Mercy Damage Boost NERF in Overwatch 2 | Season 6

For the release of Overwatch 2's Season 6, we'll be talking about the nerf Mercy is receiving.
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[@Skiesti]

I got a little sassy, we like to have fun here. Let me know what you think about the new Mercy nerf!

[@disruptor6550]

Sasskiesti :) But jokes aside, I 100% agree. It's so frustrating how a good chunk of the community thinks us Mercy players always get what we want, that we're devils in disguise, that we're all toxic etc..This collective Mercy/Mercy players hate is so annoying... I don't understand why people keep doing it. And regarding the changes, I don't really mind the blue beam nerf, I think it's reasonable. But for god's sake, give us the GA back! 😭

[@PurpleMoon799]

i can't blame you ski. i follow you on twitter and its heartbreaking to me seeing how you get treated for breathing so you definitely don't need to hold back on your opinions. its obvious none of us care about the db nerf we just want her movement thats literally the only thing we care about.

[@rach9171]

I love the sass! 🌼🌼🌼

[@yukiakamatsu9719]

I love how you read the twitter dps toxic main to FILTH. Honestly i just feel like mercy players get attacked because its a known fact they get played by either a girl/woman or a queer person and that's the toxic people's gateway to let's just blame the hero while they are just trying to make the players feel miserable but concieve it with "hate mercy because she is easy". But that's just how i feel, no facts. Im glad you voiced your frustration because you in one way or another speak for entire mercy community, i feel very confident every mercy player would find at least one bit from this video that's frustrating to them as well or can relate to.

[@raco0nttv]

TELL THEM

[@Maya_164]

That Dva buff really irks me. The fact that Dva gets an omnidirectional movement ability with effectively the same cooldown as GA but it’s not teammate dependent is wild especially since defense matrix is already one of the best abilities in the entire game.

[@AbigailS25]

Dva is so hard to play against as Mercy. Its crazy how Mercy is treated into comparison to other characters. Ive seen more people complain about discord orb.

[@縣]

Welcome to the club along with Doomfist and... Thats it. Although I do think Mercy players have it worse since you have to endure so much pain not being able to do ANYTHING yourself in game 😂😂😂

[@mintyytea]

@@縣they finally gave doom a little buff today! I hope it sticks for you guys. Last time they reverted the changes, but I think it’s a step in the right direction! I do feel that some Heros are nerfed horribly and forgotten about, doom being the main one. Genji, mercys also beginning to enter that state. I think there are many ways to balance each Heros, keep them useful, and keep their fun factor, but blizzard doesn’t seem to listen much

[@AbigailS25]

@@縣 i feel so bad for doom he has so much potential

[@disruptor6550]

@@AbigailS25 i main mercy and doom so im having a rough time rn 💀😭

[@lysshuh]

when mercy isn’t a viable character to play, i DO NOT want to hear a single person/mercy hater complain that she’s useless when they’re the reason why she’s like that. i could genuinely care less about what’s done to db or rez, just give us something to compensate for those changes and revert ga

[@wintonow2]

as someone who main support role she still viable but she does need her movement back

[@lysshuh]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@wintonow2i know she is but i’m just saying if and when the time comes that she isn’t viable anymore, which i personally don’t want to happen as a support/mercy main, none of the people that complain about her should say anything regarding it

[@hydroflasks3571]

@@wintonow2she’s not like …useless, she’s just boring and difficult to play. but dps players see it like this: *Brig ult rework* “OMG SHES BROKEN NOWWWW!!!!” Like wtf, why are they even confused? The reason she’s popping off in the meta is because of the Mercy nerfs they begged and cried for (and everyone preferred the old armor rally anyway). Like …we Mercy players have a mobility cooldown that changes mid game with it’s recovery time that increases 0.5-1.5 secs but disguises itself as 2 seconds of ga. The only strong supports are bap and kiriko, I don’t get why the community has to involve the entire support roster in this. They need to stop acting like Mercy is a top tier meta pick, if they think the support role is too strong then go support!? They can’t handle a simple Genji nerf but are 100% okay with destroying our support role? Thanks to the Widowmaker nerfs now we can actually have fun. But 1 more Mercy nerf and her pickrates are gonna disappear in seconds.

[@bedtimesnacks7510]

That Dva buff is the biggest slap in the face to Mercy mains.

[@Skiesti]

Big time, feels like such a joke

[@aaronpaterson3353]

As a winton main giving rein 200 more hp to his shield was a DIRECT INSULT to my way of life..... i'd quite like a buff to my shields hp too because you know why not? if they're going around then.... OMG SO UNFAIR WINTON ALWAYS LEFT OUT :( also as a ball enjoyer I'd like some of torbs primary fire speed increace ALSO i'll take dva's movement cd reduction on my grapple too, i'd say they're equally comparable (on a more serious note i think they are much more comparable cds than they are to GA) erm what else i play lucio on support and he got a movement speed increace, I'll take some of that plz.

[@askfdjsakdgjjldg]

The bugs illustrated at 2:05 (woops fixed timestamp) are SOOOO frustrating, thank you for bringing attention to them because I genuinely thought I was going crazy sometimes.

[@Skiesti]

It happens so frequently but that was the first time I had it literally happen 4 times in the span of like 10 seconds Absolutely ridiculous

[@TheRhinoking27]

It definitely got me eliminated more times than I could count! They really shouldn't have touched GA in the first place.

[@BattoEnstien]

This might be the #1 reason I've stopped playing Mercy.

[@BinghiSan]

I thought I was crazy! Or just bad >.

[@mekhayla]

okay but can we talk about the new player icon? mercy looks so mad😭

[@PurpleMoon799]

don't blame her

[@Skiesti]

She heard about the nerf....

[@jackdaw4986]

THANK YOU. I dont think ive ever heard something i agree with more in my life. Tbh the thing i want most from mercy, isnt even gameplay related, i just want bee mercy to come back.

