Hey all! I realized I didn't talk about when not to bodyblock because I thought it'd be too simple but kinda wish I did. Basically, be cautious about bodyblocking against teams with heavy damage or high stuns. Definitely keep track of the enemy team in terms of positions and composition - which is something Mercy should generally be doing anything I cannot stress this enough but please practise a lot in QP before doing it in comp and make sure you're already knowledgeable at Mercy's basics. I take zero responsibility if you try it and die asjkdjsadklmas;dawed Also I upped the audio by quite a lot this time since I still get some complains so hopefully it's good now and sorry for any issues!
I just remembered this time I accidentally body blocked a tank from Sigmas rock and I died shortly after but the tank managed to hold point till I got back
a few days ago i was in valk and bodyblocking for a frozen ana but i didnt get shot for a few seconds and i was like what and i turned around and it turns out she slept the mei
6:53 Recognized :NianCool: Great video as always! Real talk though, body blocking for frozen teammates is so fucking risky but watching them live through certain death is incredibly satisfying. The first time I did this in Comp, the person I body blocked for asked how I was able to fly with my massive balls of steel. Something to note though, Mei freezing someone and giving a snow cone lobotomy won't kill a 250 health hero but it will a 200 health hero. Also Mei's Primary Fire pierces so once you body block the teammate, move in the opposite direction that they are to split the Mei's attention and avoid getting both of you potentially frozen
I have been bodyblocking for Pharahs, my other supports, allies in danger, etc, for the past few months and I LOVE IT. It feels so good. Thank you so much for bringing this up and now making a whole video on it!!!!! I would've never thought of body blocking if it hadn't been for your content, seriously. And if I had thought about it, I probably wouldn't have attempted it. Now I love it! Just last week I was playing with my partner with us both on support. I gotta say, I had the biggest ":D"/proud feeling moment when they were chased by a flanking Symm while they were less than 1/4 health - I came swooping in (they told me they were as good as dead and to not bother, lul), said, "I'm going to body block, you're fine!", then proceeded to do so, they lived with a sliver of health, and we won the teamfight + game! My duo was SHOOK and kept hyping me up -- you bodyblocked for me??? Bitch I would've DIED otherwise what the HELL was that?? :') It's such a GREAT feeling. Thank you Niandra!!!
every time i bodyblock for my dps they always yell at me for blocking their view (i’ve been yelled at by multiple ulting pharah’s for this)... it’s put me off bodyblocking for awhile now :/
This is such an important mechanic I’m super glad you covered it! I’ve been wanting to add some more of these in my Montages 😂 Also, I wanted to mention. Since you talked about whether or not to use Slingshot for Pharah. I personally body block for McCree Ults a lot. And something I like to use is (if he’s on equal ground as you) is to bunny hop to jump infront of him. Since bunny hop is performed by canceling Ga and then hopping, the CD starts earlier than a slingshot (despite doing a similar effect to slingshotting) it allows you body block and quickly jump out if it seems too dangerous since GA will be off CD by the time you’ve hopped infront of him :p
Wait a minute, if Mercy jumps while bodyblocking a mei icicle, wouldn’t she be taking it in the behind? Butt seriously, she should have an eagle spread ability to aid in bodyblocking
Thank you so much for this video! I remember commenting I wasn’t sure how effective it was but I still started playing around with it but I’m excited to try the new things I learned from this video in game!❤️
thank you for this! I've started to body block about 2 weeks ago out of no where and realized that its saved teammates so much and this has helped see how i can improve my body blocking ^^
I have tried this many times after watching this video, always with McCree high noon. I soak about 50 damage every time, I realized that it also provides a psychological relief for the McCree, as he is not taking damage and he feels safer as there is 1) a healer with him 2) his health bar isn’t dropping. So thank you niandra for educating me about this :)
A little tip about sling-shotting: cancel your flight RIGHT after you jump to sling-shot. It normally reduces the cool down by 1 sec for me and helps me become extremely more mobile
thanks for the vid! I've been doing the bodyblock against mei for long now, but didn't realize I could bodyblock in so many more situations. will definitely try them out! 💛
That was a really helpful video ! As a Mercy main, I've always played a bit too cautiously, underestimating her self-healing ability ! That's gonna make her more fun to play knowing that :p Thank you for making this video and keep up the great work !
