Seriously Blizz, if you want to get ppl to play tank, do something about Ana. She has too much power over too many tanks. Sure, some tanks are not bothered by her. But there shouldn’t be a support that dictates which tanks can be played and which can’t. And if someone dares not swap they are just going to have a miserable game.
Why should hog/mauga/orisa/… players have to face her every single game? How is that fun? Either we can’t play the hero we like or we have to deal with being naded every 15s and slept. No support should be that strong against tanks.
And no support should be left in a state which will obviously drive some players away from the tank role. Ana has been doing this forever. Time to fix her.
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man theyve steadily nerfed her so many times over the last year its not “time for something to finally” anything. get a kiriko
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And how many of those nerfs were to anti?
None?
All to other parts of her kit because Blizzard knows full well it’s the problem in her kit but has favourites?
Yeah, none of those nerfs mean anything. Hell, the last thing they did to anti was buff it’s damage and healing in S9, then it’s damage got buffed again in S10 with the armor changes.
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And yet she remains one of if not the strongest overall amongst supports, and is still the most picked even at high levels
Ana has repeatedly only ever had slaps on the wrists.
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the 2 things they did to anti before that were +2s cooldown and -.5s duration.
and the thing before that was add kiriko to the game
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Oh wow, two massively insignificant buffs that still allow you to instakill tanks regardless.
Kiriko isn’t the solution. She just contributes to the issue of Counterwatch.
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lol I was writing a satirical comment about how severe those are and you just went and said it straight up lmao
half a second duration can matter sometimes, but +2 seconds on a fight-winning cooldown is a joke when it was just 10 before. It should be 15 at least.
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Oh i think you meant kiriko! Ana literaly is one of the few characters that keep this game minimally balanced, yet she was heavily nerfed. Kiriko denies Ana completely in fact.
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if someone tells me shes untouched and she was touched ima tell em. she also had many nerfs to sleep dart during that time
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And none of those nerfs fixed the reasons she’s so problematic against tanks. She needs nade weakened and buff her elsewhere, like giving her some escape other than sleep.
Nade and -100% heals and lasting so long is just a death sentence way too often for some tanks. Sleep+nade is death even more often. A single support should not have this power.
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Not relevant because sleep isn’t the issue. They can nerf every single thing in her kit to stun for 1 second, heal 1 HP and do 1 damge but leave anti as is, she can still delete tanks in less than a second.
The CD is not the issue or the solution, the ability itself is the issue. It’s the most potent part of queen ult yet allowed to be used at least twice every team fight and lasts almost as long.
They proved they know how powerful anti is by giving it to queen as an ult, but then just left Ana with it on a CD anyway. It’s not even equivalent to hanzo sonic vs. widow ult as at least hanzo sonic is on a small area. Nade can be aimed to get the tank every time.
Tanks should not be limiting which support I play then. But they do so tough
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Many? It’s duration nerfed, it’s CD nerfed
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But if you choose a specific support you’re not going to get the tank counter you every game. You won’t see the same tank come out against you. Unlike when playing hog/mauga/… where Ana is a guarantee. There is no variety - Ana is in every single game I go Hog.
To be fair, tanks being gigabuffed is a direct result of Ana and Zenyatta. Blizzard themselves said that Mauga ended up the way he did in S8 because they were balancing him around anti knowing Ana will be in every single game and Mauga will need to get value somehow.
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Two is not many, nor did they nerf what matters. Still kills tanks in a single second.
Exactly. Fix Ana and rebalance the tanks she is oppressive to. Everyone would be happier if Hog/Mauga were not balanced for nade in every single game.
Save a teamfight one time and there will be a Winston or Ball chasing you all game. Tank players really like to act like they don’t counterswap the enemy
Hot Take:
Mei impacts far more tanks than Ana does.
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