This is a run down of every meta ever. These are ignoring lader only metas like stun meta and the recent Doom meta. If I miss anything please do say and I will add. Im sure some of this is wrong and I’m only listing core hero’s not ones that could be played along with the meta. Also in some what in session order.
Damage Meta:
Mccree / Zen
Beyblade:
Ana / Reaper
Deathball:
Rine
Pharahmercy (console):
Pharah / Mercy
Triple tank:
Rine / Zayra / Dva / Ana / Lucio
Dive:
Dva / Winston / Tracer / Genji / Lucio / Zen or Ana
Quad Tank:
Roadhog / Rine / Zayra / Dva / Lucio / Ana
Bunker:
Orisa / Roadhog / Bastion / Junkrat / Ana
Pirate Ship:
Orisa / Rine / Dva / Bastion / Mercy / Ana
Moth Meta:
Mercy
Double Sniper:
Hanzo / Widowmaker / Mercy
GOATS:
Rine / Zyara / Dva / Brig / Lucio / Ana or Moria
Our bunker comps used to be orisa, flex (road or Ana) , sym, torb, bastion, mercy. Torb and sym were important because they turned your entire team into tanks, and how shield and armor works. No one was easy to kill lol you damage boosted bastion and it was the ultimate defense.
Not a meta… deathball was another name for triple tank.
It was Rein/zarya/hog/ana/lucio, with zarya also being dva at times.
Hog was a requirement. Hook was busted and people were complaining about fights lasting too long, as it was literally just waiting with insane heals and 100% heal boost nade until your hog gets a pick then you snowball off of that.
Assuming this is OG dive. No ana.
Slambulance is exclusively played with a moira, not ana.
Zen instead of ana, you need discord, and the other support would be mercy.
Zen instead of ana, you need discord.
Moth Meta didnt exist. It was just dive but with mercy instead of lucio.
So winston/dva/zen/mercy/tracer/other dps was many things. Professionally, zen and dva were as much of a requirement as mercy (in that dive)
Ana Moira, Or Zen* With zen being most dominant, then ana, then moira.
And thats not even counting all the versions of dive, as it was popular with widow as well. Genji wasnt popular for most of OWL infact.
You also didnt count AntiGoats (sombra doom) and Winston Goats.
The heroes that have been in the most ““metas”” would be either zen, rein, or dva. Ana wasnt in that much…
Fair enough, but I found a video by a much more credible source
that says you should also add Lucio to deathball. I agree with this. It also mentions that triple tank, goats, and slambulance are all forms of deathball. Your post in general is not consistent as you need to mention every form of a comp. You also need to clearly define map meta or general meta. You mention pirate ship, which is exclusively junkertown (not even meta on junkertown at any point in pro play but whatever) but dont mention treehouse defense (on anubis)
Remember, this is pro play. Ana was a throwpick since triple tank. She was not played in pro play. The aim support player literally only played zen. Thats why jjonak was always on zen. He never had to play ana because ana was trash at the time.
Mercy was good; but the staple for that meta wasnt mercy. It was Dive, with a mercy instead of a lucio. Dva and Zen were just as required.
GM is not pro play. Ana is not second higher pickrate in pro play. She was very low in the playoffs. The supports ranked by world cup play off performance was lucio - then brig - then zen - then ana - then mercy - than moira. Moira still had a higher pickrate than doomfist and I believe just slightly under or above genji.
There are 3 versions of goats. Moira goats, zen goats, and ana goats. Ana goats counters zen goats, zen goats counters moira goats, and moira goats counters ana goats. Zen goats is the most popular and regarded as the best, with moira seen as the weakest. They were all still played a fair bit, especially moira goats by the UK. Check em out.
Ana was never played in OWL.
Also, extra meta, before hero limits, 2 Lucio, 2 Winston, and 2 tracer was really popular.
Sorry but I dont think you know what you are talking about.
Most teams did not run Ana and her pickrate was abysmal after mid S4. The only thing less common was running Mercy + Ana at the same time. Did you actually watch any games?
Roadhog played a bigger role in triple tank than D.va.
Ana only worked in triple tank when it co-existed with dive before mercy’s rework. Zen and Lucio were mandatory to dive pre mercy rework.
Only worked with Moira. Ana had no place in quad.
Bunker only came to be after mercy’s rework. Ana was far from meta then.
so your 7 for ana is really a 4.
Also soldier was mandatory to triple tank for shield break and bio field to keep Ana up. And doomfist was key to one shot and anti goats before his nerfs.
Better point being, that all the metas are largely enabled by Healers.
I.e.
Mercy = GravDragon and Double Sniper ( partially caused by Brig preventing things from dying without instakills)
Ana = Beyblade and TripleTank
Dive = Lucio/Zen
Bunker = Baptiste
