Man I tell myself I know everything about Mercy after playing with her for 6 years and getting to GM, but you always find some tip or trick that I didn’t previously know. Thanks for the advice! Go slay, Mercy queens ❤
Yessss and Mercy parkour not only helps with ga usage but if you pay attention there’s usually some pretty interesting positioning spots and flight paths u can actually use in game, i used to play one on gebralter and my positioning on that map went from horrid to the enemies cant find me at any given moment😂
The white bubble that you showed early in the video to demonstrate visualizing 15 meters was brilliant. That helped me a lot. Another great video, thanks as always Niandra :D
Omg thank you for the low sens advice! I appreciate such a thoughtful community and company for people who have big mousepads and controllers, can't wait to get fuc-
I hate the cognitive dissonance of "omg I really want/need to Valk to save this teammate" and "if I Valk this teammate will almost certainly die because of beam detachment so I need to not Valk". It just always feels bad, and I hope they some day fix the beam disconnect component.
2:38 This got a good laugh out of me! I really like the way you bring personality to your guides. It's great to have a laugh in between consuming the information. Information which was helpful btw! Thank you!
Yup, muscle memory is definitely my main ennemy.. But I'm doing better since I'm getting used to the changes. I'd still say I miss the old GA cooldown anyway
I have a bit of a pet peeve. It's so crucial to "familiarize yourself with max beam length" but I keep saying Blizzard should just add an indicator or animation for when your beam is breaking. I genuinely think it would be the biggest QoL change next to diff sensitivity for mercy gun. But whenever I mention it, it's always met with dismissal "it's unnecessary when you get good at mercy and familiarize yourself with max beam length". It's so annoying like it literally doesn't harm you and it helps with learning so why is everyone so against it
i wouldn't be opposed to it as long as it was a toggle-able setting. some people like myself don't need more stuff going on screen that isnt necessary. realistically you will just get used to her range. do you think people who play lucio pay attention to his support radius? no, they don't the only UI element that i can think of that is sorely lacking in the game at the moment is Brig's Inspire.
When it comes to sympathetic recovery I think it's great outside of valk, but in valk I usually find that'd I would have liked to have her constant regen. I guess that's not so bad though since valk is considerably stronger given the healing buff
I'm definitely getting better and better. I'm still only a bronze player but I've pushed my winning percentage to 51 precent. I can only go up! Thank you ☺️
Yesterday I was able to keep my team alive throughout a whole BOB and a Dynamite! I’ve been adapting quite successfully to the changes but the GA nerf is still pretty annoying. Loved the video!
this is super useful information, i found that before the changes i did quite well with mercy. but i've definitely dropped since then so hopefully over time i will be able to adapt and get back to where i once was. since the changes ive been a little discouraged to play as mercy with the thoughts that maybe i'm really just bad with the character but i did solo queue myself up to plat before so maybe i'll be able to use these tips and maybe itll help me. thank you so much for this.
I hit diamond (3200) with mercy mostly soloqing in ow1, and reached masters 4 in ow2 before the changes, but bc of my playstyle the changes made me have to back off and basically relearn the hero, i cant be as aggressive as i was before and it’s miserable🥲
@@pinkcheetah7777 tbh yeah i feel this. i dropped in rank because i was struggling at first. i am slowly adjusting and working my way back up again but it really does suck honestly lol.
This incredible helpful information, I'm a Baptiste player who's looking to genuinely expand my ability across the support role I enjoy so much. this information is probably going to be the difference between me weighing down my time and actually contributing something as I slowly start to understand the characters.
Not gonna like, learning to master the new microtechniques to optimize Guardian Angel is something I've been enjoying... I'd still like the cooldowm to be shorter, but I never realized just how much brainless GA I've been doing before.
as a console mercy main, best thing i can say is begin to get used to high sensitivity. Those quick flicks to GA elsewhere or just to look where your allies are is very helpful!
Question about 7:36 - if I linger post Valk on a tank and it does the lower hps and I stay on it and suddenly the tank starts taking critical damage I could in theory continue extending the Valk boost with the critical bonus as well?? And gain that much more ult charge? That actually may have some practical purpose of being more deliberate about starting Valk early to maximize this.
