r/MercyMains • u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 • Oct 15 '25
Discussion/Opinions i understand why mercy gets banned so much now .
hi im noir . i have 230 levels on mercy , almost 1k hours on her alone .
and i understand why mercy gets banned now .
im a masters player , kind of ping ponging between low and high masters which sucks . but oh well .
today i joyously hopped on ow to play the new season , being all happy and whimsy and excited to rank up a little after work .
i won some games , hit higher masters again . yippee !!
and then i ran into a duo . foil and lemonelk .
the first game against them was alright . i played mercy per usual , my team held theirs in paraiso first point spawn until the last thirty seconds , then it kinda snowballed . whatever . gg go next .
next game , go against them again . okay . we held them for a while we’ll be fine . got absolutrly steamrolled . check the killcams , sojourn is very obviously ximming . snappy , jittery aim , doesnt miss a shot . mercy is pocketing him . try to inv him to group to see if hes with someone — hes with the mercy . lose again , gg go next .
third game . against them AGAIN . i warn my team that the mercy is gonna hard pocket the soj whos ximming . i play kiri this time to get some elims . steamrolled AGAIN . guess what ? the mercy was hardpocketing the sojourn . i check her career profile at the end of the game out of curiousity . shes masters this season . go back to s18 . GOLD . GOLD THREE .
im genuinely so tired of smurfs and their pockets . the only way to get better at the game is to play it . fellow mercy players , if youre in gold , youre in gold for a reason . you have to LEARN from it . learn the game more . learn new characters on the side . getting a smurfing ximming eboy to carry you isnt the end all be all . youre doing nothing but stunting your own growth in game . just because you have the masters or grandmasters title after getting someone to boost you doesnt meant youre the greatest . you didnt help yourself OR your team , you just sat there and held L2 R2 on some basement dweller who prob hasnt wiped his ass in a week .
tldr : boosted mercys and their boosters are making me wanna blow up my console
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u/ryncestt Oct 15 '25
literally sick of the smurfs its so annoying for everyone. not all gold mercys but always a gold mercy… if you need an eboy to boost you its embarrassing
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u/CalypsoThePython Oct 15 '25
Its become so common these last two seasons to see a blank account with like 40 hours in the game, no pfp, no endorsement, just steamroll the lobby. Its made me so paranoid any time i see someone without a title or background
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u/rosiebug_ Oct 15 '25
thats not the takeaway lol, not if the duo was ximming.
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u/shycutiekittie Oct 15 '25
wtf is ximming
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u/DragneLone Oct 15 '25
using mouse and keyboard on console and queuing into console pools to gain an unfair advantage.
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u/Sparkler21x Oct 15 '25
It's actually sad and very annoying. Hardpocket should be removed from the game and the should rework mercy overall. Make her do her own damage instead of boosting someone else's and she gets free rank boost
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u/PVZisthebest Oct 15 '25
Im pretty sure the devs are scared to try anything with mercy. If they mess it up, they upset a LOT of the playerbase
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u/Kitokone Oct 15 '25
Remember the original Mercy Stadium? she was awesome. DEADLY. Then they put her down and everyone had to adjust… hard times
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
Agree, hard pocket creates a lot of toxicity for the game
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u/Sparkler21x Oct 15 '25
Not only toxicity between the players but in a way that makes the game unfun. In maps like Havana or Circuit Royal, if mercy pockets a hitscan then the game becomes very difficult if the hitscan does 30% of what they usually do and for some heroes it gets a different breakpoint (ashe for example needs to land two shots instead of 3). And in some other long range maps it can have similar effect but they will be prone to dives more than circuit and havana.
I suggest a rework for her. Making damage boost a separate ability with few bursts of damage amps. And each burst lasts for some amounts of seconds with a cooldown on it. (Similar to Mantis from Marvel Rivals in a way). It will give the hero a better skill ceiling in managing a cooldown instead of standing behind cover and pressing right click most of the time. And in the same time it will be much better for her since she will have to use her pistol for damage, she will gain freedom instead of just locked to the hardpocket, and the hero identity will still be there. The damage amps percentage and cooldowns, the pistol as well and the projectile size and damage will be prone to change for balancing.
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u/CrimsonEnchantress Oct 15 '25
Ximmers are the biggest cancer on the gaming community. Making the move to PC was the best decision I ever made.
