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Hanzo mains are way more hated than Mercy. Come on now. I wouldn't even put Mercy in the top 3.
Oh yeah this is the worst.
Unless you're Lucio at that moment, and you're bad so you're in bad lobbies and they all got revived by a cliff and you Soundblast them off
Then it's the highlight of your whole game time.
I'm not good at overwatch. My aim is horrible, but I save people's asses as mercy. Holla.
I feel....rage flowing through me.I hate her because oh man we just wiped out the whole team, the objective is ou-
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😢Genji mains get a LOT of hate.
Pretty sure the mercy hate is mostly just a meme but that won't stop people from writing dissertations about it on medium dot com
This is true, a bad Hanzo gets hate for being useless or if you're like my best friend who is REALLY good at Hanzo, you STILL get hate and people call you a cheater. Hanzo gets hate no matter what.
Yep. Rez in a FPS game is really bad design and making hers so effective breaks the game in many ways. A team getting outplayed shouldn't be rewarded if one character was able to hide effectively. It then forces the other team to play the same game since there's one character that can negate an entire team fight with Rez. So then you have each team with mandatory Mercy trading rezzes.
I had a Mercy player get mad at me for becoming a healer in Quickplay. She said (yes it was a girl) that she was the only healer they needed. I relented and switched to D.Va as she requested.The competitive Overwatch scene is just the worst. You never hear this shit in quickplay.
People hate 1 trick Mercy's who hide and wait for the huge rez, instead of doing a 1 or 2 person rez that can turn a fight.
I had a Mercy player get mad at me for becoming a healer in Quickplay. She said (yes it was a girl) that she was the only healer they needed. I relented and switched to D.Va as she requested.
We lost the match. She blamed me for being Lucio first.
Nope it wasn't either of those two levels! She had vocal support from this random guy (they weren't in a group) though and it was too early to begin a discussion so I switched after she got more annoyed. Maybe she was trying to see if she can do it? I don't know.Man, unless y'all were on defense on like, the first objective on Kings Row or Anubis then there should be no reason someone should feel comfortable solo healing.
not only that, but nerds that climb with her have 0 mechanical skill on other heroes so if you get 2 mercy "mains" on your team, you're essentially fucked.
https://youtu.be/WOCv9rbISsY
This reminds me of the video above. The problem is that nearly 2/3 of heroes are DPS and there are only four healer with 5/6 tanks. I hope Blizzard will fix it but I seriously doubt they can. They created Sombra and Orissa to try to change Reinhardt as a must pick, and they failed.
Most of the dislike towards Mercy I've seen is because she's boring to play with no interesting mechanics. She doesn't require any special skills beyond what everyone else uses to track and determine spacing.
Ana is a step in the right direction.
Yeah, this is a problem with role based games where one or two roles get shafted in favour of DPS because DPS always get the most fun stuff.
I don't think I've ever played a role based game where there were more tanks or healers than DPS.
Most comp games there are people trying to force other people to play tank or healer because they don't want to play with a tiny pool of heroes.
I used to play healer a lot but I realized how they created this role that they expect people to fill yet they only give you a small number of tools to use compared to DPS and you're supposed to be fine with that.
The best way to solve this problem of forcing people to perform vital team functions with less options that aren't as fun as the others is to eliminate roles and make things flexible so everyone can chip in.
As a random example, Monster Hunter does a great job of letting you bring whatever you want to the hunt but allowing everyone to perform support functions as they are able to/desire.
Everyone always blames the healer. It's a thankless job.
I do not agree, mercy requires fair skill to keep safe, heal the right people without being attacked yourself and her res can change the flow of combat, she's just as skill based as soldier is.
I never saw anyone hating mercy. Quite the contrary. She's probably the best healer in the game. Whenever i'm playing, people feel relief when someone plays her.
Of course, she's not as useful in other areas as the other support chars, though. You have to balance according with your team, but usually a mercy os good.
Grrrrr.....Pharmercy....Ya'll saying she's not that good must not have been stomped by a Pharamercy duo lately.
Pocket Mercy is probably top 5 material but I still say Widow/Hanzo are the salt Queen and King, followed by Hog. Mercy is in the same tier as Torb/Symmetra at best.
Unfortunately this right here is the correct answer, not misogyny, stigma, etc.
Most people playing DPS roles simply don't have the ability to self-reflect and realise when they simply don't have the mechanical skills to fulfil that role and give it to someone else more capable. So their easiest target becomes the healer. That's how it has been in most games with any sort of role select and it is truly sad. Playing a healer is truly a thankless job.
Everyone always blames the healer. It's a thankless job.
The hate for Mercy is when you get Mercy one tricks in comp who aren't good at any other characters. Overwatch is a game about adapting your team composition to fit the map/enemy team, and Mercy isn't always the right choice. It has nothing to do with her being a female healer, otherwise you would see similar complaints about Ana.