[@crystalkirby]

Skiesti standing, proper belting it out, is the new meta and I'm here for it

[@Skiesti]

LMAO it's empowering fr

[@crystalkirby]

@@Skiesti It's the Mercy buff we've been waiting for! 🌻 Please keep being amazing! 🌻

[@Capheny]

Thank you Ski. I get so annoyed seeing the hateful comments about Mercy/Mercy Players and I'm just glad we have a voice in you. The narritive that Mercy players get everything irks me so bad when they are literally nerfing her because of community outcry. Such a joke!!

[@MunchyInTechnicolor]

I was hoping they'd leave 30% in Valk because it would make sense, but im a little confused as to why they didn't. Then again, this isn't the first time the devs forgot valk's ultimate cause it's just so... underwhelming as an ult. I feel like if they bring back Mercy's ga cooldown, I'd take a 175 health reduction at this point.

[@kibi_112]

I think the nerf was okay. But it will make ult gen slower if you DMG boost a lot. I think it will accidently make flyers stronger too. I think overall people might be conscious of DMG boost to make sure they're doing it as much as possible and will likely heal more for the ult charge. I was hoping that they would change her ga to match the fact that she may be less impactful. At least having ga cancel to start the cooldown faster would have been nice

[@mintyytea]

Yes. They don’t even have to bring it back to 1.5, id settle for 2 seconds at this rate. I never minded a damage boost nerf as long as they gave her something to compensate. I think even her season 3 healing bonus would be awesome to bring back, as a reduced rate of maybe 15 percent. It would give her something at least. But what’s happening now just isn’t it

[@kibi_112]

@@mintyytea I feel like the extra healing was kinda broken and it has so much uptime I think that would be hard to balance. I'm just surprised they lowered her only utility and did nothing else. Even being able to have the skill expression of cancelling ga to start the cool down early would be so nice. I'd even take 2.5 seconds. They did an overkill on ga and I agree with ski they probably aren't looking into it anymore

[@kiwii64]

Lmao ski you're at your wits end 😩 the tone of your voice is just too relatable. I legit don't even care anymore they can nerf mercy to the ground and I will still play her and have my team hate me because she's a bad hero...remember it's what they wanted so here ya go 🤷🏾‍♀️.

[@ender_eret9707]

Its absolutely absurd that us mercy mains arent allowed to be upset over things without sounding "entitled". I mostly play with a pharah player so the nerf to damage boost doesn't bother me that much but the GA being broken for months has been the absolute bane of my existence. Blizzard please, fix GA.

[@Skiesti]

You're telling me. I've heard everything under the sun that someone could say about Mercy Mains at this point and the way that the community paints us is just exhausting

[@disruptor6550]

@@Skiesti Yeah it's just so unfair... we are basically the scapegoat of the community for like no reason at all :(

[@its_lucky252]

it's mainly the others that get super pressed

[@ossifiedtoad798]

@@SkiestiThere’s only a small handful of things I can think of that were changed about Mercy due to requests/suggestions from Mercy players. The intentional incorporation of the original slingshot and the superjump into Mercy’s kit are on the list, as is the introduction of “prefer facing target” and the frozen soul Rez thing. Other than those, pretty much everything that has been changed about Mercy has been in response to complaints about playing against her. Like, people act like the Valkyrie rework was done to please Mercy players just because it was so powerful, but for so many Mercy players, removing Resurrect as an ultimate kinda destroyed the hero for them. Other hero mains get latitude to dislike the direction that their hero changes have gone, even when the hero is powerful. For example, a lot of the DF community was very vocally opposed to the “more empowered punches” direction of the S2 Doomfist changes, even though he was the best tank in the game for a hot minute. They wanted the hyper-mobility of beta DF back, and I never saw a single comment calling them stupid or entitled for wanting something different for the hero when he was so powerful. And yet, when basically the exact same thing happened with the S3 Mercy changes, complaints about them from Mercy players were cited as proof of stupidity.

[@aaronpaterson3353]

@@ossifiedtoad798 Exactly, its not that people are against mercy having high skill expression in her abilities, its that as she is and as she is designed she gets more for free than anyone else in the game. You cant both ask for high skill expression but want to keep the extremely low skill floor of the hero. Heros are meant to be easy and not exactly top teir, or really hard but potentially really powerful. you cant and shouldnt have it both ways. Mercy should be reworked in a way that allows for more skill expression but also removes alot of the value that is free at the bottom of the spectrum so you have to actually earn your value in your games like everyone else does. It would be better for mercy players the hero would be more fun and rewarding and then maybe you might actually have a right to complain. the problem with the community is that although they dont have a right to complain they still do anyway and extremely loudly and agressivly. Genji and Doom players who do have a right to complain take nerf after nerf on the chin and dont turn it into a trending topic on twitter. Both of them heros were already high skill for high reward heros before they got nerf'd too imagine how silly moira players would look if they cried in the tens of thousands on reddit about how unfair it would be if fade got a 1 second nerf and how it was compleatly ruining thier lives. surely you can see how moira doesnt deserve more buffs than she already has on the basis her kit is already to forgiving / rewarding for the skill and effort it requires? no one in their minds is screaming at the top of their lungs for moira buffs and the principle is exactly the same

[@LinFkh]

you are a thousand % right. Also, the nerf doesn't make sense. Zen with his discord orb makes a r5% dmg boost FOR 5 PEOPLE. and while the orb is one someone he still can heal and make dmg at the same time. Mercy, she boost ONE person, and she either heals, boost or shoots. So mercy rn is a clunky healing bot. GJ

[@its_lucky252]

zen is the best support in the game, comparing him to mercy is a extremely dumb

[@aaronpaterson3353]

zens discord orb has the same problems as bluebeam does which is it complicates the break points for heros, all damage amplification abiltites do but bluebeam and discord are the only two in the game which are 100% free with 100% uptime. The other main candidiates are window and nano both of which are ultimates and do not last for long. Exceeding break points during the use of an ultimate is not as much of an issue. Also, discord amplifies 5 peoples damage onto one target, blue beam amps 1 persons damage onto 5 targets. discord needs to be reapplied to different targets to keep its uptime, is limited by zens 30m range not the maximum fall off of whatever mercy pockets and zen has 0 mobility and extreme survivability issues. discord is in some way counterbalanced by these weaknesses. Dont get me wrong discord is a cancer ability designed for ow1 and needs serious reconsideration. as a tank player it is also way more annoying to play against and is easier to hard bully people with. Im not defending discord but using zen as a justification for mercys blue beam is an extrememly floored argument which really jusitifies why it needed to be nerfed not why it didnt. Discord sucks right? blue beam has been nerf'd just inline with a ability that is already broken. GJ if you look at damage amp'd stats for a zen vs a mercy a good mercy is probably going to have amplified more than the discord did.

