Mercy sitting on the payload: "I have mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still that I become invisible to the eye"

Top 500 Mercy: Fucking zoom the entire map while dodging bullets, missiles, and tactical nukes Bottom 500 Mercy: Afk on cart so still that the enemy doesn't realize you exist

As a mercy main, 100% accurate we get off to blastering a widow back to the depths of hell

My best advice for Mercy is never stop moving. NEVER. STOP. MOVING.

21:37 The Sombra not killing a point blank Junkrat who's standing still in his ult is frankly impressive.

Enemy 1: "Shouldn't we kill that Mercy that's just sitting on the payload?" Enemy 2: "Nah, she's not hurting anyone."

Supports: Save themselves by not rescuing out of position teammate Teammate surrounded by enemy: "HEALERS NOH HEAL 😤"

Never stop moving as Mercy. Not once. If you see their Mercy not moving? Destroy them. Also, a large part of this weirdly felt like the camera was drifting more to the floor than the horizon or slightly higher. There is no hero who will come out of the ground, so keeping the view a little higher will help awareness as well as movement.

I remember a while back when Symmetra's turrets healing allies was an idea that was talked about. I imagine that it would've looked something like this

It kinda feels like this person was told "yeah just stay near cart and heal" and they took that very literally.

I have a feeling this Mercy was told "PUSH THE CART, STAY ON CART" constantly when attacking which resulted in the idea that "I must never leave cart or else I am not contributing to the team". But yeah, as a Mercy player if you stop moving you will die (or at least, even if you die while moving around it won't always be your fault), so I agree with everyone else and just never stop moving around. This goes for most OW heroes as well.

Mercy Pepe from the thumbnail is precious and must be protected at all cost.

the mercy practically looking at the ground the entire time made my tummy hurt

Watching this Mercy not bluebeam a SINGLE TIME when there's a half-decent Junkrat RIGHT THERE 😭😭😭

Unfortunately, this Mercy has probably been told by their Diamond friends "Sit on cart" just to make sure they're out of the way of the actual fights. Because the Diamond players wouldn't be fighting on the cart like Bronze

Legit had someone yelling at me the other day to not help my Ana claiming "it's stupid to have a healer heal the other healer"

As a former Mercy main who's become more of a support/tank flex, Flats' comment about Mercy's survivability is spot-on. Be the unkillable mosquito that keeps your team alive.

PSA: the game doesn't advertise it very well, but there is a training mode that lets you group with others to fight against an AI team. You can even select from three difficulty modes. If you are brand new to shooters (which this Mercy seems to be) please try out that mode.

im quite honestly addicted to this series

I’m far from the best Mercy - but I can tell you this is exactly how I played when I started. I’m a 40 yr old woman and OW is the first comp-pvp type game I’ve ever played. I was terrified of playing games like that out of fear of letting my team down and getting yelled at. I’m so glad my friends bullied me into playing. I hardly get yelled at anymore 😅

my toes were curled at the end of the first push when she was just freakin sat there on kart with the rein circling. i screamed i gasped i cried.

i couldn't help but to smile when he talked about pulling a blaster, being able use my blaster to kill people with Mercy is like a dream come true

You mentioned widow kills during valk, and I can confirm it's super satisfying as a mercy main

Flats: “you should be dead” Mercy: “ HEROS NEVER DIE!”

21:39 I'm not sure which is more impressive tbh. The Junk ignoring the Sombra, the Sombra not killing the Junk, or our resident Mercy just being glad to be there 🤣 bronze is the Twilight Zone of Overwatch.

This honestly looks like a Total Mayhem game in the arcade. I guess comp just becomes Total Mayhem when everyone's brain moves at half speed.

_"I've got you in my sights!"_ "Herp-de-derp! Just heard an ult go off; better use *_my_* ult to save myself!" _[ascends 50 feet because Valk blasts you off the ground like a rocket]_ _[continues to ascend, because your soul is on its way to the afterlife after your body got riddled with bullets]_

5:51 I assume they wanted to rez junkrat (in the middle of blizzard of course), spammed e a couple of times (just as rez was about to charge up) and when that didn't work, they decided to just gtfo of there. The survivability was so epic that even the enemy Mercy was impressed 24:50

the junk was actually carrying ngl. i can only imagine if he got blue beamed.

