Flying, attaching beam and jumping backwards is gotta be one of the best new techs. It's simple, extremely useful and it just feels good to pull off

As a (not very good) mercy main with a hand related disability, thank you so much for this video and for acknowledging that some strategies can be a lot harder with hand issues!

Another good tip is that the damage boost effects last 0.5 seconds after stopping damage boost meaning if your ashe/sojourn/pharah are taking a little poke here and there but they're constantly hitting the enemy constantly spam both beams to get both benefits at the same time

Oh okay this Christmas gift is goated

niandra really makes my fave mercy tips videos, literally got me from silver to diamond

This reminds me when my teammate called me bad for getting 11k healing because they kept rushing in and dying but i got 3k dmg boosted 50/50 ratio, I am love your videos because it reminds me I'm not that bad, people are just ignorant

I think i have 2 main problems, i push damage boost a little bit too much, and if my other supports gets hurt i panick and just stick with them

I think the reason why Ramattra and Sojourn's Vortex and Snare work the way they are with damage boost because they are active placeable abilities that do damage, while Ashe is more of a burst throwable that only affects people who get hit by the blast, While with Ramattra and Sojourn only damage if people or in the ability.

ah, this was helpful and fun as always niandra

i don't play mercy but i feel like i always learn something new about the support role from your advice tbh. also perfect background music choice my GOD i'm so relaxed

awesome guide! was kinda hoping you'd talk about the usage of the pistol vs dmg boost scenarios, I hope you're considering making a video about that at least

Great video, I especially like the shot of Ana and mercy looking up in the sky as their team burns 😂 Great visual comedy 👌 not something you expect from an OW tips and tricks, but certainly enjoyed :D

Hey there! As a Mercy enthusiast myself I love to watch your content, Niandra! All the time and effort you put into creating your videos really shows. Have a nice day!

Great tips. The biggest things for me were some of the details you just mentiones off hand, like tracking cooldowns and such. There is so much that can go into playing this game that I wouldnt even consider

your videos are always so amazing. clear, concise, well thought out. just absolutely amazing

Thank you for the wonderful videos learning a lot about mercy , keep up the great work!

Your videos are so good. Easy to follow and with lots of great tips! I also love your titles, especially the last two here xD I'd read those self-help books

2:47 "TACTICAL BOTHEALING" LMAOO THATS SOOO GOOOD

i love all the animations and mini heroes in this video !!! they’re so adorable :D

Clicking ALL THE BUTTONS. This needs to be seen more. Thank you for doing the good works.

Such a good video. I really appreciate the depth and tone.

Merry christler🙌🏽🙌🏽 your gameplays and a few others are the reason I've made it from gold 3 (hard stuck HELLLLL) to diamond❗️💖

gorgeous guide! very clear & concise. Thank you ♥

unrelated to the damage boost, mercy's GA is still in its OW1 state in freezethaw elim

Been looking for a guide like this, thanks!

Thanks for this video!! It's extremely helpful ♥

This is such a great resource, thank you for making it!

I've recently picked up mercy again after ignoring her since basically 2018. Mind you, I'm a low level lilly, but i've realised that sometimes it just doesn't matter who you damage boost in lower elo's, sometimes people just won't hit enough things to get 2 or 3k/10min. Like, I've just given up playing the blue beam bot just so I can never hear any damage tick up. Instead, I sometimes simply whip out the glock. 5k dmg with 6-8k healing per 10 min and the complete demoralization of the enemy team usually help more than

this video helps so much! since playing during ow 2, i feel like my overall damage boosted per 10 minutes has been much lower than when i was playing in ow 1. hopefully i can improve my overall mercy gameplay with the info in this video!❤️

im glad you make talking videos, you have a very relaxing voice

It's really risky to suggest target goals for beam usage percentage and damage boost, as Mercy has to adapt to the needs of her team, not try to pad her stats. Kayvan is the highest ranked mercy with 47/53% Boost/Heal with 1500 boost/10. Brattybottom 2nd highest mercy with 63/37 boost/heal and 1800 boost/10. 3rd rank Skesti 64/36 boost/heal with 2k boost/10. So just keep this in mind.

Thank you for this guide, I am learning to be a good enough mercy to go in competitive, and yeah I really do pocket Genji, Pharah, Echo, Cassidy the most and it is great.

I want to talk about the Baptiste Healing example more. I think something that will help players is to actually get to know how much damage characters do. Learning these numbers can really help decision making on whether you should drop to heal or what not. The Baptiste example shows how experienced your beam juggling is and by learning these numbers and the playstyles of each character can really help your decisions as a mercy. Personally for me I am more inclined to heal more against an Ashe because she has abilities that can get past shields and cover and do a lot of damage compared to someone like Mei who does not have (obviously use best judgement but you get the idea).

I can’t even imagine keeping track of my dps cool-downs. But even for a doofus like myself there’s a lot of useful information in this video. Thank you!

This was an extremely helpful video. Thank you!

