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Support hero · counters
Mercy counters
Who beats Mercy, who Mercy beats, and why. The hardest counters to Mercy include Ashe, D.Va and Shion. Mercy's strongest matchups include Doomfist, Hanzo and Junker Queen.
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From WinCon's coaching read of each hero's abilities, the same one the coach uses: a guide, not a measured win rate. Blizzard doesn't publish how heroes do against each other.
Heroes that counter Mercy
Pick one of these into an enemy Mercy, or watch for them when you play Mercy.
Tanks
- D.Va : Boosters reach her in the air
- Winston : Tesla tracks her Guardian Angel path
- Wrecking Ball : rolls onto her and Piledriver catches her landing
- Mauga : sustained chainguns track her and outdamage her beam
Damage heroes
- Ashe : scoped hitscan picks her in the air
- Shion : hitscan pistols and Execution hit her in flight
- Soldier: 76 : sustained hitscan tracks her flight
- Tracer : kills her faster than she can fly away
- Widowmaker : headshots her in flight
- Cassidy : hitscan punishes her Guardian Angel path
- Echo : flies to her and bursts her with sticky bombs
- Emre : hitscan bursts on a flying pocket
- Sierra : Tracking Shot follows a Mercy in flight
Heroes Mercy counters
Mercy is a good answer when the enemy plays one of these.
Tanks
- Doomfist : Guardian Angel carries her away from his punch
- Junker Queen : flight keeps her out of knife and shotgun range
- Reinhardt : Guardian Angel keeps her above his hammer
Mercy against dive, brawl and poke
- Bad into dive: divers reach her and Guardian Angel needs a safe ally
- Good into brawl: flies above melee brawlers and pockets a hero they can't reach
- Good into poke: Resurrect undoes long-range picks