Why is Ana a ‘hard’ difficulty hero? (Should be easy or at least medium)
Why is Lucio a ‘medium’ difficulty hero? (Should be hard)
Skill shots in this game are not hard to land so Ana has the best tools out of any healer for the job (other than Lt Morales who makes the team godlike if not focused).
And I find Lucio to be borderline pathetic at being a healer. I just can’t play him properly. Often end up playing him to support others in movement speed.
I have same question. She should be “very hard”.
Because you need to hit your skill shot EVERY 2 SECONDS, because it’s your main tool of healing. Even one miss can ruin a game. Average game goes 20+ minutes, so imagine how many Qs Ana uses during game. It’s a main reason why I hate to play her - she makes me tired even after 1 game as her.
You need to aim and shoot. Thats not hard if you know your allies. When they are random its hard.
But i think malf is the hardest healer. I think lucio as medium is fitting because he needs to wallride a lot
Eh. I actually dont know what to say here.
Do you mean difficulty level in regard of mechanical skill required to perform well?
That might be also very individual. Someone who is used to land skill shots will think a skill shot based hero is easy to play for him.
What about DW? all DW’s abilities are skill shots and have huge delay? Does that make DW difficult to play?
Winning with an underpowered hero can be quite difficult, even when his tool kit can be used easily…
Anyway i would not bother at all with those classifications… play the hero you like for whatever reason…
For highest skill ceiling nowadays I just cannot play a good malf, as ms banana pointed out having team mates you know rather than 4 entrants in the “move randomly at all times” competition helps a ton with ana and hoping Jaina turn everything into a snow covered apocalypse with nano and icy veins never gets old.
Apart from white mane who I’ve never really played an don’t intend to it seems like they aren’t in the worst spot atm, but this down in gutter leagues so take that with a pinch of salt
I’m not sure if she was previously, but after that awful movespeed buff patch, holy hell. Playing Ana can be a physically painful nightmare, as you’re trying to desperately land a healing dart on your team as they scramble around. Don’t even get me started if you have a PC that slows even a half a second during game…
Lucio is IMO an incredibly easy hero to learn, but hard to master! The core concepts of simply knowing to keep your health regen on during team fights, and move speed in between or chasing down people is pretty much half of playing Lucio IMO. I tend to almost always have good games w/ him.
Skill shots can be harder to lane, depending on who you are playing as.
How nice for you 
…ima need more, here.
Try healing as Ana during QM with Tracer, Lunara, Zeratul as your allies.
You will likely be flamed as being the worst Ana ever.
Laughs in team wipe
I guess I’ll say it: 0/10
Malfurion listed as “easy” based on his state in 2015 is a cruel joke.
I swear they purposely dodge it. She’s very hard when you have those people on your team.
I try to line up with another injured ally so she can more easily aim, and get that double heal going.
Malf is really hard, definitely one of the hardest in his current state.
But also one of the more interesting due to the utility of roots, and innervate’s cooldown reduction.
That’s the problem with Whitemane in my opinion.
She has similar difficulty, without having the same level of interesting options.
your saying…lucio is…hard…
lucio. is. hard
ya literaly have 1 job, switch discs when needed, and make em better every 15 secs i guess… push the enemy with Q, and you be faster when riding walls and can dash forward . YOU DONT EVEN NEED TO WORRY ABOUT NOT HEALING ENOUGH -_-
but ANA is hell. ana is the embodiment of “ifeelbadforu”. she was already a meme because only pro pros could hit her skillshots, heck and that is if your own team coped. but with the 10% mov speed it is pratically impossible XDDD when i used to play in QM, i almost NEVER saw her. EVER. in like 100 games… lucio is easy heal, just be annoying and poke em and BOOM your team is already healed.
Quite a few heroes have an odd learning curve, but aren’t actually that hard: Alex, Lucio, Brightwing
Some require pretty consistent mechanics and are harder even after you understand them well: Ana, Tyrande, Malfurion
Wait, wait…why is Malfurion considered hard? I’m genuinely curious in my ignorance.
As ALL healers you actually have to or should be AAing between spells, should also be extremly aware of positioning, when you can pressure and when you can’t.
This being one of Anas tougher selling points, as she is skillshot heavy so you gotta actually place your self in spots where you can pressure wile sitting in good positions for your Team.
Same goes for Malfurion, being super aware of everything wile pressuring properly, all your regrowths, proper moonfires, roots on spot, while constantly AAing.
Both Ana and Malfurion suffer from the mobility curse, so they + like Whitemane has to be SUPER aware of positioning.
Hence the reason they got decent self heals.
This making them quite tough healers to play.
At lower ranks where you barrely see people AAing or even pressuring as neither DPSs or healers, i am speaking of D3 and below here.
You get WAY less value from most of those heroes.
Yeah, Malfurion has to be aware of probably 4-5 cooldowns, root placement, auto attacks, and moon fire placement while dancing around.
Mechanically he is the most robust healer at the moment played to his fullest potential.
Yesterday I was playing as Ana and Genji was poisened literally 2 ticks he had left to die, so I aimed … and missed because he moved suddenly. Grenade was on CD.
With 2sec cooldown, there was nothing more I could do for him but wait to see him die with a few dmg overkill.
What followed was a barge of bings on me by Genji.
THAT. is the life of Ana.
Not only mechanically hard, also emotionally.