Thanks for the new video and hope you’ve had a great Christmas :) I think damage boost numbers are very rank dependent and team dependent though. 3k over 10mins is next to impossible in gold or plat, not without completely ignoring the rest of your team. And yes, I understand that you’re supposed to have a second support to focus on the tank, but often that just doesn’t happen and you end up getting flamed for “not healing” (doesn’t help that damage amp isn’t shown on the scoreboard). Your team turns into a toxic mess and you lose. In solo queue unfortunately it is often just better to focus on healing to keep the peace, especially in ranks under diamond. I totally understand that’s not how Mercy is supposed to be played. But with the game now full of TikTok kids everyone seems to go off and do their own thing, how a hero is “supposed” to be played doesn’t seem to mean much at all :(

Love your videos they are so informative and funny as well!!!!

I'm a new player and I loved the video I'm going to put everything into practice. Thank you very much!

This is such a good guide, has so much detail. I can tell just from this you’re a really smart player and think about the game in a really observant way. Thanks

Wow! I just started playing this game 2 days ago and I’m mind blown by the tactical level one can reach with someone like Mercy. I resonate with her and hope to be this seasoned. I picked up bastion as dps, and I like how he’s sort of a mini tank.

Thank you these tips are helpful. Only recently became a mercy main and these help

Happy new year! Love you 🎉

15:50 found a typo! love the editing btw!

Great video. Thanks as always. 🥰

great vid, thanks for sharing!

Merry Christmas Niandra 🎄

I thought i was weird for swapping my primary and secondary beam, nice to know a really good mercy main does it too

Thanks!! This was actually soo helpful !!!! >.

I FUCKING KNEW THE VIDEO GOT UPLOADED THEN DELETED I WASNT GOING INSANE

Phenomenal Video! Really well done. I kinda just wanted to find out the damage percentages and what thresholds damage boost lets characters cross (workshop lets you Nano yourself easily but not mercy boost) but ended up learning a lot about mercy.

Just in time. I decided to learn how to play merci in OW2.

Loves these guides!

Amazing guide!

It would be cool to see clips of you doing some of these techniques in game

Nice video as always. Do you know that moment when you bluebeam a teammate peaking widow basically letting them glow up so everyone sees them? Or friendly widow trying to flank? Or accidently doing that on cloaked sombra running by. So much to look out for. XD

about to send this to every healbot mercy in my ranked games, ty niandra💕

Another very useful video, thanks for the gift :)

I always push damage boost as much as possible with around 2k per 10 mins (as a second support, I try to not force Mercy whenever we do not have another main healer). But in Diamond, I constantly see the enemy team with healbotting Mercy just wins anyway which has always confuses me. Then, I realized that when my teammates can't hit shots, my damage boost goes to waste and it's sometimes better to just healbot simply because of how much people would face tank damage without taking cover, which is honestly surprising that people still do that in Diamond.

Merry Christmas Niandra!

A specific boost goal can be tricky since sometimes it’s not only up to you to achieve it. If your dps don’t know what to do and stand in the wild open it’s not a good idea to dmg boost because a dead dps does even less dps

excellent in-depth guide on how to damage boost as mercy! i greatly appreciate it. one of my favorite things to do right now is to do the backwards ga that you mentioned, it is super useful and fun to use ♡

ty for the tip!

merry christmas and happy upload day!

Someone probably already said this, but if you rebind dmg and healing and don't want to deal with using your secondary to fire your blaster when needed, you can ALSO rebind your blaster to be secondary fire only (it's under blaster input, i think) or you can even go the extra mile and have it be both (this is what i do :])

can u do a quick guide how to do the jump + rez, i used to know how to do it in ow1 but here... not really. Really good video, happy holidays!

thank you fellow mercy main!!

I try to use damage boost as much as possible when my team is at full health I switch to damage boost, There is a small little trailer for each hero to learn there skit for Mercy it’s her Gun,Healing Beam,Damage boost beam & Glide also known as garden angle, If you go to hero galley and than “Hero information” on your right side of your screen, If you click on it it’ll say Staff= (Whatever your button is for her healing and damage boost), Under that is her gun (Whatever button you have for her) and so on, Mercy has two passives, If you heal Allies you’ll heal along side them as all same when not healing them as long as you don’t take damage you’ll heal all by yourself but grab a health pack just in case when your near one, The higher your skill is the more difficult it gets, Try to go back and forth between damage boost and healing as much as you can because damage boost give’s your allies a lot of damage, Especially Ashe,Bob, Moria, Just anyone that has the most amount of damage to give (At lest that’s how I’ve been doing it) For the Rez though, You can do some crazy rezes but be careful because you’ll have a half a minute/30 seconds to get your next Rez, Try to stay alive as much as possible and keep your team alive while also moving/stopping the point/payload when/No one is there on your team to stop/move the point, In short form Damage boost does around 30% to your damage boost as in it gives people a 30% more damage to get rid of the enemy team it’s just as useful as healing

i did what you said and it's really helpful it's just a lot of people started calling me a troller and reported me but thanks for the helpful tips :D

Ty!

Thanks so much. I will become an even better mercy now!

