It’s overpowered and removes what little skill Ana requires. There’s a reason LITERALLY EVERY ANA PLAYER takes it REGARDLESS OF BUILD. It makes sleep dart basically impossible to miss and sleep dart is essentially a guaranteed kill on any squishy.
It needs to be severely nerfed, made a power, or outright removed.
I think it should be a power, not an item. It’s actually stronger than some of her powers, which is ridiculous, but I don’t think it should be removed entirely.
Ana in stadium is one of the most easily diveable supports and with more dive heroes coming (eg Tracer) she’s only going to be more vulnerable. Also sleep dart actually gets weaker the more rounds go on due to scaling. Putting all your cash into sleep dart means you do no healing late game because she will have low WP, so there is that balancing element to it.
The issue with Ana is that her powers just feel very…mid compared to other supports.
She has too many ult powers which should be combined, but made weaker to compensate.
This is why most Anas go with sleep dart builds because there’s not much variety which can compete.
I feel Blizzard played it very safe with Ana in stadium given how strong her base kit is, they felt playing it conservative would be wise.
IMO Ana needs a power rework.
Anything that removes skill expression has no place in the game. Of course, after S9 we all know devs don’t feel the same way.
So, what’s not “mid” then? I’d wager there are many heroes with useless powers - at least as felt by their mains.
… one of the few who cares little about that because she doesn’t need to run away in most cases.
Isn’t Stadium all about removing skill expression? Everything becomes braindead with auto-aims all over the place.
With the amount of auto-aim or easy value builds in Stadium, Ana’s sleep dart isn’t an outlier. The issue lies in it being a universal item that she can incorporate in any build. She should be able to commit to it fully or not at all for the power it can have.
Never said other heroe’s didn’t have useless powers. This is also very subjective. What I find mid may not be what you consider mid, so not going to bother debating it as it’s a different topic altogether.
Nobody in their right mind will dive an Ana with a dart build, that’s a severe skill issue. A sleep build Ana is really best ignored as you get more value diving other targets who are actually more threatening. Her healing late game will be poor, so it makes more sense just prioritizing other targets, that’s why she isn’t dove as much.
My point was that there is a reason most Anas go sleep dart and that’s in order to just fend off any divers reliably in stadium. Otherwise you are soft-throwing unless you are severely above in skill compared to the lobby.
So instead of a dart is like a missile ? Nice. Because it was definitely hard to hit close range before.
/s