Except Brigitte was overpowered for over a year, same as Mercy who was also overpowered for over a year, and we all know how long it took Blizzard to get them out of that state.
And even then throughout these past few weeks we HAVE had community members raging, snarling and foaming at the mouth for Reinhardt & Ana to be nerfed.
Heck, there’s even a post called ‘Stop Defending Reinhardt’.
This is BLATANTLY false.
Ana was the absolute WORST Support versus Dive and trying to run Ana into and against Dive is a major uphill battle.
It’s as Dysvalence said:
Dive isn’t viable as a composition.
No Winston & D.Va means no Dive. No Dive means flankers are sub par.
All he needed was to become legit immortal to be meta and every shot be blocked by barriers because everything in this game trounces him down to the ground, heh.
The OP is a Mercy main. Literally the only people I see complaining that Ana needs nerfs is other salty support mains. Don’t try to pin this on “you people” or DPS mains. Complaining about Ana has mostly always come from the support playerbase.
You are delusional. Mercy would just fly away unless she was slept and good luck doing that with a projectile dart consistently. Might happen every once in awhile but it isn’t a realistic fight.
All you have to do is draw out her sleep dart and she is sitting duck to just about every hero in the game. She is extremely easy to counter unless her team is able to peel and protect her.
Its a terrible feeling when one is forced to choose between a hero they love and one that is meta. That’s why no matter who is meta there is always a vocal outrage against the meta heroes.
To give credit where credit is due, Zenyatta is the hardest support at staying alive/dealing with flankers, at a minimum a bronze Ana can throw a grenade at the ground for 100 hp and deal 60 damage.
I main the two and have no reservations hard switching to one for a long time. Zen is objectively not bad. If there’s no point for playing for discord kills that’s not Ana’s fault.
Because Ana is fun, and has the potential to pop off. She’s a carry support, probably the only true one remaining. According to you, Zen is dead. Baptiste’s nerfs are holding him back now. Mercy can’t carry very easily at all (I play Mercy regularly, so I know from personal experience, don’t get worked up). Supports can’t do a lot agaisnt a really good Ana. That’s your Tanks job. If the Ana is not a god, or you can coordinate with a DPS, you can try to Dive her on Lucio. Results may vary, don’t try this unless desperate.
Well yeah that’s just Blizzard balancing for you. Took them a while to realize Ana’s nano healing needed to be toned down after the support patch too.
People are mad because of the double standards. You’d get massive outrage if Mercy or Moira where anywhere near the same pickrate to the point where the forum was flooded with those two, compared to Ana where there’s like 1-2 threads like this one that pop up and she gets a pass for some reason.
There is when a character is so blatantly broken that the majority of the playerbase except those who main them like them: Mercy 2.0/Brig/Orisa Sig double Barrier
When a character is performing well but so annoying and unfun to play against but may not need harsh nerfs: Doomfist, Moira, etc
When a character is doing well at the higher ranks but performs badly for the vast majority of the game because they’re hard to play: Ana/Tracer
People generally don’t get too mad at that last category if there are options to counter them. Ana has a 50% winrate in Plat, doing worse than Mercy. There’s no reason why Gold/Plat players should behave like she’s an unstoppable menace who needs nerfs unless they’re salty with where their own main is at.
Honestly that makes sense, 30 hps orb, discord for 25% damage boost, and opponents that don’t/can’t kill you means even a zenyatta that can’t hit a shot at least offers passive bonuses to their team and shouldn’t need too worry to much about their counters (flankers).
