The VITAL Guide to Mercy's Damage Boost 

This video took me FOREVER because of technical difficulties so I hope it's helpful! I'd love to hear what you've learned about damage boost :>

I main tank but it's always useful to know how your teammates works to adapt with them, I have been watching guides on every support Heroes to make their job a bit easier.

I've said this a million times already but before I actually took the time to learn how to properly damage boost I was hard stuck hold/silver. It really does make a difference just using her kit and working on smaller details of it

I love how you are capable of staying in the sky with pharah, I always struggle to follow her around. Your general movement is insane, thank you for the content ♡

Nothing makes me wanna go play some mercy more than watching Skiesti’s insane movement

Damage boost is still a really underrated part of Mercy's kit, but you've always seen that value - hopefully this will help spread the word! Fantastic work, as always.

As someone who's been having so much fun on Mercy you've been the biggest help with your amazing videos, I've been getting better at mercy cause of the videos

12:52 Blowed my mind, since blizzard doesn't really tells you details on abilities/numbers, thank god we have Skiesti to inform lol, appreciate always your content and thanks to you I can be the best Mercy version I can :D

i was inspired to learn mercy recently and your streams/guides have helped so much in my understanding of how to get more value out of her. i’ve noticed i’m dying much less (some games even 0-1 times!!!) or at least recognizing what i did wrong when i do die. she has quickly become my favorite support to play, so thank you for this too!

Love this video as always! The way you structure and present educational content is so effective.

Thank you so much Skiesti for the mercy guides and tutorials 🙏🙏🙏

thank you so much for this... i've been playing mercy myself at a decently high rank for a long time and refreshers like this still help out a ton

I love this video! very well made and clear :) I've found that playing Mercy as intended has become easier as I climb through low elo ranks- Plat/diamond teammates understand her role in a team, and don't expect her to heal exclusively. Plus the positioning in general is so much better, your other support understands that you aren't the main healer, and can effectively manage their own target priority. Your tanks and DPS can manage their own resources and know when to disengage and not take unwinnable fights. I understand why some Mercy players may find damage boosting difficult in bronze-gold, if they feel responsible for the whole teams health pool being full at all times. People can be a bit toxic in chat about supports if they feel they aren't getting "enough" healing. BUT- the impact in a fight with damage boost is so much more noticeable in low ranks. If two reinhardts are brawling and each has a mercy beam attached, the damage boosted rein will always win. I was so guilty of being a heal-bot in OW1 back in the day with the double tanks and before moira/bap. It's just so much more fun to damage boost!! from Bronze 1- to plat 1 "Heal me!" shifted to "Damage boost me!" and the experience has already become so much enjoyable

The last part about dmg boost interaction was awesome! I was looking for it for so long, thank you so much!!!!

So much good info, there was a a lot of confusion cleared up for me here. As a new OW2 player, I wasnt always clear on what affect the blue beam was having on certain character abilities, but its nice to see that I was on the right track... and this cleared up a little confusion I had specifically around other players Ult abilities.

Love Love LOVE your explanations! Its super easy to follow and understand and I cant wait to implement these in my own mercy games! ❤️😊

That was a great video thank you. I love it when information is laid out so comprehensibly.

Wow! This is literally an AMAZING guide, thank you so much!

Another great guide to devour haha, thx for the video it really shows the effort put in it

Thanks Ski. This was good info and anyone who plays Mercy needs to see this!

The section at the end where you talk about what you can and can't damage boost, and the interactions between the abilities was amazing. I feel like that section would probably be one of the main reasons that damage boost finally "clicks" for a new Mercy player.

I usually overlook Mercy as a support main. But this video has opened my eyes to how complex Mercy can truly be. I have new respect for the character, and the video was excellent and informative overall. Bravo 👏

Very useful ! As a long time Mercy player I still re-learned a lot about damage boosting. It seems some interactions have changed in the last 2 years or with OW2.

This is such a fantastic guide! Definitely going to use a lot of this in my Mercy play. I can’t wait to try it all out later this evening!😊

This is such an impressively comprehensive video!

YESSSS THANK THE LORD ITS HERE i can’t wait to watch this keep up the fantastic work ski you are the best ☺️

What a lovely guide, thanks so much!

This is by far the BEST guide I've ever seen for Mercy and I've learned so much. I've got to admit it had been a while since I play OW and coming back I wasn't playing Mercy the way she's meant to be played but I know better now. Thank you so much!

Great video Skiesti! Your guides are extremely helpful. I just started playing overwatch, but with your videos I managed to bring my rank to Plat. Keep up the amazing work. 💕

This was super super helpful. Thanks a ton!

I Would love to see a follow-up video about damage break points that are affected/unaffected by damage boosting an ally.

thank you so much for the change in perspective on the "my dps suck" thing. I've just been pistoling people when my dps are doing poorly, but if i dmg boost them, they can just do the damage for me.

This video really helped thankies😊👌🏾

Straight up 🔥. Thank you

super helpful! thank you

This guide is AMAZING. When I first started playing Mercy, I... never used my damage boost, because I honestly didn't know any better. I really only started utilizing it regularly within the past year (I know, yikes). This really helps me understand how useful damage boost can be and I can't wait to start applying this new knowledge. Thank you!!