[@LinFkh]

@@aaronpaterson3353 this is the first time I see someone counting the dmg of a person as if that one can shoot at the same time to 5ppl. Mercy dmg boost is for one person to one person. It's not 1 to 5. Also mercy is hostage of a straight line between her allies and 40% of the time get movement skill that supposedly help her to survive, it doesn't work. And I already said it. If she shoots, she can't do anything else, but she shooting it's not the same then a zen shooting. I guess I don't have to explain why.

[@aaronpaterson3353]

​@@LinFkh they should totally fix bugs, for mercy, for doom, for all heros. That is not my point. Zen needs 30m range and los of his discord target and the target can remove it by breaking los so they have a means of negating it and the zen has to constantly reapply it. he also has to prioratize his targets. Mercy only requires LOS of the person shes boosting, who she is going to already be following around. if 5 people stand next to each other and a boosted Pharah shoots into the middle of them mercy just damage boosted damage against 5 people at once. Ashe dynamite actually hits 5 people in real world situations reguarly and junks burts could in theory also hit 5 people. Even with that aside. A boosted pharah or even ash 1 shots (or two shots for pharah) their target, they move to the next target and do the same one at a time till they have killed 5 people. this is the same as if that target had killed 5 people all who had been discorded. but for zen to discord all 5 members of the enemy team he must agree on a target priority, maintain los, reapply and reposition to ensure the correct target was discorded at the right time all whilst putting himself at risk. Meanwhile mercy can do the same thing afk in a corner. I have literally seen videos of mercys afking whole rounds in a corner on high ground with right click taped down to auto hold boost on an ashe where they cannot be seen or contested. i mean LITERALLY afk now im saying discord is broken, but even discord is not as free as that. at very worst you could autoclick ga on cd and auto hold bluebeam and then you wouldnt even need the corner to hide in to still do it. i'm not 100% sure if the average top 500 zen amps more damage than the average top 500 mercy but im off to the leaderboards to find out and will edit in a sec Edit - the top ranked zen vs the top ranked mercy on us ladder for season 6 zen 2x deaths/per10 mercy average 1/3 more damage boosted/10 Mercy's best damage boosted is 2.5x more than zens proof that even after the season 6 nerf bluebean STILL has more amplification potential for less risk and essentially 0 work.

[@LinFkh]

@@aaronpaterson3353 are u counting also Zens dmg? cause prob zen boosts some less than mercy but I can assure u that the difference in dmg BOOSTED is less than the DMG done by each of them

[@MrSoBitchy]

I love how sassy this is. Someone had to say what you're saying

[@Skiesti]

I'm so over it at this point I just decided to have as much fun as possible and be silly LMAO

[@masonwheeler9211]

Also these changes piss me off so much, that just aren’t listening at all

[@-NoNo.]

To be honest I’ll take 20% damage boost for 1.5 ga cooldown permanently and a little ult charge gain just to counter balance the damage boost nerf. I don’t like damage boost (as satisfying as it may be) I want her movement back and personally I am willing to give up damage boost for the thrill of having fun on mercy again

[@williammadisondavis]

So she’s even more of a heal bot? She already has zero utility outside of her rez… just staying alive and doing heals sounds annoying to have on my team. I already get too many mercies that do like 10% damage buff - that shits so game losing.

[@-NoNo.]

@@williammadisondavis this comment is so out of touch with how merry plays it’s incredible… you realize that no matter what, damage beam will be mercy’s primary beam right?

[@GItANIMATION]

​@@-NoNo.Why does she need back her movements when she have good win rate, easy to rank up, and have less deathrate compared to other support

[@-NoNo.]

@@GItANIMATION because as you said she still has a higher survival rate than other supports this the changes they made did absolutely nothing and they only function to make the character less fun to play or are you missing something? I’ll trade damage boost for ga any day because it’s fun

[@GItANIMATION]

@@-NoNo. the change did do something, it make her get more death rate then before, and saying she unfun just bc she has 2.5/3 seconds cd is laughable, why should you guys get special treatment while their are more unfun hero to play as. If that was the case about the game should also add these FUN changes for crybabies , let make widowmaker have one shot on body hit with unlimited range, also let reduce the cd for doom play back to every 3 seconds and buff his damage , and let sym have back her 6 turrets, just like other players have to deal with change and get used to the new playstyle , that happens to every game, you cannot expect every hero to stay the same just bc you said so.

[@lifesucksofficialchannelbi4802]

Bruh we just wanted GA cooldown change, the fk lmfao

[@meowmraow]

i didnt think i would see a big difference but it really is huge for me. ill be getting 60-80% dmg boost and still get nowhere near as much dmg amplified as before. i hate seeing the low ass number

[@luscasuwu]

For all the mercy mains reading this comment Now we will push damage boost even more ducking harder, specially on pharas and echoes. 😊

[@rustlee]

quack

[@ForeskinFighter57]

how scary

[@lovelysix6296]

Smart players will counter pick and go Sombra and harass you lol

[@luscasuwu]

@@lovelysix6296 ye thats sad

[@shewolfofficial8187]

The thing about blizz changing and nerfing mercy is that they listen to EVERYONE apart from the people who actually play the hero that could help give them tips on either buffing or nerfing her because they actually play her and know her better. People only complain about mercy when they're against a good mercy player then apart from that they don't care about her

[@Skiesti]

It is incredibly funny that the community says they only listen to Mercy players but the only people they are listening to are people who don't play the hero

[@indigo1256]

This. And the fact blizzard are so quick to change mercy but when it comes to any meta defining dps, they love taking their sweet time 💀

[@allencunningham9002]

Ive been one of the biggest Mercy main since OW1 early seasons, shes just not that fun anymore. Big rezs were cool, took that away. Her movement style was fun and unique, they heavily hampered that to where other heros do it better but in less fun ways. Then they neef her damage boost, all they want her to do is be a helabot but if you do that you get yelled at for not playing the game.

