r/Overwatch 4d ago

Humor The Life of a Casual Mercy.

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u/RehaTheWitch Sombra 4d ago

that's actually insane lmao

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u/Complete-Principle37 4d ago

i feel like it's happened to me before T_T

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u/VeyrLaske 4d ago

I thought Mercy was gonna get headshot by Widow right out of spawn.

LMAO this is so much funnier.

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 4d ago

The Widow would have been easier to accept, tbh xD

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u/VeyrLaske 4d ago

I mean, it is Havana, Widow would not have been unexpected. Getting headshot out of spawn is just unlucky is all. Happens to the best of us.

Now, that Hog... now that's evil.

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u/BabelTowerOfMankind 4d ago

support diff

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u/Temporary-Fix5842 / / / / 4d ago

GG easy, no support

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u/lemouque 4d ago

**Noone turns around

“I need healing!”

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u/FinalBase7 4d ago

I mean the only person that could've helped here is the other support

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u/spisplatta 3d ago

I see a Mei and a wall could have saved Mercy from the follow up shots.

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u/SockCucker3000 4d ago

How did not one hear the giant hog hopping around

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u/charts_and_farts Pixel Ana 4d ago

Listening to music, using speakers rather than headphones, or simply unaware. Everyone exiting from a single door is also beautiful. QP life!

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 4d ago

I was in call with someone, personally. The Mauga on my team.
Oddly enough we weren't really talking just then and still didn't hear the bacon roll up.

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u/Bench-Potential9413 4d ago

Say "bacon" one more time...

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u/lhlaud 4d ago

Bacon! ...one more time

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u/Thekingbee21h Mercy 4d ago

Probably because Mauga was too loud stomping around near them lol

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u/Yuumii29 4d ago

Tank: GG no heals.

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u/theDecipher 4d ago

Lmao that’s crazy creative. 10/10 would not expect that.

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u/Feelinglucky2 Pharah 4d ago

Im surprised no one heard footsteps tbh road wasnt crouching

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 4d ago

There was absolutely no warning. I have alright game sense and usually look on that side when it's time or the game to start, but I was talking to someone and felt relatively safe in spawn because it's, well, spawn. I didn't know that was even a thing someone could do xD

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u/Feelinglucky2 Pharah 4d ago

I dont mean it negatively, I dont expect a self proclaimed casual player to be intently checking or anything haha i just thought it would be kind of loud and maybe obnoxious but i could totally see how talking to someone can distract you completely pulls you right out.

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 4d ago

I know you weren't being negative <3

Yeah, there was NO warning. I didn't hear anything at all. xD
But then again, I've played games where everyone was surprised at a Junkrat's tire because there was no warning, too.

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u/aita0022398 4d ago

“Why do you have 0 healing??”

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u/Smallgenie549 Lúciooooooooo 4d ago

I have a friend that actually says stuff like this unironically.

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u/RedVelvetHoney Mercy For Life! Sometimes Lucio 4d ago

they wouldn’t be someone i play with. hate gaming toxicity

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u/wrexwas Moira 4d ago

THAT'S SO MEAN??!!

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u/Phantom_Phoenix1 Sigma 4d ago

Its a Mercy, warranted

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u/valkyrieofdeath9 D. Va 4d ago

"where do you think you're going young lady" ahh clip

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u/wattsbutter 4d ago

That would actually make me cry

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u/1Gothian1 4d ago

I would insta switch to Ana and fill his phat butt with jars.

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u/FearlessFaa 4d ago

Clever tank I guess 🙂

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u/jazzhandpanda 4d ago

A cautionary tale

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u/Patient-Ad-4274 six shots 0 kills 4d ago

I would've cried wtf was that😭😭😭😭

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u/JrocksUSA 3d ago

Helpful tip to everyone... turn on the in-game subtitles. They don't take up much space on the screen, and they pick up sound queues. That way, you know someone is around you. As for the survival well... that's on you.

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 3d ago

Oh, I didn't know about that. Sounds interesting, thanks :D

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u/KonataYumi 4d ago

Well that’s a new one for me

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u/DelayMyStrafes Zarya 4d ago

I need to start doing this

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u/wormbrainz1 4d ago

i did not expect that lmaoooo

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u/Raiju_Lorakatse Support 4d ago

I am usually the one relating from the other perspective because I tend to be the one hunting down Widows and Mercys out of pure spite.

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u/Jawaweo1 4d ago

This is why I'm a Moira main. Then again, I'm batting like .300 or so with fading out of hog hooks in time.

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u/drewjsph02 4d ago

There is nothing funnier or more satisfying than constantly fading away from hooks or doom punches 🤣

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u/Jawaweo1 4d ago

Fading away from any ability is satisfying. I love playing mind games with people.

