When is Ana actually going to get a nerf?

I don’t know about you, but amidst the forum cries for Moira nerfs of “blabla damagebeamlargeezplayblabla” that players love to focus on, Ana is once again dominating the support slot.


Now tell me guys, if characters like Dva can get a nerf based on “owl pickrate”, what should we do to characters like Ana who completely domineer the support slot even worse than Moth Mercy, both in ladder and owl? And it’s hardly the first time, naturally ana has the toolkit to shut down every single other support with a flick of her wrist, regardless if they use ultimates or not. However, Ana should not be the single allowed main healer to exist in this game.

Protests like “ana doesn’t need a nerf because she takes skill/is requires aim/doesnt need a nerf because ana should be top support” aren’t going to fly anymore when the current state of the match is determined which Ana gets to nanoboost their reinhardt faster and which ana gets the better anti-heals to shut down enemy rein. Everyone else is just a bystander.

Ana meta has to go and she should finally get some well-deserved nerfbats. Anti-heal and nanoboost should be looked at asap.

For one, it would be nice to have some actual variety in the main support slot and not have everything revolve around Ana like every single meta before this that doesn’t hardcore shut her down at the gate.

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Who is it you want to play that you feel like you can’t?

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3 main supports:
Bap, Moira, Ana
Not having Ana, you end up with one of these two. Bap is too weak and just really hard to buff without breaking him.
Moiras lack of utility is a huge problem

Give Ana proper competition and we can talk

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Any idea of what they should do specifically?

More-so pertaining to Nanoboost, since obviously anti-nade would be a nerf to heal reduction.

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I definitely agree, Anti heal has always been far too strong for a 10s cooldown ability and she should be toned down to equal to mercy but slightly above with high enough skill.

A bit of a skillgap is fine but it should not be enough to where people feel forced to pick a hero if they would like to win.

Nerf antiheal to lower healing by 50% and lower its damage to 5, then you can rework moira to have her damage orb do less damage but also have the 50% antiheal so that way Ana doesnt have the antiheal mechanic entirely to herself, and Moira gets some very much needed utility.

As for Nanoboost, remove the damage resistance and bring back the speed.

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And what do you give Ana to compensate for the reduction in self peel?

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Ana has always has lots of other competition, she just always remains broken since devs refuse to take a look at her anti heal and nanoboost. It’s tiresome to watch them nerf other supports, but they never touch ana because she’s their favourite granma.

Ana should not hardcounter other supports with one ability. Self-peel doesn’t need to be touched no.

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I saw someone post that they should remove the defense boost and replace it with 30% speed boost, would be an interesting change.

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Then tell us about her competition Moira and Bap

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Nothing, having the highest burst healing in the game with no range or resource limitations should come with a downside.

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She has the lowest self sustain and self peel and you just, bro she is a good healer so she can just die flankers nice

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yep…

because hIgH PicKrAtE = oP!!!1!!1

can we please stop this

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If every single other character besides rein and apparently ana get nerfed because of this exact same reason, ana should not be an exception to rule because devs like her too much. =)

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Don’t forget that most people who complain about Ana are at midtier and below at which Ana is just one of the worst supports.
While Brig sits in plat 58% WR and has the highest WR across the board

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um

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dont look at my profile

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Still doesn’t answer the question.
Ana is not broken, she is the only good main support we have

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Ana sits comfortably at the top support slot with a middle winrate from platinum onwards. It has nothing to do with midtier players complaining, she’s just broken, that’s all.

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This would be a nice change, it’d make comboing with nano a lot more dangerous but still offer decent survivability.

Nano-Rein would actually be a lot more lethal yet a lot more killable, Beyblade would be played differently.

I like this idea.

lets not forget she’s one of the hardest supports too

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Middle WR in plat? She is the second worst support in plat.

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