As someone who plays her extensively, I agree this is the way to do it.
Ana is overpowered but imo it’s almost entirely in nade.
Nanoblade’s synergy should probably be disrupted somehow but nano doesn’t really need to be nerfed? imo. Maybe just a smidgen
I just want a new support to be a good counter to Ana. The problem is that antinade just shuts down an entire role from doing anything. Can’t even imagine if there was an equivalent for a tank or DPS that stopped you from doing your job for 5 seconds. A new support whose utility is to cleanse status effects is needed. Give him low HPS but the ability to remove antinade, dynamite burn, sleep, etc within a small range of him on a 20 second cool down.
there’s actually a couple of self-cleansing characters, too bad they don’t get played because of that.
This statement is just ridiculous. Why would she have received the post-release buffs if she was always viable?
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There was also the time when dive was meta and Ana was absolute garbage during it.
But then again,that was after she got nerfed to death and Winston got a massive buff.
Sigh.
The only part of her kit that even remotely need nerfing is nade and when it’s anti-heal does eventually get nerfed? She’ll still be top pick. Because others supports utility is being nerfed to the ground (Baptiste) or just straight up removed (Brigitte)
In a game where utility is MUCH more important in impact than healing? Anti-nade, no matter how nerfed, will always take the cake. Nano can enable plays sure, but its an ult it’s meant to do that and sleep dart needs to be aimed and can be baited out and predicted.
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wdym? ana is a bit overtuned but she is still a hard hero
You mean put u back in Bronze level cuz only those player who can’t aim think people abuse her.
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So I’m only Silver and only recently started trying to really practice Ana, but…I don’t think her sleep dart takes “no skill to aim”? I mean if you’re shooting it at a big tank or someone that’s just standing still, then sure it can be pretty easy…But it can be really tough (imo) to land it on someone that’s moving around a lot, such as a flanker coming after you in the backlines.
Plus, in most of my matches, Anas never use vc to call out their sleep targets, so they almost always get immediately woken up anyway. That’s definitely a communication/skill/awareness/bad targeting issue, but it does mean that sleep dart is less impactful in lower tiers anyway.
As others have said, I think creating a counter to her anti-nade would be a great idea. Either add cleansing to one of the weaker supports, and/or create a new support hero that focuses on cleansing. Seeing an enemy Ana anti’ing your team all the time and actually having the ability to switch and counter would feel really great on Support. It sucks to see your team purple all the time, still spamming “need healing” and simply not being able to do anything about it other than maybe flank the Ana because nobody else will.
Start playing some pixelhunting type of hitscan dps like ashe or widow, reach masters and then try playing ana, youll understand how easy and cheap it is to remove someone from the map by pressing shift and how hard it is to dodge sleep and how many random sleep darts youll eat.
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They won’t because mUh sKiLlS
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Not really a great way start a constructive post…
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Holy crap - that was a load of bs and fatalism. Why are you so overdramatic? This is a super irrelevant topic and you make it seem like it is as pressing an issue as the pandemic.
I sincerely ask you to chill the f out and not play Overwatch if it causes that much emotional turmoil for you.
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Your name doesn’t really fit
Wdym? I‘m not a native English speaker - is there some double meaning that I am not aware of?
I just want other main healers to be viable as you climb the ladder. Getting into Diamond from gold/plat and now I am constantly stuck with Ana as my co-healer and Moira/Ana doesn’t work very well. I’m either being forced into Brig (maybe not for long, hehe) or competing to be the more competent main healer… but I know if I ever get to high Diamond/M I am going to bottom out against Ana’s kit.
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Could have been baptiste but somehow people think IF is more busted than anti nade when its weaknesses are numerous
straight facts, nothing overdramatic
straight facts like “she has no hitbox” or “sleep dart takes 0 skill to land” lmao
Pls stop the bs - this is not an actual problem. There are just a lot of people that like playing Ana which is why she is in so many games. She is appealing because she is well designed and you can nicely partner up with others. You don’t have to play ana if you hate her that much and who are you to tell other players what they should pick?
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