A week ago I met another mercy main player who introduced me to u. Today after 2 years of being stuck in plat.. I got back into diamond. Thanks for the tips
Thought I was being weird doing this. I have done some defending bodyblocking and helping McCree ulting with it as well. Since healers are not supposed to be in the front(depending on the healer, of course), thought I was being careless. Glad is something that is indeed done.
This is an amazing tips video I've never even thought of (I'm so ashamed) or heard of. I LOVE Coma and Dding - I bought the Shanghai skin for Mercy because Coma is insane (with all access pass, watching his PoV is just... incredible and shows how much work a Mercy can actually put in). I love the fact you brought them up!! I'll probably end up forgetting your disclaimer and trying this in comp and getting rekt but yeah. Thank you for your videos, I just discovered your channel through Twitter rabbithole-ing, I saw your post about some dude raging about your voice. Idk what I expected, but your voice is really soothing and pleasant to listen to! Of course, we Americans tend to love British accents (I hope that I'm not getting your ethnicity wrong here, apologies if I am). Basically you sound wonderful, some people are just hateful to the point of delusion. :) Keep up the amazing work, I am a new subscriber and am already learning a lot. (Also I have about 250+ hours on Mercy so this truly means so much to me to learn new and EXCITING things.)
1:14 I find it interesting that Mercy can have two really different gameplay experiences just by switching this option on and off. I play with it off since I like being able to fly away to safety while still healing my teammate as much as possible, and I only switch it back on to PharahMercy more easily. Though one good use of this option I can think of is being able to jump of hedges and come back up even if you don't have direct line of sight of your teammate, but it seems risky to me. So yeah I just wanted to say that it can be two really different playstyles. Also 3:28 How can I have 130+ hours on Mercy and not know this ??!
That's true, so many teammates and me would've die so many times if i didn't change that option, and sometimes i wish i had that option on, i think you should be able to turn it On or Off with a keybind
In my opinion, Blizzards should add a third style for the beam target as a mix where when having your icon on a team mate, then it goes to them while, when No team mates are in view, it goes to prefer besm target is connected still to s team mate but can't exactly see them. It could save alot of falling off the edges of maps
I first saw a Mercy body block in Valiant v Titans on Dorado Kariv gets a lot of sleeps and Pharah used barrage and the mercy took the sleep dart Big brain
I was gonna try and make a witty comment and hopefully get some likes, but Niandra liked her own comment so I'll just do that instead and start the ball rolling uwu
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but on your stream it shows what keyboard/mouse buttons you are pressing so i was just wondering what is that called`?
The only times I body block is when one of my teammates get slept by Ana or my teammate is ulting and they're taking a lot of damage and sometimes I'm just feeling nice and body block someone who's dying
That was a really cool video! I've tried bodyblocking before but I'm a bitch at heart so I usually end up trying to 1v1 the person bullying my teammate :D gonna try to block more with those tips in mind!!
came back to say this: if you play with a broken controller i recommend you to not bodyblock i did that and i couldnt look back and ga to my teammates (my controller moves by itself, for an example i want to look right but my controller somehow moves left ;p)
The first game after I watched this video I actually body blocked our Pharah! But I died. And so did she. I guess bodyblocking Moira's ultimate is not a good idea.
Mercy doesn’t need skill. Except for all the stuff involving dynamically understanding 3d spacial equations through time with 6 hostile and 5 friendly elements each with their own specific variables, unlike any other toon.
I'm always afraid to bodyblock because I don't want to obstruct my teammates view while they ult. Any tips on that? Is it an irrational fear or is it true but justified?