[@hurraozC]

zen can amplify his whole teams damage by 25 percent to a target while also healing and dealing damage but god forbid mercys 15 meter beam that she cannot use while healing or dealing damage can amplify 1 of her teammates damage by 30 percent. I love blizzards balancing team I guess they are playing team fortress 2 at this point rather than ow2

[@Lukinhas752]

zeny has 0 mobility in addition to being the slowest support he is basically a free kill for any dive hero discord is literally the only Utility use he gives to the team '-'

[@hurraozC]

@@Lukinhas752 Played zen for a good amount of time if you arent getting hard dove u are most likely to win the 1v1 since u can 2 tap people and boop anyone with a powerful kick that comes too close

[@grife3000]

Oh, I thought I just had problems with GA because I was bad, not because there's bugs.

[@Skiesti]

Nah it's actually just crazy riddled with bugs

[@LegoTheThird]

I'm just tired. At the end of every season, I look forward to the patch notes because I always think, "Yes, this is the season when they'll change the cooldown." ... Nope :)

[@oi6525]

same！

[@TheNormalAsian]

I really think mercy needs her old cooldown brought back to her old one. Just nerf the rest of her kit. I love the movement for her. There's an idea going around where her healing and damage boost is higher at first reduces when she pockets for too long to encourage changing targets. Her movement is back to its old 1.5. I think it would be interesting to try.

[@magicee_maria]

The devs listen to everyone EXCEPT mercy mains. They’ll take every other content creators opinion into account other than the mercy content creators and it gets really frustrating. All we mercy mains want is a GA revert and to fix all the GA bugs. THATS IT lol

[@Skiesti]

I've been yelling at the top of my lungs about Mercy and I think I've been pretty fair (DMG boost to 25% was even smth I suggested in an earlier video of mine so that we could get a bit of her movement back). They don't listen to Mercy players, they just pretend that they do so we don't stop playing the game and I get that it's not like the devs have to listen to us but this is getting ridiculous

[@magicee_maria]

@@Skiesti I also agree that the devs necessarily don’t have to listen to us but it’s just kind’ve crazy how often they turn their cheek. (Even if it is unintentional) I’ve seen your posts and several other mercy content creators on twitter making perfectly normal suggestions that could improve and balance mercy further but nothing sticks! Like this collision bug on GA is THE MOST ANNOYING thing to ever come into existence!! And I can’t believe they haven’t even addressed these bugs. I’m hoping that they will address GA again in the next patch or the next season. There’s no reason as to why they can’t revert GA. Remember when Dvas flight went from 5 secs to 4 secs to 3 secs and then back to 4 secs and now it’s 3.5 secs! Like cmon devs PLEASE!!

[@j_m12341]

I actually don't mind this nerf, because this is actually something people had problems with. But I wish they would just give back her full mobility.

[@JonathanRockway]

Blizzard doing support movement abilities: Kiriko claps frantically and then teleports off the map. Lifeweaver's petal goes up 3 inches. Guardian Angel randomly goes on cooldown. At least Bap's exo-boots seem to work! Wow. Dev team might want to take a look at that one!

[@jackobatgaming]

I feel it. I don't even play that much Mercy, but I AM a support main, an it sincerely feels like tank players and dps players agree, they hate supports being able to do ANYTHING except heal. And even then, they think supports "heal too much," because it denies them their well earned kills. They hate Discord, Suzu, Res, Damage boost, Anti heal, Sleep dart... you know every decent ability. And the few abilities they are OK with, those are probably either rather middling in power OR those would simply be the next abilities they would complain about if they succeeded in getting the other support abilities nerfed. And the CRAZY thing to me is, those are the same players that claimed that Ramattra's INFINITE duration ult was "fair" because all you had to do was "just kill him." So a large part of the community are on this band wagon to claim that supports need all of their team fight utility nerfed, and that supports shouldn't have dps that feels scary sometimes, and they for sure hate supports being "hard to kill (whether it's movement, or self healing etc.) Oh, and of course they ALSO hold the opinion that supports are "easy."

[@vividdaydream1516]

This is actually the SECOND time damage boost has ever been nerfed. The first time was a stealth nerf that removed Mercy's advanced beam-juggling tech. The game used to only check for damage boost when an attack _landed;_ which meant that as long as the Mercy player reacted fast enough to a projectile being fired, they could damage-boost it in midair.

[@PurpleMoon799]

im angry i genuinely expected a ga buff this is ridiculous i enjoy playing dva but she didn't need that movement buff while mercy DOES .... i don't understand this at all and im tired of how ppl always bitch and moan about us and their imaginery mercy mafia when we all collectively wouldn't mind having other stuff nerfed just so we could have old ga back..

[@RandomEevee]

Thank you, this is a great video. I dont think the 25% damage boost is a big deal, but having it with the additional GA nerfs is just so annoying. They need to bring back the old mercy movement, it was so much more interesting and added a much higher skill ceiling to the character than she has now.

[@peiithos]

my main complaint about this mercy nerf is that its gonna do nothing lol. people are gonna whine until its 100% removed (and now its basically just discord orb for one person, so might as well just play zen.) we also get unfun movement. i would take a health nerf for true 1.5 second ga. im so tired of the misleading cd bs it always throws me off. i genuinely hate this change but only bc they did this, which will do nothing, to satisfy the community??? and it wont satisfy the community??????? instead of, yknow, just reverting ga or fixing the bugs?

