Gold is a warzone right now lol I've run into booster accounts, players that have no business being above bronze 2, players that were diamond or above in previous seasons, it feels like any game is an unranked queue I have no clue what I'm going to get

I didnt realize you were a treadmill and was like why are you moving so much LOL

Something I've noticed from mercy players in high gold/low plat is that they won't let the second support get ult charge and it's so frustrating

the mercy meleeing from like 20 feet away while she was fighting ana took me out 😭😭

That Zarya was playing extremely well for a supposed gold lobby. Granted she got a buff recently but still some of those bubbles were on point

The lack of blue beam is painful to watch

what I’ve learned as mercy is you have to let your other support heal too. like helping tank get to 50-75% hp then leaving so the other support can finish them off is standard imo. (obviously, circumstantial on if your support is there, being dove, knows what you’re doing, etc)

They need to use dmg boost and pocket the dps more. If the dps aren't carrying their weight, you need to switch to another support for more damage. At least that's what I feel like. There's no use for mercy if you're mainly yellow beaming and the damage boosted heroes aren't getting kills.

Hey that's me! I have definitely found myself healing a lot more this season. With the DPS passive, I'm worried even if my second support is paying attention the tank will still fall over. That's probably the biggest adjustment I've been trying to make is watching tank more, but it seems I've overcorrected. My comment about not taking high ground was primarily about where the team decided to hold second point defense. Like wow, a perfectly good bridge with some buildings I can use for cover? Nah, this wide open space in front of that seems like the better plan :/ The attempted rez on Zarya was quite ambitious, but I knew the rest of the team was there and thought we could push if I could get it off. Then I messed up my superjump rez and probably should have aborted, but I felt committed because there was no way I was getting out at that point. I have melee and crouch double bound to my side mouse buttons (right next to each other). Since I use crouch a lot, my thumb rests on both buttons, and I hit the melee one by accident a lot (though usually not as much as that lol). Chat's right though, the air was definitely asking for it! Thanks for spectating my game! Guess it's time to get over my trust issues and get back to pocketing my DPS, though the more aggressive battle mercy I showcased here (not my usual style) seemed a hit as well lol.

I’m a mercy main and I’ve noticed about this person that they are on heals way to much I rarely heal the tank unless they really need it. I focus on my squishes and dmg boosting (i average 3000 per game). This person also needs to work on positioning because they keep putting themselves in bad positions.

This is the type of Mercy one trick I dread having when I'm the other support. I feel like I have to play something able to sustain a tank and then i cant be trusted to do my job. Instead of damage boosting and pocketing DPS they're chasing healing numbers with a yellow beam up the tank. That being said, not every fight was like that and they'll be back in diamond if they keep the good stuff going.

Something i realized is that she keeps the healing beam up even when an ally is full HP or are at like 80-90%, something you need to recognize as Mercy (and a lot of supports imo) is that you dont have to heal all the way up all the time, put your teammates at a safe HP bar and look for other plays and just cycle around that

ah yes- i love this game called "Overwtach" one of my favorite games of all time.

5:12 Is that a Grav-Dragon in 2024?? Fair play.

My biggest gripe with support players is that none of them know who to prioritize support with. i.e if the comp is Moira/mercy, let your Moira play near tank and farm healing/dps, and mercy should mainly focus on healing/damage boosting the dps. Obviously there are time where you have to make a judgment call, but there are two supports, you need to trust your counterpart to do their job

Playing mercy feels like you’re (excuse the pun) at the mercy of your team making plays.

In most of my gold games good mercys are few and far between. Mostly healbots that only have value because people in gold cant shoot.