I'm a sombra main and I have never picked up support until 222 and yea I arnt very good lol but now I understand how it feels getting chased and tortured by enemy flankers lol sorry
I once body blocked our friendly ana's Nano meant for roadhog twice in a match. 😭 😂 Also!!!! I need help, please! How do you know who to damage boost. Who is low and who is high priority?
I'm not Niandra (obviously) but I either go for DPS that already do a ton of damage (Bastion, Hanzo, McCree, Reaper, Junkrat), Rein if he's swinging in the middle of the enemy team and he doesn't need the healing instead OR if he's fire striking, Roadhog's hook (and other similar high burst skills like maybe Dva's rockets), high charge Zarya, Zen when he's right clicking, or if none of those specific situations are happening and the DPS aren't in my LOS, I damage boost a tank or support. I also like boosting Winston when he's damaging a lot of targets at once (similar to Rein). Sometimes I also like to look at my team's ult charge and damage boost whoever needs help charging an ult fast. For example if we might need Zen or Lucio's ult fast I'll damage boost them, or if ANYONE of my teammates is close to ult I'll boost them to help get those last 10 - 20%. Also, if I have an Ashe, I damage boost her as much as possible for the oneshot potential on 200 HP targets, and I've been boosting a lot of Widow with quite a lot of success. Note that I'm in mid to high plat though. I'm not completely sure how much that plays into my choices.
Hey all! I realized I didn't talk about when not to bodyblock because I thought it'd be too simple but kinda wish I did. Basically, be cautious about bodyblocking against teams with heavy damage or high stuns. Definitely keep track of the enemy team in terms of positions and composition - which is something Mercy should generally be doing anything
I cannot stress this enough but please practise a lot in QP before doing it in comp and make sure you're already knowledgeable at Mercy's basics. I take zero responsibility if you try it and die asjkdjsadklmas;dawed
Also I upped the audio by quite a lot this time since I still get some complains so hopefully it's good now and sorry for any issues!
The audio is much better and more in line with the other videos I watch on RUclips!
I just remembered this time I accidentally body blocked a tank from Sigmas rock and I died shortly after but the tank managed to hold point till I got back
I should have thought of that before I got my ass filled with Hanzo's arrows
- "Let's split bodyblocks into two categories:"
- Accidental and deliberate?
- "...ones during valkyrie and ones outside of it"
- Wow I was way off
Me bodyblocks: gets randomly headshotted by a hanzo arrow.
😭
SylvA probably shouldn’t do it if they have snipers or high burst
Crouch spam
SylvA I got mcree ult deflected... 🤣
Dps: tf u doing!?
Me: Bodyblocking *Twerks erratically*
Pie me
a few days ago i was in valk and bodyblocking for a frozen ana but i didnt get shot for a few seconds and i was like what and i turned around and it turns out she slept the mei
Omg the drawings of mercy are just so cute
6:53 Recognized :NianCool: Great video as always!
Real talk though, body blocking for frozen teammates is so fucking risky but watching them live through certain death is incredibly satisfying. The first time I did this in Comp, the person I body blocked for asked how I was able to fly with my massive balls of steel. Something to note though, Mei freezing someone and giving a snow cone lobotomy won't kill a 250 health hero but it will a 200 health hero. Also Mei's Primary Fire pierces so once you body block the teammate, move in the opposite direction that they are to split the Mei's attention and avoid getting both of you potentially frozen
I have been bodyblocking for Pharahs, my other supports, allies in danger, etc, for the past few months and I LOVE IT. It feels so good. Thank you so much for bringing this up and now making a whole video on it!!!!!
