I get your point about the pocket. But as I mentioned in my original posts. Let’s take your example of McRightclick. If they duel and one is being blue branded and there other not, then there is a clear advantage, but at the same time it is not a duel any more. It’s 1v2. Meaning that Mercy is not contributing to the fight in any other way. And she can’t even heal when she damage boosts.
But if you take a similar scenario and replace Mercy with any other hero, I would still put my money on the Cree who is in a team of two against the one who’s alone.
PharMercy was always a huge issue. That had a perfect counterplay: Widow. (I’m an ass Widow) But even I could shoot one of them out of the sky maybe even both. But, people were whining and Blizzard needed the $h!t out of Widow reducing her range to mid-range. Ultimately buffing her closed range ability. But that’s for another day.
Btw… Bastion was also good for PharMercy recently. Then they nerfed him too last patch. So, the fact that there are so many PharMercys in comp is entirely on Blizz and has nearly nothing to do with Mercy’s blue beam.
Bless you. If only you would’ve read the whole post before jumping into commenting. You may have found it that this is exactly what I do. I force the Suzu CD as much as I can. Which became a win condition in some comps.
And while every hero has strengths and weaknesses. All abilities in OW1 had a counterplay or cancel. Even ults. Suzu doesn’t.
Furthermore, Suzu, not simply cleanses all negative events and makes you immune to all CC and damage effects for a brief period of time. By that, it can deny every other ability’s effectiveness. Including ults. Basically, as if it canceled it. But also applicable for a multitude of effects all at once. For example: purple, stunned and burning. Those are the cooldowns invested by enemy team to ensure the kill. All of them negated with only one cooldown. And beside that, the target gets simultaneously healed and becomes immune long enough to recover.
Yeah, just plan for that. Consider that very few tanks can bait Suzu given Kiri’s excellent mobility abilities.