now I know this is an argument that everyone hates but…
When Mercy had this pickrate, she was compleatly busted, actually I think just about anyone with that kind of pickrate is absoulutly busted
To give everyone an idea of just how high that pickrate is…
OverBuff pickrates essentially calculate based on the chance that a player will pick a hero, currently there is a 42% chance for someone queuing as support to pick Ana.
That means that there is only an 8% (0.08) chance that Ana won’t be on your team, and a 0.64% (0.0064) chance that Ana won’t be in your game at all. Please correct me if I’m wrong, because right now I’m doing “coffee math” I haven’t slept in a while and my general thought process is kinda all over the place.
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But Ana is completely fine because because… aim… 
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Yeah, we need more supports, so that supports don’t trivially become the “best support” out of a small number.
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I’m down for reducing ammo to 12 to start with, but I honestly still think Rein is the problem.
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I’ve talked about this, apparently it’s not a problem because Ana “is not a broken hero”, despite having a broken toolkit which makes her forever metapick. And which makes heroes like genji apparently slaves to her nanoboost hit or miss strategies because it’s too strong.
But ana is a protected species and they want her and rein to be meta, so yep. Other supports can remaing rotting in the trashbin. When Ana and Moira were banned, it showed just how much better Ana and Moira were at healing people, but Ana is still the only proper pick due to her overwhelmingly good kit.
But I don’t expect anything to change because devs are too busy with ow2.
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Ana’s completely fine because she’s been the same hero now as she was when she was trash tier. The increase in her pick rate is largely to do with every other main healer getting crippling nerfs.
You can revert it back to 10 outright, that buff didn’t increase her healing output at all stats wise because ammo management was never a problem for her. When she was trash tier, it’s because her counters at the time crippled her without even needing to engage her. Winston drops his bubble and every part of her kit becomes useless. Remember she still continued to be bottom tier for like 6 months after that buff.
You may be on to something with Ana synergising with Rein though. But Rein is very much in the same boat as Ana right now. His pickrate is due to circumstance. The other main tanks took really hard nerfs (orisa) or just get countered way to hard (winston).
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3 main supports:
Ana, Bap and Moira
Which do you pick for deathball?
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Apparently this is fine because Ana “doesn’t feel oppressive”. Who cares about stats when you have feelings, right?
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I think her anti heal feels kinda oppressive.
But it’s fine for most people because it has to be aimed I guess
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Then WHY make YET ANOTHER thread about it …
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Ana’s been either the meta support, or countered by the meta (double shield) since like, 2018 when she got the burst on her ultimate
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One Ana thread is fine, LOL
You should rather complain about the 1000 Moira hate threads
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To be honest I have made a few of these kinds of threads (specifically pointing out just how high ana’s pickrate it)
but the last one was over 30 days ago, which means that it doesn’t break the CoC for spamming
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Maybe reducing damage res during nanoboost for armored heroes only? That would be a nerf for Rein and Brig but not that much for Ana.
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Funny enough in goats she wasn’t even the meta support. Yet still was the most picked for ladder.
Personally I don’t think she needed that buff either, since it came with the support patch. The buff to lucio was an indirect buff to her survivability, and nerfing Mercy’s healing stifled the competition mercy was giving burst healers all together. With that being said, it’s an ultimate. I wouldn’t call it game breaking or something that pushed her pick rate over the edge.
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yeah
as much as people wont let you believe it but, GOATS was only really viable for OWL,
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Aim gives Ana a deflect against nerfs with a hitbox 10 times larger than pre nerf Genji’s deflect…
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Completely agree. The same thing happened with dive for the most part. Dive heroes were some of the most picked, but that didn’t mean people were playing dive.
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