Why was she COMPLETELY ignored in the dev update while they named every hero that was in need of help?
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Cause people are finally happy that she’s not that great anymore, and let’s be honest, no one likes mercy and just ignoring any feedback about her so they don’t care
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She is played in about 25% of meta comps. The support roster is the most balanced it has ever been. ana is probably slightly overtuned, or moira could be considered undertuned. Mercy is fine.
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How is it fine when Ana is essentially a must pick above gold? Just go to overbuff (yes its not perfect. But its about the best weve got for that purpose, and at least its neutral) and compare the support categories, Ana has a higher pickrate and a higher difference to the second most picked than Mercy ever had, even over the last 6 months. They killed one Monster to create an even worse one.
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this is a post about mercy… Mercy is seeing a ton of playtime still. Moira provides 0 utility and needs to be either buffed or ana needs to be toned back. Mercy literally had a near 100% pickrate in pro play. ana is seeing a lot of play, but it is nowhere near 100%. Every support aside from Moira is played in powerful meta comps. The support roster is great atm.
Which is odd since are not many liking to run high tank compositions with Moira?
Moira is good in lower ranks where big heals are stronger, as you get higher up. Moira’s lack of literally any utility drags her down a bit. She isnt too far off the power curve, but it is enough to matter in the higher up ranks.
How low are we talking? Some of these overbuff stuff from the past week seems to be putting Mercy and Moira pretty low on the totem pole even at Grandmaster.
You brought Ana into it, and frankly its in the entire comment chain the only thing i care about. Ive stopped playing support long ago, with the exception of dps Zen in qp, and mystery heroes. As for the 100% pick rate in higher ranked play, might have felt like it, but the recorded numbers disagree. And its hard to argue with them. Over 6 Months in the support bracket Mercy got picked, going from GM to Platin:
27,09%, 26,91%, 25,76%, 26,60%
3Months, GM to Plat: 26,40%. 26,06%, 24,99%, 26,13%
Ana, over the last month (so a bit over the time since the patch)
GM to Plat: 38,53%, 34,79%, 32,34%, 28,80%
and over the last week (least reliable of course, as its in constant change)
Ana, Gm to Plat: 41,38%, 37,69%, 34,87%, 30,40%
Only place that looks balanced is Gold and below, where all main healers are almost equal in picks (except Ana in Bronze, but what can you expect)
That might be a lot of things, but balanced looks differently. Ana is most definitely the new Mercy.
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And here is this meta. Mercy was at 99% pickrate in GM during the Mercy Meta, ana was at around 15%.
This meta Ana is currently at 55% with mercy at 37%. You are just wrong my dude.
Sure, why dont you post a link to your data, so we can all see and compare it? Id be legit curious for a better source than overbuff.
I included the links. It is from omnic meta.
Right, im not very experienced with this forum and took that as random error in displaying the comments (are direct links not allowed?). As for the picture you posted, this doesnt coincidentially happen to be during the Moth, and not the Mercy meta, when Blizzard completely broke her (Moth Queen, First rework to 30.1.2018) , and not the last 6 to 8 months when people still called her must pick (Mercy meta) until the 9.8? Cause even on Omnicmetas current report Ana in GM is vastly ahead of any competition:
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73% pick rate in his current report.
While checking those of the last half year for Mercy seem to perfectly well meet the numbers i told you from overbuffed, in fact they seem to be a bit lower.
Take February:
www (dot) omnicmeta (dot) com/2018/02/overwatch-hero-meta-report-pc-feb-8-2017 (dot) html
has her at GM with a 19% pick rate, or March, 27%
www(dot)omnicmeta(dot)com/2018/03/overwatch-hero-meta-report-pc-mar-22-18(dot)html
In fact the highest ones seem to be May and June with 65 and 64%.
www(dot)omnicmeta(dot)com/2018/05/overwatch-hero-meta-report-pc-may-17(dot)html
www(dot)omnicmeta(dot)com/2018/06/overwatch-hero-meta-report-pc-june-25(dot)html
And frankly, if you have to comparing her to a heroes pickrate during a time when they were arguably the most broken hero to ever exist in Overwatch, (and you still just get a ~25% smaller pickrate), you should just see that there is a serious problem and the meta certainly isnt balanced [and as said, worse then it was before 9.8).
But yeah, as far as Mercy is concerned, i agree she is balanced. But Ana is further from it than Mercy was a bit over month ago.
Notice how Blizzard locks threads left and right about Mercy, they have done it so many times that there is a monumental amount of locked community input about Mercy needing to be fixed.
This is what they think of community suggestion.
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Everyone is talking about pickrate, but what about winrate?
Mercy’s winrate has dropped about 2% and is now below 50, but I don’t see anyone talking about that.
I understand if you don’t want mass rez back, but a hps nerf was too far.
I know this will be hard to accept for you but the game does not revolve around mercy, well I should better say it’s good that it doesn’t do anymore
Pickrate only displays that her constant healing still needed because DDs and Tanks want fill their HP bars right on the spot instead of running for health packs. That’s it. If Blizzard implement auto-regen then you’ll see no difference even if Mercy will be removed. So actually yeah she’s balanced little higher than unimpactful walking health pack. Such fun much wow. But if you think about it then you’ll see that big health pack have more chances for saving your life than Mercy with her turtle-slow healing.
So just because Mercy isn’t in every comp game now she’s bad
lol why can’t i play my waifu ohmagerd
You need to understand the problem before saying such nonsense.
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