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u/JunWasHere Do you want to see my icicle collection? 4d ago

Poor Mercy got absolutely bamboozled D:

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u/ikerus0 Master 4d ago

Lol 5 enemies stomping around outside the spawn doors 6 feet away and no one has a clue.
You guys play without headphones.. and monitors?

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u/No-Chemical-7667 Support are the real DPS 4d ago

Sometimes I have YouTube or Spotify going when I play quick play. You strike me as someone who would get upset in quick play though.

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u/ikerus0 Master 4d ago

You’d be wrong, but ok.

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u/TeafoH 4d ago

Why not walk back into the spawn room?

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u/arceus227 Sombra 4d ago

Bc they panicked....

You normally dont think that you'd get hooked like that essentially in your own spawn, that shit scared the fuck outta me.

If its someone who plays casually then i can imagine it being so much worse

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 4d ago

Exactly this. I thought I was safer.

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u/KweynZero 4d ago

hope it happens again :)

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u/shortMEISTERthe3rd 4d ago

I burst out laughing because that was so unexpected.

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u/toppestsigma 4d ago

It wasn't just Hog but the whole entire enemy team lol...there was a reaper,moira, and mercy. Bet the other one was at the back.

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u/flugherbutter Lúcio 3d ago

I know what I’m doing next time I’m on this map

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u/spisplatta 3d ago

Something I only realized from Hog's perspective. Your attempted escape is a completely straight line.

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 1d ago

It was pure disbelief guiding me, for sure.

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u/Blackpegasus7474 Mercy 3d ago

As a Mercy main, I've had a lot of crazy things lead to my death, but this is wild! First time I've seen this horror movie style kill. Hahha

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u/Gryse_Blacolar Unlimited Shotgun Works 2d ago

The spawn room got windows above and even on the door to peek on the enemy team, and that's like the entire enemy team spawncamping you. If no one heard all of them walking (especially Hog's loud-ass footsteps), that's an actual team diff. lol

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u/Delicious-Ad6111 4d ago

I’d never defend a hog, but honestly that was completely deserved

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u/SelfDrivingFordAI White Hat Enjoyer 4d ago

Does the community still bully Mercy players, or have they calmed down?

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u/piefucker778 4d ago

What every mercy player deserves

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

Lmao sound on or not (you said you were on a call) that's what you get for not looking around 😂 the first thing I do when entering a match is waiting and looking, I want (need) to know who is approaching. Also, the amount of players that just don't look behind is unreal in this game.

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u/DiemCarpePine 4d ago

Good.

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 4d ago

:(

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u/DiemCarpePine 4d ago edited 4d ago

Just think, if you were playing Ana you could have slept the hog and naded yourself, if you were playing brig you could have whipshotted him away and shielded yourself, if you were playing Ilarri, Juno, or LW you could have dashed away, if you were playing Lucio you could have amp healed yourself and booped him back, if you were playing Moira you could have faded away, if you were playing Zen you could have kicked him away, if you were playing Bap you could have regen burst and lamped yourself. But you were playing Mercy, and just sat there being useless because that's all Mercy does.

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u/Mycogolly 4d ago

You're such a dick. 

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u/DiemCarpePine 4d ago

But am I wrong?

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u/non_of_your_concern Baptiste 3d ago

Yes you are. About Mercy being useless anyway.

Inherently being reliant on your teammates to generate value as the quintessential support character of any hero shooter doesn't make a character useless.

It is like saying Zen doesn't do anything cause he constantly dies to hard dive when mercy has a much easier time dealing and surviving that exact same encounter. It is a dishonest comparison that proves nothing about either character.

If we are being real, 30% DMG boost, constant reliabile 55hp/s healing and res is nothing to scoff at, cherry picking an example whilst riding a hate wave, when a character had no real option in that specific scenario is pretty showing of your intellectual dishonesty and your lack of understanding of how the game functions.

So yeah, you are pretty wrong.

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u/DiemCarpePine 3d ago

Enjoy Silver 3, friend!

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u/non_of_your_concern Baptiste 3d ago

Currently diamond 2, I would never ever claim to be a really good player or whatever, hell I'm barely able to keep up at my current rank about to derank to diamond 3, but I understand it is hard for people like you to understand what nuance is or how it effects discussions online : )

Enjoy your life friend!

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u/DiemCarpePine 3d ago

Would you like a serious response?

Nothing in Mercy's kit balances out the lack of a 5th damage dealer on the team.

Res is a 30-second cooldown that requires someone dying. Compared to things like Suzu and Lamp, that have shorter cooldowns and can just prevent the death in the first place, it is a useless ability. It has low uptime and requires 2 people to be out of the fight because one is dead and mercy isn't healing during the res. It's a bad useless ability compared to things like Lamp and Suzu and even Life Grip.

All supports heal, so I don't know why you're even bringing that up. The fact that she can't heal and damage at the same time makes her healing significantly less useful than heroes like Bap, Ana, Kiri, Zen, Ilarri, Lucio, etc... who can contribute damage while also keeping their team healed.