THANK YOU, FLATS! Finally, someone who said what all of us support players wanted to hear from someone like you. Support is not a fucking easy role and Mercy is NOT an easy hero!

the way mercy was standing there and was literally close enough to see dva's asscheeks through the spandex has me absolutely losing it... manifesting this kind of luck for myself in a game soon

The thing I got mad at most was how they had their crossair constantly at a 30 degree downward angle, so barely anything could be seen. If I was looking at the ground all game, I'd probably be lost too.

In all fairness at 26:40 , he did use valc to get away from the hammer down which means he did react to the ult. Unfortunately he zoomed up into the open to immediately get clapped by the soldier but it's not like he flew up despite the solder ult being used, soldier used it when he was already up there.

I Love seeing an orb just running around. Thanks for letting me know where your Sombra is Zaria...

@Flats at 5:42 what was so confusing? The JunkRat died and she was hiding behind the payload waiting for her rez to be off CD to rez him. Mei threw in her ULT so she had to bail. Maybe not the greatest idea but thats what was happening.

1 small thing, when attached to an Invisible Sombra, the beam fades away after a short distance from the enemy's perspective. It does give her general location away tho but it isn't directly connected as the mercy's perspective sees it.

As someone who started after my friends, I had to choose to play competitive separately because they had taught me the fundamentals of the game, and they were just plain wrong. Without them I climbed and they stayed where they were because they refused to accept another POV. I also of course caught shit because I climbed as mercy and they consider that a no skill role, as does majority of the plat and under section of the community. There is nothing I respect more on any role than an unkillable, evasive, slippery mercy.

The fact that I didn’t see the blue beam once killed me

5:49 I am fairly certain they were attempting to rez the Junkrat, but the cart pushed forward and blocked it, so they decided to just go back to healing.

My original comment seems to be stuck in the void, so I'm dropping this one to see if I can edit it with the details. UPDATE: For all those asking - I'm no longer bronze, I'm now gold in support. It's been great to finally climb, and I haven't dropped from gold. ORIGINAL EDIT: Oh boy, knew this was coming. Hi, this is my VOD. I started playing Overwatch in June of this year. I have never played an FPS game so I have no experience. I'm definitely learning. All the points he made are valid. I absolutely deserve low SR, I have improved slightly. I'm definitely working on self preservation and not doing dumb rezes. I'm currently taking a break from OW and doing some research and hitting the aim trainer. Hopefully I'll get a higher rank in OW2 after some practice. Thanks again for the roast! P.S. Dragoon is the best skin and I'll die on this hill

22:23 The other team's Soldier 76 stood at that doorway for a longer duration than this Mercy did on cart.

"ive mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still... that ive become invisible to the eye" -siray66 the mercy player

As a mercy player movement is incredibly important. I think this mercy would do well after watching a few mercy tutorials! Super jump might be good to start learning. Though movement is best to learn, especially learning when to damage boost.

As a masters Mercy main, this was so painful to watch. It amazes me how they were not dead 24/7 by how they were playing

Another thing that might be helpful is realizing mercy's beam stays connected even if you're not looking at who you're healing or boosting. You could be healing/boosting while looking behind you to check for flanks, looking at your other teammates to see who needs help next, watching the enemies and paying attention to ults and cooldowns. Just looking around will generally help with awareness and reaction time. You don't need to follow and stare at your teammate while you heal them.

11:00 It was actually confirmed by Blizzard that it was supports in Diamond or above that were dying up to 15% more in OW2 compared to the lower ranks. These are the support players who don't healbot and do exactly this. Supports were genuinely more difficult (and felt bad) to play

This mercy is just Drax, staying so still that she becomes invisible. notice how the second she moved away from the cart she died.

As a mercy main with over 400 hours on her here’s some tips for them. Learn to move around more between your team, you should never be standing still or even walking slowly in the open only in hard cover. Hop around like a bunny while still using hard cover as much as possible. Blue beam your dps!!! You don’t have to heal everyone to full heath constantly. Mercy should almost never have gold healing lol unless you have a zen / lucio as your 2nd support. Even then mercy isn’t the correct pick along with them. You give so much more value to your team if you boost your dps. Boost dps = Quicker ult charge which could make a team fight. Also pull out the blaster more often, if your team is full and a dps is trying to chase you don’t be scared of them fight back especially in valk as you can escape easily if you need to!