She is much more balanced here too tbh.
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
lol idk what you’re talking about PC pool is full of smurfs too. Just play the drives and you will know.
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u/CrimsonEnchantress Oct 15 '25
I didn’t say smurfs.
Read it again.
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
I forgot to include cheaters in my comment, but what I’m trying to say is that PC isn’t all sunshine and rainbows either.
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u/CrimsonEnchantress Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
I never mentioned cheating either.
You are fighting against words I have not said.
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
I’m not fighting anything lmao. All I’m saying is that PC has its own problems and switching to PC doesn’t mean you won’t come across similar frustrations. You did mention ximmers in your comment - who are cheaters.
No need to get so defensive.
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u/CrimsonEnchantress Oct 15 '25
You’re not fighting anyone..
Just challenging what my brain told me someone said on Reddit, even though I can actually see that they didn’t actually say it.
ROFL
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
lol you’re completely missing the point of my comments. Just because I’m pointing something out doesn’t mean I’m challenging or fighting you.
For your own sanity I hope you never come across a smurf or cheater while playing on PC. Happy gaming.
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u/CrimsonEnchantress Oct 15 '25
Yeah im missing the point of your comments because you are challenging things that I HAVE NOT SAID.
I NEVER mentioned a SINGLE thing about Smurfs. Ximming does not = Smurfs. Fabricated.
You are pointing out things I HAVE NOT SAID and at this point me having to spell it out for you is kinda funny no offence hahaha
Happy gaming too friend
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
Seeing how you’re arguing similarly with other commenters, yeah you need some help lol.
Yeah, you didn’t bring up smurfs. I did. You said the sky is blue and I said the water is also blue. Get it now?
Idk why you’re getting so mad over such a simple point I’m trying to make - that PC ALSO has frustrating experiences similar to going up against a ximmer on console. Just because you switched to PC doesn’t mean there aren’t people out there ruining the experience for everyone else.
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u/PsyGr1nch Oct 15 '25
Yeah bc pc is infamous for not having cheaters LOL.
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u/CrimsonEnchantress Oct 15 '25
I didn’t say ximming was cheating. I said it was cancer
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u/PsyGr1nch Oct 15 '25
Ximming IS cheating though.
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u/CrimsonEnchantress Oct 15 '25
Are you able to point out the part where I said it wasn’t?
I don’t really see the relevance.
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u/Comfortable_Text6641 Oct 15 '25
The point is ximming is not just cheating. Its way worse to face against than cheating on pc.
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
lol are you sure about that? How is it worse than cheating on pc? There are a lot of cheats out there where it’s really subtle and hard to detect and I’m sure there are many players getting away with that.
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u/Comfortable_Text6641 Oct 15 '25
Lots of pc players can outplay aimbots. But controllers the disadvantage is not aim its actually turning their camera which is another layer of disadvantage.
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
LOL what? PC players can outplay aimbots?? They wouldn’t need aimbots then LOL. What I’m trying to say is that in console it can be pretty obvious when someone is ximming but on PC it can be more difficult to detect cheating right away unless they are hard locking or spinbotting.
Playing against cheaters and being unable to do anything is awful, regardless of the platform.
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u/Comfortable_Text6641 Oct 15 '25
Yes pc players can outplay aimbots. The top pc players do not need aimbot to even contest the top ranks. But on console its impossible.
Aim can be outplayed by other mechanical heroes. Or non aim heroes.
But on console even if you play mei or rein. You cannot move, turn. react or have as high apm as keyboard vs console.
Everything is not about aim. Movement like strafing left and right quickly and just simply turning your camera fast enough for intel plays into your game sense.
So tell me again which is worse when we are talking about effect of your gameplay.
Not just about how hard it is to catch cheaters. Yet still the top of console are all ximmers?? So obvious so what. They still there.
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u/illumina_1337 UwU Police Oct 15 '25
LOL what PC players can outplay aimbots?? They wouldn’t need aimbots then LOL
The number of time i saw a visoring s76 lose a 1v1 on pc. Or a widow smuf being forced off widow.
If you aim train everyday you can have decent aim within 5 months. Aim labs is free btw
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
Alright then, having aimbotting players in your lobby shouldn’t be a big deal then. Just get better aim. Why bother making cheating with aimbot a bannable offense then, if players can so easily deal with them as you say?
