This video took me FOREVER because of technical difficulties so I hope it's helpful! I'd love to hear what you've learned about damage boost :>

I main tank but it's always useful to know how your teammates works to adapt with them, I have been watching guides on every support Heroes to make their job a bit easier.

I've said this a million times already but before I actually took the time to learn how to properly damage boost I was hard stuck hold/silver. It really does make a difference just using her kit and working on smaller details of it

I love how you are capable of staying in the sky with pharah, I always struggle to follow her around. Your general movement is insane, thank you for the content ♡

Nothing makes me wanna go play some mercy more than watching Skiesti’s insane movement

Damage boost is still a really underrated part of Mercy's kit, but you've always seen that value - hopefully this will help spread the word! Fantastic work, as always.

As someone who's been having so much fun on Mercy you've been the biggest help with your amazing videos, I've been getting better at mercy cause of the videos

i was inspired to learn mercy recently and your streams/guides have helped so much in my understanding of how to get more value out of her. i’ve noticed i’m dying much less (some games even 0-1 times!!!) or at least recognizing what i did wrong when i do die. she has quickly become my favorite support to play, so thank you for this too!

12:52 Blowed my mind, since blizzard doesn't really tells you details on abilities/numbers, thank god we have Skiesti to inform lol, appreciate always your content and thanks to you I can be the best Mercy version I can :D

Thank you so much Skiesti for the mercy guides and tutorials 🙏🙏🙏

I love this video! very well made and clear :) I've found that playing Mercy as intended has become easier as I climb through low elo ranks- Plat/diamond teammates understand her role in a team, and don't expect her to heal exclusively. Plus the positioning in general is so much better, your other support understands that you aren't the main healer, and can effectively manage their own target priority. Your tanks and DPS can manage their own resources and know when to disengage and not take unwinnable fights. I understand why some Mercy players may find damage boosting difficult in bronze-gold, if they feel responsible for the whole teams health pool being full at all times. People can be a bit toxic in chat about supports if they feel they aren't getting "enough" healing. BUT- the impact in a fight with damage boost is so much more noticeable in low ranks. If two reinhardts are brawling and each has a mercy beam attached, the damage boosted rein will always win. I was so guilty of being a heal-bot in OW1 back in the day with the double tanks and before moira/bap. It's just so much more fun to damage boost!! from Bronze 1- to plat 1 "Heal me!" shifted to "Damage boost me!" and the experience has already become so much enjoyable

Love this video as always! The way you structure and present educational content is so effective.

I usually overlook Mercy as a support main. But this video has opened my eyes to how complex Mercy can truly be. I have new respect for the character, and the video was excellent and informative overall. Bravo 👏

thank you so much for this... i've been playing mercy myself at a decently high rank for a long time and refreshers like this still help out a ton

Always enjoy these Mercy guides as a support main. Support life is stressful right now.

This is by far the BEST guide I've ever seen for Mercy and I've learned so much. I've got to admit it had been a while since I play OW and coming back I wasn't playing Mercy the way she's meant to be played but I know better now. Thank you so much!

This guide is AMAZING. When I first started playing Mercy, I... never used my damage boost, because I honestly didn't know any better. I really only started utilizing it regularly within the past year (I know, yikes). This really helps me understand how useful damage boost can be and I can't wait to start applying this new knowledge. Thank you!!

The last part about dmg boost interaction was awesome! I was looking for it for so long, thank you so much!!!!

thank you so much for the change in perspective on the "my dps suck" thing. I've just been pistoling people when my dps are doing poorly, but if i dmg boost them, they can just do the damage for me.

Great video. Here is my take a new Overwatch player who mains Mercy (never played overwatch 1). In bronze (which I am), being Mercy and DB feels wasteful very often. I still do it majority of the time because it's the right thing to do, but I feel there is an inherent problem. If you're on the team that cannot hit targets (worse than the other team), Mercy is pretty useless. Sure you can keep them alive longer, just to die a little bit slower haha. If I switch to a kiriko, something actually gets done. Mercy has the perfect name. She's completely at the mercy of her team not sucking. By far my favorite character and I often just stick with her to get better at GA and my overall movement/decision making. So I feel many people default to healing because they then feel more useful. You do feel useless when you DB and no one is getting kills. But those awful games force me to play even more smart and then my goal is simply not to die as much as they do by being more clever. I watch all your videos because you are excellent and they are very helpful. Mercy can just be a rough go some times haha.