It also can come as an unfortunate case of if your team is not taking advantage of the blue beam as much as they should, swapping will help, its not the most ideal thing and sometimes you can get away with mercy for sure but if they arent taking advantage of it unfortunately mercy becomes more of a burden then a help Also...you need to tryst your other support...like..please

the thing i recommend any mercy player to practice on is switching between your beams at fast speeds. something that can make or break your matches is not knowing when to switch your beams, doing this can make it so you maximise both of your beam usages. always start out blue beaming or if you need to heal first hold both buttons down that way you can switch to blue beam easier after. (i recommend switching your blue beam to your primary fire). don’t heal all the way to full during a match, but what i mean by that is what this mercy did for example is consistently hold down heal beam til they were full and kept holding it after. instead heal to a good health percentage, you can see their health bar, and as whoever your healing is doing damage switch to blue beam. you want to swap to healing during the time when either they take damage again or a break with in their damage like reloading, but also if you can wait til after the team fight is won. (mainly speaking for healing to full when saying to wait til after the team fight !!) some heroes you may want to heal a little more than others, like a comment below this stated tracer is a good example. tracer is one hero that when she is close enough and she needs heals then you should heal her to full because her hp is much smaller than the rest of the heroes. another thing i noticed is this mercy was being “greedy” or too worried about healing that they were taking heals away from the moira. trust your second support to keep up the tank while you focus on the dps, but that doesn’t mean never help everyone !! pay attention to when your moira runs out of heals then support them with the tank til they can take over again. i have tips for this mercy movement wise and positioning as well but these were more important, keep up the good work though. hope everyone enjoys their day and that your games if you play today are fun :))

Funny how there's one comment defending mercy saying they're not mid, and another is saying they were never diamond to begin with

When you go to the green screen you should take a controller with you so you can play, pause, etc.

I think mainly again, the dmg boost isn't used enough, she heals a lot when they only lose around 20hp, when the dmg boost would be move valuable in the fight scenarios, and like emong say, do not hesitate to dmg boost your tank and your support, moira boosted is great!!! And leave your tank to you main support!!!! Mercy'S love to heal their tank for some reason, the only moments I will heal them is if I see that the second support is struggling or tank taking way too much dmg.

I went from being a mercy main to not even touching her in 3 seasons, almost any situation mercy is damage boosting you could be doing the damage yourself and making more impact. She needs a major overhaul to not just be dead weight. The only time shes really providing unique value is when resurrecting which is entirely reliant on the enemy team ignoring her and not punishing.

Silly Emongg, everyone knows the golden rule of metal ranks: *Never pocket your visor/blade and let the enemy team explode them*

Emongg the treadmill

i like to valk after one of the enemy team has been eliminated--ulting there and dmg boosting the team can help snowball faster, and if it ends up one of my teammates dying first, then i hold it (unless the fight looks like it's turning around even if 4v5) helps me save valk, best not to use it at the end of a team fight win or lose, then it'll be wasted.

I've had the opposite problem in recent games where I left to pocket a dps and my tank gets shredded while my moira is sucking the enemy off next to tank. I was dia but I'm just stuck in low plat now.

14:44 i will use ultimate right now. One you team got pick. Two your dps have hp.

Good movement. Spent too much time healing the tank, particularly after the swap to Moira (before that I get it, sometimes the 2 slow heals are needed to keep dumb tanks out of danger zones). Not enough damage boost. With lower DPS it can feel a bit pointless damage boosting if they aren't hitting shots, but if they're only hitting 25% of their shots, they need those shots to count more than the heal top ups.

Is he walking at us?

Mercy is Kinda trash in S9, everyone else got a buff to their primary and she didn't. She needs to get her passive back from season 3 but toned down slightly, it would feel much fairer in this new anti-heal meta, the one she has right now is just way too situational.

ever since season 9 started, I’ve been getting teams that play like slivers and below- idk what happened man. Way more one trick mercys too for some reason despite her being a throw pick.

Ok mercy players, here’s a tip. Playing mercy in the low ranks it’s really hard to do. You’re pretty much begging for someone to carry you. Someone like illari or Moira. this will help you heal and do damage at the same time so you won’t be relying on them doing all the damage

See this reminds me of a game that my man had played yesterday he was playing Ana and his mercy was like hey I’ll keep up the tank you keep up the DPS and help me with Tink Tink push it out to aggressively and then winning the game that way and it was just like a little communication I don’t know I don’t really play too too much so I’m just watching and it look cool

When you say die on cart to prevent stagger, is this just to die as fast as possible? Or is there some sort of advantage to dying on the actual objective?