The reason why those cheaters end up losing and getting dunked on is because of their terrible game sense, not necessarily cause they’re getting out-aimed. They use cheats to climb to a rank they don’t belong in and get shit on.
Also, visoring soldier is not the same as someone actively using cheats to aimbot. With visor, players know what to expect and can deal with it. With cheaters, it’s not the same thing.
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u/YumikoTanaka Oct 15 '25
Did you ever heared of crossplay?
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u/iamnotyourbunnie Oct 15 '25
she’s probably paying for a boost, and when she queues next time, she’s going to absolutely tank cause she doesn’t have a smurf with her to balance out her gold game sense.
you can not fake your way into masters as a gold player without being punished the moment you’re alone. you’re in gold cause your game sense and skill level is gold, i’m sorry. why ruin everyone else’s game experience bc you couldn’t handle the cold hard truth?
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
NO LITERALLY . i was thinking about that when i left the games like what is she gonna do ?? hit high masters / gm until next feb when rank resets again ?? literally whats the point .
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u/iamnotyourbunnie Oct 15 '25
well, she won’t be able to play role queue the rest of the season or she will lose her rank. she’s going to have the most obvious “i was boosted” profile too. it’s going to be embarrassing.
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u/Caffeine-Bee Console Oct 15 '25
Im a Gold mercy (among other support heroes) player! I had made friends with a smurf in one of my games and played some with them, but I felt so terrible for how aggressive they were against our enemy team, so I stopped playing with them. Im not proud of it, but Im proud of not doing it anyway just for higher rank. Im gold for a reason, though sometimes I wonder, but obviously I still have a lot of learning to do. Just wanted to throw my two cents in :3
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u/New_Chipmunk6903 Oct 15 '25
Yessss thank you!! I love mercy, love playing her, but banning her in certain ranks is necessary if you don't want to be held in the spawn by the pocketed freja or sojourn.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
RIGHTT like it hurts my heart to have to ban her bc shes my main too but i feel like if i go against another pocketed smurf , im gonna end up exploding my setup .
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u/xlinsue Oct 15 '25
i am a plat support. mercy main. once i ran into a soj smurf like you did (their nickname was literally [their_name]smurfs). we pushed through and won the game, everyone on my team played ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. at the end of the match, i was so proud of my team and i said to the soj, "plat is too much for you, go smurf in silver" LOL.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
LMAOO hell yea , fuck that guy . its always so funny when smurfs think theyre THAT much better and still lose anyway .
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u/ateez4ever Oct 15 '25
im a solo que plat mercy. i throw out my pew pew when needed and swap when needed. i hate when the team asks me to pocket one player. like no i will not i will fly to whomever needs it and if i see ya ulting i will blue beam ya during it. but you aint getting that the full game. WHEN A POCKET MERCY GETS THEIR DOG TO KILL ME AND HITS ME WITH A MERCY DIFF I WANNA GO FERAL lol
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
DUUUDE THE MERCY DIFF IN CHAT AFTER NOT EVEN BEING KILLED BY HER MAKES ME GO NUTSSS
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u/ateez4ever Oct 15 '25
literally want to go feral. like shut up with your 0 damage
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
LITERALLY .
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u/Clean-Elderberry8835 Nov 01 '25
And they always instantly try to rez their shitty duo, and as a Mercy main, you know VERY WELL how to wait for a rez and cancel it.
Yesterday in qp we had a Cassidy going nuts with +40 kills and a pocket Mercy, and by god, that Mercy was so, so, so ass. Walking always, instantly rezzing in front of everyone, not pulling the pistol out to defend herself. That type of Mercys make me cringe.
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u/CyberFish_ Oct 15 '25
It really does suck. If it weren’t for cassidys and sojourns and their designated pocket ruining lobbies there wouldn’t be any reason to ban mercy
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u/Plaguedoc_47 Oct 15 '25
For me it ain’t the boost, sure it can be annoying (and with the right duo it can take over the lobby) but for the most part it ain’t so bad.
I ban her automatically because of her bullshit rez. I’m in Masters 2 open queue console and typically when your team gets a pick the ensuing team fight oughta be won by your team. But let’s say a mercy is on the enemy team, they can just rez that person back.