[@striderhanzo]

New support hero will be amazing in the right mindset - she will not be a brain dead easy character to use - so she may be more available than we think. But Mercy mains will prevail when they are expected to fall. Use your strength and your platform you worked long for and use it to express your feelings as confidently as possible.

[@I_m_him]

She feels a little like a Moira replacement ngl

[@striderhanzo]

@@I_m_him Moira mains would most likely disagree. But I can say it's a different approach to the same degree of the dps side of support.

[@ShelloSongz]

I've stopped playing this game for a few seasons now, but I still enjoy these updates. What killed the game for me was the constant messing around with Mercy that just kinda killed the fun-side of the game to me. Seeing Blizzard make yet another decision like this, means it's still not my time to return.

[@SAYSAY2610]

Thank you for posting this new video! Super cool to hear your insights :D so ready for S6

[@avej99]

I like how people were expecting the “mercy mafia” to go crazy about the damage boost nert when in actuality it changes very little and what we actually wanted got ignored

[@Kris95x]

You should do a video about all GA's problems between bugs and tecnical difficulties and place in OW2 as a whole!

[@Skiesti]

At this point I might as well tbh because no one seems to care

[@ElyjahDHerring]

Literally a skill issue man the community has a skill issue when they complain about anything at all

[@rexspecificallyredrex64rem73]

The worst part about Overwatch isn't the game or blizzard but often the community.

[@bigfudge2031]

I've been playing Mercy less and less since OW2 was released because every time I do I just get infuriated that they think continuously nerfing a character with no way of being proactive or carrying games is apparently too overpowered. Having literally 50% win rate on the character because you're basically just a spectator every game praying to the RNG Gods that your DPS do something, just makes me question why even bother playing Mercy.

[@blasdias8795]

Balls movement is genuinely crazy he can go in and out of a fight AS A TANK and is super tanky hood balls just won’t die

[@EmilyOW_TTV]

honestly it just feels like they're slowly weaning mercy out of the game and this pains me greatly :(

[@bakuretsu9187]

I mean, It's just so easy to do the movement that mercy just dominates the lower ranks. It's so depressing to play against pharah mercy, not being able to do anything about it. They should make it harder to play her before they make it better.

[@violet9214]

So what really bothers me about this nerf is that Mercy is now obsolete. If you can't provide even a single ally with more benefit than Zenyatta provides to the entire team, while also unable to provide damage and healing at the same time, while also being significantly more vulnerable, what really is the point of playing the character? She now feels like throwing, because literally just play Zenyatta.

[@MistletoesArt]

At this point the OW team just needs to recognize the DPS base is full of complainers who will never be satisfied until they have a Mercy insta-kill button, and that nerfing Mercy into the ground only serves to inflate the egos of bad players who abuse the broken state she is in. I'm deeply disappointed in the OW team for their treatment of the Mercy player base.

[@mqqore]

How can you do youre beam on someone but still fly to someone else like I cant do this I can only hold my beam on someone and then when I try to fly I fly to the person I have my beam on

[@Fenchy_Artz]

Like as someone who plays mercy i feel like i shouldnt be playing mercy beacuse i just dont feel like i have enough impact anymore when it comes to other supports

[@Kayden2304]

Will not be purchasing the PvE rip off but Mercy still needs the movement change.

[@Chr0n0s38]

The issue is DPS players think supports are supposed to guarantee they win every duel, never need peel, but then somehow also be easy to kill. The cognitive dissonance is so extreme with them. If an Ana has the audacity to not nano a Genji blade she's throwing. If she dies to other DPS she needs to be better, but if a Genji dies when trying to kill her it's a problem? Not every support should be weak to dive. Period. Supports should be able to fight back or escape. DPS players just need to get better, that simple.

[@ShibaInu102]

Thank you! Holy cow! I’m so glad we at least have you to speak out about these issues. Other content creators have no idea how big of an issue this is becz they don’t play Mercy. They could’ve compensated with reducing GA cool-down? They could make it so the DB is raised while in Valk just like her healing? Literally gave into community complaint instead of using their own brains (which I don’t think they have anymore) just to “please” certain people. Hey! I have an idea! Let’s just get rid of Mercy & her kit altogether! Make it so her DB & Rez doesn’t exist & now she has to walk everywhere!! But to compensate, here’s a $30 hot mercy skin! Cuz this honestly sounds like something they’d do at this point. If we make other characters hella un-fun to play, surely they’ll be forced to play the new hero right? I’m done with people calling Mercy players, “spoiled” “cry-babies” “constant complainers”. It’s so insensitive and clearly shows that they haven’t ever touched her once or can’t be bothered cuz “WAHHH! I don’t have a mercy pocket!! WAHH! My kill got Rezz’d!!” Sounds more like you’re the cry-babies to me? Mercy players have a reason for their out-cry, they’re constantly being shit on & name called even though they have valid reasons for complaints. I’m just so done with thiiiisss~~~~

[@raymachii]

YES! UHG , i needed to hear you go off like this it made my day you said it better than anybody else so far its so frustrating but since our character is “easy” no one cares and think we are just being annoying.

[@moniquemxrie]

mercys value is dmg boosting... should not have been nerfed.

[@leivnya5225]

so excited to get chased by a dva off cooldown

[@Ev3rmore]

Literally, girl. I really expected them to revert GA, and maybe fix the bugs, but no. Lmao. Even characters like doomfist that have plenty of bugs are left unchanged which is funny atp. But hey, cool weapon charm Ig.

[@Xxohh445]

Hear me out, Mercy would be an amazing main healer if she got a heal buff. The only time she felt fun without her old movement, was when she got the increased healing for low health teammates. It was broken, but that ability to keep teammates alive longer, meant I didn’t have to worry about constantly using movement to stay alive, as teammates provide protection Her heals are still too low to be main healer, but her movement gives her the potential to heal like no one else. She can heal whilst being attacked/ running away. She doesn’t have to be in perfect positioning like Ana and therefor not limited to line of sight, as she can just go to the person and even follow ppl into areas that are dangerous for other supps. She can heal without constantly looking at the teammate. Etc etc etc

[@leivnya5225]

yeah no

[@nyishishishishi]

No

[@BattoEnstien]

I actually agree with this to an extent. When Triage was around, I felt like I carried some games -- you're not carrying games as Mercy anymore.

