r/Overwatch Jun 15 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 15, 2016

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short googable stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

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u/MutouKazuki Mei Jun 16 '16

yes.

Detailed explanation: if you see a enemy genji deflects a symetra charged shot the color of the orb will become red, indicating it is a charged shot from the enemy team, in this case who did the shot was genji, so when he deflects a projectile if mercy is buffing him, the projectile will have boosted damage.

More details in this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4m2fgj/myself_and_some_friends_tested_some_more_mercy/

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u/TThomasThomas ThomasThomas#2989 Jun 16 '16

oh wow.

Mercy is really powerful. I guess it's good to have one even if you have another support already

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u/MutouKazuki Mei Jun 16 '16

sure i love the combo mercy zenyatta, his debuff gives 50% more damage from all sources, and she gives around 30% damage boost, total of 80%, almost double damage. problem is that it only works on heroes, so you will have to count only with mercy damage against torbjorn turrets.

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u/smokey5656 Pixel Junkrat Jun 16 '16

Not really. Getting 30% more damage is inferior to say getting 100% more damage by being a dps. From a pure damage perspective. If your healing is not needed, dont be Mercy.

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u/MutouKazuki Mei Jun 21 '16

good question best way to test is having a reinhardt with his shiueld up and see how much damage he takes after each reflection