Pretty sure it’s because the meta is 3T/3S something needs to change and I doubt it is going to be nerfing DPS
With the amount of burst damage in the game, I would even say other healers could use a small boost towards Ana’s (balanced) level.
No one can kill anyone until ults come up when it’s all tanks. I am pretty sure more healing will just makes tanks even harder to kill
So why doesn’t Lucio or Reinhardt have nearly that pick-rate? Especially since those two are far more crucial to GOATS than Ana who can be replaced by either Zen or Moira if need be.
Because a lot of people like playing her and prefer playing her over other supports. It’s for a similar reason why a lot of people play D.Va and why her pickrates are so high.
I thought you want ana for the nade that boosts healing power for the aoe healers and her raw healing output into tanks and NANO.
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Do you think that people liking Ana is the main reason why she has over double the pick-rate of the next highest Support?
Ana is considered strictly better than Moira due to Anti-Heal and Nano, but Zen/Brig/Lucio has taken off in the pro scene since Zen’s offensive potential is way higher than Ana’s and Transcendence is far stronger than Nano.
Considering you’re already running Brig/Lucio as the core supports of Dive, in a coordinated environment like professional play, extra healing isn’t nearly as useful as Discord or Zen’s ability to gibb people.
oh your right. I always thought you wanted an Ana to maximize the Healing with the nade. guess i was wrong
1-2 threads isn’t a witchhunt. Even if you see more, don’t worry, 60% of the people on the forums are support mains
If you’re running quad tank you absolutely want Ana (or Moira) for the healing.
But if you’re running triple support, then it’s just overkill. Ever since they nerfed Biotic Grenade to 50% extra healing way back in S2 (or was it early S3?), Anti-Heal has been far, far stronger than increased healing.
Really though it depends entirely on what you’re facing.
Let’s not forget the most important aspect. It’s fun to play grandma.
I can tell the children to behave and drop candy on the floor. What’s not to like?
Why is it that any time a support begins to be “meta” or picked a lot we immediately assume they need nerfs?
It works like that with every hero, not just supports.
Look at Doomfist
it’s almost like she is a fun engaging hero to play and her direct counters are awful because of brigette.
All the supports are fine right now. If dive were still here we would likely see Zen + Mercy dive. The healer that has been the meta for the longest and across different meta’s is zen
Over buff? That’s funny .
If they ever nerf ana again I ll be DONE with healing forever. I ll play 6x dps but never touch a healer again. She is the only fun,engaging healer to play. Moira is dead brain,mercy the same ,zen is so vulnerable and hard to hit shots with, brig I dont even consider it a playable hero,lucio is basically a boop hero and nothing more.
Ana can stop ultimates, can turn a fight completely with her sleep dart. Can stop pushes with anti nade. Can snipe others . It’s just a great hero EXTREMELY FUN TO PLAY.
Yeah. Doomfist is absolutely terrible right now. Same with Genji and Dva.
Yeah, because any hero that has literally double the pick-rate of any other hero in their category is perfectly balanced.
Nerf dva ,zen too if you gonna nerf ana. And btw just because a hero is played a lot doesn’t mean its OP. It means the other heroes are having issues.
I’m tired of healer nerfs. Make them healers potatoes and then players expect others to heal their DPS azzes and eventually report if they dont.
There are already problems with players not wanting to heal. We are not discussing top 500 here or any of that. A huge part of the playerbase is diamond and in diamond Ana isn’t even that great + in diamond there are comps going 4x dps and not respecting any composition rules.
she should be able to heal anyone with her ult after all SHES was the only support that whose ult doesnt give some form is healing/shield/armour
No complaint from me on those two. Zen and Dva have long evaded the ban-hammer despite being virtually mandatory in any serious content.
And if a hero is being played so much that it’s the closest level of pick-rate we’ve seen since Mercy 2.0, then yeah, they might be problematic.
(P.S. I’m a healer main)
She’s also the only Healer who can instantly heal themselves for 100, or the only healer who could enable OHK’s (at least before Ashe turned up) or the only healer who has a long range CC, the only healer with infinite range, and so on.
Turns out different healers do different things. Doesn’t justify them being overpowered.
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she is also the only healer than needs to use an ability to either heal her self all the other healers have instant regen
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also shes a sniper hero so it would be dumb if she didnt have range abilities