[@valkyrie_592]

I think nerfing any hero's damage by 5% is quite significant. Mercy's contribution has been lowered by 5% due to this. for people saying its just 5%, they added 1 more dmg to soldier and suddenly he is running it down mid while killing everything he comes across is not really acceptable. That buff was 5%

[@PhilOverwatch-tp1xd]

This video hits hard

[@DeathDrager]

As a mercy player, I should say that if you don't damage boost an ulting Genji. Then you are basically throwing the game. A Genji damage combo with slice + swift is 160. With DMG boost is 200. You do the math and think about momentum between letting Genji be a sitting duck after a slice+swift then giving the enemy healers the appropriate time to respond with an anti, light or suzo. And 200 damage killing Squishies and getting his swift back for another kill.

[@Skiesti]

My view on that is basically you SHOULD if you can but you shouldn't force it if you're not able to get to him or might die w/o getting much value out of it

[@nickaleshin7149]

If they’re gonna nerf damage boost, then why don’t they revert GA??? Ugh!

[@bananasala]

anyone saw that u can’t get the mage skins anymore?!😢

[@leivnya5225]

it’s probably a bug

[@Wolfin_G]

I mean Dva is also massive, It's not exactly hard to it her. You can't really compare mercy to Dva in terms of movement

[@bigfudge2031]

I think it's finally time for me to go all the way and fully embrace becoming a Reddit Lucio, I will miss you guys.

[@zacholson4387]

All these nerfs and constant bugs makes it really really hard to want to play mercy. Like i love her and everuthing she does but at some point theyre gonna make her almost unplayable. It feels like the paat 2 or 3 patchs just addes more stuff thats gonna fudge over mercy players

[@Skiesti]

You're telling me. It's getting less and less fun which is unfortunate

[@ForeskinFighter57]

blizzard after nerfing mercy at the start of every season

[@ForeskinFighter57]

by the time season 16 releases (if overwatch doesnt discontinue by then) people will start saying shes useless and should be removed when THEY are the ones who complain about her character so much

[@lanad3lreyyy]

i honestly dont really mind it but i wish they would just leave her alone😭

[@Koubatsu]

OW2 was a fucking mistake, and so was 5v5.

[@dangerbeans9639]

I stopped caring about Overwatch, and it's really improved my mood.

[@Skiesti]

The less I care about competitive OW, the better I feel so I get you

[@michaelc7418]

Mercy needed buffed, not nerfed. Right now she is easily the lowest value Support, and it's not even close. I have these Mercy changes in mind to put her in a more viable state, but not as strong as she was when she could double insta-Rez during Valkyrie. I feel the devs over-nerfed Mercy back in 2017-2018. *Mercy* Caduceus Staff * Damage Boost increased from +25% to +30% * Maximum range increased from 15 to 17 meters Caduceus Blaster * Ammo reduced from 25 to 20 * Damage per shot increased from 20 to 22 (100 to 110 DPS) Resurrect * Distance from target to interrupt Resurrect increased from 7 to 9 meters * Cast time reduced from 1.75 to 1.6 seconds * Movement speed penalty while casting reduced from -75% to -70% * Cooldown reduced from 30 to 28 seconds Valkyrie * Duration reduced from 15 to 12 seconds * Ultimate Cost increased from 1820 to 1900 points (4.4% nerf) * Healing increased from 60 to 75 health per second * Damage boost increased from +30% to +40% * Now reduces Resurrect's cast time by -50% (1.6 to 0.8 seconds) * Activating Valkyrie now reduces Resurrect's current cooldown by 8 seconds

[@eliesaad]

I totally get what you meant when you talked about GA being bugged, so allow me to introduce you to kiriko (bugged since release) and doomfist (bugged SINCE OW1)!

[@Skiesti]

Kiriko's TP bugs got fixed in Season 6. Mercy has also been ridiculously bugged since OW1. It's not really a competition or anything, multiple heroes can exist at a time that have frustrating bugs that haven't been fixed for a long time

[@eliesaad]

@@Skiesti I know miss gworl it's sad I just meant that Mercy's GA bug will probably go unresolved for some time 😭

[@coyote2733]

I’m like you where I’m slightly bummed about the nerf but extremely pissed about the reason for the nerf. People complain about Mercys Healbotting but then complain SOOO loud about literally all of her other utility that we lose it

[@Gotjay]

Heyy Skiesti now that I'm finally able to play overwatch thanks to steam I'm happy to start learning mercy she's my fav support and I can't wait to get better thank you for uploading these beautiful videos I enjoy a lot! ❤

[@paigecottrill4709]

this is exactly how i feel omg thank u so much - I’ve let go as mercy as my main bc of the ga issues 😭

[@victoriasterling3795]

if they keep nerfing her they need to compensate someway or somehow maybe guardian angel speed can be increased slightly? maybe 20% damage boost nerf but they bring back 60hps?

[@andirmiga]

omg thank you!! finally a streamer that actually talks about these massive ga bugs. Thought I was the only one since no one said anything about it. Its not even that they are rare. Happen to me every other game. Considering the old super jump actually was a bug it was way more consistent in the way it worked.

[@Skiesti]

It happens to me quite literally every single game. Guardian Angel is riddled with bugs but no one really cares about it bc it's Mercy and they'd rather complain about DMG Boost/Rez

[@BattoEnstien]

GA bugs remind me of Lifeweaver clunky-ness in regard to petal platform or grip. It's just not fluid; it's unresponsive and/or inconsistent.@@Skiesti

[@Kat-xp8zn]

lol and here i thought the ga cancel was my dumb ass having a massive skill issue

[@PowyMeowy]

Don’t worry Ski I’m literally manifesting a GA buff trust me mid season patch it’ll be okay 👍

[@Skiesti]

I am coping w/ you on that one

[@AbigailS25]

Omg what?? I thought it was my fault that guardian angel kept canceling. Its just a bug or something wrong now???? Ugh.... I totally thought it was my fault. Now i dont feel too bad about my gameplay lol.

