First of all, Pyro has an UNDENIABLE amount of canon in his favor. I'm not debating for or against Mercy in this instance, I'm just throwing down some facts in regards to her powers, feats and abilities.
The way that the Sanguine combat knowledge is passed down is much like the Slayer powers (that's part of what I based it off of). She has the combat knowledge of EVERY previous Sanguine before her. That line goes back to Mary Magdalene. That's a LOT of combat training.
Part of the mandate of each Sanguine is to further that lexicon of combat knowledge by adding specialized training. Mercy has already done some of this via the Arashikage, and Quintus (and in the process of training under Amaranth Strix).
Mastery is a key of hers. She doesn't throw in some training in some aspects and then move on. Each Sanguine masters something, or comes as close as possible. So that's a hell of a lot of mastery under her belt that can be called upon when needed. It doesn't take effort, it's instinctual. She doesn't have to rifle through a moves catalog in her head, they show up on instinct and all that knowledge is mulling around for when she needs it.
Her best combat feat to date would be going toe to toe with LeBeau while he was in his mutant killing hey-day. She faced him herself and contended evenly with him in hand to hand combat fighting. The reason that fight ended in a stalemate was due to the leveraging of Isadora against her. That was after she slashed his throat and damaged his vocal chords.
That's combat feats for the most part (there were a couple of uses of TK in that fight, but the vast majority was hand to hand). I can link anybody to the fight that wants me to.
I intentionally leave her powers out of the bio because people meta-game ALL. THE. TIME. and it drives me crazy.
The second that you put your powers in your bio, people are either taking chunks from it (this has never happened to me because I don't put enough effort into my powers for that), or they miraculously know how to counter your powers IC before you've even used them, which is a dual of no-selling and meta-gaming and it's infinitely frustrating.
I have not used her telekinesis a lot, because it's so powerful.
It's about to be showcased a bit in my RPG with Valerie, but one of the ways that she has used it was on The Yard against LeBeau's hounds. It was right when she had found out that Quintus had died. They're NPCs, so it's not a display of skill so much as it is a display of technique. I won't pay any credence to the fact that she took out a lot of them hand to hand, but focus on the manner in which she took the others down. Utilizing her telekinesis, she severed the optical nerve in his head with a surgically precise strike. Then burst the hearts of two more using her telekinesis. She can manifest her telekinesis inside of biological organisms. Think of it akin to Sue Storm threatening to put a forcefield in somebody's head. That's Mercy, minus the more moralistic tendencies.
She uses range when she fights. With an emphasis on blades, usually poisoned.
Of all the knowledge that Mercy has for combat, she tends to also use other knowledge as well. She's incredibly skilled in poisons and compounds, and they're a trademark of the Sicarii, specifically.
She has an aggressive fight style. She prefers striking and putting her opponent on the defensive, feigning and then using the vulnerable openings to make crucial strikes to joints and tendons, or slide knifes into ribs. I don't know how or what factor that would have, since from what I'm seeing Pyro is also more of a range fighter.
Her telekinesis has unlimited potential. To date, I have not used it often in combat, mostly because I don't do many battles. I'm woefully underrepresented in that aspect to Pyro. Undeniable leg up on me in quantity.
In the aforementioned battle with LeBeau, she used her telekinesis as a sort of afterimage to trick LeBeau. There's no color/sound/smell to her telekinesis. It's undetectable. She executed a strike towards him, only to stop her hand partway through and carry through the rest of the wave with the telekinesis.
In this same battle, she concentrated her telekinesis into a precise point to attempt to rupture the eardrums of The Last Arashikage.
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