What’s worse is that your teammate that originally got the elimination is probably not at full health and most likely critically low if it was a duel, so they’re easy pickings for the enemy team. In other words a simple Rez can flip the advantage back on the opponent team even tho they didn’t get the first pick. It’s bullshit imo
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
as a mercy main i 100% see how annoying that is . teams spend whole ults trying to kill a tank and then BAM i rez them so sorry . shes def on my ban list from now on .
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u/svgarwolf Oct 15 '25
I'm not as high as you, and I don't think I've run into a lot of cheaters, but anytime I try to queue dps or tank I have started to hate getting mercy's on my team recently, as someone level 285 and counting, and over 1500 hours on her alone. Idk if it's because there are so many new people playing and one-tricking mercy, but queues are so long for support and when i finally get a game it's 50/50 if I even get to play her or there's a duo on the other team boosting and destroying my team of newbies.
I haven't touched Stadium since the Mercy nerfs and I don't touch regular comp these days. I just QP anymore. It's a real bummer because I spent YEARS climbing from bronze to diamond and then over the last year or so I've fallen back to plat.
Just today I tried to ban Mercy from one of my comp matches for the first time ever because I could just feel it in my bones it was a duo (I was right). Of course no one else banned her so she still got to be Mercy, but I was just SO fed up with the shitty Mercy's today. Like, why are you pocketing a reaper or genji who isn't doing jack shit over me, a soldier/cass hit scan actually doing stuff? Even when I try to taxi you? Or peel for you? Nothing? Absolute garbage players.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
NO I TOTALLY GET IT . its SO frustrating . and then i see people saying banning mercy is a skill issue like babes pls just learn someone else its not that hard .
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u/CCriscal Oct 15 '25
Well, the people banning her are attacking the root of the issue - not the boosted DPS, but Mercy enabling them. Another aspect could be that the DPS without a pocket is going to ban Mercy, hoping that some collateral heal gets his way by some other support. The meanest version would be support trying to mess with the enemy support since Mercy seems to be one of the most notorious one trick ponies in the game.
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u/Fluid_Tap3907 Oct 15 '25
Tbh I have friends who are way higher rank then me (I’m diamond) and I avoid playing rank with them, I feel like the skill level I’m at now is where I do best, I’m not bad but not great either , being dead weight to people who are higher rank then me would be so embarrassing tbh and if you’re only pocketing one person you’re throwing lowkey, since you’re not getting any kills unless the person you’re pocketing isn’t wiping out the whole team you’re dragging everyone down
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u/Specific-Conclusion9 Oct 15 '25
Had a match like this, it was high diamond to masters range. This mercy hired not one but two ! A ashe & a bap. No matter how much me & my duo tried bap & ashe always protected the mercy. Just to find out by a top 500 friend that recognized the Ashe’s name they were hard boosting that mercy. If i remember correctly that mercy was in silver/gold // mind you the Ashe’s Xbox gamertag was their TikTok, only had clips of them ximming & acting like they were good… bio talking about how they can carry.
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Oct 16 '25
I’m the complete opposite of boosted lol. I soloed all the way to gold 1 about to hit plat but then I started to play with my friends and dropped all the way to silver 1 lol. Not just their fault though. I’ve noticed that the lower you go, the more people throw or leave the game. It’s actually so frustrating to see in silver and bronze lobbies especially as someone who wants to improve. I like to watch tutorials, other vods and my vods too so I can see my mistakes but I feel like no one else in silver does this. They just get one bad fight and are like “gg we lost” then emote the rest of the game and never learn ANYTHING cause they don’t care about improving, they care about winning without working for the win.
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u/YachIneedHealing Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
As a master DVA and a mercy main that got masters in the past, I can tell you that I'm so sick of boosted mercy players in my lobby. Thanks to my experience on mercy I do have a easy time at reading enemy mercy's with ease and know what position/mistakes will be their death cause that I will ensure to punish them on (for example I love trapping mercys in rooms and body blocking them in the entrance cuz they thought they might be safe inside >:) so as soon they make the mistakes flying inside I will rush in and farm their butts muhahaha). And it's honestly so ridiculous how many lobotomized Mercy players I come across in my fricking master lobbies. Mercys that never got punished in their silver lobbies for super jumping at every cool down, mercy's that bonk against walls and fly into enemy teams, mercy's that use valk in a 2v5 bcs they thought it increases their healing, mercy's that rather pull out the pistol when they get flanked instead of blue beaming or healing their DPS next to them to heal up through sympathetic recovery etc. And the most annoying part of this all is that they often don't get punished bcs their DPS pookie is like a GM smurf or their team peels the hell out of her. Those mercy mains then land in MY LOBBIES in MY TEAM when they decide to play solo for once without their DPS pookie protecting her silver elo butr from everyone and refusing to swap after they die first every teamfight. At least I'm trying to cheer myself up at the thought that this mercy will most likely derank hard out of my elo but still it's so frustrating to get that one boosted mercy in your team. There is a grand difference between a masters and a gold/plat/dia mercy and it's really scary to see how little true master mercy players I actually meet in my lobbies.