I would've never thought of body blocking if it hadn't been for your content, seriously. And if I had thought about it, I probably wouldn't have attempted it. Now I love it! Just last week I was playing with my partner with us both on support. I gotta say, I had the biggest ":D"/proud feeling moment when they were chased by a flanking Symm while they were less than 1/4 health - I came swooping in (they told me they were as good as dead and to not bother, lul), said, "I'm going to body block, you're fine!", then proceeded to do so, they lived with a sliver of health, and we won the teamfight + game! My duo was SHOOK and kept hyping me up -- you bodyblocked for me??? Bitch I would've DIED otherwise what the HELL was that?? :') It's such a GREAT feeling. Thank you Niandra!!!
Nobody:
My 3 neurons after seeing Niandra's video and deciding if do the bodyblock is risky or not:
Who else saw she was playing with jjonak on ilios lol
sadly a fake :(
every time i bodyblock for my dps they always yell at me for blocking their view (i’ve been yelled at by multiple ulting pharah’s for this)... it’s put me off bodyblocking for awhile now :/
I once tried to spam crouch in front of the dps & he thought I was teabagging him lol
Pie oh god.. lmaoo
Tell them if they didnt take that damage for them they wouldn't need to see anyways cause all they'd see is the spawn room
@@YoSoFunnyx3 holy shit, roastedddd lmao i'll have to remember this line (well, if I don't mind being a bit snarky in the context)
@@karamei hehe you gotta be a bit sassy sometimes xD
This is such an important mechanic I’m super glad you covered it!
I’ve been wanting to add some more of these in my Montages 😂
Also, I wanted to mention. Since you talked about whether or not to use Slingshot for Pharah.
I personally body block for McCree Ults a lot. And something I like to use is (if he’s on equal ground as you) is to bunny hop to jump infront of him. Since bunny hop is performed by canceling Ga and then hopping, the CD starts earlier than a slingshot (despite doing a similar effect to slingshotting) it allows you body block and quickly jump out if it seems too dangerous since GA will be off CD by the time you’ve hopped infront of him :p
Honestly, I wish my tanks would body block for me 😂
Coma and Yveltal are my favorite league Mercy players. They sure do know how to body block :D
Wait a minute, if Mercy jumps while bodyblocking a mei icicle, wouldn’t she be taking it in the behind? Butt seriously, she should have an eagle spread ability to aid in bodyblocking
i just want to say that i appreciate the butt pun
Thank you so much for this video! I remember commenting I wasn’t sure how effective it was but I still started playing around with it but I’m excited to try the new things I learned from this video in game!❤️
ty ty for this vid!! I've wanted to learn more about bodyblocking as Mercy, and this was straight to the point and super helpful
thank you for this! I've started to body block about 2 weeks ago out of no where and realized that its saved teammates so much and this has helped see how i can improve my body blocking ^^
Yay! I'm so excited for this video, you talked about it on stream!
Oh THATS what prefers beam target means. I was always so confused on how you were healing one player, but flew to another. Thanks!
I saw your body blocking post on the MercyMains subreddit, I'm so exited it's here!
I have tried this many times after watching this video, always with McCree high noon. I soak about 50 damage every time, I realized that it also provides a psychological relief for the McCree, as he is not taking damage and he feels safer as there is 1) a healer with him 2) his health bar isn’t dropping. So thank you niandra for educating me about this :)
So cool seeing myself and my sister in your video! Thanks for yet another very informative video :)
thank you again for the clip!!!!
Love the tips for this. I rarely body block. This helps a lot, thank you :3
A little tip about sling-shotting: cancel your flight RIGHT after you jump to sling-shot. It normally reduces the cool down by 1 sec for me and helps me become extremely more mobile
thanks for the vid! I've been doing the bodyblock against mei for long now, but didn't realize I could bodyblock in so many more situations. will definitely try them out! 💛
High production value of your videos. Keep it up!! And still, great voice
That was a really helpful video ! As a Mercy main, I've always played a bit too cautiously, underestimating her self-healing ability ! That's gonna make her more fun to play knowing that :p Thank you for making this video and keep up the great work !
I’ve been starting to body block teammates recently, I find it funny that this video popped up after I started doing it XD
A week ago I met another mercy main player who introduced me to u. Today after 2 years of being stuck in plat.. I got back into diamond. Thanks for the tips
Thank you for using my Mercy clip in your video! :D 💕 I was happy to see what you thought of it!
