She has not only the strongest healing in the game that has infinite range and pinpoint accuracy, but she can also use her healing grenade to boost her already OP heals. One Ana on the enemy team can easily sustain through all of the damage from my entire team. Not only that, but she can simultaneously nullify all healing abilities on my team with her anti-heal. Try to flank to get behind Ana and she can sleep you for 5 seconds, then hit you with an anti-heal that also does 60 damage, then shoot you to death. Ignore the Ana and she hides behind her teammates who have a pool of virtually infinite health and if any of them happen to get too low she can Ult them and they become virtually invincible as well as return to full health and do extra damage. God forbid she has a pocket Mercy in which case she is unkillable since she can instantly heal grenade herself on top of Mercy’s heal if she ever gets close to low health.
Every other healer in the game has a weakness. Brigitte you can gun down from range while she is unable to heal herself by landing hits. Lucio you can focus fire and out-damage his slow healing. Mercy you can isolate from her team. Zenyatta you can pick off by flanking. Bap you can burst down after baiting his AoE heal. Moira you can kill from a distance after baiting her orb. Ana on the other hand? NONE of these weaknesses, plus she can take away your team’s healing every team fight.
I don’t know.
I know people say Ana is really vulnerable now, but having Antinade always available for the enemy’s solo tank thanks to her passive regen is scary.
If the tanks in OW2 are strong enough, I wonder of trading the main support for the enemy’s only tank might be worth it.
no mobility
long cooldowns
can’t heal and damage at the same time
everything she does to protect herself from a flanker (sleep or made to heal herself) is resources not used on helping her team
low damage that’s DoT and can be cleansed
weak to dive as she can’t really deal with more than one target unless someone else peels for her
her ult is 100% dependent on her teammate using it properly
yeah but all these make up for having bloated abilities and a scope with no fall off and a lock on ultimate.
I enjoy ana but she has been dominating for so many years
don’t move the goalpost, you asked about weaknesses and i told you what they are.
ana hasn’t been truly meta defining since quad tank, all other metas were heralded by mercy, lucio, brig, bap and right now ana isn’t the must pick forum users think she is
the fact you have to isolate this makes me realize how much in bad faith you are
She has the same movement speed as every other healer and a smaller hitbox.
Her longest cooldown is 12 seconds on sleep dart, meaning she has it 5 times a minute. Compare that to Mercy’s Rez at 30 seconds, or Bap’s lamp at 25 seconds.
She does damage and healing with the same left click, so she can accidentally hit an enemy while healing and do damage at the same time.
Killing flankers is an elimination which definitely does help her team.
It doesn’t matter that she has low damage since she can negate all sources of healing on a target (and thus prevent cleansing).
Basically every hero is weak to dive.
Her ult makes the recipient fully healed and nigh invulnerable with boosted damage. Even if they are AFK on the point, they are getting more use out of it than any other healer ult.
“she has the same movement speed as every character in the game but two”
“she may accidentally not heal and deal pot shot damage instead”
when you put these as strenghts you should reconsider your entire argument.
You also clearly don’t know what “cleanse” means, which may explain why you think ana is so strong
I wish but when I asked about that, people pointed out how she still has the nade, which will be really good and even better offensively (nade the enemy tank, and they’re dead), is the only non-tank to have a stun still, and Nano has instantly become the best support ult in the game.
So unfortunately, instead of seeing her 99% of the time, I fear we’ll see her 100% of the time.
cleanse is a property of some moves, like reaper wraith, moira fade and zarya bubbles.
They instantly remove anti heal and if used during the brief dot of ana shot they cancel that too
