dalishpariah:

despite “protect your healers” being a common mantra in the ow fanbase i feel like sometimes people arent exactly sure how to do it? so anyways coming from a mercy main here are my tips

 1. try playing mercy for yourself at least once, just to get a feel for what its like. if you find a match where people are targeting you to keep you from using your rez you’ll understand 

 2. keeping an eye on the rest of your teammates is a pretty good idea in a team game, but especially keep an eye on mercy because her only movement ability relies on having a nearby teammate to escape to. dont let mercy get cut off from the rest of the team and she’ll love you forever

 3. watch out for tracer, genji and roadhog especially. theyre especially hard for mercy to escape / skirmish with and tend to target her 

 4. if mercy is tethered to you, you can see her health bar. you dont need to babysit her, but if youre walking along/shooting at some far away enemies who arent immediately a danger to you and you see her health going down, turn around and kill the person attacking her 

 5. if she says “i need healing!!” a bunch and she’s the only healer its probably because she’s being spawn camped / attacked / is unable to get back to the rest of the team

anyways these are really basic but the point is no one is asking u to babysit your mercy, but because she has such a powerful healing stream, she only has 1 ability in her toolkit (as opposed to other heroes with 2-3) and it isn’t an attack or even a method of self defence, it’s 100% to escape. 

so dont be a dick ?? if you have a mic/team chat, ur mercy will appreciate it if you just say “hey come to me if youre being attacked and ill protect you” and theyll love you forever. its a team game thats supposed to be fun for everyone so just do your best, be considerate & love ur healers 

sincerely ur friendly neighbourhood mercy main

sugawara-kkoushi:

My team was pushing attack on Temple of Anubis and I was following at the rear. Enemy Mei flanked us and started to freeze me. Just as I was frozen solid, Genji jumped in and deflected. The icicle that had been meant for my head was sent back into Mei’s face and she died. My friend playing Genji said with a smirk in his voice, “Denied!” I thanked him in voice chat and spammed the “Thanks” voice line.

The best part was that everyone got to see his point of view because that was the first kill in his potg.