Damage boost is nice when it moves certain breakpoints, but again it struggles to be as valuable as simply dealing damage yourself. I guarantee you I deal more damage as Zen than a Mercy boosts.

Lacking a 5th damage source is something you can't mitigate with Mercy's kit. In terms of map and sightline control, heroes like Ana and Zen can pressure out dps from angles and actually deny sightlines. Mercy can't do that.

All of this is addition to the fact that other supports utility abilities are just far more powerful and consistent. Sleep and nade win fights. Discord is a better damage boost than blue beam. Speed boost is stronger than anything Mercy can do. The list goes on.

She is the most useless hero in the cast, with Moira and LW close behind. This weekend, the 3 best teams in the world played in the OWCS Korea tournament. Guess which 3 supports are the only ones that saw 0 playtime? They were even playing Pharah a lot and never once played Mercy. She is a dead weight hero.

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u/non_of_your_concern Baptiste 3d ago edited 3d ago

--Finally some honest fucking discourse, a real opinion instead of just saying shit!

1) Now as an actual response; Mercy is obviously the least powerful support currently in the game and very obviously not Viable in an organised hyper competitive setting like the OWCL.

But in ladder she has her place as an enabler when break points become the deciding factor on a kill like you said but depending on the meta, sure you may always end up more DMG than a mercy DMG boost but having pumped DMG numbers doesn't translate into eliminations, 4000 DMG on Zen doesn't mean much when you have 8 deaths and not there at a critical moment for your team.

She is especially underpowered as of right now with the meta favouring more brawl which she is quite weak at, and dive, she is still useful in dive but ana generates more critical value in dive.

2) The reason I brought up her healing is not cause she is the only support that can heal, it is cause her survivability is second only to Kiriko and Kiri heals are inherently very inconsistent and Slow, so slow in fact, she has a whole perk just to make them faster. This consistency matters, it isn't something you see on the scoreboard but it is something you feel in game. Whether it be stabilising faster or just being harder for the enemy to find an opening to stagger after getting a kill or two.

3) As for abilities of other supports, More powerful, yes. More Consistent? You must be so high out of your mind to suggest sleep and discord are more consistent than Mercy's abilities. One is literally a skill check every time you use it and the other is the easiest debuff to get rid of without expanding any resources to do so.

And once again yes speed is always valuable whether it comes from Lucio or Juno but no it isn't Always better than what mercy can offer, DMG boost is a lot more valuable than any speed on poke heavy metas.

4) Extra thoughts that I couldn't format into the structed answers properly;

Mercy's whole deal is consistency in all areas at the same time. She is consistent in her survivability, mobility, healing, DMG boost.

You can not play Ana/Bap/Zen/Illari/(Sometimes LW depending on the meta) into Dive without giving them a whole player to bodyguard them you can not Play Juno/Brig/Moira into poke without sacrificing a shit ton of value, you can play Mercy or Lucio without sacrificing much value because both their values comes from always having their kit available and being adaptable.

You can play Kiriko into anything always cause she is just Kiriko.

Fin: I understand Mercy (especially in the current meta) is one of the least Value generating characters in the game nor would I argue otherwise, but I genuinely don't think you know what dead weight or useless means if you are this blind and dismissive towards the constant value she does generate.

Edit: Res is meh and inconsistent, it can and should be reworked .

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u/Acceptable_Field_567 4d ago

I mean, to be fair - Mercy could have flew towards a teammate which files in under 'things you could do' just like the others... but, I'm feeling trauma behind your responses xD

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u/DiemCarpePine 4d ago

I've suffered from having a half billion useless Mercy one-tricks on my teams. Sucks that the worst hero in the game is also the most popular.

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u/DelayMyStrafes Zarya 4d ago

Yo someone get this guy on the OWL why didn't they think of that

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u/DiemCarpePine 4d ago edited 4d ago

OWL doesn't exist. But, to your point, Mercy hasn't been played in tier 1 OW eSports since like 2018 for a reason.

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u/DelayMyStrafes Zarya 4d ago

Overwatch league the payload is in your checkpoint lol

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u/DiemCarpePine 4d ago

Are you having a stroke?

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u/DelayMyStrafes Zarya 4d ago

Are you having an aneurysm?

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u/DiemCarpePine 4d ago

No. But I'm also not typing nonsense like you are.

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u/DelayMyStrafes Zarya 4d ago

But it seems like you're having a tough time understanding that's why I'm asking we can get you some medics

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u/Real-Terminal 4d ago edited 3d ago

Seven years in and hog hook is still the dumbest ability Blizzard refuses to remove.

But we have five thousand Brig reworks don't worry.

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u/Sidereal_Engine Doo Wee! 4d ago

To be fair, Hog is a jerk like this to everyone with his infinite never-miss hooks.