People use sparks as an assault, not a medic.

[Amerika]

That’s why many people jump into a chokepoint, or otherwise move unpredictably. You’d do that just to avoid a lurking Vasili. It works against Sparks too.

This is the one thing that people who get upset about Sparks and snipers in general (in all games) don’t quite get. I move very erratically when I know I am going to be in an area that might have a sparks/vassili. Weird moves towards walls, zigzags that aren’t consistent, wall jumping as much as possible. All of which not just keeps you alive but opens them up for return fire since they have to remain exposed to try and shoot you. Which then allows you to more easily close in on an 80HP merc. If people see a video of it they probably don’t think much of it or think you’re just not very good at movement when in reality you’re doing A LOT to avoid any chances of walking around a corner and dying.

I think Sparks and her Revivr is perfectly fine the way it is. Especially now that revives got toned down slightly in the last patch.

[retief]

I don’t want to see sparks nerfed (I enjoy her too much as is). That said, one nerf I could see working well is nerfing her headshot multiplier to 50%. At that point, charged headshots deal 97.5 damage and won’t one shot mercs like vassili. The semi-bullshit “I just got one shot by their medic from across the map” factor goes away for most mercs, vassili has an advantage in long range duels, and the average sparks player (who already isn’t op) isn’t hit that hard.