Former TOP 500 Support Wants to Learn...MERCY? | Overwatch 2 Spectating 

A doom flaming the supports every time they don't magically save them from over extending, I can't believe it!

11:46 "Are they going to nerf Phara when they have the Transformers collab or are they gonna do it prior because they recognize players are not enjoying playing against that?" Oh, poor past emongg, he doesn't know they were actually gonna buff her, lol

Even if they're only just learning Mercy, their rank is very apparent because of their positioning/game sense Looks very different from my bronze/silver games. I think this person did a great job

honestly this mercy played pretty well considering they used to main ana. definitely better than any mercy play ive ever made

If this match was before the patch then the Mercy wouldn't have been able to see how low the Bap was at 9:48. Gotta remember that you have knowledge that the players don't due to spectating.

Hey!! The Mercy/GodGriffith here! I'm sorry I wasnt able to attend the stream. You did help me yo learn quite the bit as I noticed later on that my risk taking came from me just sort of not respecting my enemies. Which ruined my ability to pull these things off as I ranked up. However at this point ive fallen into gold 5. Which frustrates me and just makes me feel like Mercy isn't a pick that you can really climb with anymore. I miss the game like it used to be. But perhaps thats just me dwelling in the past. Thank you for helping me improve ♡ While my rank doesnt reflect it as of now, I feel like I am doing more consistent, less risky and better :] Also the Chat made me feel way less bad about my age and I lobe you guys so much ❤

Chat, is the pre- or post-married Emongg?

I play a lot of mercy and the one way I learned how to have good positioning and survivability is through the concept of 'positioning like you're hiding from a hitscane and repositioning like you're running from a flanker. Basically you don't want the enemy to see you and you don't want them to get to you.

Good fundamentals, definitely above general plat -but still some mishaps here and there that actually end up losing you round-winning team fights. First example is at 9:42 where the enemy rolls out on Ball to stall. Here it's very crucial that you do NOT give up on your own win condition, which is to maintain a hard offensive presence to ensure that the people who can actually turn the fight, are not allowed to just easily walk out of spawn. The Ball existing on cart does nothing for their win condition except extend the timer a little -and crucially, you do not do much to prevent the ball from stalling either. That Ball is not going to kill anyone on your team who are pushing kart, not on his own. So your job is to simply make sure the Ball is on his own, and you do this by hard pocketing your Bastion who is currently presenting the rest of the enemy team with a wall of damage. Make sure Bastion doesn't die. Make sure his bullets do as much damage as possible. Make sure the enemy are not allowed to get out and assist their ball or overrun the Bastion. Don't throw away the major offensive advantage you have, just because a Ball is contesting point alone. You leaving Bastion allows the Bap to come out with lamp and window and turn the fight -and you did this just to help your Reaper and Ana deal with a Ball.. Reaper and Ana. Arguably the two heroes in the game best suited to deal with Ball. Where your utility is needed, needs to be not even a thought, it should be a backbone of your playstyle that you only deviate from if a greater enemy win-con becomes apparent unexpectedly. You end up winning the fight, but this was a 90% win, that suddenly got turned into a 50/50 for absolutely no reason. If you want to climb, you need to be the carry hero in the sense that you do your job better than everyone else are doing theirs. You need to be the wall that does not allow the enemy to recontest in an otherwise disadvantageous fight for them. Be the opportunity denier. That's the mindset you need, which you have in your fundamentals, but you need to press it further. In general, another tip is to not let your offensive heroes get baited into thinking they have a Mercy pocket, if you're just gonna hop over to someone else after a few seconds. Commit to the pockets when there's significant ground to be made, and let your other support keep the general team up in the meantime. Your main utility is allowing a high-pressure ally to get away with murder for free, to always give then the advantage in duels, to always ensure their presence has to be respected so much that the enemy team can't even be allowed to straight-line their engage to the rest of your team without being punished the whole way there. Your kit at its core is pressure, amplified. And pressure also to a high degree comes down to consistency over time. Allowing a Reaper to take mad off angles and basically never be at risk of losing a duel because he is strong and the Mercy behind him adds a multiplier to this effect, let him run rampant any chance he gets. Same with the Doom if Doom is the one who's doing most of the pressure -like in the very beginning where the Genji is miles behind the Doom and basically just traversing the map, you need to be in between the Genji and the Doom so you can assist Doom in his offense, and use Genji as an escape tool. Don't be behind the person who is behind the person who is applying pressure. Ever. Mercy uniquely has the mobility to be where pressure is being applied most.

Imagine a world where the effects of ana nade were completely invisible to you. Blizzard has the worse UX team I've seen in 20 years.

They were awesome! The Doomfist can take a long walk off a short pier with their terrible take and should have switched at several points, unlike the Mercy

There were some pretty sick mercy parkour moves here. Awesome movement and value for “learning mercy”

ALRIGHT SO!!! Today’s video, we’re watching a plat 4 supprt……

Emongg I like videos like this where they’re actually good at the game, I much prefer it to so many bronze/silver spectating videos.

Comparing my teens to my thirties, my aim was exponentially better back then. Precision movement with my thumbs on a controller has become significantly harder with age. I could see how PC players may not notice as much. Since they use more than just their thumbs there's more ways to compensate.

Honestly in my opinion playing a lot of mercy she needs to stop super jumping all the time, her super jumping all the time will make her easier to hit but over all her movement is pretty good!! And her not healing some of her teammates is good too so their other support can get their ult fast too!!

I'm a Mercy main and boy do I get flamed by tanks :(, the positioning is great btw!

