@@redactedredacted6713 "A surprising and previously anknown fact that has been disclosed to others". Is the actual definition. The word refers to the unveiling of unkown fact itself so using it as a substitute for "how surprising" (as this person seems to be doing) would be wrong
@@lunaa55 It adds nothing to the conversation. I see that there is a reply to the comment, and I click on it. When such a comment is just someone doing the same as liking a comment, it wastes my time.
Yeah if mercy out heals Ana and the issue is that the front line is getting destroyed faster than they can be healed then it’s probably the Ana’s fault.
@@commentbot9510 I can outheal Ana and Moira with Mercy anyday It's rare that someone outheals me and I'm literally only plat My positioning and my callouts (on Mercy, not in general) ain't too shabby either So what's my problem?
Let me give you some advise as a guy who who has *lots* of experience playing as Mercy: People will consistently blame you. They will blame you for dying, they will blame you for letting them die, they will blame you for not healing enough, and they will blame you damage boosting, and they will blame you for not pocketing them. As the Mercy, you are the #1 target for blame. The unfortunate fact is that Mercy players receive a disproportionate amount of blame. Why is this you ask? Well it's mainly due to the role Mercy plays in the team and conceptions your teammates sometimes have about Mercy players. Firstly, she's a support and they are disproportionally singled out as a role that requires low skill and don't receive the same glamour for healing that DPS have for getting eliminations. Plus some players directly link their own deaths to the support players (i.e. "I wasn't getting enough healing" instead of "I was out of position and talking too much damage".) Second, Mercy's kit isn't as technical or as mechanically demanding as other support heroes. This causes some to believe that Mercy especially is low skill and you are a lot skill player for using her. Basically, they don't respect you as a player and they feel like they can say whatever they want to you. Finally, there exists the concept of the "Mercy Main," a player who almost or flat-out exclusively plays Mercy. Many Mercy mains are females and/or new to first person shooters. If they are a newbie they often want to contribute to the team but don't yet have the skills/confidence to play a more mechanically demanding hero. Frankly, there is nothing wrong with being a Mercy main, but that won't stop toxic players from thinking there is something wrong with you for mainly playing Mercy. Lots of stereotypes exist about Mercy Mains. They have un unfair reputation of being low-skill, always whining, inexperienced, and dependent players. Once again, this means toxic players won't respect you. And on top of that some players are just plain sexist. They automatically make fun of girls for playing and that's doubly true if they are playing Mercy, a hero who they, again, see as low skill. *But here's the thing,* you have fighting chance to being being the victim of toxic blame if you don't let toxic players have any power over you. A big part of this is not being passive when it comes to their verbal abuse. If you use a mic and speak up for yourself, the blame will usually decrease because the toxic teammates now know that you are are not going to take your abuse lying down. And after all, you are the one playing Mercy, not them. You have all the information on your screen and you are the one making the Mercy plays, not them. They can't stand up to you is you the Mercy hold all the cards. If they blame you for something that isn't your fault, calmly and rationally explain to them how it wasn't your fault. Tell them how you went to heal a higher priority target, how they were out of position, etc. I'm not saying to make up excuses, but if you do have a legitimate excuse you should tell them so they know not to blame you. In fact, this my help them adjust their own play-style to accommodate for the problem you are bringing to their attention. "You couldn't heal me because I was out of position? Oh, well I better hang back more. Now I know that if I die it's my fault, not my Mercy's" And look, this isn't a foolproof strategy. There will always be people who are toxic and you can't stop them all. But if you do standup for yourself as a Mercy player, I promise that the toxicity will at least decrease. Your teammates will see that you are not a passive target who will take any kind of verbal abuse, but an actual, independent human being. That's enough to make most toxic players lay off a bit. So don't be afraid to stand up for yourself Mercy players, you have as much of a right to play this game as anyone else and you have a vital role to fill. You're the one playing Mercy so you're ultimately in command. Don't let anyone else push you around. If they want to criticize you playing as Mercy so badly then they should have just played her themselves. You are the one and only Mercy in this game. Have confidence in your gameplay decisions and let anyone else will less information than you tell you otherwise. :-)
Silver medal healing Ana saying Mercy is "struggling". Way to throw somebody under the bus when you know it's you who's struggling because you can't heal through barriers with your pick.
While I agree that this ana is a problem. Hard focusing heals as ana when you have a mercy on your team is a bad idea especially in gold where mercy's dont understand when to damage boost. In an ideal world mercy would have pocketed the dps who have good/agressive positions while ana hits all her shots with rein/zarya rotate abilities to stay alive forever.
I always hate this, when someone yells at me for underhealing I never throw the other support under the bus by telling them I have gold healing, help your fellow supports
@@grapesofficial747 Exactly. You would think fellow supports would understand the struggle. I played a game as mercy with an ana who was constantly flanking for some reason. I ended up healing the team, and when she would take damage, just let her use her grenade because she was too far for me to just leave the team. She told me I needed to focus a bit more on healing her too. I shouldn't have to pick up all the healing slack because of a flanking ana.....
laughing at this comment because it has nothing to do with barriers and the fact that Mercy was doing generally nothing 80% of this game besides healing tanks. Ana builds ult charge by healing tanks. Mercy builds ult charge by healing DPS, second support and damage boosting DPS. Mercy should only ever heal the tanks when it's too much damage for Ana to outheal, or Ana is not present in the fight. Even when the fight was over, instead of letting Ana build ultimate charge off of healing the tanks, Mercy was constantly the one doing it even with ultimate. Mercy can output a good amount of healing which contests Ana's ultimate generation since Mercy is healing every second whilst Ana has to wait in between shots and reloads. If you are playing Mercy, you shouldn't use having gold healing as a flex, but use it as a means to say maybe I shouldn't heal that much and let Ana build ultimate charge. This Mercy player focused way too much on healing the tanks and for the most part neglected the rest of his team. Any Mercy player's top priority should be damage boosting DPS and healing the second support. Mercy is not the main healer here, and this player needed to have more confidence in Ana. I barely saw any damage boost throughout this whole match, and whilst a shiny gold medal can boost your ego, you have to really think WHY you have that gold medal. This is exactly the reason why I think medals are trash and mean nothing. The reason he had gold healing was because of the fact he was constsantly cucking Ana and not letting her do her job. Nothing would've changed had she played Moira or any other support. Mercy still would've had gold healing regardless due to how much he neglected the DPS and damage boost.
@@mozzy646 agreed. Clearly these players aren't thinking on that level cause that's not what they complain about, they think mercy is actually under healing. But ya this was a problem
Mercy mains who are toxic aren't toxic like other mains.. toxic Mercy mains are like the disrungled employee that never got a raise or a promotion, actually got demoted by the boss Papa Jeff, they hate their job, yet they still go... every day, overtime, they don't even have faith things will get better, just basic survival instincts keep them alive.
Toranya agreed. I struggle maintaining LOS with my Mercy with how I play Pharah generally which is pretty aggressive although it has been less so in the barrier meta. If you’re gonna ask for a Mercy pocket you have to play like you have one and not leave Mercy out to dry like this guy did time and time again.
I don't play anymore but remember there'll be times when I was solo healing as mercy and someone wanted me to pocket them because they were pharah like yea sure buddy. And if the're good they don't need a pocket just heals/damage boost when needed
This is the thing, DPS players ALWAYS blame support because they expect us to continuously fix their mistakes because they don't have the game sense to know when and where they should be positioned. THey never blame themselves lmaoo.
Honestly it goes both ways, there are just as many supports if not more, who blame dps regardless of what's going on - and also supports who think they have a green card to take it easy just because they play heal. I flex between all roles and it's honestly incredible how many people are quick to jump the gun and point fingers at others, regardless of what role they play. Too many people with loud opinions but no substance to base them on, just want to be heard because they think they know it all and everyone else are holding them back.
Honestly, I never blame my support for anything unless they're playing baptise trying to play dps. Aside from that, I mainly play soldier. If I overextend and my support can't reach me, I either get a med pack or heal myself with my field. It's never a supports job to cover someone being a bad player.
As a DPS main i never rely on my supports to bail me out if I fuck up. If I dove too deep or get out of positioning it's on me not them. Though, if you're Moira is literally only trying to dps and never heal then we have room to complain. I've seen plenty of games where the support line literally cannot heal for the life of them and our Roadhog out healing them. That should never be the case.
I have found as a dps main, that it really helps to play support heroes and get an understanding of how the healers work. Not only will it help you improve awarness on your teams supports. But it will also really help you out with game sense and situational awareness that you can apply to the dps you main.
Thanks for the feedback Sty! It's hard to me to understand what was going through my head with that many "mental resses." It's like those little glowing dots draw you in and you've hit E before you know what's hit you. :-(
you get used to it. A little tip I have is if people are not taking an insane amount of damage (like if your other healer is ana, moira or baptiste and the target you are thinking about healing is well above half health) then don't be scared to damage boost a dps unless you know they are about to take a massive hit (like widow/hanzo headshots or reaper) because you will easily have enough time to swap to them when they need heals, that's why you outhealed that ana because there were many occasions where there was about 50-100 healing that you did that you could've easily let ana and instead damage boost, that adds up quick.
also when you ult damage boost unless a teammate is going below half health as well, 60 hps for everyone is good, but what about everyone on your team doing an extra 25% or 30% damage per hit (whatever the percentage is) They will kill quicker, and if someone dies, then its less pressure/damage on your team.
This is a pharah who thinks if he has a mercy, he's immortal and can be as aggressive as he wants so goes it way too deep and dies, generally say mercy made the right calls when healing someone other than him
So true in Overwatch you want to give your resources e.g. Nano Boost to the player that will make the most of it. While we didn't see everything the Pharah did from what we did see she wasn't being effective despite the healing & bubbles for her.
Well vs the enemy team comp he really should be immortal with a mercy but he doesn’t hit a freaking shot and tunnel vision on 1 target away from his team instead of peeling and playing with his team.. Also, as an Ana main, the Ana was garbage.. in Ana-Mercy support comps, the Ana should be able to keep the tanks and mercy alive to let mercy have more time with the dps healing/dmg boosting them.. I don’t remember a single enemy getting purple in the whole match.. and that’s a huge red flag on Ana.
tbf tho, the mercy was overhealing the team, they should have stayed with pharah more to keep themselves out of harm's way + given the pharah enough dmg to kill the enemy team before they could poke down their tanks so much that mercy needed to heal them. mercy gets muuuuuch more value out of dmg boost than healing.
