Playing Mercy with Mauga is absolutely terrifying (but also very fun) | Niandra 

Hey everyone! How did you find playing with Mauga?

I love that edit of Ana walking up and blowing Mauga up

So, here's a thing from the low ranks. I have learned that certain tanks actually are GREAT damage boost/pocket targets. Especially the dive tanks. I can keep them alive when they LoS my Ana or other support and help secure a few picks, while staying in LoS of my other Support if they need some help. This can be especially helpful with someone like Kiriko because I don't have to go all in like she does and I don't take the same level or risk. I don't know if this matters as much in the upper brackets, but grabbing my Winston and going half in with him has actually put a few Brigs down that would have won otherwise.

Too bad that we have to wait for a month till Mauga will be back to explode at Ana's nade. LOL

was curious on mercy/zen/bap/ana players opinions on mauga since he does get higher value from damage boosts due to his aura and passive working on a % of damage done instead of a flat value

mauga balls

Unfortunately far too many Mauga's thought 55hp a second would let them 1v5

mauga is a very fun character to play with, as and against but DEAR LORD PLEASE GIVE HIM SOME ARMOR 😭 you leave him for 2s and he just explodes

I used to think Hog is a tank that requires constant healing for sustain, specially if his healing is on cd. Then I met Mauga and I'm forever grateful my Hog's healing has damage reduction

I got 1200 damage amped in 6 minutes on one match. But that was with a really good Ana. Mauga is so hungry for heals, that I can't imagine him having a good time with most of the support roster.

Every time I got locked into Cage Fight (not often actually) I would yell "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with ME!" and break out the glock. Still died, but had a blast every time. I had a fun time with Mauga too, but my friend did NOT because of how much healing he required.

i felt so similar to what u said! it was super stressful trying to learn the healing breakpoints for mauga and its so painful to play him with a suboptimal support lineup, but there were a lot of fun interactions that made playing mercy feel good. i like that beam going through barriers feels so notable - i had some really impactful feeling valks when cage fights were happening

"Being an Overwatch fan is kinda rough sometimes" - I hear you on that one lmao

I’ve never touched mercy a day in my life but as a tank player it’s nice to know what mercy has to keep track of, your vids are very informative.

“I’m not babysitting a 300lb toddler with two mini guns” teammate kiriko

During it, I mostly played Zen so I could do the damage orb and fight with a heal orb on him and there were instances where he and other mauga were melting each other but me and the Ana/Kiriko would keep him alive.. at one point I was in transcendence during some insane ults going off and I think I could barely keep him above 50% hp with it. 💀

I definitely feel Mauga needs buffs. When Mauga was on my team, I almost always had to swap to a support with better tank healing potential, and was basically forced to healbot. I think his ult is very cool. I wish I could fly to allies who are also in the cage when on Mercy though. At the same time, I think it's weird that Orisa can just casually walk out of the cage with Fortify. Orisa does not need another thing to be good against. Neither does Ana lol. But here we are! Mauga definitely seems like a fun and funny dude so I'd like to have more fun playing alongside him. Here's hoping.

Antinade is really strong against him. He is very susceptible to counterplay and relies heavily on his supports to help him out if he doesn't have overrun ready.

It looks like that trapping in 4:15 was personal

I ugly Laughed at ana blowing up mauga with her nade

As kiri, having a mauga is really stressful, he demands a lot of health and almost all my suzus, which makes encounters with other chars like illari, sombra, or JQ even harder

Playing support with that tank on your team is SO HORRIBLE 😭😭😭 literally cant look away for a second or he would DIE lmao. Feel like a healbot, cant really do much else but pocket Mauga

Mauga's reallly explode! That's not a drill xD I felt the same way hahaha

I just feel as a support I can never stop left clicking him. It's really unsatisfying and imo makes playing "support" into playing "healer". Specifically Mauga healer. 🤷‍♀️

Mauga is 100% my least favorite tank to play with as support it just sucks all the fun out of the game because I just have to spam heal him 24/7

I havent really gotten to play with mauga much but god he does need healing a lot 💀 also hihi i love ur videos 🥲 thx for the mercy tips

The fact that a 500-health hero can just evaporate like that is one of the reasons I really dislike Overwatch's balance. It's always had low TTK, but lately it seems like I'm playing... I don't know - anime Titanfall?

“*sad support sounds*” I haven’t seen something so reliable in a while

lol you are getting penalty window.

"There is nothing more I can do" - well just switch to Kiriko, who even thinks of picking mercy if you see a Mauga smh... Just delete boring mercy while we are at it, most useless hero in the game after Moira

Playing in a match with mauga in lower leagues was chaos. Half of my games ended with the enemy mauga going into match chat to apologize 😭😭

I have a fairly different experience because my 2nd support was almost always Kiriko (i'm kinda a kiriko magnet i guess?) But then matches went: Ana Nade into Suzu into Queen Ult and... Very self-explanatory situation

his ult caught me by surprise a few times :S But what I wonder: WHERE IS THE ZOMBIE MERCY SKIN? Halloween is now over and the skin hasn't dropped :(

I feel like the secret to Mauga is the following 1. While long range on tank is never amazing, Mauga’s is better than any other tank. His close range is also amazing, but more vulnerable, and midrange is where other tanks outshine him the most. 2. He is better at counter engages than engages. His main form of protection for himself and others is Cardiac Overdrive. This doesn’t get anywhere near the value if the enemy is able to block the damage using cover, barriers, movement disengages. You want THEM to use resources to get to you/your team, so the dmg reduction/lifesteal is harder to negate. 3. He’s a bit reminiscent of JQ in regards to an almost anti-dive, squishier tank playstyle, using knife to disrupt dives (overrun for him) and shout to protect allies (Overdrive for him), except queen is more mid range and consistent, whereas Mauga is burstier and thrives at the two range extremes more. I can see a comp like Ashe, Kiriko, Hanzo, Zen, Mauga putting in some work with long range poke, and Mauga counter engages on enemy dives.

