Climbing To Grandmaster With Mercy In Overwatch 2 And What I Learned
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- In this video, I talk about the unranked to Grandmaster process while onetricking Mercy in Overwatch 2, with a slight focus on the less glamourous and negative side that comes from that! Here you'll find a few Mercy tips, along with general observations and thoughts.
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Don't forget the famous "After X looses, do something else to refresh your brain". I found that really helpful tbh :)
yes. I switch heroes, roles, or play different mode or just stop for a while, go to the shower and relax. Works great.
Nah I grind till I drop or satisfied B)
try days.... of teammates having no brain.. im d y i n g
Yeeep. I began using more attacker than using support and well, it feels nice. Though usually I play it since... some dps are just dog water (and that says something because I literally can NOT aim). But yeah, it is easier on you when you get a change of pace.
3:30 I had an Ana today tilt super quickly and I was being SO positive to counteract it and we barely squeaked out a win. I genuinely think just being a mediator won us that game because I could visibly see our tank and one of our dps start making bad decisions as Ana kept complaining
I feel I'm getting in this situation where I get tilted quickly these days, even if I restrained myself and say things like "please die less" or "don't be too reckless" because I simply can't keep alive players who depend on healbots to survive. Can you shed some light into this positivity you have?
@@X1erra I sometimes just say " I can't heal you in dangerous position, sorry" and heal or boost somebody else. If they tilt, I'll block. I think as a support I shoud let my teammates learn from their mistakes on their own, not enabling their mistakes and dying in the process. If they don't use cover they'll die. All of "do this" or abstact "don't be reckless" things can be tilting for your teammates. You can say something like "I like how aggressive you are but please don't run from my healing". It is not about good or bad for me, but effectiveness. Nobody's gonna listen demands from some random dude.
Also, playing dps myself got me some perspective on the thinking process of the dps and helped me to understand what they need from me as a support.
I still bronze-silver tho, but most of the time I'm having fun playing this game, even sometimes despite broken matchmaking)
@@X1erra idk why I didn’t get a notification for this
I just don’t let myself tilt. I constantly remind myself that I’m not playing with pros. I cannot expect them to play like pros. I also can’t expect myself to play like a pro. If someone dies, saying “stop dying so much” isn’t helpful. Look at them and figure out *why* they’re dying so much. Are they doing something stupid over and over? Or is it that you or the other support aren’t actually helping them like you could? Is the other support not helping the tank like they’re supposed to? If I find myself healing more than the other support, especially one that is supposed to heal a lot, maybe you should focus more on helping your tank. Mercy’s new healing lets her take over the main healing role for the first time in years.
Or maybe the other support is getting wrecked and you need to sit back with them more. Generally people want to win and they will try to. If you go in expecting the worst of them, it will absolutely be a self fulfilling prophecy.
Also what exactly is it that’s tilting you? Is it toxicity in chat? Just mute that person at the *first* sign of trouble. That includes people trying to tell you how to play your own character. Do not let people bully you into making bad decisions. Trust that you know what you’re doing better than a DPS or tank player with less than an hour on Mercy. If they’re demanding a rez that you know isn’t going to work, don’t do it.
Also PLEASE learn another hero. There are other mercy onetricks and if you can’t pick her, but you can only play her, you’re soft throwing by not being able to play anything else. Also just knowing when to get off Mercy is valuable. I’ve had so many games where I swap from Mercy to anyone else and the game immediately turns around. Zen and Lucio are super helpful to learn. I don’t really love playing either of them but sometimes you just need them. I had a game a few days ago where we were getting run over by a Kiriko/Lucio/Rein comp and until we mirrored it (me on Lucio), nothing was going right. We even won that game by mirroring despite me not being great at Lucio lol
Zen is really helpful to deal with tanks. If there’s just a tank that’s winning every fight against your own, go zen and discord them and they’ll struggle just by you existing and keeping discord on them
@@alatielinara 2 months late, but great advice. Thank you.
@@alatielinaradude this advice is massive. i feel like "I love that you're so aggressive" is an important way to start any request for help because you're acknowledging they're trying to do something right. they should be aggressive! aggressive playing is good! so I think it's a really impactful way of showing your feedback is in good faith and you're not trying to flame them.