I started this season so good i went from stuck in b5 to placing at b3 and getting so silver 5 like 90% and I’m now about to go into b4 again because the matchmaking decided to just give me a single terrible teammate that none of the team can make up for over and over again i can’t win at this game

Honestly, i love playing mercy too much, but as of yesterday, i literally suffered trying to keep all my teammates alive against another enemy mercy in a silver lobby as a silver 5 (because sometimes even being good costs for bad teammates and a chance to improving with them) and despite our differences on healing, i had a high assist meaning i utilize the dmg boost more than her, making her fight against my terrible comp a disadvantage as she doesn't atleast push some boost for a win or an advantage. So i won, but for the cost of my sanity, it was slightly worth the price to fight against a good healer atleast! (Especially a fellow mercy player)

to play a good mercy you need to trust your other support. if you're a healbot or your dmg boost targets aren't doing well, then get off mercy. you have to watch ult charge and make sure your other support can get healing (if there isn't immediate danger) and balance who you're dmg boosting to help them gain ult charge quicker too. mercy is seen as an easy character, and she is really easy to play! but she's difficult to master.

Gold rank is so messed up. was gold 1 in s8 for a long time, now in s9 i go from gold 1 to silver 1 back to gold 1 back to silver 1 on my main. while on my alt i just climb to plat np with no losing streaks unlike my main where i can have a losing streak of 8 games

Thing is your dps need to be popping off with mercy in today's overwatch

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HI EMONG ive never been this early, but i love ur videos !

I was masters 4/5 last season, placed diamond 5 this season and climbed to diamond 3, and then proceeded to fall all the way down to plat 3. Wtf is going on? 😭

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I got sliver after placement then I rank up to diamond 4 if you depend too much on other u will not rank rank I was plat in season 8

14:48 They used valk and played like dva lmao. In other words, she denied the enemy healing by killing/distracting the supports.

I was plat 2 last season on support but now i am gold 1 i dont know how to get plat again

How can I send you my gameplay to rank it for me? I’m stuck dwindling between Gold 1 and Plat 5 on healer right now. Typically a Lucio main. But I can and will play Moira or even Mercy if it’s needed or requested by any of my team (Playing on Xbox One)

Problems in Gold Leavers Brand new players including brand new smurf accounts Dps don't pop off as much as higher elo lobbies, making dammage boost useless Game sense is lacking. Teams usually stagger

I’ve dropped from diamond to gold since new placements 😭😭😭💔

As a Bronze Mercy struggling to climb, it’s really hard not to healbot. Sometimes my other supports go into a DPS style and I have to struggle to keep the team up, or reckless tanks and DPS out of position. It’s really difficult to be a Mercy this season. I win one game and lose three games 😭

Immediate impression from seeing the first 40 seconds of Route 66 defense. This mercy is healing way too much. Their whole team is low ground w/ a Moira, yet whenever someone takes damage they start healing, even when their team is shooting; the Moira can heal too, and goes to do it, yet doesn’t get value because you both do it.

Even a gold mercy player knows to dmg boost moira's ult

Yall don’t understand ..like once you fall outta diamond/Plat ..gold is a warzone like it’s stressful cause they don’t wanna work as a team but expect team movements

Im sick of trying my ass of in diamond so I dropped to gold so I feel good again

I'm diamond tank, support, and open queue. But I'm gold DPS and, let me tell you, getting out of gold has to be the hardest of any tier

One word: BOOSTED

Is he really casualy waking? 🚶

This is every mercy is season 9. Healbotting. Her only value compared to any other support is damage boost. If you’re getting 700-1,000 dmg amplified per 10 then you’re significantly better off going someone who can do dmg have more utility and have almost as many heals.

meanwhile: Solo-queing

TBH this Mercy doesnt have the best movement and doesnt make the best choices when her team is getting pressed. I feel like they fs deserved to drop. You cant just expect yourself to constantly be carried.