@@wilda3770 Yeah, you really gotta switch back and forth between healing and boosting a lot. They still weren't terrible in that department -- they were generally pretty good all around, just their rezzes were quite awful.
@@mirandamatthews7475 yeah they were decent, but I think better positioning and awareness about where you need to be, why, and when is much more important 😁 a feeding rez doesn't really lose you the game, in most cases
Some tips from a 400+ hr diamond mercy - when you're in valk, move more, and dont go straight up the second you activate. At higher ranks you are going to get headshot immediately. You may also want to think about a higher sensitivity, you seen to turn your camera very slowly. Another thing (well two things but they go together) - unless you have your pistol out, always have your beam on someone, you never know if they might hit something :p. Another thing, dont 'overheal'. If someone is full health, dmg boost em! Mercy is also one of the best shot-calling heros out there. If you have a mic and feel comfy talking, you may want to. She's so great cause she has the mobility to see the entire fight at once.
Love the tips about shotcalling and damage boosting, 100% agree. However low sens is fine for mercy, almost all top level players have low sensitivity for most heroes, as long as your mousepad is big enough that you can 180 very quickly its fine. Also verses their teamcomp there is nothing that could have headshot him so it was the right play to fly up in the air (obviously a different story vs widow, mcree, ashe, hanzo solider).
Also, take advantage of the chain effect it has, no need to throw away your positioning to heal someone if they're already in range of a chain heal (like in the fight at 12:40 where if they latched onto zarya they would have healed the sigma)
Honestly this dude was pretty good, little more damage boost and better sense for rez should really let him climb a few hundred sr. But one bit of Mercy tech he didnt seem to have; if you hit guardian angel again while flying toward someone, youll stop, thisll keep you from overshooting your target
@@wintersmalice the jump is super useful. I'm trying to get it down on PC myself, haha Just kinda got it down on Console, but haven't really been super consistent in an actual game with doing it. The GA cancel is kinda second nature, but super jump (as I just learned it, and hardly play her anymore) is something I still only do when I'm really thinking about doing it...and then I mess up when it really matters. I don't like GA prefers beam target, and that makes doing super jump SO MUCH EASIER...but it also...makes me go towards whoever my beam is on, and that's a pain unless I'm Pharmercying...
Alternatively, you can make it so GA is not toggled in the hero settings which lets you hold down your key until you don’t want to GA anymore :) Makes it easier to cancel GA in my opinion
Yeah I prefer GA toggle off, which does take some getting used too if you've been playing with it on but I feel I have a lot more control over my movement and positioning without it. Having GA toggle off does make it more difficult to superjump though for some reason.
@@gleidonn3735 that would be interesting. It might also be nice if the system was rank-based, like this Mercy being B for gold but C for plat if taking into account other relevant playstyle.
No communication at all except for "MeRcy WhaT ArE yoU doiNG". So glad I left Gold a long time ago lmao. But seriously here the problem was that Mei and Reaper were deleting your team, with a proper plan against theme and some more communication you might have been able to win this easily.
True also note they had a Pharah & Mccree as DPS, plus Zayra (I play a lot of Mei & Zayra is pretty strong against Mei since her bubbles break your freeze beam). These 3 should of been enough to deal with the Mei & Reaper.
as someone who was a hard stuck gold mercy , now gm, the only thing u can do to climb as mercy is group up with teams with competent dps who won’t blame u and cause u to become tilted , as well as using the map to ur advantage , practice on maps in work shop see the best cover for valk and heals in general focus on damage boosting more i swear to u damage boosting is very underrated
Cashmir who said they were smurfs ? lol just playing w normal gold friends as well having communication and a non toxic group of people helps climbing ): why do u have to be so rude
キューティーbrookie Literally every DPS Main says shit like that. “Support mains are boosted” blah blah blah But they’re the first to bitch when they don’t get a pocket. Good job finding good friends and working so hard! I’ve climbed from Silver all the way to Diamond Support and I want to go even higher. I hope you can crack T500 one day!
@@brookierenee2753 i assumed because you don't find competent dps in gold, since if they were competent they wouldn't be in gold. If in fact you climbed without being boosted, congrats and obviously this doesn't apply to you then. :)
My standard greeting when I play Ana, "Please stay where I can shoot you or I won't be able to heal you." Then the Rein or Hog will go deep and sit in a little cubby hole where I can't shoot him and he dies. Or the Hanzo...
You can definitely see the mistakes but this player has potential for sure. Hope to see him/her make it to higher ranks. Also DPS players have the easiest jobs but have the worst mentalities. Easily the most toxic group of people out of all the roles
13:26, you weren’t being harsh at all, mercy was in valk so she could’ve just flown above to expand LOS instead of wasting time and being out of position going all the way around the wall to heal
I kind of feel like she was going over there to try to rez (I wouldn't put it past her tbh as she has been doing that all game) By her, I mean him, but I call all people by the gender of the hero they are playing. I'm a he when I play Lucio and Baptiste, but a she when I play Mercy or Moira...and irl, lol
I think I've submitted about 2 times now, but honestly getting picked wouldn't be that much different from him picking others with my main. It's really helpful to see him judge others who play my characters, because it still points out the plays I need to be making. Thanks Stylosa!
Yep. Because endorsements mean a lot, right? Endorsements don't mean anything the same way medals don't either. It doesn't make you a pro player if you're level 5 endorsement nor does it always mean you're toxic when you don't have a high endorsement level. I rarely endorse people because I don't really care about the system which means nothing, doesn't mean my teammates are always toxic though.
13:25 they could have healed the Zarya and the exta Valkyrie beams would have kept the Sigma up, but that targeting was definitely funky there for sure.
Honestly this. I get this guy is gold but thats why he should be receiving a lot more criticism for that. He doesn't really look around and focuses on someone so much when he could be healing people around him way faster. I mean at the end there Pharah got zero heals and she pulls out her pistol.
This mercy needs to damage boost way more... I remember when I first started healing and that obsession with keeping everyone 100% topped up, but that is an important piece of game sense for Mercy. It is hard to accuse DPS of not killing anything if you are only being a heal bot and not using your kit to its full potential, and you will not climb. It's like playing zen and never using your discord. That said, I am taking notes from this mercy's positioning, they had some really nice GAs!
@@brookierenee2753 Nothing wrong with low sens, I play with 4 sens on 1000 dpi, but there is a such thing as too low, especially for certain characters. On mercy, it's especially devastating since they can't even look around to assess the situation or guardian angel quickly enough.
It basically seems they play well until the team falls apart, then they arent really sure what to do. They could probably hold their own in a low diamond game if the team communicated and didn't feed
8:18 they use the entire valk on the ground.. and died to the reaper.. should have been in the air being evasive topping up rein and zarya as much as pos
Considering they were running reaper Mei ya maybe. Sometimes people are too autopilot with being high in the air though. Los is what's most important whether you're low to the ground or in the air. High in the air with bad positing will kill you more easily than on the ground in most match ups
I've notice that he wasn't using space bar during valkyrie, he was alwas looking at the ground and going backward to get height ! Use spacebar and CTRL to control your height !
That's a good tip. I always have trouble going back down, but recently learned crouch is to go down while in valk. I knew about space, but crouch is what I never end up doing, haha. I usually GA down towards my team when I want to go down, lol. And in my mind, I know crouch is to go down, but I haven't gotten to a point where I will hit it to go down. I've never done it like the person in the video though. (Probably because I started on console and was used to hitting space to glide anyway, so going up was 2nd nature)
I have way too many hours on mercy so mercy mains here’s some tips: Position yourself with quite some distance between you and your teammates. This makes it easy to propel yourself through them and the fight while getting away from flanks. Unless needing body blocking or getting hunted down by a moira/tracer, stay a good distance from your ranks. Damage boost when your team gets anti-naded!! It helps them punish the enemies for getting too pushy to pick off the anti-naded. Prioritize. Your. Teammates. Decide who is the most valuable in this fight or the next one? You had a bad doomfist low on ult charge? Save the rez for a tank/other support. Super-jump is not only fun but super valuable. I find it very useful in dive comps especially. With both super-jump and slingshot be sure to cancel your GA after you make the jump so your cool down is faster. Every second counts. Don’t be afraid to hide in plain sight. It’s never a good idea to stand still, but standing at the sidelines or behind your allies can be beneficial. You have great survivability if you utilize your GA properly. You can be brave. Remember that super-jump rez can cancel if you go too high. I suggest super-jumping and then while gliding down you rez. When gliding spam the glide button to make your wings hitbox smaller, otherwise you may be an easy target for precise hitscan. It’s a little move but a big different in terms of stealth. Do. Not. Use your ult in a losing fight. It’s so much better to make a push, as long as you know when to damage boost. This is acceptable when you need to get off a really important rez to save the fight. Otherwise, save it. Damage boost or even pocket snipers, especially widow. The damage boost goes a long way and always keeping an eye on your widow’s positioning can help you make an easy escape. Don’t be afraid to take that pistol out, but mostly only on really low health enemies/snipers. Damage boost will not only boost your ult charge but also your ally’s. You will get blamed. A lot. And bullied. It’s stressful, but it’s the job of a mercy main :/ Make sure to always have chat on, as a mercy you can make really good calls because of your situational awareness and flight paths. Symmetra turrets your teammates won’t take care of? Don’t take the pistol out, simply super-jump or slingshot and melee it. Remember your beam has a lasting delay when behind walls! This is especially useful against snipers and sombra, for you can hide behind a wall while peeking to keep your teammates up. When running a mercy-Ana comp, make sure to let the Ana know that you are in charge of the squishies. Let her heal the tanks and do more damage while you keep the dps up. That’s about it. I’m in no means a professional mercy, just some stuff I’ve picked up.
One thing i noticed straight away was that you’re looking down to gain height in valk and not utilising movement. Use your jump key to get higher and not lose LOS on your team (i’m from ps4, so not 100% sure whether it’s the same for PC, but i assume it is?)