Yes! Finally. Been waiting for this :D
Thank you! I've been really trying to figure this out
great vid and thanks for upping the audioooo!!!!
Thought I was being weird doing this. I have done some defending bodyblocking and helping McCree ulting with it as well. Since healers are not supposed to be in the front(depending on the healer, of course), thought I was being careless. Glad is something that is indeed done.
i remember this one clip in league where this mercy bodyblocked her ulting pharah and then she was slept instead and it was sooo cool
This is an amazing tips video I've never even thought of (I'm so ashamed) or heard of. I LOVE Coma and Dding - I bought the Shanghai skin for Mercy because Coma is insane (with all access pass, watching his PoV is just... incredible and shows how much work a Mercy can actually put in). I love the fact you brought them up!! I'll probably end up forgetting your disclaimer and trying this in comp and getting rekt but yeah. Thank you for your videos, I just discovered your channel through Twitter rabbithole-ing, I saw your post about some dude raging about your voice. Idk what I expected, but your voice is really soothing and pleasant to listen to! Of course, we Americans tend to love British accents (I hope that I'm not getting your ethnicity wrong here, apologies if I am). Basically you sound wonderful, some people are just hateful to the point of delusion. :) Keep up the amazing work, I am a new subscriber and am already learning a lot. (Also I have about 250+ hours on Mercy so this truly means so much to me to learn new and EXCITING things.)
Ah very clever! Def gonna use that in my future plays
Thank you for helping us niandra your amazing
Niandra love the vid and I got up to plat because of u from gold / silvet
1:14 I find it interesting that Mercy can have two really different gameplay experiences just by switching this option on and off. I play with it off since I like being able to fly away to safety while still healing my teammate as much as possible, and I only switch it back on to PharahMercy more easily.
Though one good use of this option I can think of is being able to jump of hedges and come back up even if you don't have direct line of sight of your teammate, but it seems risky to me.
So yeah I just wanted to say that it can be two really different playstyles.
Also 3:28 How can I have 130+ hours on Mercy and not know this ??!
That's true, so many teammates and me would've die so many times if i didn't change that option, and sometimes i wish i had that option on, i think you should be able to turn it On or Off with a keybind
@@bonkuwu3584 Yeah that would be great, I mean I doubt I'd be able to use it on controller but good idea !
In my opinion, Blizzards should add a third style for the beam target as a mix where when having your icon on a team mate, then it goes to them while, when No team mates are in view, it goes to prefer besm target is connected still to s team mate but can't exactly see them. It could save alot of falling off the edges of maps
Hi! I'm planning to buy a gaming PC, and I was wondering what you use? Your game just always seems so smooth, and I'm not sure what to get.
I first saw a Mercy body block in Valiant v Titans on Dorado
Kariv gets a lot of sleeps and Pharah used barrage and the mercy took the sleep dart
Big brain
I was gonna try and make a witty comment and hopefully get some likes, but Niandra liked her own comment so I'll just do that instead and start the ball rolling uwu
Very interesting niandra
I always do this for someone that is low
She really is a guardian angel, but her, she can be a TRUE guardian angel.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but on your stream it shows what keyboard/mouse buttons you are pressing so i was just wondering what is that called`?
The only times I body block is when one of my teammates get slept by Ana or my teammate is ulting and they're taking a lot of damage and sometimes I'm just feeling nice and body block someone who's dying
Ty ilysm
Holy fuck I didn’t know crouching during valk let’s you float down. That’s gonna be useful
I will try it now thanks
I saw your post on Reddit! Wish I could've been able to send in some clips
That was a really cool video! I've tried bodyblocking before but I'm a bitch at heart so I usually end up trying to 1v1 the person bullying my teammate :D gonna try to block more with those tips in mind!!
Great video!