I have consistently good results when I tell tank players "I love how aggressive you are, I just need X" because X is something specific and actionable and it isn't calling their whole game into question.
specific, actionable communication is underrated but it's so important. the people who say "heal me" even when they are being perfectly nice drive me insane. who is "me"? where are you? are you even talking to me or are you talking to the other support?
a dps friend of mine started saying "I need healing behind you" and it was a game changer lol it's such a tiny thing but he's helping me help him, and I think that's a huge part of being on a team, helping your team help you. it's a huge part of communication in general too lol
so I don't care what rank you're in, your communication skills are God tier and I'm proud of you and I stan
I lost the count about how many times i resurrected an ally while seeing another die
well, certain cases like rezzing a reaper cause has ult, and can win a team fight, might not be bad letting a teammate die for that.
fr. Recently ive been so frustrated with this bc i rez a dps, i look back, and MY TANK IS DEAD. They’re always at max when i look at them before the rez wtf 🙃
@@kyu6594 I feel this and it makes me kinda mad, I ALWAYS ping my rez so my team knows that I am and where I am to protect me or to play a bit safer cuz they're temp down a support... But they never do, maybe my expectations are too high.
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one getting into these long losing streaks and really experiencing a drop in motivation
What your videos taught me the most for now is to respect another support and let them heal. I think it is a bronze habit - trying to heal everyone to the maximum, but I am now trying to remember to leave some heal for other supports and just trusting them with it and not flying across the map just to heal what they could. I see how my understanding of the game and play changes due to that, slowly, but there's progression.
Also your videos is always so inspiring to just play and enjoy it
That solo kill on the Hanzo on King's Row was pretty god damn awesome. 6:37
This is the most honest and humbling Mercy talk/guide I've seen. It is so easy to fall into the my team sucks mentality. Even I struggle to have fun when you get on a losing streak.
I love this so much, solo q support is very tough sometimes especially since it’s very dependent on how good your Dps/tank are the lose streaks can be very demotivating at times so I’m glad I’m not alone in this thank you for the tips!!!
Code for super jump park?! That looks fun - loved this video btw 😊 your content has helped me improve so much, so thank you 🙏🏻 💙
The "and preferably not Moira" sent me as someone who flip flops between maining one or the other
I feel like sometimes it's just better to pretend you don't have a Rez ability. Sometimes it's just such an intense urge to "I have rez, so I have to use it," that you end up dying or a teamate ends up dying. You have like 10 seconds before the teammate responds to think about the rez. Do we need it? Should I risk it? Is it safe? Are my teammates going to be okay if I go for this rez?
that's what skiesti says xd, like all of it
I go rounds where I never rez. the top mercys will have like 2-4 per 10 minutes. It's genuinely such a stupid ability. I'd much rather have something that I can actually use rather than something that holds her entire kit back because it's potentially such a strong ability in the rare instances you actually can use it lmao
@@razrv3lc It also gives u no ult charge. I don’t even play mercy that much but i think it’s such a dumb ability. It’s annoying when your hard work to kill someone gets ressed and it’s also annoying as mercy because you can’t even use it that much, and it always has to be perfectly calculated to make sure you don’t die doing it. Not to mention you don’t even get ult charge out of it.
@@insecticaatbh that's why I like res so much. it's such a powerful, impactful ability if you use it correctly. there's not a lot of room for error if you're against halfway decent enemies, but if you understand how to use it, you can be the reason your team wins a fight or round or game. I like having that power and capacity.
@@razrv3lci mean rez is powerful and comes in pretty useful sometimes, but i get what u mean, like if u n tank r the only left n tank dies it’s not gonna help to rez
Dang, so much quality packed into a tidy package of a video :D As always! The lessons you learned are legit and can't be overstated! I feel like I might rewatch this in the future just to try to solidify these concepts. Because it's easy to know the right things but not do them in the heat of the moment.
