When will someone pick whitemane over another healer?
Whitemane has a fairly clear problem which is her mana costs, any hero can fulfill the functions that she has but at a very easy level of difficulty.
She is not in a bad position but her difficulty demands too much, she is extremely difficult to play.
She could take nice buffs as damage or more heals but she needs to fix her mana issues at least because she only clicks Q a few times and boom, she’s out of mana.
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If it’s just for how healers look then there is no contest to pick Whitemane over any other hero.
Whitemane provides nice burst healing during team fights and I haven’t meet another hero that provides that healing, to bad she is really fragile, recently she became the target of my Qs as Tassadar, one of them wipes 1/3 of her HP. I miss her old Q build, when she was tanky, but right now if she is well protected there is no contest, even with her lack of CC.
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A team that can protect a healer that has 0 cc, 0 dmg, 0 mobility sounds like a team that is unbeatable.
I don’t think Whitemane is the best looking healer we have. 
(Sorry).
That being said—Whitemane can heal a ton, but it does require more skill to do it than with many other healers.
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She does a surprisely high amount of damage, probably the healer that does more damage (iron fist Karazim doesn’t count) thanks to her trait.
If you haven’t meet a good Whitemane player then it seems her rework was a failure. Hellobg showed me the girl is still a powerful healer but it seems no one understand her playstile. Whitemane is the Probius of the Healers, a good hero easily A tier that 99.5% of the player base can’t undestand.
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Yes—and I didn’t say she looked bad. She just doesn’t look the best
What do you think if they given a medium dash with a 60 second CD to Whiteman? Along with mana buffs.
Whitemane has become a high skill hero with a punishing learning curve.
It seems she is the only healer that can bring devastating damages (Medivh too but he is not a healer), though at the cost of being killed easily. It’s a kind of glasscanon-healer mash up.
I pick her because I know how to play her. Duh. She’s top tier in the right hands. BUT it’s hard to play healers if you have pepegas in your team sometimes and IMHO, Whitemane suffers the most from that.
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That would be Lucio.
And to the OP, she is a very strong AoE healer in a team fight, if she knows how to manage her Zeal and mana. I believe the reason you do not see her picked more often, at least from the people I know who play her, is that her kit just isn’t as appealing or challenging as it used to be, so not as fun for those who put the time and effort into mastering her.
With that said, when I am tanking in a team fight, a good Whitemane will make me feel immortal in a way that only Morales can, and the difference is Whitemane can do that to her entire team.
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You pick her for the anime laugh beam.
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Whitemane has been made into a character who’s aggression is merely an illusion. You have no power to pressure the enemy. You do not have the target prioritization of Old Whitemane where selecting the right target, popping cooldowns, and pressuring them could turn the tide of battle.
Your damage is now so low that this isn’t a thing you can do. Healing has been massively increased, access to Nazeebo stacks is hilarious, and she’s incredibly good at keeping people alive now. But the soul of it is gone.
Whitemane was designed to be an extremely offense oriented healer, trading almost all utility, as well as ease of use for sheer damage and healing potential. It was a normal sight to watch a Whitemane melt someone while healing my allies. Now, her attacks are barely worth noting. The rework does not fail on the basis of her being non-viable.
The new version of her fails because the High Inquisitor cannot Inquisit. She can no longer burn heretics in the Light. She cannot apply pressure. She now fights by hitting people with her staff. She is not intimidating, nor threatening to approach. She cannot make people pay for their treachery. And thus, she doesn’t fulfill the fantasy of playing a zealous inquisitor, healing the faithful and burning the heretics.
Once the healing numbers are brought into line, Whitemane will just be another healer. She doesn’t have the tools to make aggressive plays anymore. Nor does she have access to CC or other such defensive tools beyond Aegis’s ability to grant armor for a time. She simply heals. Just like Morales.
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if your team can protect her, whitemane is straight up the best combat medic, her burst heal is insane and she heals everyone.
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What utility did she forsake? She had cleanse , aoe heal , no mana issue with old clemency , a root combo and aoe unstoppable.
I have seen healer with less utility than that.
I consider root combo dps rather than utility though.
She can make everyone tankyer. She doesnt get drafted because of her substain of the tickle she heals allies with… But in the right hands she can even make Jimmy look like a tank
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I have not seen the data for ages but are there big gaps between most healers still?
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very good question. I honestly don’t know. I’m a support player; I love all the supports, but when I play whitemane, I’m like, wtf is going on here. None of it is intuitive for me, and I end up just thinking I’m not being nearly as effective as I would be just playing Uther.
I think this sums up my feelings. It feels like her soul has been robbed of her; she’s missing something. And I’m just not interested in investing energy into understanding this mangled mess that’s been left behind.
That said, I love her aesthetic.
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Indeed, we all know that particular honor is owned by Brightwing.
As you say, Whitemane is capable of impressive heal and damage output, it’s just she takes a lot more skill and somewhat more protection than some other healers to do so.
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