It seems like pretty popular opinion around these parts to proclaim Ana as the pinnacle of hero design. Everyone loved to talk about “heal creep” and “sustain meta” when Illari was introduced of all things lol. How about your favorite who has the highest sustained single target hps and can even amplify that effect for more healing? Ana is damn near singlehandedly responsible for a multitude of tank players being able to climb up to diamond/masters without a lick of effective cover usage. Just feed, farm nano, and win teamfight. Ana is so affected by the dps role passive because she, perhaps more that any other support, found success in hard pocketing tank players with her absurd hps.
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She’s not and never was
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Exactly. She started the healing creep that led to where we are now.
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ana and bap are the golden support children that will never be below A tier on ladder. utility+high hps+decent/high dps is just king
forever waiting for the day that the both of them are suboptimal. but they just trade out top spot over and over again
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Ana and “best designed support” is a CC myth. She never was healthy since OW2 and I would argue even with OW1.
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Ana introduced healing that needed to be aimed, which introduced ramping up HPS to offset the reward needed for missable healing, which has led to horrible levels of in-combat sustain making its way to other supports. Yeah, you might get more sympathy for your point of view than you think, OP.
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Baptiste was not a top support when he came out iirc; he already did his time. Back in my day, amp matrix was a tiny square etcetc
She was OP when she had the only anti in the game (jq ult didnt count imo), and could 2 tap tracer.
Now she’s still good but not OP anymore. Anti is still good but now an entire role has a mini-version of it. So…
very true. the 1 time bap wasnt good was when he initially released… but scrolling out on the timeline, he’s been meta for more of his release lifespan than pretty much any other support. lucio as well but he plays a different role, you cant substitute a lucio for a bap or ana
And that’s fair; I guess it’d be hypocritical of me to complain about Ana’s dominance when Baptiste also does well for himself (I’m biased, I admit). I’m also a Lifeweaver main, so you can imagine I want to see him have his time in the sun 
Unfortunately, loaded kits are loaded kits. Not that I think Bap’s is nearly as overloaded as Ana’s.
Whoever said she was the best designed hero needs 
and a bit of 
So yall (ppl who don’t play support) wanted the only options to be mercy, zen, and lucio?
Two of which i don’t play at all anymore.
If more supports where planned to be added or heroes in general then creep is inevitable.
What ana did was save the support role.
Alot of yall weren’t here for the “we only have like 4 heroes” complaints.
Ana ruined the support role by introducing high HPS and Anti on the same hero. Those should have never been shared on a single kit, especially in conjunction with sleep and nano. Frankly, most problems trace back to her. Including D.Va’s Micro Missile rework. GOATS being driven by Brig drowned out how Ana singlehandedly fueled triple tank when D.Va still had 4 second DM, and it was D.Va who took the fall for it.
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I play every support besides Ana and Bap.
So don’t go assuming so quickly.
She is. always has been
I totally get it, its hard not to enjoy ana and bap due to how flexible they are and how much value they can get in tough situations. my problem with them mainly comes from playing the other heroes besides them who just noticeably have less impact in stressful situations.
I just wish more supports were in-line with them, rather than bringing them down to the other supports levels