Another Niandra video, another chance to be amazed at their amazing Mercy movement
Thank you so much for you honesty about the stuggles! It really helps me du judge myself differently and reset my mindset between games to know that someone so well veresed on Mercy has the same struggles when it feels the team isn't working out
Really lovely video as always, thank you for the mention 💜
holy heck, Venta * o *
This is still my favorite mercy video. Thanks for being so genuine ♡
Great video there niandra!! Funny thing is, i was 4200 consistently on ow1 as a Mercy onetrick, until i stopped playing because of school at the end of ow1 and picked up the game again when ow2 came out, but pretty slowly cause i couldnt't play a lot. I was stuck between masters 1/2 and masters5, and i was getting frustrated because i couldnt get the gm back, games were feeling rough and i felt pretty stuck. Until Season 3 where i decided to rethink completely my way of playing mercy, and ive slowly realized all those things that you've stated in that video, and made me relearn all those things ive forgotten about Mercy, as ive been playing much more on autopilot before and thinking less during my games. It made me feel great that you share the same opinions and reflexions about her :)
since that Time i am gm1 low top500 and for now juggling between there and gm3
Sorry for the little storytime here, i just felt like sharing my experience after seeing your video ahah
Keep up the good work!!💗
(ps i think ive been with you during one of my games recently, i feel like ive met this acc name, idk which server you play on, but i remember taking Mercy, sorry about that :( )
I love your content seriously dude thank you!! I am a first time diamond support maining Ana Bap and Zen but some times ill get the occasional match where a dps asks for a mercy or I think its the best call for the team but I cant(or couldn't) play the character for shit lol. You've helped me a lot and while most of the time I still feel like I am having very minimal impact I have been winning the games that I do need to play her in.
what an absolute chad, not only sacrificing playing your mains for the sake of your team but ACTUALLY putting effort into learning the character people ask you to play is such a massive W
@spitonash Thank you! I certainly try but adding another hero to my pool is one hell of a struggle. Seriously Thank God for these videos haha..I hope my mercy play is at least a little less embarrassing on stream lol 😆
Your self awareness is very admirable. Some people are so indulged in their emotions and can never step back and notice it.
I could relate to everything, especially the tilt bit. The games and matchmaking have been SO BAD that I either 'give up' easily or just stop playing the game (when the game itself can be fun, if you can at least work as a team, regardless of winning or not). I feel horrible for it, but hopefully things will get better with the mindset. Hope ya'll have fun 😭😭
Thanks for sharing that personal anecdote. I *know* that we're all human, flawed, and will make mistakes, but it can be easy to forget, or to think that you're *particularly* flawed. It's reassuring to be reminded that, no, even the best players in the world are like you, and make mistakes or struggle with emotions. I think that inclination to put content creators on a pedestal can cut both ways, too, and sometimes make it feel to a viewer like you could never be that good. When in reality, just as you said: at the end of the day we're all just people who love this crazy game =3
I think rez should work a bit like genji's dash or morias healing. That is, a reset condition like an assisted kill, or a resource that goes up with the use of another type of play, like, if you blue beam a target long enough you gain resources in rez. It DOES feel really bad to hold rez for "the right moment" especially if that moment never comes or passes by when it looked like the wrong moment.
Damn your findings in this video resonated with me strongly
I dropped from masters 4 to gold 4... In about two weeks of playing comp. I felt stupid whenever someone asked HOW... I had the rule 3 loses and go off the game, but I broke that rule often since I played 3 and all of them were terrible... Also idk why but in master I was getting plat 5 teammates and in plat 1 I was getting silver 3 ppl in my team.. When I can't even invite them to play w me (if I wanted) how can I get them in lobby?
this is what drives me crazy lmao
I can't play with my friends anymore because I climbed too high and a few of them are too low so we can't group. Yet the matchmaker thinks its perfectly fine to put silvers in a diamond game like how is that fair 💀
Honestly this is just good advice for life in general. Don't resent people for their mistakes, and learn how to work with others instead of against them
As always a lovely and informative Video. Thanks for that! Im trying to reach dia this season and your Videos are always so helpful! ❤
The skill ceiling is so damn high on mercy lol I feel like I'm probably a quarter of your skill or very likely less and I've had a few games of "omg mercy you carried us" "love you mercy" but all I see is stuffed up ga there, heal beamed an anti here, stagger Rez there ughh lol
Overwatch 2's ranked system is so weird. I am honestly not the best mercy player but got to grandmaster, like this season I started at Master1 and am now GM2 even tho my winrate this season is exactly 50%.
What is the code for that Mercy movement custom game? Looks super fun and would love to try it out!
Been hard stuck in silver for 2 seasons, trying my best to keep my head up
Omg relatable!! Love the video, Niandra!
8:14 "the funny purple baseball" this is the best way to describe zens discord orb
06:00 You speak to me from the soul
3:30 this happened the other day, and even tho i know that in general, as a player, im good, it was just pretty discouraging and i was into the loop of "i guess im the problem, i guess i'm the one missing something and concluding into the loss etc", but it kinda helps seeing from better players that this happens too and it's just the matchmaking. like, it was rly depressing..