@@SkyTailedFox It doesn't look like that though. The movement overall during the ults looks clumsy and she spends too much time looking at the floor in order to get upwards which means she's missing out on a lot of information of everything that's going on around her
I only saw a few things I'd bother pointing out the rest of his play was fine the use of tech in the first round was 200+ iq level thinking tho so props 1. Not boosting enough if it doesnt need heals dont heal that small amount of extra damage is the difference between your team getting a pick and winning the team fight or gaining ult charge slightly faster to win the team fight. 2. Stealing small heals from ana not sure why sty didnt bring this up but theres no reason for you to stop boosting someone for another person who lost some chip damage ana can deal with that faith or no faith that she will because if you steal these easy heal stats it doesnt really benefit you to win it only stands to pad your own stats where ana she needs 28 shots to gain her ult so small chip damage that's easy to heal is more important to an ana then a mercy. 3. Looking at the ground when using valk/slow latch swap over time should never be looking away from what you are trying to deal with if that's healing/boosting a teammate or shooting at something. Also sty might be right about your latch sense might be off or you can try letting go of the latch in between swaps instead of trying to drag over to the next character look for the blue diamond to confirm proper swap over this very important when it comes to ana players but can be just as much for others that get this effect as well. 4. Suicide res not looking at score board enough - this basically always feeding unless you res something that will actually win the team fight there and then good example was when the zarya died in a bad position while you may have died doing that res if it worked the zarya could have done a huge ult possibly turning the game around. Like driving think see do before choosing to res. 5. Pistol use - almost never a good idea to even use it except to take a 1v1 only if you must you can also try and kill everyone in valk but unless you actually do it's always a wasted ult. Towards the end I saw you were panicking and starting to try and help with dps in ot while you were doing this it resulted in the pharah dying which he then complained about then got you killed and the zarya killed then lost the game while yes sty is right the pharah was wildly out of position after the mei wall went up if you had gone with her maybe he could have gotten a pick and turned it around unlikely but possible just really got to understand what choices will win the game over deciding to do anything (panicking) by wipping out your pistol and essentially doing nothing because theres a shield in your face.
That either means your moira was DPSing too much or YOU were damage boosting enough, this mercy was a heal not in the video, maybe you were doing the same
Gotta love when people attack the person not talking. 90% of the time that's the reason they don't talk because of toxic people. Oh and if someone playing pharah asks for a pocket healer, they are not good enough to be pharah. A good one does not need to be pocketed by any healer. Not saying she doesn't need any healing, but she does not need constant healing if you're good with her.
I've never seen a more accurate video on how I play mercy, every flaw, every strength, exactly the same! This has helped me so much, and I can honestly relate so hard to all the abuse he's getting when he's doing the majority of things correctly. I'm currently stuck in bronze because no one listens to call-outs and I'm a "bad support". Yh, I could use some improvement but I'm not a miracle worker. Just because theirs a mercy on your team does NOT make you immortal
Only seen a minute and a half and I can wholly sympathise with the person. Just last night, I played two games and couldn’t play any more because my team were flaming me for doing the right thing. Busan Meka Base and I was playing out of my MIND, me and Ana were 2v4ing the enemy team and keeping them in their corridor, the rest of the team capped the point and “wtf you doing Rein? You’re throwing (after having stunned five people with 2 shatters and cleaned up), get back to point. Meanwhile, the dps switch to Reaper and Mei, I do all I can and it’s still MY fault that they pushed past when the Hog literally one tricked all game. Second game, I was playing support, Lucio in a Lucio/Moira comp on Lijang Tower. Idiot tank decides to take Winston into a Reaper/Doom/Brig and bitches “wtf heal” “where are my heals”. I tried to explain the both healers had over 12k healing already (I was silver with that) and what we needed were abilities to prevent the damage in the first place - ie, TAKE ZARYA. When you’re taking 280 from a single shot to the face and then getting fisted into a wall, that’s ALL your health gone, with just a half second to heal in. But nope, I’M the problem. I’M not doing enough. I’M the one who needs to switch, in spite of having saved his ass (and the team’s) four times already with sound barrier (two death blossoms, a rip-tyre from when they tried junkrat for a while and a Gravitic Flux). The only reason we won that game is that Doom failed to land his cooldowns (once due to Boop, the other time due to Ana sleep) and I just lost my shit at the end of that game (not proud of my language).
Lord Toxic maybe you should send a game of yours. Honestly mercy’s always get the blame because their is a stigma of mercy mains have no talent. You can never do enough as a healer.
@@katet8639 The ignorance of people in lower ranks is honestly shocking. Ana's hitting all her shots and the response is "we're not getting enough healing, Ana switch to Mercy." ¬_¬ Mercy does LESS healing and doesn't have a burst. I do record my vods and review them - I pick apart my wins too, as any mistakes I make THERE are going to be more telling of my problems in general. Maybe I'll send one or two in, as my roles are all 2400-2660 atm (Tank is Gold 2430s, Support is Plat, but dropped to 2480, DPS is solid Plat at 2657)
12:46 it's really important to note that in valk your beam range increase to 30m from 15 so you could have just healed sigma in the same safe position you were in even if he died
You've said this to a mercy clip b4 but they tunnel vision on the target they're healing alot especially with valk they can look around alot more as mercy
19:04 I will have to disagree on this point, as Mercy in most situations you should prioritize dmg boosting a Pharah Barrage over healing her. During her ult, Pharah is very squishy in the air and mercy heal is hardly ever gonna be enough to keep Pharah alive if the enemy get the time to react to her ultimate. Pharah is not gonna get chipped down, she will be hard focused and often stunned. Therefore you should always prioritize damage boosting as long as the Pharah is not already close to dying. During her ult Pharah is like a glass canon, and her entire ultimate is about dealing more damage to the enemy before they can retaliate - so basically just trading favorably and dying is an expected outcome anyways. As Mercy you are able to provide so much more consistent utility if you damage boost the rockets of Barrage, rather than trying to keep Pharah alive through incoming burst dmg. Bubbles, armor packs, and matrix are effective in that regard, but not Mercy's heal beam. Instead, if you can manage to boost the damage of Pharah you might just allow her to penetrate that dmg treshold that allows her to destroy the enemy players before they even get to retaliate - which is always the optimal goal for a Barrage. TL;DR - Prioritize dmg boost on Barrage, only heal if she's taking a lot of chip dmg. The damage of the ult is far more important than potentially keeping her alive for half a second longer, as the dmg of her ult while dmg boosted far outweighs that extra time alive.
Tbf I've found the best healers down in low plat / gold, and It really made me thik about it. I've spend an enormous ammount in all ranks and yes gm support players might be better but I feel like when we look from silver to high diamond most golds and low plats are way better. I think this could possibly be because people down there either really enjoy playing the game or are either trying their best to get higher up and I love seeing vids like this because they show us how good players can be in lower ranks.
LOL what? Healers in plat think that they're a walking health pack and play like a heal bot. That doesn't win you the game and utility is much more useful than "infinite heals". Players in gold and plat have horrible game sense as well, idk how you formed that opinion lmao
This one time I was playing sigma and I was doing decent then this one time on the last point I tried to put my shield in front of my teammates but my mouse messed and It was placed in front of me then they go off on me like protect you team sigma and I’m like Jesus Christ calm down then at the end of the match I had 37k blocked and they are like good job sigma and ignored the fact that they went off on me
When you’re in gold it’s really hard to trust an Ana to pay attention and make sure to be hitting heals so it’s hard to let that go and focus on damage boosting a bit more.
@@nicholashutchinson4549 I never said he didn't make mistakes, just that compared to many Mercy's he at least has some of the basics down which is more then most.
Thank you! I really love your do’s and do not’s for mercy. I can almost hear you talking to me and laughing when I play. Please more Mercy! I am new to this game I don’t understand the frames and numbers do you have a video for that? Thank you again from one of the oldest (age) person playing Overwatch!
I did noticed that they stacked support ults very often. The team had no communication on what they were actually doing and wasted a lot of ults in this game.
Some advice I would give is to learn to superjump and not be afraid of being in the sky. A lot of the times you were scared of a mei wall when you can use a team mate to superjump over it
I have so many things to point out here that you completely ignored Sty... First off, we were never shown the actual rating of that match, but it's clearly not a gold/plat border one. Mid gold at best. The fact that there are plats in this game means nothing, because people can duo and even triple queue and now you won't even know that unless you try to analyze it on your own. Additionally, when you said that there was no need to talk about Mercy tech in this OverAnalyzed just because you saw that this player executed Super Jump in spawn twice before the first round even began, well... The player who submitted this clearly proved you wrong, because it wasn't used once when it clearly should've been used outside of making good first impressions. From what I observed, this player's movement and overall basic usage of GA are very lackluster, and he would get destroyed and farmed anywhere from 2.4k and above. Also, the target priority, beam usage and decision making displayed in this vod are very poor. The usage of the damage beam was extremely lacking, rez decisions that were made were bad, not getting a rez off when he 100% should've done it, and target priority was way off after they lost the first point at 99%. Lastly, the stats and ult usage. On paper it doesn't look so terrible, but in reality... The healing stat should way lower and it shouldn't be gold healing, mainly because there was an Ana on the team. WIth this movement and decision making the death count should be higher, but whatever. The first Valk was dodgy as fuck and shouldn't have been used for that purpose in that situation because there were people he could fly to, or alternately try to do a super jump. That was hardly productive outside of killing the Mei who cornered herself to begin with. Other than that the moments when Valk was used were okay. For gold rank and gold rank only I would grade it a -B. Listen y'all, before you comment shit on this, I'm just gonna say that I'm not trying to bash this player or something because I'm at a higher rank and bullshit, I'm just pointing out what this vod actually shows and how poorly Sty reviewed it, ignoring a major amount of flaws in the gameplay, from basic movement to target priority to decision making, and how misleading the submitter was by showing he can use Super Jump but never used it once when it could've been used to get to a better position or to get a better vision over the fight. It was just "yeah I know how to perform X and Y moves but I don't actually know how or when to use them for the best effect so I'll just show off before the match begins" instead of making actual use of it, or at least trying to. This was an objectively bad Mercy OverAnalyzed because of how Sty reviewed the vod.
