Sometimes it feels like CC abilities can dominate this game. Canceling sleep early can already be done by the enemy team, but usually it’s advantageous to wait for a coordinated follow-up (or close to anyway). Adding a way for the receiving team to cancel sleep early would add an interesting counter-play option that could catch the enemy team off guard and make it more difficult to capitalize on the sleep.
Nano Boost is already a really powerful ultimate, I don’t think it needs to given the unique power to break someone out of a stun – no less do I think it should be one specific stun, which also happens to be the stun Ana herself puts out. This sounds like a meta nightmare since you’d be encouraged to run Ana against Ana just so you can cancel a dire sleep she might catch.
This feels like a random suggestion. If a slept teammate wants to be saved, then there’s other things their team can do to protect them until the sleep wears off, or they get woken up by something else. I don’t think this would be a healthy interaction at all, and one that isn’t needed by any means, nor would it even make sense for what Nano Boost is already established to do.
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As for the title, big nope. You don’t want forced ana mirror to become even more of a thing. We already have a forced mirror situation in matter of antinade and sleepdart countering nano combos.
As for the latter…I donno what else can be done about there being no cleanse in the game, but definitely not on a character that’s already close to having everything valuable in her kit.
Making a hero the best counter against itself is really bad design.
If the hero is strong, this increases the chance that it will turn into a must pick on both teams if one of them decides to run it.
It’s the same problem Widow and (to a certain degree) Reinhardt are suffering from.
They both are the best heroes when it comes to counter their own kits, so you will very often see them getting mirrored.
I don’t think that she’d be the best at countering sleep, but I do see that it would be encouraging mirror matching more. I think for supports immortality field would be more reliable at rescuing a teammate; people can still get melted even if nano’d.
It would make nanoblade too powerful.
It definitely is a random suggestion, and I do see the issue with further encouraging mirror matches. But on your last point, I think it would make a little sense that injecting a bunch of nano drugs would wake you up if you were sleeping.
I’d take a healing reduction on Nano if it also cleansed all debuffs and CC.
That would make Ana counter sleep - an ability only Ana has.