Always enjoy these Mercy guides as a support main. Support life is stressful right now.

Helpful video thanks

Great explanation, this helps a lot

this was very useful thank you very much

Love these tips!!

I sometimes play Mercy & ngl, I tend to focus on healing only. But! I will definitely do more of both from now on. Thanks sm for this video 👍 I learned new information. Especially the later part when you go over what can/cant be dmg boosted on heroes.

Great video, thanks 👍

I was looking at a 6 year old post on reddit about keybinds for Zenyatta and saw your post linking this video :)

im so close to diamond for mercy, im primarily a dps main (masters) but this has been helping me climb so much! i appreciate the tips

Well done Skiesti! Thanks for all your hard work here.

Great vid!

After this video I started doing all the tips and guides you’ve stated and actually feel a lot better with mercy! However today I’ve been having the worst tanks. I’d help heal the whole team, but mainly leave my second supports (who were Ana’s, kirikos, and Moira’s) to help the tank while I pocket my main DPS and heal a bit of the second DPS. But, the tank got so angry at me for saying only pocketing the pharah and not pocketing him, a rein, who would constantly charge into the enemy lines alone and expect me to heal and boost him against solider and sojourn who takes high ground in numbani. Makes me realize how little people know how mercy or supports even work. I wish people realized that your mercy’s or supports in general are not just healbots. Yes, their job is to help keep your team alive, but that’s why they have other unique abilities too for damage. They’re not your healers or called healers. They’re supports and not bots.

Thank you Skiesty!!!

Great content!

love this so much!! good to know what you can and cant dmg boost in ow2

Currently climbing from bronze with mercy. The frustrating thing is that a lot of mercy's utility is lost on teammates that aren't in comms, especially the second support. Pinging is great, but it's not enough in bronze-gold. It's best paired with vc.

Your movement is incredible, really like this video, I tend to play mercy to keep the whole team up, I love it but it feels not worth it in ow2, other healers outheal me and have a bigger impact, going to try pocketing more

Such a great video. More people need to see this. So I don't loose my mind when I see an ally mercy healing a topped ally.

I was always wondering if you had to hold the damage boost for projectiles all the way until they hit, thanks for clearing that up

I main sig and I try to get into the play style of my team supports but I can't really understand most things but your guide helped me play better with other mercy players so thanks for that

Thank you for the info

As a mercy main you explain things in such an easy and Conscise way! Thank u

Man, this vid was super helpful in showing stuff I didn't know. For instance I've been thinking dmg boost works at point of impact but it's the opposite! I've been boosting Bastion AFTER he fire thinking it was more efficient. And with Cassidy I just healed him during his ult since my logic was it was more useful to make sure he doesn't get killed since his ult is an instant kill but nope, I could've made it go faster. Awesome vid, Skietsi and very helpful!

I’d love to see some document which compares dps between using the pistol and damage boosting each hero. I think it would be very funny and therefore a good idea

16:27 JunkerQueen: " get this bot out my face"

another day another skiesti slay

Great video! I will try every tip ❤

Great video. Here is my take a new Overwatch player who mains Mercy (never played overwatch 1). In bronze (which I am), being Mercy and DB feels wasteful very often. I still do it majority of the time because it's the right thing to do, but I feel there is an inherent problem. If you're on the team that cannot hit targets (worse than the other team), Mercy is pretty useless. Sure you can keep them alive longer, just to die a little bit slower haha. If I switch to a kiriko, something actually gets done. Mercy has the perfect name. She's completely at the mercy of her team not sucking. By far my favorite character and I often just stick with her to get better at GA and my overall movement/decision making. So I feel many people default to healing because they then feel more useful. You do feel useless when you DB and no one is getting kills. But those awful games force me to play even more smart and then my goal is simply not to die as much as they do by being more clever. I watch all your videos because you are excellent and they are very helpful. Mercy can just be a rough go some times haha.

Man you were not kidding when you mention like to just focus on what you know works for mercy. I just had a game where we were putting on a lot of pressure and doing well and one of my DPS's kept pinging that they needed healing, and I was going to go to them but they were at like 3/4 full health and I was trying to help our other healer in a 1v1 by damage boosting The DPS started rage chatting about "Blue beam is useless unless you're in top 500" like bro WHAT 😭😭😭

I’m new to OW myself, and when I first picked up Mercy, I was mainly a heal bot. Once I learned about how much damage boost works, I try to use it as much as possible. Unfortunately, there are games where everyone is constantly low and it feels real difficult to maintain damage boost. However, most of the time I try to pocket the dps and only help with the tank if I notice they’re low for a while. I guess I was mainly worried about my healing number, but I learned that sometimes the damage boost works hand in hand in keeping your team alive if used correctly. I started playing maybe 2 weeks ago and hit platinum, hoping to build on that with the advice.

It answered the questions I had, I was unsure if you can boost Hanzo's dragon

Thank you for confirming that Bastion's ult is boostable! I was never quite sure and will now be doing that more often when I can!

