Mercy on Offense

Some people requested how/if Mercy could be used effectively on offense, and some requested to see clips of longer gameplay rather than just highlights. I hope to satisfy both needs with this video! This video is less about killing ulting genjis or getting big resses and more about showing how a Mercy, with her mobility, pistoling, and tempo resses can make a difference in not just defense but also in offense/attack games. Some people have been asking about using (single) resses, so I'll go in a bit more depth here. About single resses: If I know I'm about to die in the next second or so, and I'm the first person of our team to die (as opposed to being one of the last persons to die), and there's someone in ressing range, then sure I'll use the res even on a single person. For single resses in general, I can elaborate a bit using the second Eichenwalde part in the video as an example. You can see that I evaluate quite a few times whether or not I should res there, looking at how many of the other team were dead, whether the dead person on our team had their ult up or not, if I would be able to res them safely, and so on. Most importantly is that I wanted to keep the attack and the pressure going, rather than to fall back and create this stand-off situation where both teams are just poking at each other and building up ults that by the time we move in they have all their ults up and can repel us easily. Our monkey in this game was just relentless in keeping the attack going by jumping in their back lines, drawing a lot of attention, and allowing us to make ground. I throw out a double res on him and the Genji, which isn't always a good idea since they spawn surrounded by enemies, and in fact the Genji didn't make it out alive, but I did it because we had people on the payload and I thought we were making good progress there by keeping the enemy close to their spawn. Turns out there was an enemy Lucio harassing the payload for quite some time, so we didn't make as much progress as I'd hoped, but it still mattered. There were two times where I wanted to res because there were 2 or 3 dead, but couldn't, because of their D.Va doing a great job in zoning me. I could have just forced my way in and gotten the res off, but then I would have surely died and the two people I ressed would be alone against the enemy team and would probably have died as well. So the D.Va zoning me there was very effective for pushing our attack back on several occasions. I hold my res through most of the clip because I was waiting for that moment where they just wipe the whole team in one big combo, but that moment never came. So in retrospect I could have ressed more often and maybe we would've won faster, but there'd be the risk of not having res up when you really need it. There was one time where we had to back out all the way because of a combination of their ults, staggered deaths on our side, and my res not being up. The reason that I go up on the balcony in the end is that when the payload is that close to the finish line, everyone that respawns will want to run out and sit on the payload to make sure that it doesn't move. It won't even cross their minds to go back and behind and up because by that time we could've won already. Plus it would be hard for them to get there with my team still there as well. So I move there not because it gives me a great vantage point from where I can heal everyone or that no one of the enemy team knows where I am -- I'm sure they do, it's just hard for them to commit to going there. Even if they were ranged, having to look up just to kill that one person is not really viable with so many things going on on the ground level right in front of you. So that makes it a safe spot for me, not being constantly shot at, not being in enemy ult range, and so on. I throw out the single res on the monkey in the end (I didn't also res the Tracer because I would lose my position, she was close to respawning, I would likely die to the Hanzo, and a Tracer can get back to the point quickly) because he had his ult up, being able to knock people away from the payload, and I wanted to create tempo for a final push. The fact that Zarya had her ult up as well was a lucky coincidence but it worked out well with the Genji doing his work very nicely. Songs: KRNE x Ghasper - Fake Friends Lost Kings - You feat. Katelyn Tarver (Radio Edit) Clean Bandit - Rather Be feat. Jess Glynne Thumbnail background: http://mikoyanx.deviantart.com