galvanash

Everyone who played at the time knows and remembers this, but let’s put this into context.

It was a bug, it was only really a thing for a few seasons, and it was not all Mercy players only ones that had oddly low heal stats but were still winning games.

It wasn’t a problem at all anymore after Season 8 when they removed performance based SR for all games above Diamond.

Couldn't have said it better myself, other than to just clarify this was OW1 only problem and was fixed years ago.

blizz_winter

Couldn't have said it better myself, other than to just clarify this was OW1 only problem and was fixed years ago.

Oh and I'm a single Winter, not plural Winters as this post title implies.

Kxr1der

What this sub took from this interview: "Mercy mains were getting boosted!"

What this sub should have taken from this interview: There's a reason the rankings only take wins and losses into account and not performance. They tried the other way and it's a mess because stats don't always translate into skill in a team shooter

Replying here too since the most upvoted post changed. Yeah, it's a really nuanced topic and the example I used wasn't great because this was a problem for our whole cast and Mercy was not the biggest problem.

Just to be clear to anyone reading this after only watching this clip, this was a system we removed many years ago in OW1 and the effects of the problems it caused were erased long ago too.