My man account stuck gold 1 to plat 5 and I made an alt account all roles are masters 4 and up

tbh I’m in the same boat, I reached diamond 4 two seasons back, but stopped playing during season 8 and now i’m gold 1 - plat 5, and I play mercy. one game i get a tank complaining that i’m playing mercy and throws the game then the next two i get compliments on how i played her since i didn’t die once and i average 65-70 dg

i literally went from diamond 1 to fucking gold 1...

If Moira would have picked kiri there's a lot of lost fights that could've been avoided. That's where I sits at in gold lobbies.

I have no idea how they got into Diamond. She's not boosting enough and healing when it's not needed.

I think I've been training for season 9 my whole time on OW. Very little change to my Mercy play. Placed Plat1 was D5, currently one game from D5, but I have never ground out to see how high (or low) I would go.

Actually, I used to be in Plat 1 as Mercy. I dropped down to Gold 5.. almost sliver. :')

jup im high dia in every roll In s9 as dd i just have my 10 Placement Games a. im low dia in Tank im mid dia. But Sup which is my main role im in Gold but most games feels like high Plat/low Dia Games. and like 30% of the games it feels like most Players never play OW bevor. Or they are Unranked Players and they play in rank like it is Unranked?

Yay

playing mercy thats why

Illari vods plz

Ooo no comments yet. I'm so early

Best tip, dont play mercy this season lol

Haven’t even watched yet, but the title felt too real to me 😭 I feel like I do so well but I never win

No offense to the player, but these are the Mercys I dread playing with. Not because they are terrible, but because the are SO CLOSE to being good, but dont reach their potential because they don’t know how to properly prioritize dmg boost. It’s especially infuriating when I’m playing the other support and can easily keep the tank up myself. I had a game with a Kiri/Doom. I didn’t touch my Doom almost the entire game (unless he dropped below 50% health and I needed to beam him for a second). We won with flying colors because our dps were getting pocketed, and our Kiri had ult every team fight. If I have a Mercy game where I’m struggling to keep my dmg boost stat above 50% because I’m being forced to healbot, I know it’s time to switch off Mercy.

I feel like reaching diamond solo queue on Mercy is impossible nowadays. You cannot rely on randoms to help you rank up. Mercy especially in s9 isnt a solo carry hero, so realistically, i dont think climbing with mercy is the answer. Why damage boost bad dps when you could be bap and become the dps

Good movement at staying alive but so much time spent healing someone from 90% to 100% when heal boost would win the fight quickly. Good player

I was in masters the first two seasons of overwatch two. Then i stopped playing and this season in down to plat/gold. The ranking system in this game is so messed up

I don't think vods where its a clear win is good to analyze for people learning... you don't get to see ALL of the bad habits that cause so many losses you drop to gold. I can have frequent 0 and 1 death games with good teams - but 10 deaths if its actually a hard game.. those are the ones needed to be looked at.

Prediction on the title alone: as a former Diamond myself, and based on the limited pool of people I have talked to, we all got pushed down to gold but are still fighting Diamond games trying to get our displayed rank to match. I don’t know if this is actually the case it’s just what it SEEMS like

Im going to answer without watching the video. They’re struggling because blizzard reset ranks and put masters/gms into plat. Now they’re getting paired with random dps/tanks and going 50/50 or worse because matchmaking in this game is dogshit.

I’m a new ow player and I haven’t played a lot of comp but after 100-150 hours on qp I tried out ranked and got insta placed in plat 1 on support, even though I played on both dps and support I ended up with the rank for support. What I usually focus on in my mercy plays is keeping dps alive as first priority since theyre easy to heal up, then heal the tank (if theyre not about to die ofc). I talked about this with my friend who mainly are a support who focus on supporting and healing tank first, even playing as Ana together with the tank. (Which obv sound stupid) I also think it’s important to keep the other support alive. Playing support with him I instantly know I’m by myself and get no support or healing if I need. He dropped from plat to gold and got surprised and a bit frustrated, after that talk I totally realised why he dropped. When I’m playing dps and support with him as support, I mostly recieve heals from the other support on the team, and with the discussion we talked about I have a suspicion most heal stats is from healing the tank mainly. EMONGG in this video sums up what my friend should focus on and this right here might be the reason why my friend dropped too

Because they were boosted to diamond from silver and now the game is hard cause their Smurf eboy stoped getting on. I watch it happen all the time with mercy’s I carry to high rank and stop playing with. Moral of the story, don’t pay for boosts

they're struggling because they were never diamond to begin with hahahhaha

Love seeing those hater comments right away in your chat feed, Mercy... blah blah, meanwhile their "go to" one trick is Bastion..

