Who's the better healer, Lucio or Mercy?
Mercy only seems to be considered better because she ends up getting more PotG's whenever she rezzes 4+ people. However, her heal is fairly limited as she can only focus on one person at a time and is unable to engage in combat while also healing. Her combat ability is mostly garbage, with her pistol being the weakest DPS in the game. Mercy does have the damage up option, but it seems like it could be entirely negated by a discord orb from a Zenyatta; a hero that can do that damage up while also being able to long range snipe people with orbs /and/ heal individual targets with no cooldown to switch healing orb targets. The only thing Mercy has going for her is her ult, but it seems hard to justify over being combat viable.
Lucio has a lot more going for him. His passive heal goes to an incredible range if the team has line of sight with him. He can also fight while healing making him a threat on the battlefield. His alt-fire is great for heckling and knocking people off the stage. The speedboost he has is highly underrated. Having reinhardts and tanks running around at sanic speed is incredibly powerful, and he only needs to switch to a heal passive whenever someone hits half health or lower.
I've found that my friends and I won 100% of games with both characters on our team at the same time. If you have a mercy providing dedicated healing, and Lucio providing some minor healing and buffs while still dealing decent damage, your team is pretty much unstoppable. This goes doubly true for the game type where you have to escort the car. The ability to revive all of your team mates is game changing.
>>337430919
2 Winstons, Lucio, Mercy, Tracer and Widow is the GOAT team. 100% win rate in beta.
For me Defense = Mercy, Attack = Lucio.
>>337431431
This. Having both is just too good to not do.
Lucio is top tier but Mercy isn't too far behind. I think the meta right now is to have both in a team.
When will Luciofags stop shilling for him and pretending like he's clearly better than Mercy when they're meant for different purposes? Lucio is good for situations where your teammates will all be bunched up while Mercy is better when there's some distance between your teammates. It's like comparing cars and boats because they're both modes of transportation.
>>337431510
Not enough damage output. Would be good for defense scenarios but not for attacking.
Personally I like
The lesbian chick
Mercy
Lucio
Widow maker (only if theyre good - otherwise I'd prefer a Hanzo)
Genji or Tracer
High Noon man or rocket woman
>>337430919
mercy is medic from TF2, save for a team rez
you have to be able to heal or fight, not both, or it'd be broken. just be glad you can heal or buff attack with the same thing
>>337431510
Take one winston and put either Zarya or Roundhog and you have the best team at the moment
>>337430919
Lucio is more fun to play but hard to play well.
Mercy is just boring and easy to use.
>>337431596
This
How many is the minimum number of team mates down for you guys to use Mercy's alt? Usually I wait for 3 team mates to be down simultaneously - or 2 at the absolute minimum.
Lucio by a fairly large margin.
He feels practically required in order to rollout as a team at any sort of speed.
>>337430919
>no "dedicated" tank or a very mobile team
Lucio
>otherwise
Mercy
And I mean dedicated in the sense that there is always going to be at least one on the team and that they are always up front
Lucio but just because the game is slow as fuck so you fuck up their aim if you are slightly faster
>>337432043
>being THAT Mercy player
Anon stop
You can use it for one player if you're a good healer and keep the other teammates from dying
>>337432043
I'd usually assess the situation. If it's a hero of important value to the situation at hand like a reinhardt died holding a choke, I'll res. But if it's a random genji in the middle of 5 people bumraping him, then no.
>>337432214
Seems like a waste of the ultimate. Wouldn't it be better to save it for a situation where you actually need it? Why waste it on one person when there are multiple times per game that Hanzo, Mcree or Reaper use the ultimate and wipe out half your team?
>>337432374
Forgot to add. I'll also assess skill in relation to team role and team skill. If that player is really good and carrying the team, then yes. If not, then no. And also even if the player is really good, but their role is largely inconsequential to the achievement of the objective,then I'll choose to res someone else with more importance.
>>337432436
Mercy's ult charges incredibly quickly, especially if your damage boosting someone who's effectively gunning people down.
>>337433704
>Payload
>Damage boost a Widowmaker or Hanzo watching the opponent's door
>Easily have resurrect within the first minute of the game