Currently climbing from bronze with mercy. The frustrating thing is that a lot of mercy's utility is lost on teammates that aren't in comms, especially the second support. Pinging is great, but it's not enough in bronze-gold. It's best paired with vc.

This is such a fantastic guide! Definitely going to use a lot of this in my Mercy play. I can’t wait to try it all out later this evening!😊

I Would love to see a follow-up video about damage break points that are affected/unaffected by damage boosting an ally.

The section at the end where you talk about what you can and can't damage boost, and the interactions between the abilities was amazing. I feel like that section would probably be one of the main reasons that damage boost finally "clicks" for a new Mercy player.

Man you were not kidding when you mention like to just focus on what you know works for mercy. I just had a game where we were putting on a lot of pressure and doing well and one of my DPS's kept pinging that they needed healing, and I was going to go to them but they were at like 3/4 full health and I was trying to help our other healer in a 1v1 by damage boosting The DPS started rage chatting about "Blue beam is useless unless you're in top 500" like bro WHAT 😭😭😭

Very useful ! As a long time Mercy player I still re-learned a lot about damage boosting. It seems some interactions have changed in the last 2 years or with OW2.

Another great guide to devour haha, thx for the video it really shows the effort put in it

im so close to diamond for mercy, im primarily a dps main (masters) but this has been helping me climb so much! i appreciate the tips

16:27 JunkerQueen: " get this bot out my face"

After this video I started doing all the tips and guides you’ve stated and actually feel a lot better with mercy! However today I’ve been having the worst tanks. I’d help heal the whole team, but mainly leave my second supports (who were Ana’s, kirikos, and Moira’s) to help the tank while I pocket my main DPS and heal a bit of the second DPS. But, the tank got so angry at me for saying only pocketing the pharah and not pocketing him, a rein, who would constantly charge into the enemy lines alone and expect me to heal and boost him against solider and sojourn who takes high ground in numbani. Makes me realize how little people know how mercy or supports even work. I wish people realized that your mercy’s or supports in general are not just healbots. Yes, their job is to help keep your team alive, but that’s why they have other unique abilities too for damage. They’re not your healers or called healers. They’re supports and not bots.

I saw it and i said WOW what a great guide.

Great video Skiesti! Your guides are extremely helpful. I just started playing overwatch, but with your videos I managed to bring my rank to Plat. Keep up the amazing work. 💕

I was looking at a 6 year old post on reddit about keybinds for Zenyatta and saw your post linking this video :)

Due to your advice, I get comments like “ ily mercy “ at ends of games now, never thought ide see that in OW chat. Thank you!

As a junk and a rein main you are the best mercy thank you i hope every mercy lern from you

So much good info, there was a a lot of confusion cleared up for me here. As a new OW2 player, I wasnt always clear on what affect the blue beam was having on certain character abilities, but its nice to see that I was on the right track... and this cleared up a little confusion I had specifically around other players Ult abilities.

As much as I tried game after game I was only hitting like 1k or at the worst like 300 damage amplified a game. Really needed a guide like this, thank you!

Brig is probably my favorite other supp to play with, a mercy/brig combo is lethal

YESSSS THANK THE LORD ITS HERE i can’t wait to watch this keep up the fantastic work ski you are the best ☺️

As a mercy main you explain things in such an easy and Conscise way! Thank u

Thanks Ski. This was good info and anyone who plays Mercy needs to see this!

Such a great video. More people need to see this. So I don't loose my mind when I see an ally mercy healing a topped ally.

Gosh I wish I could clip this my partner plays junker queen and I’m so glad I can boost her bleed!

