When is Ana actually going to get a nerf?

Just because enemy team wants to throw by not playing lucio with ana and rein for the synenergy, doesn’t mean nanoboost isn’t broken. Both teams having a lucio only balances out the speed boosting.

If that’s honestly the case, you boost the genji and kill everyone.

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Other way around hun. Rein you can’t counter with simple knockbacks anymore. Winston on the other hand a Brigitte will suffice.

Lucio + Ana is the support meta rn and he’s right behind Rein and Ana in pickrate.

Shatter, grav, and Mei are usually better, and flashbang and Brig are reasonably comparable depending on the situation. Most of it comes down to teammates being unable to focus fire properly.

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It means your Team didnt counter what they had. That’s only Ana’s fault if Ana is a bot. It is a competitive game. If the Ana pulls off a play, its SUPPOSED to be impactful. Your Tanks have a lot of responsibility for keeping an Ana in check. If they fail, I’m sorry, but that’s not the characters fault. That’s just poor play out of your team.

You know track ult, see when Rein plays aggressive, either counter Nano, move back and rely on easy accessible heal to sustain rein damage or let Mei wall the enemy rein off

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Honestly, there are too many Supports that enable Tanks more than Supports that enable DPS, so there’s a lot of overlap with Baptiste, Moira & Ana.

The best counter to Nano Boost is focus fire, something that the lower ranks most likely won’t see much of.

It’s very easy to watch a Nano Boosted target melted when focused down which was why she got the Nano Boost buff in the first place.

She was being picked alongside two other Supports while enabling the most powerful comp/meta ever seen to Overwatch, her pick rates weren’t going to reach

The devs tried nerfing her to stop GOATS but that didn’t work.

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Any stun with proper focus fire will do. This speaks more about how bad the playerbase is than it does about nano.

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I mean, you’re right about the Knockback on Rein, but Winston can just as easily use jump well. . .not to mention, NanoMonkey normally jumps in normally, then uses Primal either to keep surviving, or because the Winston got out of Range.

Then why doesn’t focus fire work on high ranks and rein just plows through people anyway? Why is nanoboosted rein so deadly effective? Why do people stand at the choke and just wait for Ana to get their nanoboost ready for the push? Why do players like ML7 do this if it’s not working?

Oh right, he has damage mitigation on top of his team supporting him and Ana pumping massive heals to his shiny metal butt.

High ranks can focus fire. Obviously it’s not working very well and they just have to disengage and allow enemy to get space if they want to survive.

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Brig can very easily disrupt his engages with Whipshot alone. And Winston ult in general does pretty low damage unless you’re cornered by him, why even bother mentioning Winston anyway since the meta is 100% Rein dominated currently.

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This is probably what gives the impression of support powercreep. I’ve been lowkey wanting a Bap and Moira rework to fix this.

And the expenditure of ults combined with a synergistic comp and good teamwork aren’t supposed to win?

It does work. Freezing the Rein, walling him off, and/or Flashbang or High Noon work wonders. It’s an ultimate; its gonna be harder to counter than a normal ability. You’re kind of ignoring the other counters we’ve stated as well.

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Nano is broken because we have to use an ult to counter it? :thinking:

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I see your point. A good Brig can do that, and O O F for my boy Winston. Brig’s armor destroys him a lot as well. But, that’s her character design; to counter dive. So, I’m not going to complain.

Win? Yea

Autowin against anything not a mirror comp? No.

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Except, Nano Rein isn’t this walking team destroyer?

I see more people using Nano Boost defensively than offensively, if I’m being honest.

If a Reinhardt is trying to charge in a bowl people over, he’ll most likely get frozen.

It’s also why we have so many slow, death ball metas, but barely any metas that’s more about using the vast lineup of DPS heroes in the game.

Not to mention why healing stats are so inflated, or why Supports don’t really get as much feedback helping DPS versus a Tank.

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Ana is responsible for the meta?
No

With this level of Mei and McCree usage? If that’s an autowin the other team deserves to lose.

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Yes and no. Not having her is putting your team at a disadvantage for numerous reasons one of which being the other supports got nerfed while she’s gotten buff after buff up until GOATs where she got -50 HP off of nano.

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You try chasing a Dive Comp with Nano-Rein. Let me know how far that gets you. Try doing anything with Nano when 5 of those 8 seconds can be made ability-free using Sombra. Or, if on a Squishy, let me know how well 200HP with 50% dmg reduction works on 6 people, especially if they get a defensive ult off.