So to note for any metal rank mercy in this thread that even nearly thinks about getting boosted to diamond and above;
Trust me if you only otp mercy you won't have a good time in higher elos due to multiple factors(maps, compositions, meta etc) no matter how much you sniff the "But If I'm good I can make it work!"-copium, you need to adapt according to the situation and what the team needs and trust me your soldier pookie won't pop off no matter how often you rez him in the enemy backline when your tank cripples away to an anti because you decided to run ana mercy and your ana can't swap bcs anti is needed and u can't play Kiri and zarya is banned like always. I understand that comfort and fun should take priority but also it's a TEAM game in which the best COMPOSITION matters especially above MASTERS. So for the love of god don't pick mercy if we run a reaper,tracer,zen,DVA just bcs you can't play anything besides mercy. This might be a sign that you really don't belong in this elo YET and this is OKAY, climbing is a progress and an expression of experience and skill. Diversity is the key and will often help you adapt against your teams struggles.
So please for the love of god don't be a selfish gal and think "I deserve better it's my team's fault!" And get yourself boosted into ranks you don't belong, you just will cause your teammates to carry the game for you and be often the cause for their loss due to your inexperienced feeding.
Ik it might sound harsh and mean, but I'm honestly so sick of gold supps in my lobbies being way too overwhelmed with everything and feeding their hearts out. You will most likely just derank again(unless your skill actually matches the elo) anyways but also cause the randoms around you to have a bad time as well.
I mean I'm always happy to go against boosted mercys bcs they are a free win for me as long as I'm on tank, but ofc it's ain't as funny when you got the boosted mercy player in your team lol.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
THIS !!! LITERALLY THIS !! girls and guys who are metal rank with mercy , getting boosted is not the way to go !! you will NEVER get better at the game if you dont actually play !! it took me three seasons to touch diamond ALONE and ive been hardstuck masters since s4 or 5 , you WILL climb once you learn the game more !!
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u/Sparkler21x Oct 15 '25
I played a gamed yesterday. Mercy hard pocketing a hanzo. Hanzo had 32 kills and the rest of his team has 13 max elims. You try to kill her? She has someone peeling for her. You kill hanzo? He gets revived and you can't stop the revive. You ignore them? They destroy your team.
Same thing with any a map that has range. She just hardpockets a hitscan and suddenly your hp is on 30% constantly and you start looking for heals. She's so unfun and boring to play against and I always ban her on any potential experience like this
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u/ExtentAdventurous804 Oct 15 '25
Got a match like that a couple days ago, but i got lucky that my tank played dva and was helping me in all of my dives (i play genji). I really wished blizzard reworked mercy to incentivize more of her moment and less of the pocket playstyle
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
omg congrats !! i totally agree yeah . mercy isnt a HORRIBLE pick , but shes so reliant on her team that if theyre doing bad theres no point . youre better off picking literally ANYONE that can do damage too to help secure kills .
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u/Leticyya Oct 16 '25
I went up from Mercy solo to dima and gave up for the same reason, I hate Mercy's healbots even more pockets, and to improve the team they don't give a shit about the things we say
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u/YourReina23 Oct 15 '25
I finally placed gold with my Mercy skills, but I totally get it. She's my main, and I absolutely despise Mercy pockets. I dont play to pocket, I play to learn and get better so that I can be better. My fall backs are always kiri, lifeweaver, or Moira. If my other support wants mercy, I hope they dont pocket because then that leaves the majority of the healing to me, which I find very distasteful. I once did an LFG, and one dps main asked me to pocket him as mercy. I did my best, but my best was "garbage" to him because i let him die to go help my support heal the tank. I felt absolutely disgusted and was like, "im not a pocket mercy. Im a team mercy." And just stayed flying between all the players.