Your tips are so helpful. Omg. Top 500/GM on console and every single one of these tips is perfect. Thank you so much. These videos will help the other Mercy Bees succeed so I can play Kiriko more >:D
I recently found this channel since I started to learn Mercy and I honestly really like the content. Also I love that your voice/pattern of speech isn't Skiesti, I can't watch that channel cause her voice sounds like what I imagine getting stabbed in the ears feel like
Wait, 2CP maps are still accessible in the game? That's nice. Lot of good design work on those old maps, lot of early OW personality. Did my heart good both to see Hanamura again, and to see it used just to illustrate points and not actually play a match on 😅
What I’ve started doing when i have a reliable dps to pocket (usually a soldier) i’ll stick with them and only heal till their above crit, I’ll dmg boost the whole rest of the time, usually ends up with some insane amt of dmg amped by the end, kind of a thrilling way to play tbh
1) Use your allies as a medkit. 2) Use your allies as a shield. 3) This Genji will die soon anyway. Yes, he needs healing, but do I care? 4) Use bugs. 5) Duel enemy Mercy if possib... if they're exposed. Now I like this new Mercy much more!
I’m a pretty aggressive mercy player and I gotta say I agree with you. What I’ve been doing recently is pocketing an aggressive/flank dps and hard dmg boost them while we’re front line/in their back line, it’s a little more fun than sitting in a corner watching ur team die bc ur healing output just cant keep up with ur feeding tank
I don't think this pushes her to healbot, though, since the critical health healing boost pushes you to take more risks with damage boost. I think it will be a lot more common for lower ranked Mercy mains to blue beam a lot more now.
Tank Mercy incoming with that tip at the end!🤣 As an OW1 Tank main who now mostly plays support I do that a lot with other heroes like Kiriko, Moira and Ana, use the tank and other teammates as a shield and their health pool as a resource to manage. Very difficult at times to control the shield placement though🤣
Wait. You don't use allies as shields? I do that all the time in the lower ranks. Especially my tanks. I can easily heal them back up and it's not like they were gonna peel for me anyway. Then again, I also use myself to shield my Cassidy and Pharah during ult. Taking that headshot as a body shot goes a long way.
Im a new mercy player on console(unfortunately) and i was wondering when there is only 1 teamate alive and me versus multiple enemy should i just fall back to the rest of my team? And leave them im confused
Best scenario is you escape with your life intact but that is not always possible so if it isn’t possible to disengage and make it back to your team, die as fast as possible. Jumping off the map is preferable since you won’t give ult charge to the enemy team but if you don’t have a ledge then die to the enemy team as fast as possible to avoid staggering. Talking about staggering, when it is just you and another person and you can’t get out of the fight DO NOT HEAL THEM. Healing them will give the enemy team more ult charge than what they would’ve gotten if you didn’t heal them
I'll be honest, I just don't feel like playing mercy anymore. She's been my main since day one in overwatch 1, so I'm used to adapting to her changes. This time around tho, I'm just not in the right mental state to work around what used to make her fun to me. Thank you for the video tho, I'll keep it in mind in the event I come back to my favorite hero.
there is a tip I can give that may or may not help, I played ana more but played mercy on her new hotfix, and it is still possible to get at least close to 2k damage boost, now for the tip; when pocketing a teammate, it's important to have some cover and be aware of flankers, and with ga nerfed, use it as if it was moira's fade a tool to avoid danger , your use of ga will affect your survivability, use it if you're getting flanked, to get high ground, pocket another ally or for cover
Using ur teammates body as a shield YES always do that… too many people as soon as they see mercy on enemy side just tunnel vision her and 1v1 while ignoring the enemy she is pocketing… it happens *wayyy* too much.
2:38 As someone who plays on a controller I felt that
i use a controller and im disabled so just double whammy
It was so funny😭
Legit
U can still do it but it'll have to be very fast
Honestly I played controller until ow went free to play and now I just play on pc bc it’s easier imo, mercy on console feels so bad😂
Man I tell myself I know everything about Mercy after playing with her for 6 years and getting to GM, but you always find some tip or trick that I didn’t previously know. Thanks for the advice! Go slay, Mercy queens ❤
well it helps that they've changed her like 50 times xD
2:40 This has kinda been blizzards advice since I started playing wow back in 2004 tbh
2:39 I'm a mnk pc player but this still had me on the floor...
I recommend Mercy's Parkour maps to practice GA, they're like a big compilation of all of her tricks and i learned so much with those !
