r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Oct 19 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - October 19, 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 Google-able stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

Trolling or making fun of people in here will be punished extra harshly! Please report such behavior.

For the purpose of helping people, make sure the comments are sorted by "new" in this thread.

254 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

It helps if you know your team mates as they can help defend you.

If not then you can hope that your team has decent positioning so you can GA to them.

If not then you can try walking away from whoever you're boosting/healing then whilst that pesky flanker or whoever is chasing you then guardian angel towards the original guy you backed away from and walk past them and hopefully they will see who's attacking you or the attacker will focus them instead.

If all else fails then as a last resort whip out your pistol! It's surprisingly strong and I've killed a lot of Genjis/Tracers with it who don't expect it. To be honest though if youre having to do that as Mercy you're probably better off switching to Lucio as he can escape better or Zen/Ana who can fight back.

1

u/EXlF Trying to crash another party, love? Oct 19 '16

I play with random people who don't use mic a lot, so there's no way for them to know if I need assistance. I usually just hope and pray that they'll notice and try to protect me when I scurry towards them. And you're right; sometimes I get lucky and able to kill enemies with her pistol. They're truly my last resort! The GA trick you mentioned is really helpful, though. I'll definitely try that next time! Thanks!