Plat and gold is the same thing, so why does it matter? This player would’ve gotten all golds in their game if it was just mid/low gold since gold is the most popular rank and they were playing alone. Usually being in gold and having plats in your game means you’re probably close to plat unless you’re playing with a plat.
The reason he wasn't being healed at 14:08 is because he was behind the enemy shield. I thought that was not a thing when Valking, but I guess they didn't actually fix it. Or this is an older video.
As a Mercy player you also need to consider an element that Sty didn't mention: IF you pocket a Pharah, you will not be able to provide healing for your team, but against some comps and playstyles it might also mean that you allow the Pharah to deal so much damage that the enemy team crumble before they can even return any dmg to your main team - which again means your tanks require less healing, and all in all it becomes a win/win scenario. This of course entirely depends on the skill level of the Pharah, as well as the composition and playstyle you are up against. Typically this works better against slower moving comps and especially grouped up teams. In this game I think the Mercy did the right thing, the Pharah obviously didn't have a clue of what they were doing, but in other games it's a good idea to think about this stuff in advance. If you can create a scenario where your team deals more damage and receives less, that's obviously advantageous - while staying with the team brings far fewer opportunities but offers more consistent healing overall, which sometimes is favorable. You just gotta be the one to make the decision, and your decision-making skills will tell whether you are going to rank up or not.
at 13:30 that further target had line of sight for the moment in time where the player tried to target sigma and the target's hit-boxes were totally far enough apart for target prioritization to not happen.
These over analyzed videos that coach people in low ranks makes me glad that I got out of platinum. Holy shit I forgot how bad competitive overwatch is in lower ranks.
The entire team should have stopped pushing when you lost the McCree, which is a general lack of situational awareness for the entire team. The team is getting impatient because they know they need to just win one fight to secure the round.... but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen.
i have a few tips: stay away from your team, it is okay to be near them but keep a few feet away. learn to cancel guardian angel to not fly right in the middle of the fight (watch a tutorial if you dont know how) also if you feel like youre struggling with heals swap to moria or bap - but trust your judgement. use natural cover! its going to be your best friend when climbing. at around 11:24 sty says rez the mcree, i disagree he’s already close to spawn and save res for the fight. love damage boost and learn how to swap really fast from heal mode and damage boost i loved the pistol plays but dont tunnel vision! and always blame the dps haha im just kidding! :)
I would have been frustrated with how much times people strayed from the group and into the enemy lines, particularly Rein since he is such a critical part to the game
Things that weren't touched on. 1) This Mercy doesn't abuse the fact she can look around limiting her awareness by a lot. She looks almost 100% directly at the team mate she's beaming. 2) When the Hanzo got dove on and complained she could have helped him as she was beaming him and then tunnel visioned to someone else not noticing Hanzo's HP go down. 3) I know you mentioned she should damage boost more, but she really does need to focus DPS more. She has an Ana and the tanks weren't struggling that much with needing heals. The DPS kept dying and couldn't get kills. Unless tanks are low or your other supports needs healing, there's no reason to be with them esp with the DPS she had. 4) Super jumping more would help her survivability. 5) Please press tab so you need can see the enemy team and your team mates ults. No offense to Sty but he needs to stop saying a Mercy is higher than she is. I feel like it's counter productive and while I don't think she played badly, this was clearly gold gameplay. She lacks awareness, target priority, and her mobility/movement is very stagnant. You already talked about her rezes so I wont touch on that. I like that Sty was being positive, but I wanted to point out some simple issues with the gameplay as a Mercy player myself. He seems to really think Mercy players who send in their clips deserve higher when most of them are in a rank they kinda deserve. (Disclaimer: My comment isn't meant to be hateful or mean to the player in this video. Just wanted to point out things and if this player sees this comment it is meant to be constructive and hopefully is seen as helpful.)
CrazyQuarterPounder so true, love sty’s positivity but as a mercy main the gameplay was quite painful to watch the lack of awareness and looking around. Definitely a player that is playing at the level of gold. Hopefully with all these tips they can work on their few mistakes and improve :)
As a Mercy player on high gold too, I just want to humbly advice you to press your space-bar more often specially when there is a Pharah in your team. I mean you should stay in the air as much as possible to increase your survivability. When there is a good Pharah in my team I rarely get killed by enemies because I'm always in the sky moving between players. And one more small thing, you showed us that you can do the bunny jump at the start of the game... Why you don't use that during the game? Generally, you are a good Mercy player. And yes it was your team fault :D Good luck
Tbh this mercy wasn’t the worst but there was a few things that I did notice straight away. There was very little damage boost, no GA tech like super jump (this isn’t necessary but it is very handy), positioning in valk was a bit off, Rez’s were a bit iffy and their awareness of other teammates than the one that your healing and general sense of when the fight is lost. I feel like all of these things could use some work
Worst thing about lower ranks is when they tell you you’re bad and need to be better, yet don’t tell you how.... like I’m in the same rank as you for a reason? If yo want me to play better, tell me how to improve instead of just saying I’m bad?
Fix your target priority, pay attention to who's gonna die if you don't heal them as opposed to what their actual health value is. Mute voice and text chat, they don't help at all and are the source of toxicity and tilt so they end up doing more harm than good.
Dude ima mercy main and the amount of tanks that just dive into a enemy team and then blames me for not following and then dying is so high it’s making me think about stopping healing mains
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“Don’t queue for Mercy”
- Level 1 Endorsement Pharah/Hanzo.
ikr....the steaming salt from as consistent for a while
Yeah these days the there's only two way to have a level 1 endorsement be on a new account or be one of those players who has earned that rating.
@@nathanialwoods8281 or just be inactive as hell because the rating drops with time
@@icestardragonhc It doesn't drop from inactive it drops by playing and not getting endorsements.
IceStarDragonHC Still not a good thing for comp
A DPS blaming a healer for his own stupid positioning? What a revelation
I'm not sure you understand the word "revelation" haha
LeoTheSquid they used revelation in the correct way. they used sarcasm.
@@redactedredacted6713 I'm well aware of the attempted sarcasm. It doesn't work, the word is simply used wrong
LeoTheSquid a revelation means a surprising unknown fact.
@@redactedredacted6713 "A surprising and previously anknown fact that has been disclosed to others". Is the actual definition.
The word refers to the unveiling of unkown fact itself so using it as a substitute for "how surprising" (as this person seems to be doing) would be wrong
Mercy walks out of spawn
Sty:alright so what are you doing here
@@Jatmahl Have you forgot about the like system? press the button and move on, no need for these unnecessary comments.
@@johhada9304 he just said he finds it funny what's wrong with that? lol
@@lunaa55 It adds nothing to the conversation. I see that there is a reply to the comment, and I click on it. When such a comment is just someone doing the same as liking a comment, it wastes my time.
"what is going on here" ,"beckfast"
@@johhada9304 and what are you adding to the conversation? Nothing
That awkward moment when "I swear to god it's my team!!" Is actually true XD
Extremely rare but those games do exist lool
Yeah if mercy out heals Ana and the issue is that the front line is getting destroyed faster than they can be healed then it’s probably the Ana’s fault.
@@commentbot9510 probably more the reins fault in this case
@@commentbot9510 I can outheal Ana and Moira with Mercy anyday
It's rare that someone outheals me and I'm literally only plat
My positioning and my callouts (on Mercy, not in general) ain't too shabby either
So what's my problem?
What is life even? Either you’re not damage boosting enough or the other healers on your team suck
Let me give you some advise as a guy who who has *lots* of experience playing as Mercy:
People will consistently blame you. They will blame you for dying, they will blame you for letting them die, they will blame you for not healing enough, and they will blame you damage boosting, and they will blame you for not pocketing them. As the Mercy, you are the #1 target for blame.
The unfortunate fact is that Mercy players receive a disproportionate amount of blame. Why is this you ask? Well it's mainly due to the role Mercy plays in the team and conceptions your teammates sometimes have about Mercy players.
Firstly, she's a support and they are disproportionally singled out as a role that requires low skill and don't receive the same glamour for healing that DPS have for getting eliminations. Plus some players directly link their own deaths to the support players (i.e. "I wasn't getting enough healing" instead of "I was out of position and talking too much damage".)
Second, Mercy's kit isn't as technical or as mechanically demanding as other support heroes. This causes some to believe that Mercy especially is low skill and you are a lot skill player for using her. Basically, they don't respect you as a player and they feel like they can say whatever they want to you.
Finally, there exists the concept of the "Mercy Main," a player who almost or flat-out exclusively plays Mercy. Many Mercy mains are females and/or new to first person shooters. If they are a newbie they often want to contribute to the team but don't yet have the skills/confidence to play a more mechanically demanding hero.
Frankly, there is nothing wrong with being a Mercy main, but that won't stop toxic players from thinking there is something wrong with you for mainly playing Mercy. Lots of stereotypes exist about Mercy Mains. They have un unfair reputation of being low-skill, always whining, inexperienced, and dependent players. Once again, this means toxic players won't respect you. And on top of that some players are just plain sexist. They automatically make fun of girls for playing and that's doubly true if they are playing Mercy, a hero who they, again, see as low skill.
*But here's the thing,* you have fighting chance to being being the victim of toxic blame if you don't let toxic players have any power over you. A big part of this is not being passive when it comes to their verbal abuse. If you use a mic and speak up for yourself, the blame will usually decrease because the toxic teammates now know that you are are not going to take your abuse lying down.
And after all, you are the one playing Mercy, not them. You have all the information on your screen and you are the one making the Mercy plays, not them. They can't stand up to you is you the Mercy hold all the cards. If they blame you for something that isn't your fault, calmly and rationally explain to them how it wasn't your fault. Tell them how you went to heal a higher priority target, how they were out of position, etc.
I'm not saying to make up excuses, but if you do have a legitimate excuse you should tell them so they know not to blame you. In fact, this my help them adjust their own play-style to accommodate for the problem you are bringing to their attention. "You couldn't heal me because I was out of position? Oh, well I better hang back more. Now I know that if I die it's my fault, not my Mercy's"
And look, this isn't a foolproof strategy. There will always be people who are toxic and you can't stop them all. But if you do standup for yourself as a Mercy player, I promise that the toxicity will at least decrease. Your teammates will see that you are not a passive target who will take any kind of verbal abuse, but an actual, independent human being. That's enough to make most toxic players lay off a bit.