Can you give me some codes for ones you reccomend I'm having trouble learning how to forwards and backwards bunny hop :c
@@chrisea XCTNA probably my favorite and made for those who wants to learn because it has a good tutorial. Hope you will enjoy it :)
Yessss and Mercy parkour not only helps with ga usage but if you pay attention there’s usually some pretty interesting positioning spots and flight paths u can actually use in game, i used to play one on gebralter and my positioning on that map went from horrid to the enemies cant find me at any given moment😂
That console Mercy advice. Spot on. Haha.
The white bubble that you showed early in the video to demonstrate visualizing 15 meters was brilliant. That helped me a lot. Another great video, thanks as always Niandra :D
Omg thank you for the low sens advice! I appreciate such a thoughtful community and company for people who have big mousepads and controllers, can't wait to get fuc-
I hate the cognitive dissonance of "omg I really want/need to Valk to save this teammate" and "if I Valk this teammate will almost certainly die because of beam detachment so I need to not Valk". It just always feels bad, and I hope they some day fix the beam disconnect component.
2:38 Ohhh felt that one.
2:38 This got a good laugh out of me! I really like the way you bring personality to your guides. It's great to have a laugh in between consuming the information. Information which was helpful btw! Thank you!
The meat shield tip has me rolling 😂. Never would I have thought that blizzard would make me WANT my allies to get hurt.
Same! Especially since your co-support is likely just gonna top them off anyway. Blizz doesn’t really know what they’re doing with mercy.
Yup, muscle memory is definitely my main ennemy.. But I'm doing better since I'm getting used to the changes. I'd still say I miss the old GA cooldown anyway
I have a bit of a pet peeve. It's so crucial to "familiarize yourself with max beam length" but I keep saying Blizzard should just add an indicator or animation for when your beam is breaking. I genuinely think it would be the biggest QoL change next to diff sensitivity for mercy gun.
But whenever I mention it, it's always met with dismissal "it's unnecessary when you get good at mercy and familiarize yourself with max beam length". It's so annoying like it literally doesn't harm you and it helps with learning so why is everyone so against it
It would be a good option for new Mercy players to help them get a feel for the distance etc.
i wouldn't be opposed to it as long as it was a toggle-able setting. some people like myself don't need more stuff going on screen that isnt necessary. realistically you will just get used to her range. do you think people who play lucio pay attention to his support radius? no, they don't
the only UI element that i can think of that is sorely lacking in the game at the moment is Brig's Inspire.
Thanks for talking about the Valk bug
i hope it doesn't get patched now!!
When it comes to sympathetic recovery I think it's great outside of valk, but in valk I usually find that'd I would have liked to have her constant regen. I guess that's not so bad though since valk is considerably stronger given the healing buff
I'm definitely getting better and better. I'm still only a bronze player but I've pushed my winning percentage to 51 precent. I can only go up! Thank you ☺️
Good luck! Remember to dmg boost as much as possible, blue beam blue beam blue beam!! I believe in you!
serving as usual niandra 🙏
Yesterday I was able to keep my team alive throughout a whole BOB and a Dynamite!
I’ve been adapting quite successfully to the changes but the GA nerf is still pretty annoying. Loved the video!
And it's the return of the Eggs! Great video, and I can certainly see a use for forcing my team to body block XD
Honestly the production on these videos is so good. Thanks for these!
this is super useful information, i found that before the changes i did quite well with mercy. but i've definitely dropped since then so hopefully over time i will be able to adapt and get back to where i once was. since the changes ive been a little discouraged to play as mercy with the thoughts that maybe i'm really just bad with the character but i did solo queue myself up to plat before so maybe i'll be able to use these tips and maybe itll help me. thank you so much for this.
I hit diamond (3200) with mercy mostly soloqing in ow1, and reached masters 4 in ow2 before the changes, but bc of my playstyle the changes made me have to back off and basically relearn the hero, i cant be as aggressive as i was before and it’s miserable🥲
@@pinkcheetah7777 tbh yeah i feel this. i dropped in rank because i was struggling at first. i am slowly adjusting and working my way back up again but it really does suck honestly lol.
Thanks for making this helpful informative video!!
one of the best mercy content creators there is
get f*ked!! 2:38. I almost choked on my bfast! XD LMAO
This incredible helpful information, I'm a Baptiste player who's looking to genuinely expand my ability across the support role I enjoy so much. this information is probably going to be the difference between me weighing down my time and actually contributing something as I slowly start to understand the characters.