Your movement is incredible, really like this video, I tend to play mercy to keep the whole team up, I love it but it feels not worth it in ow2, other healers outheal me and have a bigger impact, going to try pocketing more

Thanx for the video, didn't realize I had to keep bosting JQ for it to wook.

my bf and i are stuck in silver atm, and ive been maining mercy as of late and its super fun to dmg boost him !! hes really good at widow somehow so he always gets hella picks, and thanks to my dmg boost he can one shot people he normally wouldnt have been able to before. its so satisfying when someone u dmg boost gets kills. i love that in the short while ive played mercy, my awareness in game has gone up so much ! i actually pay attention to what my team is doing and dmg boost them accordingly and it feels so good to help my team get kills and win fights. yeah it feels good to shit on the other team as moira and do hella dmg, but i feel even more satisfaction even when i have 0 dmg, because in return i have 10+ people saved, 40+ assists, etc. sometimes it causes me grief when i feel like i cant do anything because we're just getting shit on, but i feel like the good outweighs the bad. and if it gets TOO bad, ik i can just swap and do something different, its never the end of the world

I’m new to OW myself, and when I first picked up Mercy, I was mainly a heal bot. Once I learned about how much damage boost works, I try to use it as much as possible. Unfortunately, there are games where everyone is constantly low and it feels real difficult to maintain damage boost. However, most of the time I try to pocket the dps and only help with the tank if I notice they’re low for a while. I guess I was mainly worried about my healing number, but I learned that sometimes the damage boost works hand in hand in keeping your team alive if used correctly. I started playing maybe 2 weeks ago and hit platinum, hoping to build on that with the advice.

I main sig and I try to get into the play style of my team supports but I can't really understand most things but your guide helped me play better with other mercy players so thanks for that

I always damage boost Moira Ult and I was never sure if I was being stupid… thank you haha

Wow! This is literally an AMAZING guide, thank you so much!

another day another skiesti slay

you and kiriko slayed at 11:10

When dps are shit and sometimes straight up feeding i just boost the tank and the other sup, especially if they are Ana or Rein, Rein's ult is INSANE when boosted

Here's another tip from a current mercy main and a support main in many other games: The minimum amount of HP anyone (including you) needs to have is 1. T

damage amplified should be displayed in mercys damage slot on the scoreboard, yes battle mercys wont see their actual damage numbers as easily anymore but its def worth it for low elo mercys that get flamed for not healbotting

Love Love LOVE your explanations! Its super easy to follow and understand and I cant wait to implement these in my own mercy games! ❤️😊

mercy lucio combo also makes it easier for you to dodge around using guardian angel as lucio moves,,, quite alot

Helpful video thanks

I was always wondering if you had to hold the damage boost for projectiles all the way until they hit, thanks for clearing that up

It answered the questions I had, I was unsure if you can boost Hanzo's dragon

That was a great video thank you. I love it when information is laid out so comprehensibly.

This is such an impressively comprehensive video!

I sometimes play Mercy & ngl, I tend to focus on healing only. But! I will definitely do more of both from now on. Thanks sm for this video 👍 I learned new information. Especially the later part when you go over what can/cant be dmg boosted on heroes.

Not going to lie, the psychological benefit alone to most Widows is worth pocketing. I often judge who I pocket based on the kill feed and usually start on a hero such as widow who has the most benefit from psychological backing.

this was very useful thank you very much

10:46 This whole segment sounds like advice from a doctor. I just find that funny

At the moment my goal as a Mercy main is to reduce the amount of deaths in my games. I'd say I usually don't get more than 5 deaths. But of course there are games where they are all coming for that Mercy booty and you end up with like 8+ deaths. Anyway. Just wanted to say that your guides has helped this dude (me) to take Mercy to another level.

I love the commentary… you kinda have a news anchor sounding voice.

Yaay the mercy guide I'm waiting for is here

Thank you for this info i just started playing recently and this only reiterated what i thought how to play this character ive had friends tell me to never damage boost and just heal to rank up better

I’d love to see some document which compares dps between using the pistol and damage boosting each hero. I think it would be very funny and therefore a good idea

This was super super helpful. Thanks a ton!

What a lovely guide, thanks so much!

Thank you for confirming that Bastion's ult is boostable! I was never quite sure and will now be doing that more often when I can!

