Okay, context. We have two healers. One of them does great with 5k healing. However, our Ana barely healed. On the flip side, on the other team both of their supports had great healing.
One of their supports have 6k healing, the other has around 5k. Our Ana had only 1K healing.
Our tank goes on to say “Oh it’s okay Ana you did great”. Like, no, the Ana barely healed. Stop telling bad healers they did well.
The ana might have done really well considering the situation they were in though.
If your tank keeps breaking LoS when low and dies, what’s the Ana meant to do.
It is give and take, yes the ana could position better, but the tank always needs better awareness.
Stats in general aren’t that informative. Also, if you’re upset someone got praise and you didn’t… This isn’t high school, get over it.
A bit of advice, go watch the game back from the supports perspective and see why they struggeld so much. Yeah maybe they have bad aim, but thats probably not the biggest reason.
Most likely everyone ran away out of line of sight or she is getting a shield put infront of her by a winston or sigma, a flanker is ontop of her all the time etc.
Finding out why can help you in the next game you have that same experience.
Ontop of that there is always the opportunity during the match to ask said support if there is anything you can do to help them out a bit more.
Having even one person more willing to help a support (especially a ana) can increase their impact immensely.
Maybe that ana now lives twice as long or doesnt take damage every time and is forced to use her nade on herself.
Maybe because she still has nade she can now throw it offensively and help get elims.
I personally see far more cases of players telling good supports they are doing bad. A little positive reinforcement never hurt anyone. If the support is obviously underperforming then it is likely either sarcasm or they are playing in a stack with whoever gave them the compliment.
I have alrady won games with 50% less heal than ennemy healers playing Ana.
You have just to heal when it’s needed and not doing that when the TF is lost.
When you heal DPSes instead of your tank because he has a bot heal stuck to him, you have lower stats but you can make your team win.
Honestly, positive reinforcement generally yields better results than tearing people down. I don’t really see any point in pausing what you’re doing in the middle of a match to type “Ana diff” or the like. All that’s going to do is make the Ana self-conscious and play worse. It’s not gonna make anyone better.
Have you considered that maybe your tank was just a nice guy who realizes he’s playing a game?
Personally, if I think my ana is struggling to heal, Ill just ask them to shout if I’m out of LoS.
I’d rather ask them how I can make easier for them then tell them they suck. Even if they do, it isn’t going to help anyone.
More info is needed.
What was the anas KDA?
Usually you get a main healer and off/flex heals who does dps or provides utility.
A good support should never be measured by total heals and healing amount should never be considered a competition by supports. (Common in plat and below)
You only have to heal to save someone from dying. Thats it. Sometimes that might just be 2k total.
Its common in low ranks to get really high healing numbers because your tanks and dps play in the open and take unnecessary damage.
Any further healing provides very little value to winning the fight. Then when the fight is won, go ahead and top them up.
But if your ana was dying alot, thats a different story.
She probably got dived on. I’d just switch to Brig in that case.
Mine is 2.61 for this season, but i’m not sure it’s really revelant. I’ve seen Ana players with the same exact amount of heal and damage than me but with twice my deaths.
When i see someone struggle i generally ask them what is preventing them from playing well. In a nice manner ofcourse. I tell them stuff like hey ana, im seeing your having a rough time, anything i or teammates can do differently to help you out?
Sometimes its just that we dont see why someone is struggling because of our position for example.
Getting feedback like yeah the widow keeps getting sightlines on me because she isn’t getting targeted allot and you guys keep pushing forwards means if you slow down she can have way more impact.
Sometimes you get back that they are having a rough day in terms of hitting stuff cous they have fps issues.
I have had a ana who had 60 fps instead of 144 cous their gaming monitor broke. I told them go moira ill go rein instead of monkey we just rush onto them instead.
We won cous she didn’t need to aim as precisely and hit sleeps to survive.
It was more for OP, wondering if the ana added value in other areas other than healing.
If I’m the Ana I’d actually just rather be told str8 up to get my shiet together than being called out in this manner. Since from experience that is likely the next thing someone is going to say anyway. If the Ana wants help with something they can ask for it. Until then focus on yourself.
drop the replay code otherwise this just looks like a scapegoating rant
Yeah except that 99% of the playerbase tilts whenever you say anything towards their preformance.
This way atleast its clear you want to resolve it and offer your help. Basically you ain’t pinning everything onto them even if everything is their fault.
Keeps the ‘morale’ higher.
Good on your tank for being positive in such a negative game, we need more people like him for sure.
Secondly, they’re called supports not healers 
Thirdly, stats don’t tell ya much. We also don’t have much context to go off of, but maybe a replay would help us see what happened with the Ana.
i’d take a dps ana with high k/d and low dmg and low healing over some dumb af padded stat like raw healing. ditto for dps or tanks thinking they can pad something.
high stats actually show mistakes and uncapitalized play.
the only thing that makes you good is high k/d with low dmg (clean crisp picks and correct decision making that doesn’t feed), with low healing received (you’re a lone wolf with no help).
but maybe that’s just my bronze5 reasoning?
In my opinion, these stats are probably the only ones worth padding in every role including support, as it has an indirect affect at winning the game.
Which stats do you mean? Raw damage or raw healing? Or something more “efficient and correct” like k/d per dmg per heal? To me, headshots and burst are the hallmark of really good micro (especially when no1 heals u). This kind of precision can dictate an entire macro response. Sitting around padding numbers in lost teamfights are a sign of poor target prioritization, poor map control, and just indecisiveness and mistake buffering.
Exactly that quote. High kills low deaths and low damage.
Thats tells me you secure kills before feeding support ults