[@Skiesti]

It's (most likely) not your fault. It's just ridiculously bugged and seems to get worse and worse every season

[@emmettrichardson5833]

I think this nerf is what they should have done from the start, instead of all this song and dance GA nerf

[@maxtamez-ef9hv]

So now I’m dying more getting less ult charge and value from my damage boost fun!

[@PUPPYGIRLFEMBOY]

I just started playing overwatch 2 coz my gf wanted to teach me and play with me and I've been so confused at how people i've seen move so fluidly and quickly with mercy when I my gameplay feels so clunky... It's actuallyy kinda of nice to know it wasn't always like this and i'm not the only one struggling with her abilities.

[@smit_ty6771]

“mercy content in the story missions” boy do i have news for you 😔

[@azaleaadair9053]

I love playing illari. I think she’s great. I’m also taking a break from Mercy for a while. It feels shitty having a hero get nerfed pretty much every season because of the vocal minority. I love mercy but I feel like I can’t play her because of how things are. Right now I’m playing lifeweaver and illari

[@sammoir4897]

Doom: Buffed DVA: Buffed Kiriko: Buffed Lucio: Buffed Bastion: Buffed Torb: Buffed Lifeweaver: Buffed Orisa: Buffed Mercy: Am I a joke to you

[@ossifiedtoad798]

I think when people say “Mercy mains get everything they want”, what they actually mean is “Mercy players exist and say things” and “Mercy continues to exist in the game”. I do think it’s funny when people make predictions about how X thing will never change because Mercy main tears are just so powerful, and then it gets changed shortly thereafter and everyone conveniently forgets about the disproven predictions.

[@soarelia5795]

dva, the character thats been in a really good state and the a great counter to mercy getting buffed. how absolutely ridiculous the devs are lets be real and for me when she had that 70/90 hp healing per sec buff i had a ton of fun and i was fine with the GA. at least it didnt seem bugged like it does NOW and now she is still the same shit just with 5* less power to her boost which is the least of her problems and yet her biggest issue which causes these changes, also DONT get me started on that “passive” pathetic recovery cuz the numbers are a joke just as we mercy players are when we ask for QoL change

[@gjisun]

now that they nerfed the damage boost bring back the original ga thank you :DD

[@Skiesti]

If only...

[@fatherpleasereturn2088]

i just really want them to fix a bug for console players. whenever you valk it’s impossible to go down if you’re also moving left or right in any amount. the amount of times i’ve died because i’ve been slightly putting a left or right input and then not be able to move down, and because i’m so lightly pressing my stick i don’t even realize it until it’s too late and i died because i couldn’t fly down into cover

[@Phantom-z9y]

Thank you for standing up. I feel you

[@pasteldad39]

Actually the GA collision and bugs seem to be... Improved upon. The bugs arent gone but she feels better

[@myawen_]

Thank you! You summarized it all perfectly!

[@s_sanny]

Mercy mains got their character fucked over in like s3(cant rmr) and complained for the first time since ow2 dropped and suddenly we're entitled

[@aaronpaterson3353]