Not gonna like, learning to master the new microtechniques to optimize Guardian Angel is something I've been enjoying... I'd still like the cooldowm to be shorter, but I never realized just how much brainless GA I've been doing before.
Niandra you are so casually funny it’s insane😭😭 when they were talking about backwards ga in console I nearly spit out my water😭😭😭
Always down to use my teammates as a meat shield 👍🏼
Omg the "Get F'ed" comment killed me XD amazing work
Me, who's been using teammates as meat shields for years when it provided absolutely no healing for me at all 👀
I decided to give up Overwatch because it was draining my mental health, but I still love watching content creators of it, and especially your videos.
this was the thoroughness i needed - thank you, niandra !
I had a dream last night where Valk was buffed to not have beam breakage upon use and my GOD it felt so much better and less clunky!
As usual, stellar tips, fam! 👼👌
Love the Mercy console tips! 🤣
"My advice to you would be the same as Blizzard's which is 'get fked'." 😂
Babe wake up, new mercy playstyle standard just dropped ✨️
Always a pleasure to see your content :) thank you Niandra
as a console mercy main, best thing i can say is begin to get used to high sensitivity. Those quick flicks to GA elsewhere or just to look where your allies are is very helpful!
Question about 7:36 - if I linger post Valk on a tank and it does the lower hps and I stay on it and suddenly the tank starts taking critical damage I could in theory continue extending the Valk boost with the critical bonus as well?? And gain that much more ult charge? That actually may have some practical purpose of being more deliberate about starting Valk early to maximize this.
Your tips are so helpful. Omg. Top 500/GM on console and every single one of these tips is perfect.
Thank you so much. These videos will help the other Mercy Bees succeed so I can play Kiriko more >:D
I recently found this channel since I started to learn Mercy and I honestly really like the content.
Also I love that your voice/pattern of speech isn't Skiesti, I can't watch that channel cause her voice sounds like what I imagine getting stabbed in the ears feel like
very unnecessary and rude thing to say.
the lil widow and her watch animation 😌😌😌
Wait, 2CP maps are still accessible in the game? That's nice. Lot of good design work on those old maps, lot of early OW personality. Did my heart good both to see Hanamura again, and to see it used just to illustrate points and not actually play a match on 😅
Had no idea about the valk bug, that’s kinda huge to use on tanks
Just about to get back from my 3 week vaca sooo this was much needed!!
thx for the tips (especially the commentary on common pit falls) as always.
Fantastic video, just what I needed at this stage in my recent adoption of Mercy!
This video is so well made - thank you so much! ♥
2:49 PSA! Do not use this tip when playing against ZBRA!
On god the fact that valk still breaks beam in my 2023
Played mercy last night, pocketed a bastion got nearly 7000dmg boosted. felt good.
What I’ve started doing when i have a reliable dps to pocket (usually a soldier) i’ll stick with them and only heal till their above crit, I’ll dmg boost the whole rest of the time, usually ends up with some insane amt of dmg amped by the end, kind of a thrilling way to play tbh
I love that last tip😆👌🏻
i hate all of these, thank you
@@NiandraLMFAO-
@@Niandrathis is why ur my fav ow content creator 💀😭
I never want to adapt to her, I want Blizzard to add her old GA back.
9:40 I didn't miss the dps player cockiness in the chat lmao
Nice video as always!
the backwards GA nerf is seriously just a console nerf at this point...
Nice. I would call myself a player that is experienced at being new to Mercy.
So thanks a lot for the tips.
😁
6:55 i think melee in before or adter animation can cancle it (idk with one
1) Use your allies as a medkit.
2) Use your allies as a shield.
3) This Genji will die soon anyway. Yes, he needs healing, but do I care?
4) Use bugs.
5) Duel enemy Mercy if possib... if they're exposed.
Now I like this new Mercy much more!
Uuuhhhh… n… no… not entirely what they said😭😭
@@-NoNo. close enough 😂
Wow. Thats a lot to remember
As a console player. You right with what blizz says
ngl im having hard time having fun with mercy after the GA nerfs
I’m a pretty aggressive mercy player and I gotta say I agree with you. What I’ve been doing recently is pocketing an aggressive/flank dps and hard dmg boost them while we’re front line/in their back line, it’s a little more fun than sitting in a corner watching ur team die bc ur healing output just cant keep up with ur feeding tank
2:40 thanks blizzard 🫡 they really hit us with the: “We don’t see anything wrong with mercy, her stats are fine!”
