroes require skill, and not to do with whether or not Mercy is/was considered OP?
In threads previous where people were talking about Mercy being OP it was
always focusing on the old version of Valk or Resurrection. Not the fact she has a lock on beam.
Yes, she has always had this. Yes, she has always been considered the best. Ana was the only one who could try to get close to the healing that mercy can due but due to the recent changes having a healer that can constantly heal without needing to waste time aiming or firing and you already have a straight up better healer.
While it might be true that Mercy’s new found resurrect is powerful she has always had the ability to resurrect players now you can just do it with one and it’s less risky. Still doesn’t change the fact that Zarya, Reinhardt, Zen and Hanzo are now basically 90% of GM games with their play rate increaing growing per rank untill you hit the max at GM.
If lucio for example was given the ability to resurrect people it wouldn’t have caused him to become the most meta pick as he is lacking in other departments. Mercy doesn’t lack in any other departments other than safety which can be avoided with positioning and teamplay