Every person who always says Ana is fine always says something along the lines of “the meta doesn’t favor her”. That was the excuse with dive.
Well, it doesn’t fit the narrative in this meta.
0 dive tanks.
0 flankers.
Rein is the main tank.
Hanzo Dragon + Grav is the primary combo used.
What could Ana provide? Well, she’s got Rein so she should be good there. She could combo with Zen to survive the combo (nade + trans), and she could even Nano Hanzo or Rein to combo with Hanzo+Grav which would counter a Zen trans. She could also nade it as well and counter it.
Regardless of all of the above, she’s still not used. She should be a great pick in this meta, but she still isn’t. Is it time we give Ana another buff?
An Ana rework… you don’t even need to specify what kind of changes you want because Blizzard are incapable of making a balanced rework… so after the Ana rework she’ll be a must-pick and viable on all maps… So, just ask for any generic rework to Ana and Blizzard will take care of the rest…
Mercy not being mandatory. Expecting Ana to be good when Lucio and Moira are also F tier is a bit optimistic.
Not being the worst healer in the game for healing squishies. Give her a heal over time like Moira has and it’ll go a long way towards making her feel reliable.
A nerf to Mercy. Mercy is just too good at too many things. Bringing other supports to Mercy’s level would require ridiculous buffs and way too much power creep. Sorry to my fellow Mercy players, but I don’t see any other way to balance the support roster.
And a 10 (or 8 sec) sleep dart and an 8 sec Biotic Grenade. She’s the anti-Mercy/anti-Zen on the roster and is the clear solution to the Mercy/Zen problem of damage boost/discord.
A friendly Biotic Grenade with any of the aoe healers as her healing partner counters Mercy/Zen’s extra damage. And an offensive grenade counters Transcendence. It’s quite obvious.
One of the main issues with ana is it’s hard to be rewarded for playing her. Most of the time she is out healed by even lucio or zen. This would give her a healing advantage over other healers and reward her increased skill cap compared to just “holding lmb”
or how about
hitscan heal darts pierce barriers
Hitscan heal darts that pierce a barrier reduce its healing effect by 20%
Hitscan darts that pierce barriers reduce damage by 80%
This would allow ana to fall more into place in the current meta due to the massive number of barriers she has to constantly deal with
I think she needs to be brought back up to where she was before. Back when she was meta, she was harder to use than Mercy (and still is), but that skill tradeoff translated into higher healing output and better utility with Sleep Dart and Biotic Grenade. As it stands right now, Mercy’s Resurrect is more powerful than both of those abilities, so Ana’s high skill cap is rarely pursued.
I think she could also benefit from a shift in the meta as a whole, since she can’t heal through barriers
Players aren’t using her grenade properly. +50% healing from all sources for 4 secs. She heals plenty when used properly. Her healing partner and self healing teammates (and the payload) benefit as well. But everyone’s running around trying to get “big purples”.
Everyone harps on barriers like there’s more than one shield tank in a game. You can navigate the arc of the grenade to splash around shields and the playerbase should be smart enough to know they’re playing with an Ana and make themselves available for healing. If you know you’re playing with an Ana as a tank, why would you go on the other side of the enemy barrier? Break the shield and/or establish map control in a way that allows your healer to heal you.
Reinhardt walks through Orisa’s shield and eventually dies…“Ana sucks because she can’t heal me through barriers”
Not until mercy Stomping her ends. As long as mercy has the most powerful utility in the game (res), with reliable healing and survivability and mobility, ana won’t stand a chance.
Back before res wasn’t an ability, ana had the advantage in terms of utility. Not anymore.
I think Ana is quite playable currently… Her biggest issue is that she is poor at healing Pharah. And Pharah is more common now that you need a Brigitte counter.