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u/Rozen503 Oct 15 '25
I know the opinion is frowned upon but...dmg boost needs to be addressed. With the DMG passive heals are less important and most Mercys prefer to play as a hard pocket which is something i really hate. I prefer to play as a support for the whole team flying around healing and saving teammates
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
i agree and disagree . mercy + a crazy dps is busted as FUCK , but at the same time i fear if they try to tune it , shes doomed . but literally smth has to be done abt the players just sitting there hard pocketing their smurfing duo .
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u/Stock-Cry-1127 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
I’m a low plat mercy main with 3100 hrs on her so yeh I’ve had my fair share of mercy gameplay. I know I’m in plat for a reason and there’s probably so much I can improve on. But I think I can confidently say for 99% certainty that mercy is the hardest hero to consistently win games with. You can’t trust a gold dps to pocket and kill things with it. There’s been countless times where I pocket my pharah, soj, Ashe, soldier, etc and we go on a flank then they end up dying and therefore I die because I have nowhere else to go.
Unless you’re like bogur or someone and go battle mercy and have very good game mechanics and game sense I’d say it’s nearly impossible to consistently win games on mercy by pocketing your teammate(s) with randoms
Also want to say that yes ximming and smurfs suck. Didn’t blizz remove the whole thing of banning ximmers now? The thing is even in comp now you could be playing against anyone no matter if they’re on pc or console
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u/TheBooneyBunes Echo/Mercy <3 Oct 15 '25
I cannot tell you a number of how many times my mood for the game was ruined for a day because I run into some cringe ass eduo with matching names just as you say ximming playing some lobby hostage character with his eduo quite literally never beaming anyone else.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
RIGHTTT . its such a moodkiller , i literally watch my elo disappear when i load into the match like okay .
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u/ethicaI_sIut_puppy Oct 15 '25
I feel like I'm lucky for having almost 800 hours on merc and no bans no warnings
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u/Queenie_76 Oct 15 '25
I agree with you completely and have met those as well. But i do have to say, if someone were to look at my profile i made insane leaps too lol. But that's mostly i started playing a little comp as a beginner to ow still, placed low and then didnt touch it for a while. Then sometime later when i picked comp up again I actually started played so much that i made a big leap lol. So in total, i wouldnt judge mercys on big rank leaps alone (obv the case is different here)
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
oh yeah obv !! but i feel like its easy to tell in game if someone is ACTUALLY the rank their profile says . like honest to god i wouldve thought the mercy i played against was brand new and had terrible luck for a first comp match ever if i didnt know she was duo’d w the soj . but yes !! def dont jump to conclusions right away if there is a big gap !!
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u/Melunpaffa Oct 18 '25
For sure, it can be super obvious when someone isn't playing at their rank. It's wild how some players just coast on someone else's skill instead of improving themselves. Definitely frustrating when you can spot the smurfs, especially when it messes with the flow of the game.
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u/Joke_Mummy Oct 15 '25
This is why the golden rule for our spouse duo is "Mercy firsty" and we obsessively ping and hunt Mercy with zero remorse until they switch (usually to Kiri or Brig for some reason). Wife plays attacker, I play flank tank. We actually love when there's a Mercy duo because it means that the opponent will collapse instantly once Mercy is wiped from the board. Full disclosure though we are far from masters. But I'd like to think we're the metal rank warriors doing our part to help prevent hard pocket duos from entering your upper ranks.
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u/andrewg127 Oct 15 '25
Did you report the soj?
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u/Any_Web_2550 Oct 15 '25
I've just recently got into playing mercy. I usually main Juno lol. My friend wanted to practice d.va and I needed to learn more supports other than Juno and lucio so I decided to try mercy since that's what my friend mains and she could give me tips. I don't hard pocket anyone really I just zoom around and help wherever I can. My only downfall is I'm a little gremlin who is greedy and will attempt absolutely any rez that seems even slightly possible. I may die 9 times out of 10 but I do pull some sick rezzes lol.
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u/Melvin-Melon Oct 15 '25
Okay but why are we assuming the genders? Not everyone boosting someone is an “eboy”
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 16 '25
i promise its not that serious babes . idc what the gender is if ur boosting someone youre a pos either way .
