2018
JUNE SEASON 10
Moth meta.
AUG Season 11
Moth meta.
OCT Season 12
GOATS. Ana most picked support in the game.
NOV Season 13
GOATS. Ana most picked support in the game.
2019
JAN Season 14
GOATS. Ana most picked support in the game.
FEB SEASON 14
GOATS. Ana most picked support in the game.
MARCH SEASON 15
GOATS. Ana most picked support in the game.
APRIL SEASON 15
GOATS. Ana most picked support in the game.
MAY SEASON 16
ZOO. (Roadhog + Orisa) Ana most picked support in the game.
JUNE SEASON 16
DOUBLE SNIPER. Ana most picked support in the game.
JULY SEASON 17
DOUBLE SNIPER. Ana most picked support in the game.
SEPT SEASON 18
DOUBLE BARRIER. Moira most picked support in the game. (Ana 2nd)
OCT SEASON 18
DOUBLE BARRIER. Moira most picked support in the game. (Ana 2nd)
NOV SEASON 19
DOUBLE BARRIER. Moira most picked support in the game. (Ana 2nd)
DEC SEASON 19
DOUBLE BARRIER. Bap Buffs. Baptiste + Moira
2020
JAN SEASON 20
DOUBLE BARRIER. Baptiste + Moira
JAN 16TH + 27TH BAPTISTE NERFS
NERFS
Immortality Field
- Maximum duration reduced from 8 to 5 seconds.
- Cooldown increased from 20 to 25 seconds.
Amplification Matrix
- Ultimate cost increased by 20%.
1.44.0.1 - 1/27/2020
Biotic Launcher (Primary Fire)
- Recovery time increased from 0.36 to 0.45 seconds.
Biotic Launcher (Secondary Fire)
- Heal explosion reduced from 60 to 50.
FEB TO PRESENT DAY
ANA MOST PICKED SUPPORT IN THE GAME.
SUMMARY
Ana has been meta for an absurd amount of time, over 2 years! Even during double barrier, she remained meta for the majority of it. Many people don’t realise but on ladder Ana was the most picked support fot the entirety of GOATS.
Check it out for yourself,
SOURCE:
https://www.esportstales.com/overwatch?tag=Meta%20Reports
24 Likes
Because ana is more fun to watch…
pros like her more…
8 Likes
I love Ana but…damn, that grenade should get adjusted. At least try a 75% or 80% healing reduction on it. That’d still be powerful, unique, and would counter a lot of healing.
I’m tired of her being so dominant and me having to pick her or Moira or being called a thrower for not doing so.
11 Likes
The OWL stats don’t show any signs of Ana being OP, so how can Ana be OP if the pro players (the ones that actually need to win games) don´t pick Ana that much? After all, aren´t the metas created by the pro players? Not even when genji is being picked a lot they select Ana most of the time.
3 Likes
I don’t like how favoritism put her in an untouchable position. She has some of the strongest support abilities in the game and rivals in healing potential.
People are so quick to shut down other heroes based on their status but will turn a blind eye to her 10 times out of 10.
Makes you wonder who this game is really for… the players or the people watching the streams
8 Likes
Ana was not the most played support in GOATS
4 Likes
Check my source It goes through the stats for every season.
On Ladder, she was 100% the most picked support in the game during GOATS.
6 Likes
I’m not a pro i like her too.
Zen bap mercy are f tier on their own not due to ana.
Brig moira do well, lucio is good.
You need to make other support viable apart from that ana is fine.
Her antinade is Powerful so is imf, rez, buff mercy bap to be viable main healers ana pr will drop.
Right now you have only two viable main healer ana moira, people will prefer ana she is more engaging than moira.
2 Likes
Ana is not picked heavily in OWL because of the extensive amount of coordination they have. Ana has very little defensive capabilities and is the easiest support to jump on and kill in a coordinated team.
Zen is close, but he has high damage and an ability to fend off his attackers, even in coordinated play. On top of that, he has his ultimate if needed.
Ana has neither of these. In OWL, they tend to jump on the same target together and all Ana has is nade for 100 more HP and sleep dart for one target with the potential to miss.
She’s much more powerful on ladder because these issues don’t factor in, even in GM.
Ana isn’t good in OWL because her weaknesses are too easily exploitable in a full coordinated team. Ladder is not that, so she reigns heavily supreme on ladder due to being less exploitable.
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You called her a meta pick but she wasn’t meta during GOATS. Ana GOATS was an offshoot that found limited success.
You framed this as an argument based on pickrates yet chose to focus on metas instead. People on ladder aren’t forced into playing the meta, pickrates are not an indicator of viability.
Looking through the source, what they are saying is true…
The source uses Overbuff but as that is are only statistic tool for ladder it is pretty hard to refute.
Iirc bap and Lucio are used more in owl and even right now genji is being paired with brig rather then ana so idk if she is OP plus iirc GOATs was a meta defined by brig Lucio and Zen in owl and ladder used to have different variations of it
The issue is that OWL is a different game from OW.
You should balance around the top players because they know how the game is supposed to work and to get to the top they have to know what they are doing for the most part. This much I agree with.
My issue is when you take the leap from balancing around GM/T500 to balancing around OWL. OWL isn’t the same game we play, it is a constructed game where everyone has had lots of opportunity to play with one another and can expect higher amounts of coordination than is possible on ladder.
Take dive for example, dive was the most dominant meta in OWL for a good while, but even in GM Rein/Zarya was having just as much success. Nobody actually knew how to coordinate diving what with the relaying information, scouting, and decision making required to pull off such a feat. So in reality Dive wasn’t an issue for anyone but OWL players, and when the devs balanced around OWL players we got Brig, the most notoriously bad hero addition in the game.
This is not entirely accurate. There were several versions of GOATS in its evolution.
It started with Moira GOATS.
A few months later, it was Ana GOATS.
Then it was a weird Rock/Paper/Scissors that also included Zen GOATS.
Eventually the meta settled on Zen GOATS as the definitive GOATS variation.
I would like to keep seeing some Ana play during the OWL matches and I’m sure that if we nerf her just because people enjoy playing her on the ladder is only going to make her even less viable in OWL.
The OWL is the living proof that you don´t need Ana to win games. Also I believe that high rank games on the ladder have access to all the tools needed to exploit the weakness of Ana. I’m sure that high rank players are able to coordinate attacks… just look at some high ranked games and you’ll see them constantly communicating with eachother (at least in some games).
CHECK THE SOURCE!
When I say she was the most picked support. It means she was picked more than any other support during that time period.
I don’t know what you want me to say. I am not twisting the statistics here, they simply show that during GOATS meta, out of all the supports she was picked the most.
If you somehow can twist that to mean she was an off-shoot, that is on you.
Show me some evidence that on Ladder she wasn’t meta during GOATS, I will be more than happy to edit my post.
because she still have her busted anti nade thing
why people didn’t ask for anti heal nerf ? 100% heal block is insta death on low/high rank
it’s like ana is tagging you with death sentence if she succesfully hit you with anti nade from like far away.
Check the source!
It goes through the stats of every support during those time period.
You can look for youself but for everyone I have stated. Ana was the most picked support on ladder!!
That is just a fact. Yes in OWL there were many off-shoots of GOATS but on LADDER THERE WAS NOT!
Ana remained the most prominent healer in GOATS during its entirety!
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I’m not saying you are twisting stats, you’re just misinterpreting them.
Pickrate =/= meta
GOATS ran with a Moira in its inception, it was refined with running a Zen instead. Ana’s utility was not optimal for the comp.
Should have included the S3 ana-rein hell