Definitely needs to damage boost more. Valk for me is mainly used for that purpose. Besides Orisa’s bongo, there really isn’t another ability that lets you boost your whole team. But also I can understand why they don’t, because that would mean your team would actually need to do damage. Or trust your other support to heal. If it’s an aim based support, they’re likely to miss most of their shots. If anything, lower elo gives you trust issues.

Pulling the glock out on a Widow really is a wet dream 🤣 Also going for the enemy Mercy / Pharah in Valk.

This person is a prophet. They saw the healing pylon in the future and tried to communicate their discovery to the rest of us

I've been trying to help a friend in bronze/silver and I'm not lying when I say, if I dont touch the cart, it doesnt move. The lower ranks are a weird place.

One time I bubbled an invisible sombra when my rein moved out of the way. I have never felt worse about my actions.

My first thing I would tell this Mercy to work onis 3 things: Don't go near the objectives, always hug natural cover like walls (don't trust shields), and learn your max beam range and try to always be at max beam range. If you don't know where to stand, find a wall.

seeing this as a high rank mercy hurts my soul, because all I want to do is help this poor person achieve their full mercy potential

Not gonna lie, this Mercy gameplay reminds me a lot of how a lot of people would probably play Medic in Team Fortress 2. Not having played Overwatch myself, the fact that there is a lot of difference between the support classes of Overwatch and of those in Team Fortress 2 is really interesting to me. (Obviously there's differences, but I've never been in-tune with OW enough to know them super well lol)

mercy getting caught in the shatter just shattered this poor man's hope for humanity

Staying on payload and yellow beaming full hp players is driving me insane

This is the video that introduced me to you, Flats. And I've been hooked ever since. New OW player with around 50 hours to my belt, but watching these videos really help heighten my awareness. :D

I actually cheered when I saw them pull out the glock for the first time. like "YES YES YES! F*CKING FINALLY!"

A good rule of thumb is to let Ana sit on the cart and heal you as you swirl and twirl around the battlefield... Ana/Mercy is my fave support duo ever.

This mercy game play will improve once they realize they are a support and not a healer. You can support through healing but you are not limited to healing. And by that one change of mindset it makes a difference.

So I’m a mercy main atm and I had this video running in the background, while I played solitare. When I heard him tell the mercy to go play solitare I just started bursting out laughing. The timing was too perfect.

The second round of this video had me crying laughing with how much is going on and nobody is dying, I could seriously watch it all day

1:45 Unlike Zarya bubbles that are a dead giveaway, Mercy beam will not connect all the way to an invisible sombra, it fades out, the enemy team can't see it. It will alert them that there's a Sombra in the area, but not the exact location

For Siray66 one suggestion is practice to get comfortable switching the beam quickly between heal/dmg during play, and try to split the time closer to say 50/50 on each. Kind of more like dmg is the default mode and flip over to heal when you see someone needs it. One way to flip modes fast is press both mouse buttons then release one button to toggle the mode.

Of all the spectating videos you've done so far this one was probably the hardest to watch for me. My blood pressure was pretty high watching him hold left click the entire game.

Awesome advice and tips in this video. Thank you so much ❤

A few advice for beginners on Mercy which will make you more active in game and/or lower the size of the target on your back: - When you see several teammates critical, don't pick one, heal them full, then change. Change all the time (especially Ana or Mercy who can heal only one at a time) to heal them a little very fast to make them survive until fight is won or lost. A tank beginning to be critical still has more hp than a crit supp or dps. - You dont need to look at who you're healing/dbing. Their health bar is visible on your screen even if you turn around, so put your beam on them, then turn around to target the next ally to help. You can even GA to someone else before your current target is full health, as beam will break around 1 second after reaching max range, and it will make you move more frequently so more difficult to target for enemy team while still helping an ally. - Overall, tunnel vision as Mercy is your worst enemy, even more than the enemy itself. If you always look around, you know who you need to help, and at this elo, as players might miss critical shots, you have time to go help them before they die. Pay attention to "I need healing" and sound cues from your other supp. When they start taking damage, they make a pain sound or say something, so when you hear that, you can react and help them right away. - Dont be where your team is. They're close to cart? Stand close to a wall, dbing or healing at beam max range, it will make you avoid (or at least easier to survive) most of ults (Tire, Grav, Flux, ...). It's even more true in Valk as your beam length and GA reach is doubled. Walls are your best friends! Unlike shields, they will never break so love them, and they will love you back and protect you. - An easy reflex to have to help with db at the beginning is to switch to db once your ally is full hp. Even if it's half a second, it will help and you'll eventually learn when to db allies when it's most important. DPS are priority targets to DB, try to identify the most active one and db them, but dont go out of position for them (like a tracer or genji living in enemy's backline begging for heals, ignore). That's all for now, for beginners I think it's already a lot to remember and apply in game. ^^" Hope it will help!