As someone who picked up kiriko, yep you’re so right. Sometimes you get another mercy one trick who just doesn’t know how to play anyone else and it’s painful so I’ll just swap. My kiri winrate is so much better too it’s like 65% 😂
As a Mercy main in platinum, I found all these tips very useful!
These tips have been great. Mercy is my third most played but I tried to stay off her when 5v5 came out.thinking about getting back on.
I am a Zenyatta and Sombra main (and odd combination I know lol) but I plan to start maining Mercy too :D
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who started playing less than perfect when I started losing more :')
The 2K dmg boost/10 min target in low elo is sooo hard. I try to hold myself to it, but sometimes my dps don’t even do 2000 dmg/10 min
Mental is totally a significant part of the game. Whichever team gets mad at their teammates and starts yelling in voice first usually will just play worse and lose by default
I understand why you feel this way. As someone who makes sure I have a main in all the character types, I main pharah the most, and this is for a good reason a niche character with a high skill floor helps preemptive preparation become extremely difficult when I force someone else out of place for their team.
But when I play support, I main bap since he has all of the basic utilities that can cover all of the abilites that aren't able to be dealt with by any ana support characters AND he gets air mobility. I have yet to find a support who can cover as many things as him, so what he utilizes is overall game skill, which comes with experience. To reiterate, I'm not saying it's wrong to main mercy. I just think that maybe throwing bap into your support lineup wouldn't be a bad idea.
Your videos help so much. Thank you
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What happens to the dragoon skin 😭 I wanted it for so long and just gone.
Is there a code for that workshop?
Thanks for the resurrect tip. I play a lot of competitive with my friends and one of them is playing 90% of the time as Genji. Every single time when he dies he yells "Res! Res! Res!" in the Discord call and he's so annoying lol. (We're all in approximately Gold)
Can you make an updated version of this addressing the issues with the new dps passive?
as a mercy editor i often go to qp to farm clips and throw the game by that. i hardly ever get clips from comp
Niandra not dragoon😭
okay listen.......i kinda like the staff.....
don't let the wider mercy main community see this...
@@freakraptor2700 😭😭😭
@@Niandra Pineapple staff!
W video as always!!!!!
What’s the code for the custom game? Also great video and tips!
Yeah I having trouble climbing from bronze. My mercy is decent and I can focus but matchmaking is so bad it makes me lose all confidence. I go from the a 2 yo 3 win streak then matchmaking just puts me in a shitty ass match where my team dont know shit. Not to mention the constant Rage quitting. I do my best and this shit holds me back the only time I can get silver a couple times and I still pulled in with shitty matchmaking lol
What do I do when my tanks complain I’m pocketing dps and the other support seems to think mercy is a main healer, like I heal a lot more than I should but they all expect me to healbot and it’s been like this almost every game.
I wish people would remember the whole "content creators are just friggin people" thing.
There's so much worship going on in social media
I tried to play mercy again waiting a few weeks, to see if maybe I could stomach the movement nerfs. I still can’t stand it… I really think I might have been pushed out of my favorite hero for good. I just want to fly around like an angel, but I can’t anymore. Even other mercy players were mocking me for being unable to adjust 😔
0:45 what workshop is this? It looks so helpful!
Thank you for pointing out that you will get yelled at in lower ranks if you play Mercy correctly and let your teammate die for a faster regroup. It's Mercy's job to help win the match, not make friends in game.
What was that fantastic looking mercy flight custom game you were playing on the backside of Havana??
Thanks! The for video and I’m using Mercy now😂.
Right click valk to rez trough walls
0:47 Wtf how did your res cooldown so quickly??? I'm on console and it takes mine like 25/30 seconds approximately
What I've learned playing Mercy:
If your DPS suck, just play another hero, there's nothing Mercy can do if you Hanzo has 20% accuracy and your Ashe lands one scoped hit every new moon.
What do you do in situations where your teammates leave?
Omfg, this season has been specially unbearable with teammates leaving. Personally, I switch to a here with more healing output if the support was the one who left. I guess it depends on who leaves
I REALLY wanna play comp, but I have some bad anger issues and I feel like comp just fuels it, does anyone have any tips for keeping your anger issues in check?
wow its verry cool 😮
Hey umm idk if you reply but what custom game do you play for rezes? And stuff??
This taught me so much actually, thank you. It was things I already had the pieces of in my head but you made it all click when you talked about how good her healing can be at staggering
Hit a peak of GM4 playing about 60% Brig, 40% Lucio/Moira. My Mercy is at around 30% win rate after 5 hours. Something just isn't clicking.