So don't be afraid to stand up for yourself Mercy players, you have as much of a right to play this game as anyone else and you have a vital role to fill. You're the one playing Mercy so you're ultimately in command. Don't let anyone else push you around. If they want to criticize you playing as Mercy so badly then they should have just played her themselves. You are the one and only Mercy in this game. Have confidence in your gameplay decisions and let anyone else will less information than you tell you otherwise. :-)
Obi-Wan Kenobi I needed this the other day.
Being Obi-Wan Kenobi makes this advice just 10x better
how does this only have 20 likes gm tier comment
did anyone else not bother to read this
@@r2mickeyd2 how does it feel to main the easiest character in the game
Silver medal healing Ana saying Mercy is "struggling". Way to throw somebody under the bus when you know it's you who's struggling because you can't heal through barriers with your pick.
While I agree that this ana is a problem. Hard focusing heals as ana when you have a mercy on your team is a bad idea especially in gold where mercy's dont understand when to damage boost. In an ideal world mercy would have pocketed the dps who have good/agressive positions while ana hits all her shots with rein/zarya rotate abilities to stay alive forever.
I always hate this, when someone yells at me for underhealing I never throw the other support under the bus by telling them I have gold healing, help your fellow supports
@@grapesofficial747 Exactly. You would think fellow supports would understand the struggle. I played a game as mercy with an ana who was constantly flanking for some reason. I ended up healing the team, and when she would take damage, just let her use her grenade because she was too far for me to just leave the team. She told me I needed to focus a bit more on healing her too. I shouldn't have to pick up all the healing slack because of a flanking ana.....
laughing at this comment because it has nothing to do with barriers and the fact that Mercy was doing generally nothing 80% of this game besides healing tanks. Ana builds ult charge by healing tanks. Mercy builds ult charge by healing DPS, second support and damage boosting DPS. Mercy should only ever heal the tanks when it's too much damage for Ana to outheal, or Ana is not present in the fight. Even when the fight was over, instead of letting Ana build ultimate charge off of healing the tanks, Mercy was constantly the one doing it even with ultimate. Mercy can output a good amount of healing which contests Ana's ultimate generation since Mercy is healing every second whilst Ana has to wait in between shots and reloads. If you are playing Mercy, you shouldn't use having gold healing as a flex, but use it as a means to say maybe I shouldn't heal that much and let Ana build ultimate charge. This Mercy player focused way too much on healing the tanks and for the most part neglected the rest of his team. Any Mercy player's top priority should be damage boosting DPS and healing the second support. Mercy is not the main healer here, and this player needed to have more confidence in Ana. I barely saw any damage boost throughout this whole match, and whilst a shiny gold medal can boost your ego, you have to really think WHY you have that gold medal. This is exactly the reason why I think medals are trash and mean nothing. The reason he had gold healing was because of the fact he was constsantly cucking Ana and not letting her do her job. Nothing would've changed had she played Moira or any other support. Mercy still would've had gold healing regardless due to how much he neglected the DPS and damage boost.
@@mozzy646 agreed. Clearly these players aren't thinking on that level cause that's not what they complain about, they think mercy is actually under healing. But ya this was a problem
Phara endorsement lvl 1 and I'm not surprised about that
should be level 0
-10000000000000000000000000000000000000 lol
Mercy mains who are toxic aren't toxic like other mains.. toxic Mercy mains are like the disrungled employee that never got a raise or a promotion, actually got demoted by the boss Papa Jeff, they hate their job, yet they still go... every day, overtime, they don't even have faith things will get better, just basic survival instincts keep them alive.
lol you just described every min wage factory in the world!!
Lmao X)
Yeah, I still remember one Mercy main who told me, that I should die for overhealing her with Lucio. XD
are they like Squidward?
@@DruidsCalling pretty much...
“Don’t queue for Mercy”
You just did the Mercy a favor, bub. Because next time you face that Mercy in comp they’re going to help their team stomp you.
Pharah players like that guy are the reason I refuse to pocket heal Pharah mains.
Funny enough, as a Pharah main myself I dislike being pocketed. It puts extra pressure on me and I end up playing worse.
pocketing a good pharah can win you the game... i'll just mute them and take my free w thanks
Toranya agreed. I struggle maintaining LOS with my Mercy with how I play Pharah generally which is pretty aggressive although it has been less so in the barrier meta. If you’re gonna ask for a Mercy pocket you have to play like you have one and not leave Mercy out to dry like this guy did time and time again.
@@tikkimink I've heard this from a lot of people that play Pharah. lol
I don't play anymore but remember there'll be times when I was solo healing as mercy and someone wanted me to pocket them because they were pharah like yea sure buddy. And if the're good they don't need a pocket just heals/damage boost when needed
This is the thing, DPS players ALWAYS blame support because they expect us to continuously fix their mistakes because they don't have the game sense to know when and where they should be positioned. THey never blame themselves lmaoo.
Honestly it goes both ways, there are just as many supports if not more, who blame dps regardless of what's going on - and also supports who think they have a green card to take it easy just because they play heal. I flex between all roles and it's honestly incredible how many people are quick to jump the gun and point fingers at others, regardless of what role they play. Too many people with loud opinions but no substance to base them on, just want to be heard because they think they know it all and everyone else are holding them back.
Sorry but support players are just as toxic
Honestly, I never blame my support for anything unless they're playing baptise trying to play dps. Aside from that, I mainly play soldier. If I overextend and my support can't reach me, I either get a med pack or heal myself with my field. It's never a supports job to cover someone being a bad player.
As a DPS main i never rely on my supports to bail me out if I fuck up. If I dove too deep or get out of positioning it's on me not them. Though, if you're Moira is literally only trying to dps and never heal then we have room to complain. I've seen plenty of games where the support line literally cannot heal for the life of them and our Roadhog out healing them. That should never be the case.
I have found as a dps main, that it really helps to play support heroes and get an understanding of how the healers work. Not only will it help you improve awarness on your teams supports. But it will also really help you out with game sense and situational awareness that you can apply to the dps you main.
Thanks for the feedback Sty! It's hard to me to understand what was going through my head with that many "mental resses." It's like those little glowing dots draw you in and you've hit E before you know what's hit you. :-(
you get used to it. A little tip I have is if people are not taking an insane amount of damage (like if your other healer is ana, moira or baptiste and the target you are thinking about healing is well above half health) then don't be scared to damage boost a dps unless you know they are about to take a massive hit (like widow/hanzo headshots or reaper) because you will easily have enough time to swap to them when they need heals, that's why you outhealed that ana because there were many occasions where there was about 50-100 healing that you did that you could've easily let ana and instead damage boost, that adds up quick.
also when you ult damage boost unless a teammate is going below half health as well, 60 hps for everyone is good, but what about everyone on your team doing an extra 25% or 30% damage per hit (whatever the percentage is)
They will kill quicker, and if someone dies, then its less pressure/damage on your team.
Make sure you're not on the ground in the fight too often and use bunny hopping and super jump to your advantage
You played great
You played pretty well!
This is a pharah who thinks if he has a mercy, he's immortal and can be as aggressive as he wants so goes it way too deep and dies, generally say mercy made the right calls when healing someone other than him
So true in Overwatch you want to give your resources e.g. Nano Boost to the player that will make the most of it. While we didn't see everything the Pharah did from what we did see she wasn't being effective despite the healing & bubbles for her.
Well vs the enemy team comp he really should be immortal with a mercy but he doesn’t hit a freaking shot and tunnel vision on 1 target away from his team instead of peeling and playing with his team..
Also, as an Ana main, the Ana was garbage.. in Ana-Mercy support comps, the Ana should be able to keep the tanks and mercy alive to let mercy have more time with the dps healing/dmg boosting them..
I don’t remember a single enemy getting purple in the whole match.. and that’s a huge red flag on Ana.
tbf tho, the mercy was overhealing the team, they should have stayed with pharah more to keep themselves out of harm's way + given the pharah enough dmg to kill the enemy team before they could poke down their tanks so much that mercy needed to heal them. mercy gets muuuuuch more value out of dmg boost than healing.
@@wilda3770 Yeah, you really gotta switch back and forth between healing and boosting a lot. They still weren't terrible in that department -- they were generally pretty good all around, just their rezzes were quite awful.
@@mirandamatthews7475 yeah they were decent, but I think better positioning and awareness about where you need to be, why, and when is much more important 😁 a feeding rez doesn't really lose you the game, in most cases
Some tips from a 400+ hr diamond mercy - when you're in valk, move more, and dont go straight up the second you activate. At higher ranks you are going to get headshot immediately. You may also want to think about a higher sensitivity, you seen to turn your camera very slowly. Another thing (well two things but they go together) - unless you have your pistol out, always have your beam on someone, you never know if they might hit something :p. Another thing, dont 'overheal'. If someone is full health, dmg boost em! Mercy is also one of the best shot-calling heros out there. If you have a mic and feel comfy talking, you may want to. She's so great cause she has the mobility to see the entire fight at once.
Love the tips about shotcalling and damage boosting, 100% agree. However low sens is fine for mercy, almost all top level players have low sensitivity for most heroes, as long as your mousepad is big enough that you can 180 very quickly its fine. Also verses their teamcomp there is nothing that could have headshot him so it was the right play to fly up in the air (obviously a different story vs widow, mcree, ashe, hanzo solider).
Also, take advantage of the chain effect it has, no need to throw away your positioning to heal someone if they're already in range of a chain heal (like in the fight at 12:40 where if they latched onto zarya they would have healed the sigma)
@@joshua2848 Yeah, with their comp the straight up fly was ok, I just ment for future reference it's usually pretty unsafe
That advice won’t get you past gold.
@@commentbot9510 what would your advice be?
