mercy main btw

[3:45 PM] Blue: i don't think she's bad for the meta in her current state
[3:45 PM] Blue: she is just horribly unfun for the player and poorly designed(edited)
[3:46 PM] Blue: valkyrie feels underpowered, and the flight is now nerfed enough that there's little point in even trying to use it if the enemy team has a hitscan. yes, this is annoying, but this isn't my main gripe. sure, nerf flight speed or even remove the flight altogether, i'll be irritated but w/e(edited)
[3:47 PM] Blue: but the real problem is how out-of-place rez is rn(edited)
[3:48 PM] Blue: you can be a mercy who is absolutely shite at healing targets but still contribute to the team exactly as much rez-wise as any other rez mercy
[3:48 PM] Blue: i.e. there is no connection whatsoever b/w the amt of healing you do and your ability to rez(edited)
[3:48 PM] Blue: this makes rez feel completely thrown-in
[3:49 PM] Blue: it's like giving lucio a 10 second cd barrier, rein-style: it doesn't tie into the design of the character
[3:49 PM] Blue: if you're going to make mercy a healbot just take out rez and give her an e that helps her healbot status
[3:50 PM] Blue: as is it's a failed attempt to appease mercy mains who only play her for the rez with the healing-centric playstyle pros are clamoring for
[3:50 PM] Blue: if they're going to go through with these changes to rez and make it completely separate from her healing kit in every way they may as well give her a new gimmick
[3:51 PM] Blue: and that'd be okayish with me
[3:51 PM] Blue: but i still wouldn't play her
[3:51 PM] Blue: but rn she feels like a cobbled-together character, orisa-style, and i can't stand it
[3:53 PM] Blue: in other words, rez is a mechanic that exists only on mercy, but mercy's ability to rez is not affected by every other aspect of her performance, and thus it seems like rez is tacked onto mercy for the sake of a character having rez rather than mercy having been built as a hero around the rez
[3:57 PM] Blue: this is coincidentally the reason that roadhog post-hook nerf but pre-breather buff was bad: his original role of a area controller who could punish bad positioning hard was removed, and he was not given a new one
[3:58 PM] Blue: with the breather buff he became a damage soaker who could push past the frontline briefly to drag an opponent out of an already solid position for punishment by the rest of his team