As much as I tried game after game I was only hitting like 1k or at the worst like 300 damage amplified a game. Really needed a guide like this, thank you!

Awesome video!!! I didn't know all the things she can't damage boost 😢

Fantastic video

I saw it and i said WOW what a great guide.

Thank you for this info i just started playing recently and this only reiterated what i thought how to play this character ive had friends tell me to never damage boost and just heal to rank up better

Great guide, I learned quite a bit about how certain mechanics worked that I wasn't aware of. Definitely subscribing. My questions that hopefully someone can give me some insight on: Are there specific characters that should not have priority for damage boost? Like, are there characters that naturally get little value out of damage boost that would otherwise be more effective on others (aside from other supports of course)? For example, I have tried pocketing tracers before and get lots of ticks from her, but my overall damage amplified is still low compared to pocketing soldiers or bastions. How effective is damage boost with allies that deal gradual consistent damage over time like winston, moira, mei, etc?

Really good video :) I would say though, if you have a decent Winston on your team, do pocket him. If he knows how to play properly (meaning he knows how to jump and melee cancel) it will result in him doing massive aoe damage, having ult pretty much every fight and you getting a lot of value since everything he does is AOE. His main combo is jump/melee which does an instant 80 burst damage, this will make it deal 104 damage, you're also making his primary go from 60 to 78 (do keep it mind, it is also aoe) and his secondary goes from 50 to 65. Overall, it's a lot of value. Zarya is also a very decent good Pocket target as said in the video, her beam deals a LOT of damage and if there's no shields against your team she should be prioritized a lot of the time (having grav more often is extremely good). And full charge she does over 200 dps, so yeah it is valuable. Those two are at the top of my pocket list, especially if they know how to play. Junker Queen is probably the last tank you could theoretically pocket and get good value from, but she's quite weak at the moment, she does ok damage but not enough to justify you pocketing her and she takes a LOT of damage so you'd have to heal her pretty much all the time. Oh and while i do not recommend doing this seriously, you can try pocketing a Moira if you're playing in lower levels, it is quite fun to see the fear in the ennemy team's eyes when they see a pocket Moira running at them. Same with Brig tbh

thank you skiesti

I love these overwatch channels!

Thanx for the video, didn't realize I had to keep bosting JQ for it to wook.

As a junk and a rein main you are the best mercy thank you i hope every mercy lern from you

Great vid

awesome stuff! could you do a guide on surviving as mercy pls?

I seen one mercy vid of your and i loved it mercy is a really fun character and seeing these vids are helping a lot but just a edit i think if your playing in lower ranks healing beam should probably be higher than offensive beam seeing how people usually position themselves poorly

Here's another tip from a current mercy main and a support main in many other games: The minimum amount of HP anyone (including you) needs to have is 1. T

Due to your advice, I get comments like “ ily mercy “ at ends of games now, never thought ide see that in OW chat. Thank you!

your videos help me reach diamond !!

Yaay the mercy guide I'm waiting for is here

I always damage boost Moira Ult and I was never sure if I was being stupid… thank you haha

you and kiriko slayed at 11:10

Gosh I wish I could clip this my partner plays junker queen and I’m so glad I can boost her bleed!

i finally reached plat maining mercy in ow2!! thank you and bless skiesti our mercy savior

really cool thing!

my bf and i are stuck in silver atm, and ive been maining mercy as of late and its super fun to dmg boost him !! hes really good at widow somehow so he always gets hella picks, and thanks to my dmg boost he can one shot people he normally wouldnt have been able to before. its so satisfying when someone u dmg boost gets kills. i love that in the short while ive played mercy, my awareness in game has gone up so much ! i actually pay attention to what my team is doing and dmg boost them accordingly and it feels so good to help my team get kills and win fights. yeah it feels good to shit on the other team as moira and do hella dmg, but i feel even more satisfaction even when i have 0 dmg, because in return i have 10+ people saved, 40+ assists, etc. sometimes it causes me grief when i feel like i cant do anything because we're just getting shit on, but i feel like the good outweighs the bad. and if it gets TOO bad, ik i can just swap and do something different, its never the end of the world

This is so good! The only issue I have is that I feel obligated to having to heal people the moment I see them being critical, or if they even need heals in general. I struggle a bit with sticking to one person because the rest of the team needing help :(

mercy lucio combo also makes it easier for you to dodge around using guardian angel as lucio moves,,, quite alot

Great video Ski! I’m curious why Mercy and Lucio don’t have good synergy? Damage boost and speed boost together sound like a great combination on paper.

we love u ski ❤

Damage boost is so helpful in open queue to help kill the infinite tanks, so knowing how to better use it is actually very helpful

Amazing video! I agree that tracer and sombra aren’t ideal dmg boost targets but there are definitely cases where it’s worth it to flick your beam onto them For example if your tracer is about to go in for a quick one-clip or a pulse bomb you can simply sit in place and hold damage boost on her (since it takes 2 seconds for the beam to break) and she’ll have the damage boost for that short time

I already figured out most of this stuff on my own but it's good to to anyway

I didn’t understand the part about the moira’s orb o.O Other than that! Very well done video very helpful I appreciate it! ❤ keep it up.