Honestly this dude was pretty good, little more damage boost and better sense for rez should really let him climb a few hundred sr. But one bit of Mercy tech he didnt seem to have; if you hit guardian angel again while flying toward someone, youll stop, thisll keep you from overshooting your target
Yeah I learned super jump before i learned you can cancel GA haha. Its probably more useful than the jump too
@@wintersmalice the jump is super useful. I'm trying to get it down on PC myself, haha Just kinda got it down on Console, but haven't really been super consistent in an actual game with doing it. The GA cancel is kinda second nature, but super jump (as I just learned it, and hardly play her anymore) is something I still only do when I'm really thinking about doing it...and then I mess up when it really matters. I don't like GA prefers beam target, and that makes doing super jump SO MUCH EASIER...but it also...makes me go towards whoever my beam is on, and that's a pain unless I'm Pharmercying...
Alternatively, you can make it so GA is not toggled in the hero settings which lets you hold down your key until you don’t want to GA anymore :)
Makes it easier to cancel GA in my opinion
Yeah I prefer GA toggle off, which does take some getting used too if you've been playing with it on but I feel I have a lot more control over my movement and positioning without it. Having GA toggle off does make it more difficult to superjump though for some reason.
oh my god finally someone said that. I never knew how to do that xD. thanks!
22:2 you can see here who's toxic and who's nice that's why I love the endorsement system
Yeah its funny how the toxic pharah was a 1 and the nontoxic ana had a 4
Or who leaves qp games
@@leothesquid4099 leaving a QP game for personal reasons not rage quits and getting punished for it hurts lol
2:22
You should add a grading system to your OverAnalyzed videos like how you gave this Mercy player a B. :)
Nickel 7o7 nah more like 5/10 over graded
@@gleidonn3735 that would be interesting. It might also be nice if the system was rank-based, like this Mercy being B for gold but C for plat if taking into account other relevant playstyle.
@@gleidonn3735 B from Sty or 5/10 from some rando on the internet hmmm... when was the last time you got to hang out with Jeff Kaplan?
Dude Lebowski was an example god..
There should be a “report for being a toxic ass” option in Overwatch to deal with people like that pharah
No communication at all except for "MeRcy WhaT ArE yoU doiNG". So glad I left Gold a long time ago lmao.
But seriously here the problem was that Mei and Reaper were deleting your team, with a proper plan against theme and some more communication you might have been able to win this easily.
True also note they had a Pharah & Mccree as DPS, plus Zayra (I play a lot of Mei & Zayra is pretty strong against Mei since her bubbles break your freeze beam). These 3 should of been enough to deal with the Mei & Reaper.
9:10 I'm watching this in full screen and I thought that notification was from my PC LOL
Same
Jebaited
"Mercy players, take note."
Me: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Alright spongebob
That's a problem, he playing in OWL.
as someone who was a hard stuck gold mercy , now gm, the only thing u can do to climb as mercy is group up with teams with competent dps who won’t blame u and cause u to become tilted , as well as using the map to ur advantage , practice on maps in work shop see the best cover for valk and heals in general focus on damage boosting more i swear to u damage boosting is very underrated
In other words: "i was hardstuck gold then i got boosted by smurf dps that didn't blame me cause they easily carried my weight" - congrats :)
Cashmir who said they were smurfs ? lol just playing w normal gold friends as well having communication and a non toxic group of people helps climbing ): why do u have to be so rude
キューティーbrookie Literally every DPS Main says shit like that. “Support mains are boosted” blah blah blah But they’re the first to bitch when they don’t get a pocket. Good job finding good friends and working so hard! I’ve climbed from Silver all the way to Diamond Support and I want to go even higher. I hope you can crack T500 one day!
@@brookierenee2753 i assumed because you don't find competent dps in gold, since if they were competent they wouldn't be in gold. If in fact you climbed without being boosted, congrats and obviously this doesn't apply to you then. :)
how big teams tho? 6 stack?
My standard greeting when I play Ana, "Please stay where I can shoot you or I won't be able to heal you."
Then the Rein or Hog will go deep and sit in a little cubby hole where I can't shoot him and he dies. Or the Hanzo...
You can definitely see the mistakes but this player has potential for sure. Hope to see him/her make it to higher ranks.
Also DPS players have the easiest jobs but have the worst mentalities. Easily the most toxic group of people out of all the roles
13:26, you weren’t being harsh at all, mercy was in valk so she could’ve just flown above to expand LOS instead of wasting time and being out of position going all the way around the wall to heal
It seems throught the whole game he doesnt use space to move up, just looking up/down and using w/s
@@Rushi486 … :-O You're right. I totally didn't catch that. Huge thanks.
maby they where using like discord, skype or some thing else ?
with right team W is your friend
I kind of feel like she was going over there to try to rez (I wouldn't put it past her tbh as she has been doing that all game) By her, I mean him, but I call all people by the gender of the hero they are playing. I'm a he when I play Lucio and Baptiste, but a she when I play Mercy or Moira...and irl, lol
I think I've submitted about 2 times now, but honestly getting picked wouldn't be that much different from him picking others with my main. It's really helpful to see him judge others who play my characters, because it still points out the plays I need to be making. Thanks Stylosa!
*14:17* tf is the Hanzo talking about?? There’s nothing the Mercy could have done there...
There’s a reason he’s a Level 1 endorsement player....
@Dumbiesheep I'm level 2 because nobody endorses.
Yep. Because endorsements mean a lot, right? Endorsements don't mean anything the same way medals don't either. It doesn't make you a pro player if you're level 5 endorsement nor does it always mean you're toxic when you don't have a high endorsement level. I rarely endorse people because I don't really care about the system which means nothing, doesn't mean my teammates are always toxic though.
@@mozzy646 you’re definitely level 1 endorsement and play like the Hanzo
13:25 they could have healed the Zarya and the exta Valkyrie beams would have kept the Sigma up, but that targeting was definitely funky there for sure.
Christien Worlein or maybe kept behind the wall next to the point
@@mackenziem1-t3y yeah idk why he went to the team. But I was just referring to being able to keep his sigma up without exposing.
She isn’t looking around at all. When she is healing somebody she looks at them instead of looking around. I don’t know why you didn’t point this out
Pingoping coz sty doesn’t know everything about every character
The O he points it out in other videos
Honestly this. I get this guy is gold but thats why he should be receiving a lot more criticism for that. He doesn't really look around and focuses on someone so much when he could be healing people around him way faster. I mean at the end there Pharah got zero heals and she pulls out her pistol.
This mercy needs to damage boost way more... I remember when I first started healing and that obsession with keeping everyone 100% topped up, but that is an important piece of game sense for Mercy. It is hard to accuse DPS of not killing anything if you are only being a heal bot and not using your kit to its full potential, and you will not climb. It's like playing zen and never using your discord.
That said, I am taking notes from this mercy's positioning, they had some really nice GAs!
Well said sty about dps blaming supports for their own bad positioning and trash talking in chat. That is why I don't get along well with dps mains
@@francosun2358 true, now that it's gone I would love to play it at least once :')
Sty, you need to get your hands on some fried shrimp ASAP
I think her sens may be too low? She struggles to look around much
Mistow Pwesident I was thinking the same.. all the movements were quite slow which hinders your reaction time. Definitely needs to up the sensitivity
as someone who struggles w higher sens , is having a low sens bad ? i mean personally it benefits me but i’m all ears for ur opinion
@@brookierenee2753 Nothing wrong with low sens, I play with 4 sens on 1000 dpi, but there is a such thing as too low, especially for certain characters. On mercy, it's especially devastating since they can't even look around to assess the situation or guardian angel quickly enough.
@@brookierenee2753 low sens is good, just dont have it too low where it hinders you
not a big enough mousepad?? i play 400 dpi 5 sens and i do fine
i just throw my mouse across the room
14:03
The comedic timing on the unpause was p e r f e c t
This helps me with all the notes I’m taking with how many good things are happening
Varndean?
Liam Farrell uhhh no
Okay
It basically seems they play well until the team falls apart, then they arent really sure what to do. They could probably hold their own in a low diamond game if the team communicated and didn't feed
I always try to get VaLuEé in my games now😂
8:18 they use the entire valk on the ground.. and died to the reaper.. should have been in the air being evasive topping up rein and zarya as much as pos
Well it always depends on what they were prioritising. I do agree with you but sometimes us mercy's get tunnel vision when we valk 😅✌️
Considering they were running reaper Mei ya maybe. Sometimes people are too autopilot with being high in the air though. Los is what's most important whether you're low to the ground or in the air. High in the air with bad positing will kill you more easily than on the ground in most match ups
I've notice that he wasn't using space bar during valkyrie, he was alwas looking at the ground and going backward to get height !
Use spacebar and CTRL to control your height !
Asbel Irving sty doesn’t play mercy so probably doesn’t know
That's a good tip. I always have trouble going back down, but recently learned crouch is to go down while in valk. I knew about space, but crouch is what I never end up doing, haha. I usually GA down towards my team when I want to go down, lol. And in my mind, I know crouch is to go down, but I haven't gotten to a point where I will hit it to go down. I've never done it like the person in the video though. (Probably because I started on console and was used to hitting space to glide anyway, so going up was 2nd nature)
Omg I know it was bothering me so much! They have a golden weapon yet don't know the main controls for her
when the genji/pharah complained in the 1st game... the mercy literally ontop of him... "why no heals when they were diving meeee!?!?"
I have way too many hours on mercy so mercy mains here’s some tips:
Position yourself with quite some distance between you and your teammates. This makes it easy to propel yourself through them and the fight while getting away from flanks. Unless needing body blocking or getting hunted down by a moira/tracer, stay a good distance from your ranks.
Damage boost when your team gets anti-naded!! It helps them punish the enemies for getting too pushy to pick off the anti-naded.
Prioritize. Your. Teammates. Decide who is the most valuable in this fight or the next one? You had a bad doomfist low on ult charge? Save the rez for a tank/other support.
Super-jump is not only fun but super valuable. I find it very useful in dive comps especially. With both super-jump and slingshot be sure to cancel your GA after you make the jump so your cool down is faster. Every second counts.
Don’t be afraid to hide in plain sight. It’s never a good idea to stand still, but standing at the sidelines or behind your allies can be beneficial. You have great survivability if you utilize your GA properly. You can be brave.
Remember that super-jump rez can cancel if you go too high. I suggest super-jumping and then while gliding down you rez.
When gliding spam the glide button to make your wings hitbox smaller, otherwise you may be an easy target for precise hitscan. It’s a little move but a big different in terms of stealth.
