This doesn’t necessarily look… healthy. I think people are just afraid to admit she might be overtuned because of the amount of skill input she takes. But still… she’s approaching Mercy pick rates from back in season 6. Also important to note:
What’s the best way I think to go about this is? Buff Moira. Buff Brig (yes, I said it.) Make the other supports have the viability to COMPETE with this hero, make it to where Ana is not just the default go-to for the average flex player.
i think people just hated mercy more because of “no aim no brain just hold left click 5head!1!1!1!1”
Pickrate does not correlate to “level of overpoweredness.”
her high pick rate makes her op?
Anti nade is overpowered.
I dont think its people being afraid, its more like most people dont mind Ana being the strongest support.
She doesnt feel cheap to play against, is hard to master and she enables dps players with her nano boost while also being one of the best of keeping tanks alive.
Strong healing + long cc and anti-healing makes for a very strong support. Other supports just need better utility imo.
I am not afraid and she does not even take that much mechanical skill. If people cared about that, we would be asking for Baptiste to be broken. Nobody wants to catch that smoke, though.
She has been overtuned since the support patch.
Shes not op btw. Neither is none of the other heroes.
Also why you think that just cause of hero pickrates makes that hero op???
(Can you guys actually decide the 1 hero ‘‘x’’ whos op than just throw around your opinions whos too ‘‘op’’ on this game)
God I wish people understood this, but they don’t.
The fact that she has a very high pickrate but a lower respectable win rate simply means she fits a lot of scenarios - but doesn’t over perform in any of them.
This could be perceived as healthy or unhealthy for the game / character - but I don’t think it means she is overpowered.
Edit: it’s been pointed out that at a high pickrate the winrate must be about 50% because of mirror matches. So most of what I said might be invalid.
This is for pc right? Because on console she’s always a low tier support.
Winrates at very high pickrates are misleading as it comes to alot of mirror matches where its a 50% winrate by default for her, because one Ana has to lose.
I said “might”, and she was the only hero I was referring to
Because it’s double the pickrate of any other hero… this translates to a 77% pickrate per match. And that was what many heroes were at before they got nerfed…
I’ve never directly called a hero OP. Either I might say they ruin the fun of the game in a lot of ways, or maybe they take up other heroes’ niches. And in this case, she is taking up the role of Moira completely, which is where I start seeing a problem.
Well, thing is… it’s kinda true, and kinda not. Context is important–without context, it doesn’t really correlate, but with context, it does. For instance, a support having a 10% pickrate is not the same as a DPS having a 10% pickrate. A character having a 12% pickrate for a single meta then dropping out of meta is not the same as someone having a 12% pickrate across multiple metas. When you contextualize data like this, then it does become a pretty good indicator of hero strength–and then you can apply the idea of being “overpowered,” since that’s a subjective judgement on hero strength. Either way, the OP does have a point in that Ana statistically has been very strong for quite a while now, even stretching down into lower ranks where mechanically simpler heroes like Mercy and Moira ostensibly should be far more favored. You could argue this is because alternative options are too weak, or because Ana is too strong, but either way, there’s no denying that she’s by far the most powerful support on ladder.
Doesn’t help that they did the dumbest thing in the universe and nerfed Mercy at the same time they buffed Ana
It means they are part of the meta, what it doesnt say is if they are the cause of the meta based on their OPness, or because they enable someone else who might be more on the OP side.
Blizzard and their extremes. One or the other would have been fine… But let’s do both for FUN!
…That was basis for so other character nerfs…
“Mercy has too high of a pick rate, she needs to be nerfed!”