Awesome video!!! I didn't know all the things she can't damage boost 😢

The ticks that tbe game makes when someones dealing damage if you’re boosting tjem helps me too

Using mercy pistol as self defence is argueable bc 5 headshots so escaping is more preferable. I would utilize pistol only for pov damage: if no one else can kill the target or if everyone is looking the wrong direction. So both instances are pretty rare

Straight up 🔥. Thank you

This video really helped thankies😊👌🏾

i finally reached plat maining mercy in ow2!! thank you and bless skiesti our mercy savior

love this so much!! good to know what you can and cant dmg boost in ow2

i just wanted to say that res through the window was insane

If you're newer to Mercy like me and are trying to learn mobility, find some Mercy Parkour maps, they can help you get the hang of it.

I don't know what to do. If I let go of my healing beam, my teammates die in 2 seconds and I get flamed for it

Great explanation, this helps a lot

Thank you Skiesty!!!

the only time i think hard pocketing is acceptable is if you have a pharah and a really good support partner. I love the idea of getting more mercy’s damage boosting and thinking carefully about where they put their resources, but stuff like what you said at 7:54 is infinitely more important than just chosing one person and never letting go of them. The optimal person to damage boost can change literally any second of the game

I know it's silly to not damage boost just because you play with low level DPS players, but if two soldiers are in a fight and actually only hitting 10% of their shots, they will never be able to out-damage mercy heal beam. In this weird example scenario, healing your teammate after they take damage makes them unkillable. This is what makes pharmacy such a nightmare at lower ranks. Teams can't hit shots in the air very easily, and mercy can usually out-heal the few shots that do land

DPS with a mercy pocket is so easy but playing some support without my kitten is so painful, just swap to pistol and kill them youself in ult, surprisingly effective

awesome stuff! could you do a guide on surviving as mercy pls?

Man, this vid was super helpful in showing stuff I didn't know. For instance I've been thinking dmg boost works at point of impact but it's the opposite! I've been boosting Bastion AFTER he fire thinking it was more efficient. And with Cassidy I just healed him during his ult since my logic was it was more useful to make sure he doesn't get killed since his ult is an instant kill but nope, I could've made it go faster. Awesome vid, Skietsi and very helpful!

This is so good! The only issue I have is that I feel obligated to having to heal people the moment I see them being critical, or if they even need heals in general. I struggle a bit with sticking to one person because the rest of the team needing help :(

super helpful! thank you

Great content!

Great video Ski! I’m curious why Mercy and Lucio don’t have good synergy? Damage boost and speed boost together sound like a great combination on paper.

thank you skiesti

I think decently informed mercy's also try to keep in mind the 2K per 10 dmg boost ratio. I can say that in high gold, i can damage boost 70% of the time and barely readching 1500. So the 2k per 10 is something more as a golden standard spoken in masters and gm. Maybe this might lead to the thought that dps dont hit their shots

Really good video :) I would say though, if you have a decent Winston on your team, do pocket him. If he knows how to play properly (meaning he knows how to jump and melee cancel) it will result in him doing massive aoe damage, having ult pretty much every fight and you getting a lot of value since everything he does is AOE. His main combo is jump/melee which does an instant 80 burst damage, this will make it deal 104 damage, you're also making his primary go from 60 to 78 (do keep it mind, it is also aoe) and his secondary goes from 50 to 65. Overall, it's a lot of value. Zarya is also a very decent good Pocket target as said in the video, her beam deals a LOT of damage and if there's no shields against your team she should be prioritized a lot of the time (having grav more often is extremely good). And full charge she does over 200 dps, so yeah it is valuable. Those two are at the top of my pocket list, especially if they know how to play. Junker Queen is probably the last tank you could theoretically pocket and get good value from, but she's quite weak at the moment, she does ok damage but not enough to justify you pocketing her and she takes a LOT of damage so you'd have to heal her pretty much all the time. Oh and while i do not recommend doing this seriously, you can try pocketing a Moira if you're playing in lower levels, it is quite fun to see the fear in the ennemy team's eyes when they see a pocket Moira running at them. Same with Brig tbh

Some good tips, some bad tips. Pretty comprehensive. Prolly the best Mercy guide even with the minor flaws. Good vid.

Great video, thanks 👍