So about healing as Ana

I wonder if it ever occurs to people that MAYBE THEY SHOULD NOT RUN AROUND WHEN THEY NEED HEALING SO I CAN HEAL THEM

The enemy Illidan is dead, no one else can get to you, can you stand still?

Please?

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Haha yeah Ana requires people who understand Ana, just like Uther requires team mates who don’t necessarily run away from him when he dies.

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Ana begging her team to stand still is like Alex players who beg her team to stand in her circle or Khara/BW players who dies just a little inside everytime her team keep runing out of jump range.

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ā€œFriend, please! Brightwing cant do cardioā€

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Meh I don’t have much issue with this because I don’t try and heal people that I know I’ll miss. I mean if I see my ally constantly juking…do I want to try and predict their juke pattern or how about I heal someone else…or line up so their juke is a vertical movement compared to the heal instead of a horizontal one?

Ana needs you to think about positioning for your heals. If that’s not for you then maybe pick a different hero?

I could agree with the aforementioned comment if it didn’t benefit them so much. On average when being healed by ana I am almost willing to say its safer for you to stand still and take dmg than it is to run around like a schizo especially at 4 if you take the w perk or at 16 when she gets the tripple dart which can heal you from 0 to full if you have been hit by her grenade

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I understand the frustration, ppl should try to help you giving them the heals, but… on the otherhand… it’s your job. Aiming at allies is kinda the same like aiming at the enemies. You just need to hit your skillshots. Hard, but better to focus on the things in our control over getting angry at the stuff we can’t.

If standing still means being an easy aim for enemies too… then no thanks :wink:

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If I miss 3 times in a row because they move so erratically, I just stop aiming at them :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:. No, this is not me going ā€˜I don’t heal you because you annoyed me’, it’s, ā€˜better be more efficient on my end’, and I heal players I know I’m gonna hit (as in, not wasting hps - heal per second). Usually when they need heal, they stop and wait to receive heal, and I happily heal them then.

Oh yeah. This too. I don’t expect my team to stand still in the middle of full on team fight. It’s my job then to land it.

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You know what would solve Ana’s problems? If the hit box of her heal was increased by like 10-20%.

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I hate it when I try to shoot an important heal shot at a ā€œgoodā€ Tracer player and I miss that small hitbox by 1-2 millimeters and she dies because of it.
Important heal shot misses like that happens all the time… Missing by a TINY degree and allies die.
Many times those deaths become a reason to the loss the rest of the team fight and many times even the whole match.

Alternatives ā€œfixesā€ that can ā€œimproveā€ Q directly or indirectly:
PS. Not all at once, one of either path. buffing all would be too much obviously :rofl:

  • Increase hit box of Q-heal by 10-20%

  • Reduce GCD of Q-heal by 0.5 sec.

  • Increase the healing of Q-heal to make up for a potential miss.

  • Add healing over time to Q-heal

  • Increase the heal of Grenade or the heal Q does during effect.

  • Increase the duration of Grenade

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If you want to be decent as Ana, then play lots of Nova. If you want to be decent as Nova, then play lots of Ana. Hell, with Ana’s 16 - Sharpshooter they basically become the same hero targeting different sides.

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Why dont you just play ana.if you want to git gud with ana?
Playing nova is all about flanking and its a completly diffirent hero

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Also look at your healthbar

It was really more of a comment on the width of Ana Q and how missing can feel punishing, which got me thinking about Nova Q. Basically, both are heroes for practicing precision skill-shots with. It wasn’t a serious recommendation. :slight_smile:

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If you can’t hit the skillshots, then either practice or don’t play ana. If anyone is giving you free practice out of combat, you should thank them, not ask them to make it ā€œeasyā€. You won’t have it easy in combat - you WILL have to hit those shots, if you want to win any games.

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