Do. Not. Use your ult in a losing fight. It’s so much better to make a push, as long as you know when to damage boost. This is acceptable when you need to get off a really important rez to save the fight. Otherwise, save it.
Damage boost or even pocket snipers, especially widow. The damage boost goes a long way and always keeping an eye on your widow’s positioning can help you make an easy escape.
Don’t be afraid to take that pistol out, but mostly only on really low health enemies/snipers. Damage boost will not only boost your ult charge but also your ally’s.
You will get blamed. A lot. And bullied. It’s stressful, but it’s the job of a mercy main :/
Make sure to always have chat on, as a mercy you can make really good calls because of your situational awareness and flight paths.
Symmetra turrets your teammates won’t take care of? Don’t take the pistol out, simply super-jump or slingshot and melee it.
Remember your beam has a lasting delay when behind walls! This is especially useful against snipers and sombra, for you can hide behind a wall while peeking to keep your teammates up.
When running a mercy-Ana comp, make sure to let the Ana know that you are in charge of the squishies. Let her heal the tanks and do more damage while you keep the dps up.
That’s about it. I’m in no means a professional mercy, just some stuff I’ve picked up.
One thing i noticed straight away was that you’re looking down to gain height in valk and not utilising movement. Use your jump key to get higher and not lose LOS on your team (i’m from ps4, so not 100% sure whether it’s the same for PC, but i assume it is?)
Yeah you get up and down using your jump and crouch butons on pc as well
Yeah I noticed that as well
This is a piece of tech I didn't know at all. Thanks a ton for this, as it's been a huge source of frustration for me.
Aaron Hsu you’re welcome 😊
Any tips on super jumping on ps4? I can’t quite get it down ;-;
I noticed that she looks down to fly upwards during valk when she can hold space or jump to fly upwards
That was bothering me so much lol
They may be flying backwards and holding space which should be even quicker....
@@SkyTailedFox It doesn't look like that though. The movement overall during the ults looks clumsy and she spends too much time looking at the floor in order to get upwards which means she's missing out on a lot of information of everything that's going on around her
@@AnskuuBanskuu well tbh it's gold, if I see then look down I would think they're doing it for the reason I said or trying to hide head to someone.
Nice tip I look down as well
I only saw a few things I'd bother pointing out the rest of his play was fine the use of tech in the first round was 200+ iq level thinking tho so props
1. Not boosting enough if it doesnt need heals dont heal that small amount of extra damage is the difference between your team getting a pick and winning the team fight or gaining ult charge slightly faster to win the team fight.
2. Stealing small heals from ana not sure why sty didnt bring this up but theres no reason for you to stop boosting someone for another person who lost some chip damage ana can deal with that faith or no faith that she will because if you steal these easy heal stats it doesnt really benefit you to win it only stands to pad your own stats where ana she needs 28 shots to gain her ult so small chip damage that's easy to heal is more important to an ana then a mercy.
3. Looking at the ground when using valk/slow latch swap over time should never be looking away from what you are trying to deal with if that's healing/boosting a teammate or shooting at something. Also sty might be right about your latch sense might be off or you can try letting go of the latch in between swaps instead of trying to drag over to the next character look for the blue diamond to confirm proper swap over this very important when it comes to ana players but can be just as much for others that get this effect as well.
4. Suicide res not looking at score board enough - this basically always feeding unless you res something that will actually win the team fight there and then good example was when the zarya died in a bad position while you may have died doing that res if it worked the zarya could have done a huge ult possibly turning the game around. Like driving think see do before choosing to res.
5. Pistol use - almost never a good idea to even use it except to take a 1v1 only if you must you can also try and kill everyone in valk but unless you actually do it's always a wasted ult. Towards the end I saw you were panicking and starting to try and help with dps in ot while you were doing this it resulted in the pharah dying which he then complained about then got you killed and the zarya killed then lost the game while yes sty is right the pharah was wildly out of position after the mei wall went up if you had gone with her maybe he could have gotten a pick and turned it around unlikely but possible just really got to understand what choices will win the game over deciding to do anything (panicking) by wipping out your pistol and essentially doing nothing because theres a shield in your face.
I out-heal Moiras very regularly as Mercy.
Tyler W Especially if they’re just DPSing and actually not healing at all like usual
who cares
That either means your moira was DPSing too much or YOU were damage boosting enough, this mercy was a heal not in the video, maybe you were doing the same
Collinnn you care enough to reply clearly :)
Gotta love when people attack the person not talking. 90% of the time that's the reason they don't talk because of toxic people. Oh and if someone playing pharah asks for a pocket healer, they are not good enough to be pharah. A good one does not need to be pocketed by any healer. Not saying she doesn't need any healing, but she does not need constant healing if you're good with her.
i mean no sane phara is gonna turn down constant damage boost
@@islulison right, but I'm saying no good pharah needs to Ask for it or Expect it.
I've never seen a more accurate video on how I play mercy, every flaw, every strength, exactly the same! This has helped me so much, and I can honestly relate so hard to all the abuse he's getting when he's doing the majority of things correctly. I'm currently stuck in bronze because no one listens to call-outs and I'm a "bad support". Yh, I could use some improvement but I'm not a miracle worker. Just because theirs a mercy on your team does NOT make you immortal
It feels like in every over-analyzed video there is a rein going ham, charging into the enemy.
8:45 love how he circled the ult meter with his question mark
Only seen a minute and a half and I can wholly sympathise with the person. Just last night, I played two games and couldn’t play any more because my team were flaming me for doing the right thing. Busan Meka Base and I was playing out of my MIND, me and Ana were 2v4ing the enemy team and keeping them in their corridor, the rest of the team capped the point and “wtf you doing Rein? You’re throwing (after having stunned five people with 2 shatters and cleaned up), get back to point. Meanwhile, the dps switch to Reaper and Mei, I do all I can and it’s still MY fault that they pushed past when the Hog literally one tricked all game.
Second game, I was playing support, Lucio in a Lucio/Moira comp on Lijang Tower. Idiot tank decides to take Winston into a Reaper/Doom/Brig and bitches “wtf heal” “where are my heals”. I tried to explain the both healers had over 12k healing already (I was silver with that) and what we needed were abilities to prevent the damage in the first place - ie, TAKE ZARYA. When you’re taking 280 from a single shot to the face and then getting fisted into a wall, that’s ALL your health gone, with just a half second to heal in. But nope, I’M the problem. I’M not doing enough. I’M the one who needs to switch, in spite of having saved his ass (and the team’s) four times already with sound barrier (two death blossoms, a rip-tyre from when they tried junkrat for a while and a Gravitic Flux). The only reason we won that game is that Doom failed to land his cooldowns (once due to Boop, the other time due to Ana sleep) and I just lost my shit at the end of that game (not proud of my language).
Lord Toxic maybe you should send a game of yours. Honestly mercy’s always get the blame because their is a stigma of mercy mains have no talent. You can never do enough as a healer.
@@katet8639 The ignorance of people in lower ranks is honestly shocking. Ana's hitting all her shots and the response is "we're not getting enough healing, Ana switch to Mercy." ¬_¬ Mercy does LESS healing and doesn't have a burst.
I do record my vods and review them - I pick apart my wins too, as any mistakes I make THERE are going to be more telling of my problems in general. Maybe I'll send one or two in, as my roles are all 2400-2660 atm (Tank is Gold 2430s, Support is Plat, but dropped to 2480, DPS is solid Plat at 2657)
Great now I have more ideas on how to mercy
This is the fastest I’ve got a notification CANT WAIT TO WATCH
Same here. :)
12:46 it's really important to note that in valk your beam range increase to 30m from 15 so you could have just healed sigma in the same safe position you were in even if he died
21:43 love that the toxic player is a 1 tier endorsement level and everyone else is 3 or higher lol
“I’ve never had fried shrimp before”
FRIED SHRIMP IS THE BEST
This mercy has better positional awareness than half the supports in plat/diamond
“Res the McCree!”
McCree: *Isn’t dead until Mercy can’t see him*
You've said this to a mercy clip b4 but they tunnel vision on the target they're healing alot especially with valk they can look around alot more as mercy
19:04 I will have to disagree on this point, as Mercy in most situations you should prioritize dmg boosting a Pharah Barrage over healing her. During her ult, Pharah is very squishy in the air and mercy heal is hardly ever gonna be enough to keep Pharah alive if the enemy get the time to react to her ultimate. Pharah is not gonna get chipped down, she will be hard focused and often stunned. Therefore you should always prioritize damage boosting as long as the Pharah is not already close to dying. During her ult Pharah is like a glass canon, and her entire ultimate is about dealing more damage to the enemy before they can retaliate - so basically just trading favorably and dying is an expected outcome anyways. As Mercy you are able to provide so much more consistent utility if you damage boost the rockets of Barrage, rather than trying to keep Pharah alive through incoming burst dmg. Bubbles, armor packs, and matrix are effective in that regard, but not Mercy's heal beam. Instead, if you can manage to boost the damage of Pharah you might just allow her to penetrate that dmg treshold that allows her to destroy the enemy players before they even get to retaliate - which is always the optimal goal for a Barrage.
TL;DR - Prioritize dmg boost on Barrage, only heal if she's taking a lot of chip dmg. The damage of the ult is far more important than potentially keeping her alive for half a second longer, as the dmg of her ult while dmg boosted far outweighs that extra time alive.
that mercy makes poor decisions when the heat is on
Just the voice coms reminds me of a console game😂
Tbf I've found the best healers down in low plat / gold, and It really made me thik about it. I've spend an enormous ammount in all ranks and yes gm support players might be better but I feel like when we look from silver to high diamond most golds and low plats are way better. I think this could possibly be because people down there either really enjoy playing the game or are either trying their best to get higher up and I love seeing vids like this because they show us how good players can be in lower ranks.
LOL what? Healers in plat think that they're a walking health pack and play like a heal bot. That doesn't win you the game and utility is much more useful than "infinite heals". Players in gold and plat have horrible game sense as well, idk how you formed that opinion lmao
12:46 19:57 " i give you a B you've been really good at positioning."