So as a non mercy player but a support player I think this is about 60% sensible justified argument and 40% salt over a mercy nerf. Its the extreme ends of this kind of attitude that gives mercy the bad name skiesti speaks of, I am not accusing her of it her arguments are intelegently justified and counterbalanced so if you agree with her opinions on balance or not it is defiently in the realm of fair debate. The comments section however is basically 100% the mercy copium im talking about. here are my opinions: - Mercy did not get nerf'd this patch. It was a nerf to the heros a mercy is likely to hard pocket, so mostly Pharah, Echo, Ashe, Soldier and Soljourn. From the perspective of Mercy your role and gameplay remain exactly the same and it does not directly effect how expirience the game whatsoever. Blue Beam made break points too complicated and no sensible person can really argue against this change. When they allowed blizzard to be cancelled by sombra's EMP they included it in the Mei section of the patch notes when it was really more of a sombra buff, these things can get confusing but calling it a mercy nerf causes outrage from mercy players when if they had been told of the change in the context of a pharah nerf im sure none would have felt hard done by. - its not really fair to compare the slight nerf to guardian angel to other high mobility heros such as lucio in regards to fairness. Whats good about lucio is as you talk about with the previous guardian angel Lucios wallride allows for an extrememly high level of skill expression, however its value is not free. If your bad at wallriding it can be worse than being on the ground, if you are not able mechanically to do it it removes 50% of the point of the entire hero and its not mechanically easy. Even at an average, passable level of mechanics guardian angel still provides more potential for survivability than lucios wallriding. OW2 maps have been designed with few unfirom flat surfaces making the whole thing more difficult and also you need a wall to ride on in the first place. In that way just like GA is dependent on teammates Lucio is relient on the design of the map. Secondly, Lucios movement has not been nerfed since well into ow1 days but his boop got nerfed into the ground with ow2 and has got progressivly worse ever since as heros have been provided with ever more movement utility to save them from a boop in the first place. This has limited his potential value and drastically changed his playstyle way more than the GA nerf did and most importantly just like was upsetting for you, its what made lucio fun in the first place. imagine instead of giving GA a slightly longer cooldown they just half'd its potential range and you get a better comparision in the way lucio and mercy have been treated. IMO mercy out of the two gets of very lightly in this comparision. - I think comparing Mercys movement to other high mobility heros that are not support heros makes no sense and is another sign of cope. Non support heros movement utilities serves drastically different purposes. Personally i dont think dva really needed the buff she was already strong but that being said that bares no relation on what is fair for mercy. Dva gets to use her boosters on a simular cooldown but she does not have fall time reduction. Mercy can maintain an almost 100% air uptime with GA and float around vibing where as Dva cannot maintain any air uptime. Its a repositioning tool for the most part and not a surviavility one. Also, Dva has a hitbox that is like 20 times bigger than mercys and any of the benifits being implied that it has over GA are hugely offset by the fact shes a big fat tank with lots of responsibility to make sure her boosters are used correctly and if they are used incorrectly it is heavily punishable. Imagine you ignore the hitbox size and full out swapped dva's movement kit with mercys, would that then be a mercy buff? I'd say defiently not. and on that basis they are not comparable in the first place. Mercy players trying to somehow justify any hero getting a buff of any kind is somehow a personal attack on them is the kind of negative stigma the mercy community imposes on themselves. - I'm not actually against buffs to guardian angel but a simple reversion to their old format does not fix the actual problem. the CD change only noticeably effects the top few percentage of mercy players, those who not only were mechanically able to pull off the techs it allowed for but could also implement them within a in game setting in a way that actually saw value. As a mid teir ball player i can do all the fancy ball techs there are in the practice range I cant however implement them in the middle of a fight in a way that actually increaces my value. My brain cant process the complexities of what specific angle this little wall is and what movement keys i need to press to wall jump off it, ect ect and in real games i revert to simpler techs I can calculate fast enough to get the job done. for the majority of mercy players, even those able to in theory do the most complicated movement techs cant utalise them in a way that makes a significant difference from whats possible with current GA and not only that current GA for the majority of the player base is not only fit for purpose (bugs excluded) but can be acctivly oppessive to deal with. a slightly above averge mercy player can still currently be extremely hard to hit and with some sensible positioning combined they can be a nightmare to deal with for alot of people, all utalising the easiest movement mechanic of its kind in the game. There is still a fairly high skill ceeling with the current GA but a lowish ceeling / EXTREMELY low floor comparitivly to many other heros. At its most basic level GA is one of the easiest and most forgiving mechanics in the game - somewhere in line with moira's fade. I would like to see a rework to guardian angel which allows for a much higher level of skill expression I think its exactly what the hero needs both to be fun but also to change the way the hero is viewed by the comuninity but a change which whilst provides much higher potential skill expression is compensated for with a much higher skill floor or a much more punishing outcome if not utalised efficently. This would allow people like yourself to show of your undeniable skill whilst also removing what it is people hate about mercy from an outside perspective, which is my next point. From an outside point of view it seems like mercy essentially gets to play the game for free. All of their abilities provide very high value in relation to their mechanical requirements.they never have to do anything themselves they get to float around in the air vibing, swapping every so often between holding left or right click whilst providing reasonably high hps and turning usually mid tier heros into absoute monsters for the rest of the lobby. They have very low levels of responsibility, a very low basic requirement to forfill their task and generally very low expectations on them to do much except sit there almost afk in the sky ruining other peoples games. meanwhile everyone else in the lobby has to sweat and work their asses off to deny the value the mercy provides or even to provide any value themselves whatsoever. The only other hero in the entire game that can provide so much to their team for as little effort is moira, and people hate moira for exactly the same reason. obviously thats a slight exaduration but it defiently shows the basic point. obviously a actually skilled mercy can bring so much more than that to the table. but for example, how useful can a tracer or an echo be if they used as little of their heros kit? lastly that brings me to the mercy community and the public perception of them. Mercy is designed as a hero that is meant to be the very easiest in the game and upon that basis they should provide equivilently less value than their higher skilled alternatives. Moira has the same problem she gets so much for free but the difference is Moira players are not a legion of people who make moira a trending topic on twitter every time a moira skin drops or who complain in the tens of thosuands on reddit every time moira gets nerf'd, or even buff'd, or even when another hero gets buff'd and they dont. There is an extremely vocal and extremely defensive mercy community and from most peoples point of view they are not entitlted to a right to complain when they already get so much for free. Think about Genji and doom, nerf genji is a funny meme now it happened so many times but they dont complain. If they did however it would be much fairer to do so because genji is a super hard hero and they have to work for every bit of value they get. The fact nerf genji is a meme is a striking example of the differences in attitude for a broad part of each community. Genji players find it funny that hes been nerf'd so many times and so significantly yet mercy players still outraged about a almost QOL nerf that happened 6 months ago. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE THINK MERCY PLAYERS GET EVERYTHING THEY WANT. doom players also do not complain although they would be much more justified in doing so. TLDR: rework guardian angel dont revert it to its previous form. Make mercy a hero that allows for higher skill expression but also raise the skill floor aswell so that lack of skill is easier punished and harder to provide. She will be more fun, more respected by the comunity and also have potential as a hero that is more than some pharah's little pet and can actually provide proactive input into their games like everyone else has to. At that point, mercy players would be more entitled to any complaints and the community can be as loud as they like without looking entitled in the eyes of so many overwatch players.

[@dennis2095]

Thank you you are the best

[@2o2lam23]

I thought we could have the GA back

[@Skiesti]

Yeaaaaah I thought so too but guess not

[@ayyoiuha]

i know this is super off topic and that your videos are all about mercy but i would love to see a video of your first impressions/playing the new support hero! :)

[@Skiesti]

TLDR I really love Illari and she's a LOT of what I was looking for in a support hero that isn't Mercy. I thought I would feel that with Kiriko or Lifeweaver but neither of those two really hit right. There's something really satisfying about playing Illari. Her primary fire feels really intuitive (altho I need to work on the aim more) and her movement is enjoyable I'm not sure if I'll make a first impression video about her since that's normally not what people are here for LMAO but yeah, I do like her a lot

[@bradleybabvu2053]

I know it's so frustrating....😠

[@wiltedrose6699]

The DVA comparison really pulls together all the frustration into an argument that could be given to those who hate on mercy mains and they'll go "wait a minute". Very well said!!!

[@SirFuzzyLogik]

Mercy players: My character is bugged and broken and blizz doesn't care! Doom players: First time?

[@Skiesti]

It's not a competition, I feel bad for Doomfist players as well. Both of our heroes have been bugged for a very long time and it sucks

[@SirFuzzyLogik]

@@Skiesti We're all suffering here