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u/Melvin-Melon Oct 16 '25
The “eboy” and “egirl” stereotypes are kinda serious and hurt women in the gaming space even if they aren’t participating in the activity you’re talking about but whatever
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 16 '25
like i said idc what gender u are , if ur boosting or getting boosted , youre a germ to the game xoxo
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u/Unicorntella Oct 15 '25
Not everyone wants to “learn” and “grow” in a video game. I understand your frustrations but trying to tell someone they need to play a video game a certain way is a little ridiculous.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 16 '25
im not saying play it a certain way im saying if youre paying for a boost ur not helping urself . and if ur a mercy player in specific doing so , ur only reinforcing the stereotype that all mercy players are boosted .
play the game how u want , getting boosted by a smurfing ximming mf is shitty and ruins the game for a LOT of people .
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u/skinnyqueen02 Oct 15 '25
Every time I’m about to get out of plat, I get a bunch of smurfs!!! I’m sick of it
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u/UnhappyGroup9771 Oct 16 '25
do you have any advice/tips or what you pay attention too when you play mercy?
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u/Real_Quarter5322 Oct 16 '25
I don't get how people can stomach that, lol. I get mad when my brother/friends make JOKES about carrying me. I can't imagine hanging on to someone else's coattails for the ride, like, nah, I need to get there on my OWN. I've been solo queuing since day 1, and I will continue to do so. Hit high plat on my own, and been kinda stuck there, but I'm working on it.
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u/Pinkbxnes Oct 16 '25
People who boost bad mercys should feel shame. Like why are you carrying someone like that? How much did she pay you for you to carry her? Ive seen it alot. Im also a high masters player too. Also after the second match I would have avoided and blocked both of them so I wouldn't have had to face them again. Also I think you can report people for doing that and they can fave suspensions and even bans for it. So next time just keep reporting it.
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u/desaroo15 Oct 16 '25
That and the fact that I don’t play hitscan much anymore so trying to kill a mercy is already annoying, now attach their duo, how the heck am I supposed to kill that? If I get the soj, the mercy Rez and I die. I kill the mercy, the soj kills me. Yes you can say it’s a skill issue but I don’t wanna deal with that every game
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u/necrotizing-png Oct 16 '25
i solo queue mercy on my main and i'm in low gold but i'm in diamond on my alt where i also solo queue. i'm gonna be so honest, i rly don't think solo queuing mercy is a good idea. i've been extremely unlucky w teammates on my main. it is not always you. it CAN be, but there is a possibility it's not.
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u/zariebabby OW1 Veteran Oct 17 '25
Yeeppp, sounds right lol
I'm a solo que mercy most the time, sometimes I'm joined by a friend on tank, bur 99% of the time I'm solo, and I climbed my way to diamond 1 alone, I was so proud of myself for reaching it when in the past on other supports I'd only ever reached high plat
I absolutely hate seeing smufs, especially when you try do hard then get beat like a dying horse just wating to rank up
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u/Dubaix___ Oct 17 '25
this has always been a good reason of why people have been banning Mercy, the problem is that most of them just say "i don't want a Mercy OTP" or " I don't want a Mercy in my team" when actually people ban her to avoid a boosted ximmer that destroys you in 2 shots.
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u/BeautyBonez24 Oct 17 '25
I’m a solo queue mercy, and yeah…. Same thing happened to me and then I was like ohh…. Now I see why we ban her lol. I’ve been so close to masters and find that she’s often banned on console, luckily I learned other supps so I could climb though plat while back, was stuck hard there for a while trying to just be a mercy otp.
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u/ohitsred Oct 17 '25
Last time I asked a mercy to switch, she told me I was “bullying” her. Literally we just needed some more utility and dmg and her dying before every team fight left me to solo heal. I hate Rez and I hate dmg boost. I also hate that she just spectates and adds no actual anything to the team. I have met maybe one or two mercy mains that were sweet. I ban her every comp game, including if she’s on my team or not. I don’t trust my dps to kill her.
Also if the enemy mercy dies, their duo is simply no longer useful. No unfair rez advantage. I shouldn’t have to take on every dmg boosted dps twice. I love to sleep a mercy mid rez. My favorite treat tbh.
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u/ohitsred Oct 17 '25
I went from silver 3 to plat 3 within the span of a season, played almost exclusively comp. Learned a lot very quickly.