This player has potential, they just need to be more familiar with the game by playing it more.

i love that these spectatings have been more educational as of late to prepare the bronzes for climbing in ow2 :D

6:42 as a mercy player I can confirm it is indeed a wet dream and also as a widow player whenever I see a mercy in valk charge at me I run in pure terror

Back when deathmatch came out for arcade I would regularly play Mercy. It was so satisfying. Helped my regular play as well.

1:40 I always have to chuckle when I see Zarya bubbling an invisible Sombra xD Looks just funny seeing the empty bubble running around ^^ Also, the Mercy might have just watched too much Stylosa xD "Valk is a throwaway ult" ^^

THANK YOU FLATS!! say it louder for the people in the back, I main support and tank and it’s frustrating when I see healers complain about dying and when they don’t shoot the other team, if you are dying to a one on one that’s your problem we gonna start adapting that call duty battlefield mindset of killing

Played Overwatch hard few years ago and just getting back into it, i respect anyone who plays Mercy, one of the most op characters and best team picks imo and shows how valuable supports are

To be fair, the number of times I committed to flying up into the open air as Echo or Mercy just as an enemy Soldier used his ult...is more than once.

I will never forget getting potg as mercy when I was newer to the game, I had an ana nano me by accident and I popped valk and tore out a 4k with my glock (one including a high nooning cass) and that was my ow peak.

That Sombra just chilling in the corner emptying clips into the Junkrat is what does it for me in this vid 😅

mans is actually telling the only one pushing to stay away from cart on a payload gamemode

6:20 YOU PUT IT INTO THE MOST PERFECT WORDS!!! I did once solo valk a widow because I thought that she teabagged my widow. Then I just spawn camped her the rest of the game. My widow even popped infrasite for me to spawn camp her

lowkey impressive mercy play by doing the unexpected and being AFK lmao

Love watching these

I'm no gonna lie to you, Flats, I legit JUST found your channel tonight--and I've already learned so much. I know these are roasts--but thank you! :D

And here I was, thinking I'm a healbot whenever I play Mercy but it seems like I'm actually doing alright, I guess 😅

Obviously in "wood league" where nobody can aim, standing still and running in a straight line at your opponent keeps you safe! LOL! Thank you for another great video, catch you in the next one

Your reaction to the lizard skin is what I've always wanted to express, but never as eloquently

Most players: 'Overwatch is TDM and I refuse to acknowledge the existence of this cart.' This Mercy: 'This cart is mine, I own this cart. No one will take my baby from me!'

I would have them check to see if they have the mercy setting on where your GA priorities whoever you’re beaming, that could be why their movement is messed up.

im sorry but flats really does have like. the skin equivalent of a toddler’s palate

That fine line between please get off cart and please touch cart.... it's so thin

4:31 my reaction to that DVA dying too lol the ragdoll effect she has as the cart moves too, haha! omg

I rarely play Mercy but one time I got potg and it started with me blasting a widow away, it was very satisfying

I think it would be more helpful if you got in depth about ~why~ mercy needs to make these decisions and helping them get into the headspace they need to be in. I feel like telling people what to do will just make them a sitting duck when you’re not around bc they don’t know why you told them to do what they had to do in the first place

"Small 18 wheelers" like I need to send in a clip for him to roast he's so creative

The thumbnail will always catch my attention It's so wonderful

Haven't even watched it yet...but I know as meerly a gold level player that supports usually cart sit because other players are to busy chasing enemy players to worry about the payload

i just don't understand why people who are new to the game and are still learning the basics go straight to ranked, instead of just learning in quick play? there's no sr you'll lose in quick play, but i guess some people don't really care about rank?

