Moira haters should be happy. A buff to Ana should push Moira out of the meta (along with reduced dps passive). No more fun support play. Back to Ana jail again. Sigh.
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I really don’t think the buff states will move her around too much, her bursty heals will have a decent chunk of power restored, and she will be more capable of defending herself from a flank like she used to be.
Anti is still competing with the infinitely applicable dps passive + she still is far more susceptible to dives and flanks than she used to be.
Compared to prior seasons, her ability to upkeep a team mate and her ability to afford cool downs as she pleased have seriously deteriorated, and when she CAN afford to shoot enemies her damage has far less impact than it used to, not that she really has time or her team will die.
Which by the way makes missing all the more punishing…
Let’s be honest, Ana is mid tier at best this season, a first ever. Her utility overlaps (only a bit, but for the first time ever it overlaps!) with the dps on her team perpetually, and her healings inconsistency is now seriously detrimental. Top this off with burst healing being massively nerfed in the first place and you begin to see all Ana has that’s truly valuable is the prior stated reduced value of anti, the burst healing with nade (which throws away anti potential) if she wants to try and burst through the dps passive, sleep dart, and her range. But everything she has has an element of inconsistency that is now actually painful at times due to the reduced impact of everything she does (minus sleep dart which is still huge)
I’m all honesty, 90/90 is a warranted buff imo, and I despised how broken she’s been for years.
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Its to much of a dive meta at the moment for Ana to replace the supercharged Moria.
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In high ranks ana should be better than moira because of the skill input to play both heroes
Moira will still be good at metal ranks where people cannot play ana well, so you’ll still continue to be able to play moira
Thats how a skill curve works. As you climb, the easy heroes drop off and higher skill heroes should start to offer more value. If a lower skill hero offers more value at high rank than a higher skill then the curve is broken
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Right now gold tracers function like diamond tracers. Until tracer and genji are fixed there is no ana
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I like playing both. 
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“She’s one of the most played heroes in the game, therefore we need to buff her to keep her viable.”
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Ana struggles for 2 weeks: 50% buff to her strongest ability 
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This ^^
They couldn’t let us have fun with other supports for more than a few weeks. Sigh.
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I’m the world’s biggest ana anti, but i guess I’d rather nade damage than giving her back her 3 tap 
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Maybe after putting her back in rotation a bit they will finally have to reduce the percent of it’s anti?
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Right? Honestly disgusting they are buffing her, let her be mid here for a bit, she doesn’t need to see 200% usage each match for her to be viable.
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Hey! 
You mean 130% 
That was Granny’s pickrate on pc in high elo for most of ow2 pre S9.
Can’t have that dip now can we, devs? 
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Ana isnt doing good tho lol
Her healing doesn’t have the same punch as it used to and the dmg from the nade doesnt offer as much value anymore
With the dps passive her nade currently goes from 60 to 48 healing. Ie. Negligible for an ability. This especially makes her weak if shes getting dived on. Only being able to heal 48 hp does nothing. Now her nade going to 90 with the reduced passive it gives her back some self survivability
Everyones hp was buffed so 60 dmg is not as good as it used to be, plus anti negating 100% is not as good as it used to be because the dps passive is often enough. Buffing its dmg by 30 still makes it deal 20 less damage than everyones hp was buffed by. So it is still proportionally weaker than last season
Oh I know. I just think the immediate 50% buff while some heroes are significantly worse and have received minor or no changes is funny. The bias is clear.
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But what if i hate both? (i dont really hate moira)
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Tbf they said in the blog post they are changing half the roster this patch
Can guess the Junkrat ones right now:
Concussion mine minimum damage raised to 60.
Ultimate cost increased by 30%.
Developer’s notes: We noticed some of you are still playing Junkrat. Stop that. 
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It’s the only reason I’m not already rioting.
She’s not in the list of heroes I’d have picked for “doesn’t feel viable” is all. Needs help sure, but not horrendous. The lack of mention for some unplable heroes is very concerning since it shows they don’t fully appreciate how awful the game is for some.
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They buffed the hell out of dive, ain’t no way Ana is making a come back like that.