“MERCY NEEDS TO SWAP!” *proceeds to also not swap themselves*

The only thing I would add to this is- being a mercy lover, I try to pick one person I want to mainly support, a secondary person (usually the other supp) who I will constantly be checking and then finding value in between. If that makes any sense at all haha. Before, I was just trying to support everyone - like this mercy, and while thats sometimes okay, for my mind if I have a focus- then find value elsewhere, it helped me climb. The opposite end of that is only supporting one person - which is never helpful.

This player is already, at minimum, a masters mercy, I think if they wanted to be higher they could. Sure, you could've swapped off, and sometimes that's all you can do on Mercy if you truly are getting no value because of your own team comp, but you had lots of reasons to stay Mercy and were doing well on her. Also, I'm petty asf so the first time that someone asks me to swap in a toxic manner is the last time in a round I even remotely consider swapping but uh, my mindset is the reason I am stuck in Diamond so don't listen to me necessarily.

Doomfist playing into mauga complains the mercy isn't swapping. That's the plat overwatchest that plat overwatch has ever been.

26:17 the Doom killed himself here. The minute he put himself out of Ana's LOS there was no coming back from that without a Q. So many times in a Mercy/Ana support combo I watch the tank put themselves in a situation where they losethe bulk of their healing support and eat dirt. The fact Ana even tried to nade him once he went behind the wall too lol

as someone who’s relatively new to overwatch, the prock and spire icon needs to be added to brig because at first i had NO IDEA she had other heals than the repair kits

I love watching their movement. Holy...you can really tell they have the gamesense and general knowhow.

Being your own harshest critic is an awful way to learn. You do not possess the experience to coach yourself. It can only take you so far. Keep up the good fight my guy! 🤟🏼

As a mercy main, people who yell the most for heals are usually the worst players in the game. If you’re a mercy, give yourself grace… you’re probably not doing as bad as some people say

EMONGG I wanna see some more scrims!!

i haven’t watched the video all the way, and it’s not like i’m any better at mercy (masters peak on console) i feel like some of their super jumps are not needed and are just putting them in even more danger. its ok to play cover and not super jump all the time. they have good escapes though

My husband can't play Mercy and specifically asks me for tips. Some people just can't play her. It's normal!

As a mercy main, 18:26 this rez was so unnecessary.. u dont have to get every rez as mercy, if its risky and not worth dying for it then don’t go for it.

with the dps passive, why not do it like ana nade and have a colour that the bar changes to like red or something

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn that was some good shyt

And EVERYONE blames Support. I know this a Support player. Every game I lose. It's always a Support "Diff." Lol

Amazing plays, as a ps5 player I want to get to this stage of good 😅

Age has nothing to do with it. Well maybe some. But I seen a reaction time video with pro players bs average players reaction time. The Pros on average was quicker. But average players not thay far off. And in some 1v1s the Pro players reaction time was slower. So whats the difference? "Anticipation" they know how each Hero moves. And predicts where that Hero will go. Like Lucio for example. When he jumps in like a Mc Donald's arch. So don't shoot where he's at. But where he's gonna land. Kinda like doing pharah rockets. If someone is rumming forward while your in the air. You need to fire the rocket in front of them a little ways so by the time your rocket gets the there. The Hero they was shooting at runs right into it. They meet. That's the whole concept. Shoot where they are going. Not where they at. I even believe one of 76s voice lines even says that. Shoot where they are nothing not where they been.

Mercy is fun

7:35 This is prime example of overextending. They didn’t have to push into the next choke but they did anyways. I love getting overly cocky and falling over because of it

W video

"getting older" could mean getting into his 40's not his late 20's-30's. Gen X gamers are a plenty out there man. Yes, his reaction times would absolutely slow down past mid-late 30's. 25 is usually the drop off area iirc.

Becoming a boomer and losing my ability to aim in fpss hurt my soul... lol

Oh can someone tell me why us Moria Players playing as a "DPS" seems cringe by most? I seen a team that had a "DPS Moira" and they won. And told this teammate. Moira L. Like why? Damage is how you when. And btw, I play like this every game where I have more damage than heals. I beat a healing Moira everytime. I keep my teammates alive when needed and help damage and eliminate the enemy at the Sametime.

EMONG U DYED UR HAIR?

Genuine question for Mercy players/mains out there, what about Mercy is fun or makes you want to main her? (idk how else to word it) Objectively speaking from a player who used to play all roles up to Diamond 3 and never touched mercy I never saw the appeal to enabling a teammate 99% of the game and not actively engaging in a fight besides flying in the air or an occasional res

ngl but this VOD is pretty boring when you can't even find anything to criticize

"A former Top 500 wants to learn mercy" first 10 seconds Plat 4 Support

Emongg, you CAN see if people have the DPS passive on them.

I can't stress this enough, I hope they never make the dps passive visible by healers (like you want it to be). That'd cause such an annoying meta. On top of that, the phycology of someone staring at the spot the debuff is instead of Watchung the game... just too many downsides for such a short debuff. On top of that it wouldn't even help the top 500... are you going to tell me you don't know if a tank or a dps is shooting the person you're healing. If it's a chaotic moment and you can't tell are you saying you'll be glancing over to see if someone has a debuff... come on

8:30 "Recognizing moira is out of position" she's... not though, she's in position, she JUST fell back INTO position, and the mercy died in the process. Emong you're not allowed to watch mercy vods anymore this was Awful 💀 shes just tapping control after every shift on cooldown after that too. How was this person t500??

Im a silver support and its so exciting watching some *chefs kiss* mercy movement. My goal is to reach Gold this season. I got this! 🫡