I spectated a SILVER MERCY with questionable target priority...

One of my favorite things when I play Mercy is looking at a recently deceased teammate and going "Umm, if I try to rez you I'll definitely die... I will, however use your dead body to escape (GA passed them) Thank you!"

This is my best friend Marah. We duo all the time. I absolutely love her and I think she does very well as mercy. She was so happy you reviewed her game. I'm proud of her and I really hope she can get out of silver soon. (I'm also silver but I'm bad lmao) BUT THATS MY FRIEND AND I LOVE HER MISTAKES AND ALL

The bridge must always be fed.

One tip that I think this Mercy would benefit from is to use guardian angel to reposition rather than using it as your positioning! I learned this from Skiesti, it changed my Mercy gameplay and really helped me rank up! Once you get into higher ranks, you’ll never survive just floating above the fight. They had a soldier that should’ve easily punished you every time you did that. Before you GA to someone, think about where you want to go next instead of just pressing crouch and flying into the open sky. Your deaths per 10 should go down significantly once you get better with her positioning!

Mercy didn't look around as much as she could have. She was focused on the end of her leash when she doesn't need to do that. Get the lock and then look for trouble, or the next GA target.

There were some Rez opportunities that were absolutely rezzable as well, but were ignored or not sought out. When you hear that death noise, it should be 1) whip head around and find the dead guy (they might have fallen off but usually not), 2) look at your Rez timer (if it’s available or if it’s below 10, you’ll be able to use it in time, and 3) determine if there is a non-suicidal way to Rez. If yes, 4) do your teammates have enough health to survive your absence for a few seconds. If also yes, 5) get in there. You should be able to get into a rhythm where you do all of this in a few seconds. Also, Kitsune can be really helpful for speeding down your Rez timer, but only enter kitsune if it’s not super dangerous.

I don’t mind floor mercy (it’s better to stay behind cover and out of sight random sj are gonna get you killed ) but they definitely need to balance when they dmg boost and heal ,also they definitely aren’t in elo hell 😂

As a kiriko or moria sometimes I just stand and watch my tank die, because why is this mf running like a line backer 40m into a field of 5 enemies with no one to back them up

They seem to walk a lot as Mercy, not that they need to be in the air or anything, but they tend to just saunter in the open from one place to another when they could just GA to maneuver around more GA to tether to someone then you can always choose to go into a direction by pressing space just so that you get that initial tether and then back to cover or close the distance to somewhere safer

Emongg's comment about pocketing the echo just reminded me of a game that I had yesterday. I was mercy. There was a D'va (that thank god knew what corners were), a dps that kept switching, a Kiriko, and a Genji. Tried spreading around the heals and dmg boost, but noticed Genji doing great (even remembered to pop into my los so I could heal him). Took a risk and dmg boosted him off a death when he pinged he had his ult. He fucking cleaned up! AND, fellow supports will understand how awesome this is, he did the 'Thank You' voice line. I nearly cried from joy. We won. The enemy tank was pissed 'pocket *****' not sure what the stars were. My Genji went text chat to say I was a good Mercy. Games like that, are the best. Makes playing support feel good.

Emongg had already give majority of the tips for Mercy, especially the target priority, so I would just give more generic tips so you can use it as your habit: 1. Trust your other support. - Especially Ana, Bap, Kiriko, Lifeweaver, Moira to keep your tank alive. Only heal them when they are in critical health and if you want to have your valk ready. 2. Use pings - Especially ping for rezzes and ping for enemy (and you can ping them right after you die). 3. Your beam is longer than you think - so you can position yourself better and you can see more than just your target. Map code: B88FS (By Niandra) , so you would know how long your beam is for you to heal/boost them in better position. 4. Using high ground - it is better than on the lower floor and spamming super jump (although, you're using high ground few times, it is really a good habit to use it more). 5. Practice on your movement in parkour maps - it can improve your gameplay most of the time, especially Slingshots as it can be use for positioning and escape. 6. Position yourself better in your valk - if you're not contesting the cart/point, you can use your valk to see what's going on. You have longer beam lenght and you can see enemy's HP so ping whenever you see low health your team would finish them. 7. Try to track enemy ult - You can do that by looking at the scoreboard and know if they are playing the same hero for more than 90 seconds and they have been engaging your team. 8. Camera angles - If you're comfortable enough to look at the target UI (which is on the center), try to look around more and not just focusing on your target.