If people talked in game they wouldn’t have most of these problems

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No way they were Diamond with that aim lol. If they were it was being boosted in a duo/stack.

healbot

This mercy was boosted. Reset put them in the rank they belong in.

ahh mercy not good the boosted otp fall back to where belong isnt it great to see

If your team isnt responding to pings you need to hop on mic. Its that simple. Theres a million things happen at once. You cant expect people to turn around and look for your pings. Pings should be a complement to comms not the default option if you really want to win

Complaining about the dps when mercy is the worst support in season 9 and they’re pocketing the tank half the game, how about submit the vod and just have self accountability..

Watching this Mercy play gives me anxiety despite them playing vs gold enemies. Constantly fidgeting, flying, dodging imaginary demons. Sure it's good to not stand still and make yourself an easy target, but it also shows a lack of situational awareness and assessment of immediate threats (or lack thereof). So much so that it appears to be taking a lot of their mental focus, rather than being a subconscious aspect. You're being way too liberal with your heal beam, the switch from heal to damage can oftentimes come 1-2 seconds earlier than you do, and it should be your primary focus and only switch to heal when the ally is actively taking damage that isn't just random chip dmg. Keep your team's pressure up more than try to deny effect of enemy pressure. Try being in a good position in the first place, rather than masking the symptom of bad positioning by simply flying everywhere constantly so you have "no positioning". Also with your playstyle Mercy IS just a hard hero to allow your team to carry, because on their own you can't expect your team to carry any more than the enemy. And the baseline value of Mercy is so easy, so you're very unlikely to outvalue an enemy support, especially when the majority of support players pick Mercy to begin with. That's already setting yourself up for a close-to-50/50 ranked experience. As the skill ceiling of Mercy has been gradually lowered over time, and formerly intricate mechanics have been made available at the lowest skill floor, your ability to skill express and set yourself apart as a Mercy player is less likely now than ever before. You can ping and communicate all you want, but you can't force your team mates to do what you are communicating to them. Mercy just doesn't have this aspect in her kit to pick up the slack where your team falls short, and you can be frustrated at your team for all of eternity but this is a rare case of the hero pick being your primary limitation. If you want to open more avenues of carrying your matches, then you need a hero with more avenues of skill application to explore and exploit. In this match for example, you see how the enemy team get stalled out over and over, but inevitably build up to their main win condition which is grav+dragon. So basically you know, eventually the enemy will win. Your ally support is Moira, you're Mercy. Basically you acknowledge the enemy hero synergy has a far stronger win condition than anything you can do to defend against it, and if you stick with Mercy despite this, then that's simply an OTP shortcoming on your side that will gatekeep you from climbing. Sorry, but this is just a fact you gotta face. The tradeoff would in other cases be to have a team comp that consistently wins neutral fights and in that regard play for time and stall, but you're in gold. This is not reliable, Diamond is where you start to see this, but anywhere below Diamond you can't expect neutral fight advantages to ever be consistent based on hero synergies. Mercy should be a pick where the pick itself grants you a specific hero interaction advantage vs the enemy, which also can relate to what map you play. But if you aren't gaining a substantial hero synergy advantage, then you have very few alternative options of outvaluing the opposing team. Especially in the current 20% heal redux situation, damage amp needs to be +80% of your core value, so if you aren't damage boosting a viable target 80% of the time you play, then you're basically doing nothing to improve your team's chances of winning.

Mercy is just very bad this season regardless,zen lucio bap meta is just too much better

I too went from diamond 5 to gold 1. Nothing can be improved because the game will put you with people that are just not good in the game.

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Well.. Mercy is a dogshit character this season, so.. if you one trick, it is what it is.

I went from masters to gold. Dps is forever trash and tank half the time.