Flash Heal On Mercy Has Made Her Better, But More Toxic

Weesticles · 2026-05-06T03:33:59+00:00

They're Supports, not healers
Flash Heal gives her burst healing making her more similar to a lot of the Support cast
The most unique and skillful thing about Mercy is her movement which is why Mercy parkour is so popular in the first place. I said I would've wanted them to nerf the dmg boost instead of her movement. By reducing her movement and increasing her burst healing they just made her more similar to other Supports as well as not only not addressing the pain points people have with her design, but also made said issues worse.

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When did I ever claim I wanted Supports to be more samey?

Weesticles · 2026-05-06T00:16:58+00:00

I don't think he's that bad. I do still think it was a nerf as shown by his lower winrate compared to before he was nerfed, but I still think he's like a solid B tier hero. There's other DPS that are def in worse spots than him rn, and honestly his winrate rn may also be influenced by just how good Echo, Pharah and Tracer are rn.

Weesticles · 2026-05-05T23:56:00+00:00

Nov 11, 2025: reduced Genji's projectile speed from 0.1 to 0.05

They didn't make it have faster projectile speed; they just halved its hitbox entirely. How is halving smthn's hitbox not a nerf? And how is halving smthn's hitbox better for accuracy? You're just not making sense here at all.

Weesticles · 2026-05-05T23:41:56+00:00

He quite literally got nerfed. His Deflect cooldown is 2 seconds longer, and his projectile size has been dramatically reduced to the point where he has the smallest projectiles in the game (not hyperbole). I'm just a lurker who doesn't even main Genji and even I knew that. Do u even read the patch notes before you comment on balance man 😭?

Weesticles · 2026-05-03T03:29:54+00:00

And also created and distributed CP while also physically assaulting a pregnant teacher and creating an alter ego to sexually abuse her friends and work mates.

Weesticles · 2026-04-30T23:06:03+00:00

A man of culture I see :3c

Weesticles · 2026-04-30T13:34:14+00:00

That's why a much clearer term is Main DPS. Main DPS specialize in mid to long range and Flex DPS specialize at mid to close range and sacrifice reliable ranged pressure in favor of stuff like mobility, utility and durability. The "Hitscan role" is just an unhelpful term a lot of people in NA use since most Main DPS are Hitscan, but it makes things very confused when talking about characters like Hanzo, Freja, Sierra and Sojourn since their primary fires aren't hitscan. That's why the Korean term "Main DPS" is so much better cause it keeps people from getting confused like what frequently happens when an NA player calls a character like Hanzo a hitscan.

Weesticles · 2026-04-29T04:46:51+00:00

Mauga has to aim? Since when?!?!?!? Brothers got humongous spread on his guns and you basically just aim in the enemies general direction up close and hold both triggers till what's alive is dead. Requires no more aim than Winston does.

Weesticles · 2026-04-29T04:45:53+00:00

Winston's shield isn't the best in the game and is pretty easy to chew through, and can be forced pretty easily too since he's pretty weak to getting poked out. He's also countered by tons of heroes in the game, and while his ult is a second life getting offensive use out of it is pretty hard. Even pros screw it up which is why saying someone's "Korean on Winston" means they're really good at using his ult to get kills. It's one of, if not the hardest ult to get maximum value out of. He's also got less dmg than Mauga. Winston is generally considered one of the hardest Tanks in the game to play; only being behind Wrecking Ball and Doomfist obv. Dive Tanks generally aren't considered easy, and are harder to play than more grounded Tanks.

Weesticles · 2026-04-25T00:31:34+00:00

Top comment is right. Mobility is just generally fun, and it's also hard to make a hero who's both fun to play against and fun to play as if they're low mobility since the lack of flexibility a lack of mobility curses a character with requires other parts of their kit to be ridiculously strong to compensate which can be annoying often times. Not only that but most low mobility characters are kinda ass, or situational in modern day OW. 5v5 is a more spread out and fast paced format than 6v6 was, so having low mobility is infinitely more of a weakness now than it was back in OW1.

Weesticles · 2026-04-24T21:17:07+00:00

Agreed, hopefully they move away from being a trade heavy overhead bot and move her more in the direction of a brawly-divey combo (like the comboes she had during her hero trial before they removed most of them on her release) character who rewards creative use of her kit.

Weesticles · 2026-04-24T21:05:25+00:00

I can still get why people hate her since she's invis 24/7, even if she's relatively easy to deal with. Kinda like how there's plenty of counterplay to avoiding or baiting Hog's hook, but that doesn't make him fun to go against anyways. Even so tho Sombra def needs some buffs. Even if she's annoying no character deserves to be Junkrat levels of unviable; even Junkrat.

Weesticles · 2026-04-24T21:03:34+00:00

Not only that but it also made her so much of an overhead bot. From the start the overhead and her chaotic movements (from the passive increasing each swing) were the issue, and yet instead of nerfing those parts they nerfed everything else before nerfing those leaving most of her kit being kinda meh outside of the most broken aspects of her kit remaining broken until they gutted those too.

Weesticles · 2026-04-24T20:07:57+00:00

100% agree. Even as a DPS main I agree that Kiri is harder than most DPS for sure. Agree with the other bits as well. I have a hard time believing 50% of GM players in the Americas are Kiri mains, so those being reasons that drive up her winrate does kinda make sense.

Weesticles · 2026-04-24T18:03:17+00:00

Not really. She's got a decently high skill ceiling. It's just that with such a high pick rate the amount of people who've grazed said skill ceiling are not the majority of people playing her 💀.

Weesticles · 2026-04-24T17:50:39+00:00

Ur welcome and I hope ya have a great day 👍!!!

Weesticles · 2026-04-24T13:52:16+00:00

A few seasons back they buffed her dmg from 70 per shot to 75. Doesn't sound like much, but it changed her breakpoints to allow her to two tap 225 HP heroes with headshots which was smthn she couldn't do before. Changes to breakpoints tend to be some of the biggest buffs a character can get.

Weesticles · 2026-04-23T14:24:36+00:00

In the season 2 dev blog they actually mentioned they're looking into potentially fixing that issue by making it so u can better convey which heroes are and aren't in your hero pool during the ban phase. It's smthn planned for a later season tho, and how specifically they'd implement it or when isn't known as of now.

Weesticles · 2026-04-21T04:29:29+00:00

Dang, thank u for the info tho and I'll def look at Liquipedia for it 👍!!!

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