Loved the tips! Hope I can remember them all in game too 😅
I really wish you wouldn't call Mercy (or the other supports) a healer though.
Person: Niandra, I'm on console and that doesn't work for me
Niandra: my advice to you is the same as blizzard which is get f-
I still just don't understand why they would nerf her mobility and nudge her towards a more "heal bot" playstyle tbh
I don't think this pushes her to healbot, though, since the critical health healing boost pushes you to take more risks with damage boost. I think it will be a lot more common for lower ranked Mercy mains to blue beam a lot more now.
2:48 absolutely sENT ME OMFG
oh i didn't know mercy had that sympathetic healing passive now lol
Man the GA nerf isn't game breaking. It's just super fucking annoying lol
Tank Mercy incoming with that tip at the end!🤣 As an OW1 Tank main who now mostly plays support I do that a lot with other heroes like Kiriko, Moira and Ana, use the tank and other teammates as a shield and their health pool as a resource to manage. Very difficult at times to control the shield placement though🤣
Wait. You don't use allies as shields? I do that all the time in the lower ranks. Especially my tanks. I can easily heal them back up and it's not like they were gonna peel for me anyway. Then again, I also use myself to shield my Cassidy and Pharah during ult. Taking that headshot as a body shot goes a long way.
0:32 "...I would probably G A to Hanzo..." Do what now?
Oh Guardian angel NVM
2:38 I CANT BREATHE
Now that I think about it, kind of a sick joke that we got a mercy bee skin for the same update they ruined her mobility.
Im still not able to get comfortable with out the 20hp/s self heal during valkery
Im a new mercy player on console(unfortunately) and i was wondering when there is only 1 teamate alive and me versus multiple enemy should i just fall back to the rest of my team? And leave them im confused
Best scenario is you escape with your life intact but that is not always possible so if it isn’t possible to disengage and make it back to your team, die as fast as possible. Jumping off the map is preferable since you won’t give ult charge to the enemy team but if you don’t have a ledge then die to the enemy team as fast as possible to avoid staggering. Talking about staggering, when it is just you and another person and you can’t get out of the fight DO NOT HEAL THEM. Healing them will give the enemy team more ult charge than what they would’ve gotten if you didn’t heal them
@@-NoNo. thank you! That helps alot
I'll be honest, I just don't feel like playing mercy anymore. She's been my main since day one in overwatch 1, so I'm used to adapting to her changes. This time around tho, I'm just not in the right mental state to work around what used to make her fun to me. Thank you for the video tho, I'll keep it in mind in the event I come back to my favorite hero.
thank you
amazing video
Given that last strat blizzard should rename sympathetic recovery to sadistic recovery
love u niandra!
Lol I've been using the meat shield method too it's very effective with tanks😂
there is a tip I can give that may or may not help, I played ana more but played mercy on her new hotfix, and it is still possible to get at least close to 2k damage boost, now for the tip; when pocketing a teammate, it's important to have some cover and be aware of flankers, and with ga nerfed, use it as if it was moira's fade a tool to avoid danger , your use of ga will affect your survivability, use it if you're getting flanked, to get high ground, pocket another ally or for cover
so we got bee mercy and that was great but now we need niandra mercy skin
Scream 2:46 😭
Remember, toxic dps players are still good shields
I have alot of hours on mercy and still manage to accidentally forward ga into the enemy team instead of cancelling😂
I was waiting for advice for the console players but u just 😭
2:37
Don’t need to learn how to play new Mercy if you’re like me and quit OW months ago uwu. Still love your videos tho!
It would be nice if damage boost also triggered her passive!
Non mercy players: You can’t just spam GA anymore get gud
This: 2:39 LMAO
I think the ga nerfs have only left room for improvement from us mercy players
It’s Christmas!
ga "nerfed"
the .5 extra seconds of cool down in question
hiiiiiii, say hi back???
hewwo!!
tip #1 save the bees
tip #2 🐝 yourself
GA still catches me out
Using ur teammates body as a shield YES always do that… too many people as soon as they see mercy on enemy side just tunnel vision her and 1v1 while ignoring the enemy she is pocketing… it happens *wayyy* too much.