she needs to look around more. she's always looking at her current beam target or the direction she's walking but mercy needs to look around everywhere

Watching the gameplay, I think one of the things that they could focus more on improving on aside from the balance of the heal/damage beams and target priority is to learn how to slingshot from cover to cover (the walking around without much strafing personally made me anxious :"D). There are times where they could have done that to be able to escape and not die. Also it's good to look around and observe a lot more. It could really help in the teamfight if someone is more aware of what's happening around the team.

Still watching but the mercy immediately has a lot of ground time, which isn't necessarily bad every now and then but girl use them wings!

As a previous Silver player - you can't trust your team to do anything, so trusting the Ramattra and Kiriko... maybe after the first few mins if theyve proven themselves, but otherwise, generally you can trust that they're going to do stupid things and die instantly. Definitely need to do a mix between damage boosting the dps and healing the tank. I was gonna ask... what setting are they using for their staff? Do they have toggle beam connection on? It might be easier to switch targets with this off.

Was I the only one screaming for her to go on that top right balcony by the bridge? And as soon as she did the team pushes.. Like if you're gunna sit there and play turret mercy atleast get in a better spot!

When I play mercy I always support the damage and keep them alive and when I play damage there’s one support that looks after the damage and there fore I look after them

This may be a PC game, but that Mercy is using a controller for sure

“if I can’t see them, they can’t see me” is how it feels when she is trying to escape from enemy’s after putting herself in a bad position. Look at your surroundings for junkrat traps if you know they have a junk. Also look at the floor when junk is spamming to avoid his bombs. Playing on high ground away from the bullets is a better idea than standing behind your team. Your wings are a bigger target from behind if you are floating too. the rez on reaper in the beginning while they were in valk would of been 100% safe if they moved behind the wall after starting the Rez, reaper would have ulted for nothing, remember when you start a rez the length is increased and you can move behind cover for a safer time 😊👍

I always get this kinda tanks in Bronze to Gold, they just rush in like crazy and think people will overheal the damage of five people. They don't use walls, they just use whatever abilities they have on cooldown instead of giving supps a breathing room to heal their dps, making them pocket tank 24/7. They back up, get HALF HP back and "OH I AM GETTING HEALED, FINALLY, I'MA GO IN"... While there is a turret Bastion upfront. It's amusing how they then complain that tank role is useless or bad. But here I am having fun playing tank when I do myself, mostly D.va (because heck yeah, fun) and Sigma (for when too much damage is incoming), sometimes Zarya (for those dps that LOS supports)... I feel like D.va can do a lot if you know how to play her, which I do thanks to Emongg. But, as I always say, those who LOS supports and ask for heals, who think they are entitled to a pocket out of their whole team, are the ones that have never played supports. Used to be support main, currently flex in high Plat/low Diamond (Dia being tank and supp), getting my dps up and so far the only thing holding me down is my own stupidity of LOSing supps sometimes and getting greedy. If you come up to them, your mommy will heal your boo boo and you can run off fighting with other kids again to show off who's new shiny toy is bigger- (nano/pulse bomb joke here, Genji/Tracer main). Play all the roles, they help you understand better what a person will do, even if they are new. As a new dps, you will be like "they aren't healing!", as a tank "no dps!" and as a support "LOS dammit"... And it kinda helps not to get upset when others tell you smth like that. You'll go "eh, play my role and then you'll see".