r/OWConsole

I've been playing OW off and on since release but in the past 10 years I've only put in about 1000 hours. Never really played Mercy, especially since OW2 dropped, she's currently level 4 on my account (I main Lifeweaver, Brig, Kiri) but with the flash heal change I figured I'd see what she's like now. I had such a crazy experience with her, and finally felt what one of my biggest frustrations was when going against an enemy team with a Mercy...

The enemies pretty much forgot I exist.

The only time I was ever truly a target was some solo ults with a Tire, but other than that, I pretty much just flew around healing and damage boosting almost uncontested. Of course I'd make some mistakes too, flying in a little too deep to keep someone alive which I couldn't do and I'd end up dead as well.

And the amount of times my tank or DPS would die and the enemy would just walk away giving me a free rez was shocking. Like, they HAD to have seen my staff healing them and knew I was in the area knowing that a rez is possible, but they just never really cared...they'd turn their back to me and I'd get my teammate back up.

In the post-game voting screen after my first game as Mercy, my whole team INSTANTLY upvoted me. I've never seen an instant MVP given before. And for the record, I'm NOT saying she's easy to play. Game sense, positioning, and planning your target priority ahead of time is so important. You have to understand what you believe the enemy will do next, where they're coming from, who'd benefit from a damage boost most, etc.

So I almost hate to say it, and I know that four games in a row in Mercy shouldn't make a sweeping assumption even though I've seen it when versing Mercy, but guys...Mercy is in the lobby too and is likely looking for rez opportunities. Make her a priority too, because the sense of freedom I had to just do whatever I wanted was almost scary.

Like a month ago I would play and see close to zero genji players but now? I see a lot of genji players constantly

5 straight losses
1st match was a fair loss
2nd one was a steamroll
3rd match I had a leaver in the first two minutes

4th match I had a DPS sit in spawn all game , walked around a bit so he doesn’t get kicked, and repeat. 75 damage all game. Literally never seen anyone do this before.

5th match another leaver in a match we were clearly winning in the 2nd round (the leaver was a DPS that dominated last game)

You cannot make this shit up. Who the hell queues rank just to sit in spawn?? And then a leaver when we were clearly winning? Is this peak Tanking experience?

I still play Tank in 6v6, and I think i’ll avoid the Tank Queue till I hit Diamond in all other roles

Curious, which mode are y'all playing more this season: Quick Play or Competitive? I feel like I've been playing 6s a bit more than usual.

You are suppose to lose 50% of your games, that's just statistics.

If you're really good you can push your overall win rate to 60%.

Win streaks and the opposite loss streak have the same probability, so both have to and will happen.

You can't expect to win every game just because you played good. That not how team pvp works. Losing is the other side of the coin.

Just keeping going and don’t rage to often in chat and maybe only maybe use voicechat.

Would be nice to have a Overwatch again in which more people use voice chat then not.

Ever since season 2 I've been getting crazy lag usually before matches. Happens mostly if I play multiple games of Stadium or QP. Anyone else?

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So from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you