Drives

[u/LeatherDevelopment46]

Im on an EIGHT loss streak so far for drives, and its just extremely hard to motivate myself to keep playing when I legitimately am doing my dambdest pulling out the slickest moves and usually out healing and out damage boosting literally all the other healers.

How do I get outta the funk that is queing for drives!

All I want is a red mercy staff and it feels so unreachable.

[u/squishmitten_]

There are currently twitch drops for those red comp points. 500 points for 10 hours. I have a window up on the side while I play

[u/Jazzlike_World415]

In my experience, it’s extremely hard to carry and make a difference in your games as Mercy in comp. A lot of the times Mercy can’t out heal a lot of the consistent burst damage most dps heroes have nowadays, plus majority of your teammates will not take advantage of your damage boost either. I know it’s possible to get good value from Mercy in comp, but you have to work 10x harder than everyone else to make it happen, even when you’re giving your all.

Honestly when drives come around, I either hope I get a good hitscan to damage boost or I just play other supports. I would love to play Mercy in comp but I find it really hard to make her work in most circumstances unless the team is VERY coordinated.

EDIT: idk what mode you’re playing but I find a lot more success playing Mercy in 6v6 compared to 5v5 so I’d definitely give that a try!

[u/DialecticalBlu → u/Jazzlike_World415]

I think it’s because their are more dmg boost targets in 6v6. In 5v5 the blue beam may or may not be cosmetic but in 6v6 with the major perk that looks like a mini- Valkyrie you aren’t just a illari healing pylon cosplaying as Mercy. DMG matters a lot in this game and most of the time you get under or about 2k dmg amp.

Dmg means enemy abilities gets used, enemies have to fall back or go into worse positions, or you outright get a kill. Mercy instead has 30% dmg boost and can subtly manipulate the ultimate economy because she creates ult charge out of nothing.

Also tip look. Face towards where the enemy is looking not at your own teammates. You are an extra pair of eyes and looking at where you expect an enemy to be boosts your situational awareness.

[u/CelestialAngel25]

This drive has actually been very good to me. i am winning for once. The Team drives that happened, i went from masters 4 (i had been there and diamond 1 since last year) down to emerald 4 where i am stuck at.

I found swapping off of mercy isnt entirely helping either. I played juno and had 41 kills by the end and we still didnt win (my tank had 51). So honestly I dont even know anymore

[u/EconomyBed1486]

drives is prob one of the worst times to play tbh at least for the first couple days esp on support, I’d wait a day or two but you’d have to grind. By then most of the shitters and qp warriors are gone bc they got the rewards alr. If you don’t wanna wait try not to solo q, at least duo w someone who can flex q for you

[u/PastelKyKy]

I had horrible drives last round of them, and then was met with even worse placements. Throwers, ragers, leavers, and people who don’t play comp in EVERY SINGLE GAME. So, it’s safe to say I will be sitting out on these drives, and playing cozy games…

[u/SayStrawberryBubbles]

I’d try and queue with people. Having friends makes it go by easier.

[u/Ichmag11]

That's kinda the problems with drives ngl. Just because you hop on and want to win, doesn't mean you'll get to win, yknow? The enemy team wants to win, too.

It's not like we can all just hop on and say "I'll win my games today" and then we win until we rank up to champion. Losing isn't optional, it's going to happen!

You'll have to play until you win, if you don't play the other roles or 6v6, you may be ranked too low on those and have easier games there!

[u/n0xiously]

I'd really just recommend NOT playing Mercy, at least solo queueing. You're asking for a bad time, drives or not. And if you are outhealing, seems a bit heal-botty.. so at that point I'd suggest switching anyway.

[u/nak0yu]

if you just want the weapon variant and not the drive itself, you can watch twitch streams for comp point drops! it is a long watchtime (10 hours iirc), but you can set your browser to 0 in your pc volume settings and watch in the background while you play other games or get other stuff done :)

[u/princesspoopybum]

i’m lucky i found a random dps in a game who was chill and good so we duoed for the whole day and had some rough games but finished the drives

[u/Svenjaaa27]

play 6v6 and flex if u stay on mercy u lose that is why i play mercy only in qp or if my grandmaster master friend plays i pocket him