This is not excuses this is facts you can’t handle apparently. She is THE fps support hero, I am thankful she exists in the otherwise bland support hero roster outside of zen and bap. She is picked because she can do decent in most scenarios if you are good enough, she is counterable but not unplayable into her counters, she is NOT OP and thank you Jeff if you’re reading this for not balancing the game around lower ranks like the one I’m in.
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“Falling out in gm”
Is still the most picked and has an increasing pickrate,
Hm interesting
“shut up don’t talk to me”
at least get some argumentative skill, all you’ve done is “no u” and “shut up it’s my opinion”
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“But I don’t give a flying flamingo about facts. She hurt my feelings and this is why I lie and ignore every stat, just to justify my hate for Ana.”
That is actually happening
Thanks for trying OP, but I lost faith in this community
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unrelated, but a guy once used a chart showing zarya was the third most picked tank and was using it as proof that zarya was “dominating” the meta
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Same, but I hold faith in the Devs. The last several patches have been great (Aside from OP hog) and they have made the game extremely fun and balanced recently. This patch is the best balance we’ve had in like 2-3 years tbh. A breath of fresh air after Double Shield, GOATs, and even Grav Dragon/Double Sniper/Moth before that.
I know they won’t hard nerf a hero who is not at all meta in OWL and falling in GM. Not with how well they have been balancing lately.
Most are bitter about Brig and other supports being balanced finally I think ^^
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I’m sorry that you can resort to nothing else but insulting me because your ego is so bruised due to not everyone being a sheep and agreeing with you even when the only statistics that we have are saying the opposite of what you said.
Maybe don’t take everything as a personal insult
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They balance for everything though. Otherwise they would buff bastion to be used in higher elos. Or not nerf reapers life steal because it was too strong in lower elos and wasn’t in higher
No they literally balance primarly around masters, GM, and OWL. They outright said this last month when asked.
Just because they take lower ranks into consideration doesn’t mean they balance around it.
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They did try to buff Bastion a few months ago
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They already said some heroes are meant to be niche picks like Sym Bastion etc. and they fully expect they will never be super prevalent picks in high ranks
Reaper was a problem in high ranks too though at this time…like a BIG problem
I agree.
The devs did an excellent job in the last couple of months. They turned the game around by 180
Most tanks and supports are viable (just 2 heroes out of tanks and supports aren’t viable)
I can’t remember if we had such a diverse meta.
I really hope for the future of OW that the devs won’t listen to the whining.
Some people are really bitter, just look at the thread which was basically “I want revenge for Brig and Mercy, gut Ana”
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You are projecting here and have not provided any valid form of counter to anyone with an opposing opinion
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well i’m an Orisa main so i can’t exactly say i like what they did to her (and i’m not a fan of the compensation buffs, they shifted her in a diretion i’m not a fan of), but yeah, most other patches were spot on and they FINALLY toned down the power creep across the board and went back to something closer to the launch state
yes, but the thing is that ana isn’t causing any problems in lower elos like reapr did
statistic says other healers are seeing more playtime, there’s a meta shift and that ana isn’t even meta in OWL, the people paid to win no matter what
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Don’t think we have since like Season 4 tbh…It’s beautiful 
Oh trust me I feel you! I enjoy her more than Rein and she’s my go-to main tank. I wanted her to get 200-300 more shield HP since fortify and Sigma’s shield are all weak now but the Exp buffs should do something for her viability. I’m curious if they will put them through, but I’m glad she’s getting attention 
Yass I feel like I’m in old OW again, my friends and I who’ve been playing since year 1 together have been loving it. It feels like old times 
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While I agree, cause you are correct, I do want to point out that lower ELOs are allowed to have their say as well. Primarily =! only.
Of course! I’m just saying the Devs won’t nerf a hero who is performing balanced in OWL and GM and masters just because they are picked a lot in low ranks. Because they would have nerfed Reinheart in the last few months if that was the case 
9% is a fantastic place for her. Honestly I’m glad it’s lower. She really did dominate the game for just far too long
Been saying all along Ana’s totally balanced.
Now give Moira, Brig, and Bap some love please.
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i want to be more happy about it but it’s just a regular meta shift. Give it a few weeks and there will be an almost strict “play these six or lose”
of course they listen to lower elo players, but listening =/= act on it. They’ll intervene when something proves to be too much for them to handl (50% ifesteal reaper) and think how something would play there before making changes
Bap just got a buff and Moira got love 2 patches ago and is currently meta in OWL and GM and becoming more and more picked.
Brig is probs going to get reworked before she ever gets flat buffed and ruins the game again. You realize when Brig was strong before her recent nerfs that she made Mercy and Lucio (and to an extent Moira) useless, right? If you care about support viability you wouldn’t want her buffed again.
Isn’t this thread complete garbage?
Ana’s pick-rate is not 9%. As of this week her overall pick-rate is 12.62% (highest in the game) and her GM pick-rate is 11.35% (highest in the game).
It has dropped a lot but it is hilarious that she is still the #1 most picked hero in the entire game.
Even if it was 9%, that is still insanely high especially for a hero that should not be meta during dive!! If she was a balanced hero, she should be in niche status currently like Lucio and Mercy were a few months ago but alas, still #1.
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