Eley Zhau OTP Mercy
Links
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/bYnzHiKYkWw
- Piped: https://piped.video/watch?v=bYnzHiKYkWw
Notes
I enjoy watching eleyzhau’s1 YouTube videos. Mercy has a style so utterly different from Moira that the contrast is both interesting and instructive. Note that zhau plays a normally 0-damage Mercy, which is totally viable (maybe best?) since damage boosting is usually far better than whatever damage Mercy deals with her pistol. Like Moira, she is a close-range healer; in fact, not having orbs, she is much more bound to the medium-close ranges than is Moira. For this reason ArX generally (begrudgingly) will take cart-escort-duties in order to free the Mercy to do what she does best near the front lines.
Note that Mercy doesn’t have Moira’s survivability and her dodge-game has a different flavor than Moira’s. While Moira does instant-dodging based on timing and fade, Mercy has much more positioning-based evasion that usually means not being targeted in the first place because she is around corners, above, or below the enemy line of sight. In a pinch she does try to hastily escape by a quick Guardian Angel, but because she is vulnerable while moving in this way, it is not a very safe mode of escape if the enemy has hit scans. Mercy also lacks self-cleanse, so is totally vulnerable to ults and stickies that Moira might evade.
Footnotes
1 eley is a GM1 ladder-warrior, soloing her way to the top GM rank with Mercy in every season. Her comments have some definite educational vibes to them. While the quiet text-bubble approach may be due to not having a microphone, I think it is one of the coolest innovations I have seen; it makes for a singularly pleasant viewing experience. You can see her full page at https://piped.video/@eleyzhau .