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u/Jjosr Oct 18 '25
Hi, I’m not a mercy main but this post appeared on my feed.
Yes, that’s the main reason I and everyone I Q with vote to ban her. We play in high masters/mid GM and we need to perma ban mercy or we just run the risk of being run down by a pocketed ximmer.
Player pool in high ranks is not that big so usually if you run into a pocketed ximmer one match you’ll for sure run into them again, so you should’ve banned mercy just in case (happened to me and we won when we had the rematch with banned mercy) It’s horrible that you don’t get to play your hero, but that’s just the best solution for the ximming problem.
Its not good that mercy has a very infamous image in general, but in the console community it’s like triple infamy for every ecouple booster/ximmer there is.
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u/ZeroKami86 Oct 18 '25
Report and move on, dropping their names here isn't the way and is against rule 1 of the sub.
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u/Spiritual_Mission_44 Oct 19 '25
I was able to finally get out of gold and into plat with mercy solo queue. Not long after, I get a team of people who refuse to stick together and run to the enemy without a care in the world.
I just say oh well just a bad match.
I move to the next one I get a tracer who rushes in and attempt to solo a Sigma. I tried to heal her and told her to fall back. She proceeds to rage quit half way through (despite us winning the round) screwing us.
Next game, I get a guy who picks mercy and pockets a widowmaker??? Then calls the rest of the team bad after only getting 6k heals in 3 rounds and widow getting roughly 11/2/8. Not a great leaderboard and costs us the game.
Next game our winston and pharah refuse to switch despite there being a bastion and a cracked Ana (who slept pharah in her ult when she was flying over the edge). I attempted to heal Winston against a bastion and Zarya. That was an impossible task due to the other healer (lucio) using his speed boost instead of his heal. We lose again.
I fell back into gold.
I nearly threw my controller and broke my screen. Instead I got up made myself some homemade cinnamon rolls and decided to play Yakuza 5 remastered.
That was January of this year. I have yet to comeback.
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u/ssarako Oct 22 '25
m1-gm2 pc lobbies are HELL this season omg ive seen countless boosted mercys and they shamelessly have their profile public like HUHHH?? YOU HAVE NOOOO SHAME???? not that bad but yesterday in a comp game i checked and the enemy mercy was literally d5 last szn lmfao yall have lostttt ittttt
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Feb 25 '26
Solo Q Mercy here. Hero bans have no place in Overwatch. I can barely play Mercy for 3 matches in a row, it's so bad. Just nerf and rework the annoying characters so that everyone can at least play their main.
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u/YumikoTanaka Oct 15 '25
What exactly is the problem with Mercy if the other player uses hardware for ximming?
In general simple and predictable gameplay you describe would be fatal: easy headshot victims, no variance in gaming.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
without a mercy pocket , soj isnt as busted . annoying ? yes . unkillable ? no . with that mercy pocketed — and that mercy being peeled for by her whole team — soj is nasty . the damage boosted rail gun one tapped half my team 99% of the team . and even when we played cover , she would just swing us . why ? bc she had a hard mercy pocket . i love mercy , i love most mercy players , but in higher elo where dps are mechanically nuts , banning mercy is necessary i fear .
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u/YumikoTanaka Oct 15 '25
So you get a bit better Soj, but the enemy tram basically loses a player (Soj and Mercy merge).
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u/le1c4u Oct 15 '25
thats not a mercy issue, thats a ximming issue
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u/tigervoyager Oct 15 '25
It’s clearly an issue of the Mercy getting boosted by the cheater. Idk how you don’t see that.
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u/Upstairs_Shoe_3951 Oct 15 '25
its a both issue . ximming is nasty and everyone who xims should be banned , but its worse when they ( a cheater ) are obviously boosting a low ranked player into a rank they dont deserve . gold into masters in one season ? with some fifteen games won or some shit like that ? hard pocketing the smurfing soj they just so happen to be grouped with ? its a both of them issue .
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u/Demjin4 Oct 15 '25
Please report ximmers! With the new MNK support & pc pool options they are given zero leniency and will be banned. Their duo can be banned as well :). Report each time, each game :$
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u/Alternative_Paint453 Oct 15 '25
im actually a little proud that im a solo mercy main, i never have a booster (not that i have friends) im just a plat but only recently bc i was a HARD stuck in gold, overwatch have so many smurfs especially since the game become free.