Wait and what if enemy ana sleeps ur allie and you shoot at enemy genji and he deflects it and hits the sleeping allie. Will he wake up?
i feel so dumb. golden staff, 200 hours and i never fucking thought to do this bc i was so focused on staying safe
Just bodyblock always everything everywhere asap. Actually just run in front of their dps to block all the bodies.
ayy thalia is in mentioned in a vid thats epic
Thank you :)
Me as mercy in player vs AI: ok let's do this
The one teammate dancing in the middle of the match:
Me:
A lot of these could also be executed as D.Va or Winston with the high mobility
Remember to always stand on your sleeping friends' heads
came back to say this: if you play with a broken controller i recommend you to not bodyblock i did that and i couldnt look back and ga to my teammates (my controller moves by itself, for an example i want to look right but my controller somehow moves left ;p)
Tamsak done thanks for sharing
The first game after I watched this video I actually body blocked our Pharah!
But I died.
And so did she.
I guess bodyblocking Moira's ultimate is not a good idea.
asdl,kas dm.as tragically it goes through people
I didn't know mercy was so complex
Mercy doesn’t need skill. Except for all the stuff involving dynamically understanding 3d spacial equations through time with 6 hostile and 5 friendly elements each with their own specific variables, unlike any other toon.
I didnt realise it was a thing mercy does i just body block in other games when im a healer so i thought mercy could do it to
So basically sacrificing yourself to save your teammate?
I'm always afraid to bodyblock because I don't want to obstruct my teammates view while they ult. Any tips on that? Is it an irrational fear or is it true but justified?
My mercy always bodyblocks hanzo's arrow using her head
You're my teacher
love ur vids :)
2:13 OMG NIANDRA EUNEIJWJIS
As a hog main I do it a lot
I love your videos 🥰🥰
Wtf I was looking up coma stuff, How did this show up?
I'm a sombra main and I have never picked up support until 222 and yea I arnt very good lol but now I understand how it feels getting chased and tortured by enemy flankers lol sorry
I remember body blocking for my frozen hanzo and got head shot instead
Ever since they let Mei freeze multiple people at once, I don't trust bodyblocking that. Nice vid though.
3:01 mercy trying to body block a Winston lol
I once body blocked our friendly ana's Nano meant for roadhog twice in a match. 😭 😂 Also!!!! I need help, please! How do you know who to damage boost. Who is low and who is high priority?
I'm not Niandra (obviously) but I either go for DPS that already do a ton of damage (Bastion, Hanzo, McCree, Reaper, Junkrat), Rein if he's swinging in the middle of the enemy team and he doesn't need the healing instead OR if he's fire striking, Roadhog's hook (and other similar high burst skills like maybe Dva's rockets), high charge Zarya, Zen when he's right clicking, or if none of those specific situations are happening and the DPS aren't in my LOS, I damage boost a tank or support. I also like boosting Winston when he's damaging a lot of targets at once (similar to Rein). Sometimes I also like to look at my team's ult charge and damage boost whoever needs help charging an ult fast. For example if we might need Zen or Lucio's ult fast I'll damage boost them, or if ANYONE of my teammates is close to ult I'll boost them to help get those last 10 - 20%.
Also, if I have an Ashe, I damage boost her as much as possible for the oneshot potential on 200 HP targets, and I've been boosting a lot of Widow with quite a lot of success. Note that I'm in mid to high plat though. I'm not completely sure how much that plays into my choices.
@@TheTossedOne Tysm! 😊
Can't do this in mystery heros any mercy under 100 hp will be chased and killed even if they lose the point
I did this without being told this.
5:25 did i see that right? who is she healing????
Orisa
So... Mercy is a tank confirmed?
What is ur account name sombrero
Cause I am friend with u I think
M E R C Y I S A T A N K
6:40 you MEI wanna play around with it? :P
We need. Face reveal🤧🥺
Body blocking is something o dont do so I'm gold
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love your voice
:O!!!!!!
:)