Yeah... The only time I felt comfortable playing Mercy with a Mauga, is if I had an Ana or Bap. Otherwise he would just roll over so fast. Hopefully they give him more sustain and/or damage mitigation. And finally address anti.

Balance wise, Mauga's probably in a really good spot, weirdly enough. All he really needs is a slight lowering of his dual firing damage (as its insane, especially with the crits) and more counter play to Cage Fight. Because, holy crap, the only two heroes that can allow multiple allies to escape it are Sombra and Sym, and of those two you're only ever gonna be seeing Sombra. Orisa can just nope out of it with Fortify, which doesn't help her allies at all, Lifeweaver can pull a single ally out of it, but still leaves the rest to sorta just get on with it. And I tried Petal Platform, but the chains will pull you back into it anyway, even though the Petal still works. And an enemy Mauga can *sorta* run through it. He can't inside it, but if he's already charging, he can just run right through it. So, there's literally no counterplay to this thing aside from shooting it really quickly, but considering it's the second highest health barrier in the game, losing only to Photon Barrier, sitting at a pretty chill 1,500 Health, that's still gonna take a good second or two with a Bastion, and that's assuming Mauga decides to leave him alive long enough to let him take it down. Maybe it they divided the barrier into sections, that you could then destroy that one section and leave it, but keeping the rest of the Cage Fight active, so Mauga still keeps the infinite ammo benefit? I dunno, just throwing ideas at a wall - The obvious choices would be to either A) Lower the total health of the barrier, or B) Make the projector destructible, but both would kinda just make the ult incredibly sub par, since then it would be way too easy to shut down.

Do you think the Resurrect should be separated from the long arm/hand animation length? Can you do a video on this? I’ve been interrupted or bumped at the last millisecond after doing the already-long animation and cast time. Ability lost too easily. What if you resurrect still succeeds long as you did 95% of the cast time or animation? Instead of it being lost if someone bumped you before your hand closed.

I'm not even playing Overwatch for years now, I just love your content and it's my only source of ow news 😹 Also, i believe it's ParaISo, not ParaSIo 🤔

So you pretty much HAVE to constantly, constantly, constantly be pumping him full of healing. Got it. *sigh

mauga is fun to play but as a supp main it feels like im always healbotting him which i don't enjoy and as a mercy main specifically i think i'm gonna switch when i see a mauga in my team bc i know i won't like stressing myself over healing mauga when i should pocket dps ): it kinda ruins the mercy-fun of my games to me

obligatory pronunciation guide: the "G" in Samoan is pronounced with a soft "ng" as in "thing" or "song", hence, Mauga is pronounced "MOW-Ngah"

He is a character that unfortinatly needs to have a specific team built to support him. He needs to have two specifit healers to help him. Namely Ana and Kiriko are a must to build a team arroind him to keep him alive.

The question that has never been brought up is why ana's nade still reduces 100% of healing, and not a certain percentage, its a strong ability

Mauga self-healing is like roghogs but with extra steps. Most people don't know how to utilize it during trail period

Sometimes it's fun to play with a character that's either alive or exploded with almost no middle ground!

Congratulations to all tank players out there: Hamster is not the most stupid character anymore!

I actually enjoyed playing mercy with mauga, dmg boosting him is very fun, specially when both ult

Imagine jumping into the enemy team.. couldn't be me :'}

I recognise that mercy in the thumbnail 😂

Junkrat tire with Mauga ult is just unfair.

Strange way to say the name of the second map

Had to be 1000th like.

Omg I definitely was so stressed as Mercy trying to keep that guy alive, like he would get mowed down so hard but then of course I quickly realized (when my teammate chose Mercy before I could) that Ana is great against him so I was picking Ana a lot because I knew the enemy team would have Mauga lol.

I think the funniest thing are people saying mercy is just a left click hero, while playing Widow.

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I think Ana’s made just needs to absorb a chunk of health kind of like a negative shield that absorbs healing. Any healer can then remove the anti-effect early if they heal through the effect. It keeps the flavor but adds counter play.

It was nice that they had a test period for a new hero. Did get to play damage on Saturday that was nice hade damage/tank games left for my weekly missions. But on Sunday he was not popular any more.

Hey Niandra!

I'm pretty sure dmg boosting mauga during cardiac overdrive also boosts his life steal.

Didn't get a chance to play while he was here, but Maui looks interesting! Can't wait to get charged at and solo ulted lmao

I always love watching all your content but this video was so especially fun!! I don't know what it is but I literally rewatched it like three times xD

Love Ana throwing nade at Mauga and Mauga exploding. It’s the little things that make your videos great.

the 5:47 is amazing moment, I am laughing for 5 minutes already xD

The one thing Mercy has going for her is that she can heal people inside his cage.

the ana explosion make me laugh so much ahah

The “there’s nothing I can do” explained the support role in a nutshell 😭

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Mercy main usually. Mauga forces me to swap to either Kiriko or Bap. These two can keep up with his hungry ass. One can cleanse and one can use immortality field to keep him alive around corners