Great video

this channel inspired me to become a Mercy main

I UNDERTSAND HTE POINT BUT ATLEATS MY DPS HAS TO DO DMG TO DMG BOOST LOL

The little Skiesti egg?? I'm CRYING she's so cute... 🥺

Niandra merry Christmas hope your holidays were good!! 😊 I Have a question about healing that might sound a little stupid what is your rule of thumb with healing do I heal ally’s above half than switch to damage and such or should do couple 100 healing then switch back to damage boost. I’m just not sure could you help?

My guess as for why the damage boost applies differently to the new heroes is a bit of spaghetti code. They probably heavily reused sojourn's snare as a basis for building Ram's snare. Might have been an oversight with sojourn originally, that ended up translating over to Ram in the rush to get the hero out.

this cracked me up 😭 16:13

i have autism related slow reaction time, and because of it i often accidentally let allies die because i cant switch to healing fast enough, thats why i often switch to heal even when they are generally above half health or if they are on max but in a position where someone can easily 2 shot them just to make sure i dont let them die on accident for example when im behind a wall but my pocket target is out and about and is fighting with a sniper like ashe or widowmaker i often hold down healing instead of dmg as default and only switch to dmg when they arent being directly fired so to not let them immediately die because i couldnt react in time

I'll probably start playing mercy I've been meaning to get out of bronze as support as it makes me feel sad and I like being not sad and this guide has been pretty helpful

Quick dmg boost tip,, if the enemy has a tracer nearby, then pocket a dps like junkrat or hanzo to let them 1shot the tracer

I loved the part where genji said “THE GREED BECOMES ME” truly an overwatch 2 moment.

Something I like to do is to boost injured allies and heal them while they’re reloading if there’s nothing more pertinent. It helps with confidence boosting injured allies and stops them from complaining so much

Ily thank you ❤🥰

From what I’ve played lower ranks u just gotta hope ur dps can hit shots

for me whats so frustrating is that in plat, the enemy mercy will always healbot and pocket the tank meanwhile im dmg boosting dps and letting the second support (unless its zen lucio or brig) help the tank. and the second we start losing the team always blames me saying im not healing enough or that i should do what the enemy mercy is doing. even though i peel for my teammates and i help anas/kirikos/etc when theyre being dived. i just dont know what to do especially because no one ever kills the mercy on the enemy team and wonders why their tank isnt dying

As a dps main, thank you, you're doing the lord's work 😂

2000-3000 dmg boost per 10 minutes... I maintain a pretty consistent 1k per minute overall output on Mercy. If output is happening at all times during that minute, then every minute you'd only need to dmg boost for 2 seconds (and have the player you're damage boosting use it) to meet that goal. In a 10 minute match, I find it usually comes out a little closer to dmg boosting for around 2 minutes straight and then healing the rest of the time.

The problem with having a mark for amplified damage is sometimes ur tank is taking so much damage all the time you can’t stop healing and in low ranks that’s all i experienced. The tank never backs up

I don' t know if this works for everyone, but when I have an Ana or a Bap, I only heal tanks when they go crit and unless I am pocketing a DPS, I will do the same with them. When it comes to my sups, I always try to keep them healed if I can and will pocket them if they start to take too much pressure. If I have someone who has more limited heals such as Lucio or Moira then I will heal a lot more. Especially if I see my team outranging the Lucio or if I see Moira bottoming out a lot. When it comes to Brig, Zen, Tiktok Moiras and Reddit Lucios, then I gauge by their position or the teams to see if I need to step up to do a bit more on the heals front. You can still do main heals on Mercy if needed, but it is definitely a major struggle and will cut into your damage boosting. Please note that I am a lower ranked player so I expect I will have to adjust my playstyle significantly as I climb.

I litterally only heal if someone is critical health. Unless I'm the only support in for that moment, a couple examples would be, if our ana dies or loses Los or even if I notice ana can't heal someone because of a shield. Also, if the fight ends I'm usually checking score board and see my other support having ult, I try to steal the heals then so at least someone gets ult charge from the heals

Lov the vidd. In a hypotheticly scenario, i deal more dam with pistol than dam boost. I should dam boost? Well ik it's faster to switch to heal, more ult for both,. Just a curious question. I wish if we dam boost the ability before it's thrown then it will dam boost the rest not being beam 100% but if i do after then i have to hold my beam the whole duration for all the character.

I always find that the person I damage boost tends to immediately play worse than all other players on the field as soon as I boost them 😂 My key concern is always "My other support isn't healing as well as I am so I have to do it myself" and that is such a difficult mindset to get out of... This video has been fantastic, I'm glad it was recommended!

do you do coaching\vods reviews?

I think an important question is: at what ranks can I trust my team and my other support to cover for the healing I'm not doing by damageboosting? I definitely feel like that "choice" to stick with boosting is a lot riskier in lower elo.

i feel like alot of mercy's and i mean a lot need to watch this

I think when people start learning how to play mercy for overwatch 2 she is going to end up being the best support in the game

mom get the camera im in the video, also merry Christmas gamer

Mercy is def my worst support since I play really aggressively but these vids are super helpful

Niandra, I've never seen a clip of you playing as pink mercy, and idk if you stream, if you do i also never watched it lol, but i was wondering, do you have this skin?

You actually can get ult charge from damage boosting bob unless it was changes very recently