*No. No not really*
This one time I was playing sigma and I was doing decent then this one time on the last point I tried to put my shield in front of my teammates but my mouse messed and It was placed in front of me then they go off on me like protect you team sigma and I’m like Jesus Christ calm down then at the end of the match I had 37k blocked and they are like good job sigma and ignored the fact that they went off on me
When you’re in gold it’s really hard to trust an Ana to pay attention and make sure to be hitting heals so it’s hard to let that go and focus on damage boosting a bit more.
Dare I say his/her's movement is very still and predictable, even for gold.
Maybe but its still better then most, at least this guy knows to re-position & not stick to only healing his friend.
A Mad Hatter loo his mechanics and tech are garbage like he stands still when people are attacking him (just press a button and fly away)
@@nicholashutchinson4549 I never said he didn't make mistakes, just that compared to many Mercy's he at least has some of the basics down which is more then most.
I like the grading thing. I agree with B- for this guy, I think you should do that more often in overanalyzed
Thank you! I really love your do’s and do not’s for mercy. I can almost hear you talking to me and laughing when I play. Please more Mercy! I am new to this game I don’t understand the frames and numbers do you have a video for that? Thank you again from one of the oldest (age) person playing Overwatch!
LOL, the Pharah had a level 1 endorsement. Good recommendation on muting them.
Everytime I see Sty in that shirt, I just see a taco bell mild sauce packet.
It a sign.. To much taco bell bro
its hard to carry games these days :(
That's kinda the point
Probably even harder as mercy
I did noticed that they stacked support ults very often. The team had no communication on what they were actually doing and wasted a lot of ults in this game.
This was a nice game to watch. Good Mercy gameplay overall
Some advice I would give is to learn to superjump and not be afraid of being in the sky. A lot of the times you were scared of a mei wall when you can use a team mate to superjump over it
I have so many things to point out here that you completely ignored Sty... First off, we were never shown the actual rating of that match, but it's clearly not a gold/plat border one. Mid gold at best. The fact that there are plats in this game means nothing, because people can duo and even triple queue and now you won't even know that unless you try to analyze it on your own.
Additionally, when you said that there was no need to talk about Mercy tech in this OverAnalyzed just because you saw that this player executed Super Jump in spawn twice before the first round even began, well... The player who submitted this clearly proved you wrong, because it wasn't used once when it clearly should've been used outside of making good first impressions. From what I observed, this player's movement and overall basic usage of GA are very lackluster, and he would get destroyed and farmed anywhere from 2.4k and above.
Also, the target priority, beam usage and decision making displayed in this vod are very poor. The usage of the damage beam was extremely lacking, rez decisions that were made were bad, not getting a rez off when he 100% should've done it, and target priority was way off after they lost the first point at 99%.
Lastly, the stats and ult usage. On paper it doesn't look so terrible, but in reality... The healing stat should way lower and it shouldn't be gold healing, mainly because there was an Ana on the team. WIth this movement and decision making the death count should be higher, but whatever. The first Valk was dodgy as fuck and shouldn't have been used for that purpose in that situation because there were people he could fly to, or alternately try to do a super jump. That was hardly productive outside of killing the Mei who cornered herself to begin with. Other than that the moments when Valk was used were okay. For gold rank and gold rank only I would grade it a -B.
Listen y'all, before you comment shit on this, I'm just gonna say that I'm not trying to bash this player or something because I'm at a higher rank and bullshit, I'm just pointing out what this vod actually shows and how poorly Sty reviewed it, ignoring a major amount of flaws in the gameplay, from basic movement to target priority to decision making, and how misleading the submitter was by showing he can use Super Jump but never used it once when it could've been used to get to a better position or to get a better vision over the fight. It was just "yeah I know how to perform X and Y moves but I don't actually know how or when to use them for the best effect so I'll just show off before the match begins" instead of making actual use of it, or at least trying to. This was an objectively bad Mercy OverAnalyzed because of how Sty reviewed the vod.
well said Sir
Plat and gold is the same thing, so why does it matter? This player would’ve gotten all golds in their game if it was just mid/low gold since gold is the most popular rank and they were playing alone. Usually being in gold and having plats in your game means you’re probably close to plat unless you’re playing with a plat.
The reason he wasn't being healed at 14:08 is because he was behind the enemy shield. I thought that was not a thing when Valking, but I guess they didn't actually fix it. Or this is an older video.
The only 2 times they used the super jump was in spawn. I saw so many moments where they could have used it to avoid death
Mercy needs a higher sensitivity!! She doesn’t look around and not just what’s in front of you!
As a Mercy player you also need to consider an element that Sty didn't mention: IF you pocket a Pharah, you will not be able to provide healing for your team, but against some comps and playstyles it might also mean that you allow the Pharah to deal so much damage that the enemy team crumble before they can even return any dmg to your main team - which again means your tanks require less healing, and all in all it becomes a win/win scenario. This of course entirely depends on the skill level of the Pharah, as well as the composition and playstyle you are up against. Typically this works better against slower moving comps and especially grouped up teams. In this game I think the Mercy did the right thing, the Pharah obviously didn't have a clue of what they were doing, but in other games it's a good idea to think about this stuff in advance. If you can create a scenario where your team deals more damage and receives less, that's obviously advantageous - while staying with the team brings far fewer opportunities but offers more consistent healing overall, which sometimes is favorable. You just gotta be the one to make the decision, and your decision-making skills will tell whether you are going to rank up or not.
at 13:30 that further target had line of sight for the moment in time where the player tried to target sigma and the target's hit-boxes were totally far enough apart for target prioritization to not happen.
13:40 if you look closely you can see that when she started healing mccree the sigma was out of line of sight.
These over analyzed videos that coach people in low ranks makes me glad that I got out of platinum. Holy shit I forgot how bad competitive overwatch is in lower ranks.
the real question is... how have you never had fried shrimp?
The entire team should have stopped pushing when you lost the McCree, which is a general lack of situational awareness for the entire team. The team is getting impatient because they know they need to just win one fight to secure the round.... but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen.
When you think the same thing that was said about their play before he says it but is still the same SR
i have a few tips:
stay away from your team, it is okay to be near them but keep a few feet away.
learn to cancel guardian angel to not fly right in the middle of the fight (watch a tutorial if you dont know how)
also if you feel like youre struggling with heals swap to moria or bap - but trust your judgement.
use natural cover! its going to be your best friend when climbing.
at around 11:24 sty says rez the mcree, i disagree he’s already close to spawn and save res for the fight.
love damage boost and learn how to swap really fast from heal mode and damage boost
i loved the pistol plays but dont tunnel vision!
and always blame the dps haha im just kidding! :)
I would have been frustrated with how much times people strayed from the group and into the enemy lines, particularly Rein since he is such a critical part to the game
Things that weren't touched on. 1) This Mercy doesn't abuse the fact she can look around limiting her awareness by a lot. She looks almost 100% directly at the team mate she's beaming. 2) When the Hanzo got dove on and complained she could have helped him as she was beaming him and then tunnel visioned to someone else not noticing Hanzo's HP go down. 3) I know you mentioned she should damage boost more, but she really does need to focus DPS more. She has an Ana and the tanks weren't struggling that much with needing heals. The DPS kept dying and couldn't get kills. Unless tanks are low or your other supports needs healing, there's no reason to be with them esp with the DPS she had. 4) Super jumping more would help her survivability. 5) Please press tab so you need can see the enemy team and your team mates ults.
No offense to Sty but he needs to stop saying a Mercy is higher than she is. I feel like it's counter productive and while I don't think she played badly, this was clearly gold gameplay. She lacks awareness, target priority, and her mobility/movement is very stagnant. You already talked about her rezes so I wont touch on that. I like that Sty was being positive, but I wanted to point out some simple issues with the gameplay as a Mercy player myself. He seems to really think Mercy players who send in their clips deserve higher when most of them are in a rank they kinda deserve.
(Disclaimer: My comment isn't meant to be hateful or mean to the player in this video. Just wanted to point out things and if this player sees this comment it is meant to be constructive and hopefully is seen as helpful.)
CrazyQuarterPounder so true, love sty’s positivity but as a mercy main the gameplay was quite painful to watch the lack of awareness and looking around. Definitely a player that is playing at the level of gold.
Hopefully with all these tips they can work on their few mistakes and improve :)
Well said ❤️
@@joshua2848 Thank you :) Yaa I hope its seen as helpful if the player sees it.
@@angelaziegler9266 Thank you :)
@@MooMooCow95 Thank you :)
As a Mercy player on high gold too, I just want to humbly advice you to press your space-bar more often specially when there is a Pharah in your team. I mean you should stay in the air as much as possible to increase your survivability.
When there is a good Pharah in my team I rarely get killed by enemies because I'm always in the sky moving between players. And one more small thing, you showed us that you can do the bunny jump at the start of the game... Why you don't use that during the game?
Generally, you are a good Mercy player. And yes it was your team fault :D
Good luck
22:45 barrier meta? it was gold game every one just pick there favorite hero xD.
it has maby todo that Ana has troubles aiming.
w8= wait/take a chill pill/take a realy quick nap
That jump to hazo to heal rien was pretty impressive, I'm in gold and wouldn't have thought of it tbh
Tbh this mercy wasn’t the worst but there was a few things that I did notice straight away. There was very little damage boost, no GA tech like super jump (this isn’t necessary but it is very handy), positioning in valk was a bit off, Rez’s were a bit iffy and their awareness of other teammates than the one that your healing and general sense of when the fight is lost. I feel like all of these things could use some work
Sty, you can shout forward or back whenever you want no one listens
They had us in the first half i aint gon lie
As a Mercy and Ana player, this was a pretty good game. It's a shame that I see players like that pharah very commonly. it's rough
Fried shrimp is fantastic. you should try it
Worst thing about lower ranks is when they tell you you’re bad and need to be better, yet don’t tell you how.... like I’m in the same rank as you for a reason? If yo want me to play better, tell me how to improve instead of just saying I’m bad?
Fix your target priority, pay attention to who's gonna die if you don't heal them as opposed to what their actual health value is. Mute voice and text chat, they don't help at all and are the source of toxicity and tilt so they end up doing more harm than good.
Dude ima mercy main and the amount of tanks that just dive into a enemy team and then blames me for not following and then dying is so high it’s making me think about stopping healing mains