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What is that map code at 55 secpnds it looks so helpful
@0:47 whats the custom game code?
Like, I love playing support but sometimes I just need to get my aim in place so I go play some Fast match DPS and dang, is it just me or it seems that after playing soooo much support other people playing it just look like trash! Like, just watching the team die, getting the worst RESes, or they never get a fcking suzu right, I simply had to star separating the days I would play DPS/tank and the days I play support, BCS playing dps/tank make so tilted that any game I play after looked doomed to fail
Im just curius. Have you ever got a friend request and if you got one did you acept it?
What is the workshop code for 0:53?
I say we should make a movement or something like when ppl in 2018 wanted mass res back and they thought of the #revertmercy now it should be something like #removerez cuz as an ability it sucks since day one
Whats the code for the mode ur playin @:50 secs
What is the custom game code at the beginning of your video? I’d love to try it
b88fs is the code!
I learned how to play moira mid gamr because I had to be support and mercy was already taken kinda proud but we still lost tho
9:07, currently struggling here, i copied you, you did a little hop but it wont lemme do anything and i cannot skip. pls help.
I know this is really old but in case anybody needs it, mercy has a feature where if you jump/ fall off of a ledge while not immediately using your jump to float, you gain an extra hop in the direction that you land.
Example, come to ledge, jump off and go in to free fall, THEN press jump to float the rest of the way down. Your movement will end with a hop.
Mercy so impactful, i used to hate playing her bc i tough she lake of versatility, and i found out that i won all my games playing her, cuz i was the diff 💅🏼💅🏼
do you think you’ll be will to do mercy vod review?
Yeah!! I'd love to do a couple at some point
@@Niandra Niandra what’s the code for the custom game u were playing in the beginning
@@Niandra that'd be awesome! I'd definitely send in a code and hope to get reviewed if you did, your tips are so useful!
in general, is it worth if i use valk when enemy genji goes nano blade? from my experience i feel like i waste my ult cause either i can't keep up with the damage and i'm standing alone in the end or he dashes straight to me and kills me instantly when i just tapped valk
I'm new to OW overall. (halfway in kirko pass) and I'm a Mercy main immediately. I love her kit.
Learning when a rez is actually needed vs wasted is hard but I've gotten it down mostly.
My main issue lies in I can play my ass off and have a good win/loss and still barely rise rank or actually drop rank.
I've even gotten myself down to less than 10 deaths a game. Usually less than 5 for the most part. So I'm doing plenty I feel. Boosting when needed. Healing when needed.
Any tips? Or insight about why I can't gain when doing well ?
In the metal ranks she struggles to get value cuz usually the dps are dogshit. Im a gm mercy but i played ana/kiriko until diamond
@@erinslps yea she's very reliant on her team being at least competent. Having just one person not up to the same level or ability can really hinder a team in OW I've noticed.
The amount of times I've done literally nothing every fight I feel but the moment I die as mercy the rest of the team folds so obviously I was a huge part, is crazy to me as a new player.
does anyone know the code for the superjump workshop ? please and thank you 💕.
anyone know the code to that workshop ^^
i like h eal beam
My rezzes are like 3.91 per 10 in plat rn
wow i’m super early !! can i get a reply from Niandra? :D 🎉
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Support is unrewarding and a minefield of toxicity that you have to navigate around and I’ve grown sick of it. I’ve started Dps with my team muted and wow does it feel good to be a dumbass and have my support soft carry
What's a PMA content creator? I can't seem to figure it out.
Positive Mental Attitude = "PMA", so I think she means she doesn't want to be so overly positive that people think she doesn't also face the same struggles & pitfalls sometimes of tilting, getting annoyed by teammates, etc. Because nobody is perfect and we're all human at the end of the day!
Do you play on EU servers? I played with a ‘Mercy’ yesterday. I waited a bit for them to pick first then chose Ana. Pretty sure we won - I go by ‘Griffith’ in the funky letters.
i cant find a single male mercy pro on youtube😂
Hey, I hit GM4 today basically 2-tricking Mercy and Kiriko (but mostly Mercy). I just wanted to give an extra tip to all the struggling Mercy mains in lower ranks. Find a good dps duo, it's so much better to play with someone you can trust instead of 4 random strangers
Oh yeah I've seen you in my games...
huge loss streak then having a bad attitude gang. diamond 4 to plat 4.
Just went from plat 5 to gold 5😭
5:10 on the WHAT?!!!
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