Overwatch

Res, Sound Barrier, and Transcendence can all turn the tide of battle massively. Although with Mercy, she's less useful outside of her ult than Lucio and Zenyatta currently are.

I suspect we'll see her used more in season 2 where she'll have the 20% buff to her healing that's currently on the PTR on top of Lucio's Speed Boost and Zenyatta's Orb of Discord both being nerfed.

I think Lucio is still going to be a fixture in most games. Have you tried playing a game without a Lucio on your team? You move so damn slow. It's a massive change to the game. Even with the speed boost nerfed, it's still a speed boost, and it's still AOE healing. I think when Lucio finally stops being a constant hero is when Blizzard release another hero that provides a speed boost (that isn't an ultimate).

But, with Mercy's increased healing output, I think she will see more games. I honestly don't believe this nerf has affected the Lucio/Zenyatta comp though. Those two provide buffs to the entire team, which is too good to pass up in competitive play. Mercy will still only be able to provide the healing and damage boost to only one target at a time. It's difficult to see why a team wide strategy will be dropped in favour of a single target one.

The next patch is definitely going to flip a coin on what heroes are favoured for general damage output. Like, we might stop seeing McCree in favour of Hanzo. Genji's mobility is severed, taking him off of the playing field - bringing Bastion back in.

The problem with Mercy is that she can only do one or the other. She only provide healing or damage boost. Not both at the same time, unlike Zenyatta. Even when Mercy was the main healer pick, you might get a minute of a match where she applies the damage boost to an ally. That won't change.

I think, Mercy needs a larger change than just tweaking some figures. Perhaps adding a second stream, so that you can heal/buff two targets at once, so long as they are close enough. Maybe linking the stream from hero to hero so that if the group is grouped up, one stream can bounce between them all.

Single target healing is fine, but it generally doesn't beat AOE healing when multiple targets are taking damage.

It's definitely that way on ps4. The whole one hero team thing is sooooooo old.....

They should have kept the competitive game mode up, even after it technically stopped. I prefer how competitive works, how the matches get managed. It wouldn't be difficult to do. They'd just have to put a halt on any skill rating gains or losses.

I need to look at the potential changes again. I have some predictions about what the meta will be, at least at the start of next season; but I want to have another look first.

I have a strong feeling the snipers (Hanzo, Widowmaker and Ana) are going to be valuable picks...

I finally got the "undying " trophy. (20 kill streak,) seemed like everyone had it but me.

I got it with DVA

It was on Volskaya defending A, funnily enough  

Good luck.  I wish i had the Swiss Mercy skin. Crossing fingers I get it today.  

I've done a few games where we all went the same hero except for a healer. It doesn't work as Genji's but Winston or DVA does well. S76 was fun.

It does get a bit annoying vs 2 toeborns or bastion. Frankly what I'm more annoyed with is the Matchmaking. I had 4 games yesterday where it put me with people that were under level 20. Who weren't in a group with higher level players.

Torbjorn on Defense on Volkskaya B. The attacking team kept ignoring my turret on the moving platforms.
Still hilarious when I remember it.
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