I think some Ana mains are getting too greedy. Ana gets to shot through targets to heal better, more damage, and clips size. Also self nano in deathmatch. Those are all several recent buffs. Blizzard has been generous to that character already. There’s other characters that need help or reworks or buffs like Sym, Torb, or Bastion.
Ana is already a moderate damage widowmaker, with no mobility but high utility, self heals, and strong counters to ULT.
I guess it is because you can’t pre heal anymore
i think the preheal is not a good argument
the benefits outweigh the downsides
I had a bunch of teammates bundled up and running in front of each other. I could just shoot into them and not worry i could not get the furthest hero because people keep running in front of that hero. They were full health so i could get that last hero easily.
Prehealing is nice ,maybe but a bit too niche compared to this example.
Ah yes, Ana getting two small buffs (one of which is more QoL) is obviously demanding too much - I mean, she’s played virtually every game!
Honestly, have you played her at all? Because I kinda get the impression that you’ve barely touched her if that’s your opinion.
Ana still suffers in ways other healers don’t. She’s the only healer who can “Miss” her healing and has to “Reload” her healing (Not counting Moira since you can manage your resources so that you never run out).
She needs a way to either escape from a threat pouncing her, sustain herself outside of Bio-Nade, or a way to be harder to be seen when in the backline at a certain distance away.
i think ana should at least get a little movement ability
like mccree’s combat roll or hanzo’s jump,something to disengage
That’s just deflective response. How do you justify 4th buff to Ana? When she’s viable and got a big boost. Don’t get greedy. I’m happy Ana got boost and attention but what about other characters that need the help.
Ana is the worst support in the game right now. She needs a lot of buffs.
moira WILL run out eventually,even with good resource managment
if the enemy is doing high presure,she WILL run out.
No, Ana hasn’t been meta for a pretty long time now. I think that a lot of people would like to see her in a meta position again. That said, I’m concerned that in the current state of the game, the only way that happens is to buff her until she’s blatantly OP.
So, I do have a concern about further buffs, but I don’t think people are getting greedy or that an additional buff would be bad. We just have to be careful about how we buff her so that she doesn’t get Sombra’d.
Some want her rifle buffed
Some wanted her to be able to shoot through full-health allies
Some wanted faster reload
Not everyone is going to agree on a set of buffs/balance changes. This is true for every community, but Ana has been pretty awful for a lot longer so the divide between what Ana mains want is a lot wider.
indeed
at least ana has been meta one time in the past
people are so scared of sombra they immediatly nerf her before you can see how it goes
Man it’s because I’ve replied to posts like yours many times before. When you make threads like this it just stalls Ana’s development if she wasn’t already dead with no updates for over a year. How is asking for a character to be examined that’s been dead for almost two years greedy? Your post is disrespectful and ignorant especially considering you have virtually no time on her in competitive and you’re low gold where Ana will never be played decently.
How is she viable when she has one of the worst pick rate and win rate for a support across all ranks? Her utility, which is the only reason people at higher ranks play her, is nullified by barriers and her low survivability. You have to put in 10x the effort with Ana to be half as efficient as a Mercy player and even then the other main healers are usually the better pick. Symmetra and Torb are getting reworks and Bastion is a niche pick.
These changes do very little for her dire situation.
4 extra ammo is not gonna fix her
i rather they undo the buff
and give her something else
what about giving her 1 sec debuff on her gun, so everytime u hit enemies their heal will cut down to 50%, so mercy will only heal 30 HPS to a pharah for 1 sec
this will also encourge for ana actually be more agresive
I like how you trivialize the buff even though Ana being to shot through allies for heals is huge and has been asked for ages. Same with self nanos which is being tested in deathmatch and one day might be an option for even comps.
Secondly there’s more than “two” buffs recently applied. But if you want to downplay buff in hopes to get more, that’s dishonest. Give credit where’s it’s due. I don’t care how many hours you play if you can’t count or mislead others.
If you don’t think the several buffs which were more than two aren’t good enough. That’s fine your opinion. Simply be objective and justify why Ana needs more buffs. But keep mind. If it’s Blizzards feels Ana mains can’t be satisfied no matter how many buffs they give her or push to imbalance her. They just might move on to another character instead.
Ana is no where close to being good and hasn’t been in a good spot for a while now.
Even when this current meta has SHIFTED AWAY FROM DIVE she is still pitiful and painful to play. Reinhardt is even meta to protect Ana, and she STILL is doing badly. (And Rein is an ideal nanoboost target.)
Ana is so far from fine it actually hurts.
Eh…I wouldn’t say that she has the worst Pick-Rate & Win-Rate across all ranks.
That’s not to say that she’s amazing either. (I play on Console where she’s…yeah.)
Chill out man, no need to put OP on blast and be hostile.
Nano in FFA is a meme. Ana has no relevant niche right now. Her utility is outclassed by Mercy and her healing is outclassed by Moira.
I would like to see Ana back in the place in the meta where she was in Contenders Season 1. Where people like Chips and Jehong could play her. Because she wasn’t top tier but if you were good enough with her she is a viable alternative.
I actually find Ana to be very playable.
True there are things that she could use to make her life easier. I don’t think people are greedy for asking for them. Some of the suggestions for her? Yeah, blatantly OP. She could use something though. I haven’t seen much that I agree with outside minor CD reduction to sleepdart. I would even take a -1 second sleep time for a -2 second CD.
It’s not a matter of how many buffs a character gets if it’s not a buff they need or if it doesn’t fix what’s not working with them. You making a thread complaining about people being dissatisfied with a character that’s obviously in a dire state just boggles my mind. These “amazing” buffs haven’t changed Ana’s place in the meta at all, and also making her able to nano herself in DM is more leveling the playing field rather than a buff. Ana has barely received any buffs since her harsh nerf more than a year ago, and the once she did get were definitely small. So until Ana is at least somewhat level with other healers in terms of pick-rates I think people playing her have every reason to complain.