I think think that Rein just felt sorry and gave mercy some... mercy

Lovely video as always, Flats! And I wanted to give some tips, too. I'm not a pro Mercy t500 but I've played her for years (especially recently since my nicer mouse broke and I'm on a dollar store one, lol) and I think siray66 has potential. DAMAGE BOOST: if your team is full hp, dmg boost! WHY: dmg boost can help turn the tide of teamfights, especially in lower ranks where the enemy mercy might not utilize it at all. WHO: dps, for example junkrat, widow, mccree, soldier, even backline harassers like tracer can be fine sometimes. tanks can sometimes be good dmg boosts too, like hog when he hooks someone in. if you see your dps or tank engaging, especially on a low dmg target, boost them to secure the kill! MOVEMENT: mercy's movement is one of the best of all the supports. her cooldown for guardian angel is VERY low, so always keep moving. WHY: a sitting duck mercy is an easy target. she is very slippery when you keep flying from dps to dps, high ground to low ground. always be vigilant, look for flankers and escapes, keep track of where your teammates are. HOW: familiarize yourself with mercy's various techs using mercy parkour maps! guardian angel, slingshotting, superjumps, stopping GA early, etc. you ALWAYS want to be doing SOMETHING on mercy, and you should be pushing up with your dps, not sitting on cart, that way they can be dmg boosted and keep sending enemies to the spawn room. BLASTER: use her pistol! if you see an enemy support or dps standing perfectly still, quickly whip it out and try to secure an elim. even if they only get to low hp, your dps may finish them off or they have to retreat to cover to heal up. i have forced back many flank dps by engaging them in the 1v1 and forcing them to retreat or risk dying to secure the elim on me. POSITIONING: mercy's beam allows her to position more safely than other supports, since it'll remain locked onto a target for a good second or two even if you round a corner. you can also attach a beam to your dps on high ground, for example anubis gate 1st point, fly to them but stop GA short, fall a bit, then keep flying back up without ever landing on TOP of the gate. that way you remain behind cover but in distance for your beam to stay attached. WHY: standing in the open isn't good, unless you want to get headshot. always look for cover, use the terrain to your advantage! HOW: attach your beam, say to a dps at hanamura point a's gate. if they push past the gate, you can quickly peek to get line of sight on them then hide again to refresh the beam and keep it from detaching, while also keeping the cover of the gigantic wall. ALWAYS watch and listen for flankers (enemy footsteps are louder than teammates!!), and be ready to pivot and fly to a teammate to reposition in a moment's notice! AWARENESS: keeping track of your teammates' health, enemies' health, positions of teammates for flypaths, keeping track of enemy ultimates and having a general sense of what's going on around you is critical to playing mercy with maximum efficiency. is your ana being flanked in the backline? is your dps flanking around to set up a big ultimate? being aware and vigilant is necessary! VALKYRIE: mercy's ultimate is an engage ult. don't bother ulting if your team is dying ; that'll just be a wasted ultimate. her chain heal is strong, but if everyone is critical and they have good dmg, they're all going to die. if your team is pushing in, valk dmg boost to help them take point. if an enemy mercy valks her team in, wait a few seconds if it's viable to do so and THEN pop your ult to counter-valk. those extra few seconds of chain dmg boost/healing after hers has ended CAN make a difference in fights! RES: always try to res behind cover, be that the payload, a wall, a prop on the map, etc. WHY: res can turn the tides of a fight, especially if you res a teammate with an ultimate ready! always press tab to see which teammate has what ult to quickly decide if it's better to res a rein with earthshatter or a soldier 80% to visor. HOW: res wisely! is it a 5v5 and are your teammates low? is it a 2v6? sometimes waiting a moment before resing to heal teammates first is a better idea. if you're greatly outnumbered, don't res! fall back and regroup instead of resing someone to just die again. you can also bait the enemy team into thinking you're going for the res. look at your dead teammate, act like you're going to fly to them. the enemy dps will be looking to punish this. i have started GA to a res target then stopped short, distracting the dps from the main team fight onto myself. when they notice i didn't res, they're forced to focus back onto the teamfight that's ensuing instead, THEN i go in for the res. i only do this when the corpse is more so on my team's side ; don't try to go into the enemy's backline and do this! also, learn to superjump res. people in lower ranks will be confused and not look up half the time when you spring up over their heads to secure the res.