Why can't Ana self-heal?

[Uperior-1197]

Here;

Ana heals herself 15% of healing done by her Biotic Rifle

There ya go, Ana is in a much better spot WITHOUT touching her numbers or her kit

[Bendubz11-2740]

No doubt you’ll get people trying to argue that Geoff said they won’t change her weaknesses, so let me stop them in their tracks by actually quoting the post in question:

@GeoffGoodman

When we want to buff a hero, sometimes it can be the right call reduce these weaknesses. For example, if a weakness is just too overbearing or a hero just has too many weaknesses compared to their strengths. But more often we would rather amplify a heroes strengths and make the hero just better at what they do, which leaves their weaknesses still around for enemies to exploit and for allies to try to manage.

The highlighted part is the important part. It’s basically saying, “IF A HERO’S WEAKNESSES ARE TOO MUCH, WE WILL BUFF THAT PART”.

27 of the 28 heroes have at least one form of mobility or self-sustain. The only exception is Orisa. Of the others, 2 heroes stand out as lacking any good mobility/self-sustain. McCree has a 6m roll on 8 second cooldown (for context, the only mobility abilities with a longer cooldown are Sym’s Teleporter, Rein’s Charge and Pharah’s Jump Jets), and Ana has a 100hp heal on 10 second cooldown.

That’s all they each have. In both cases, I would class both as having weaknesses that are too severe. It’s something nearly all the rest of the cast has, it’s not that valuable for mobility/ss in either case, and both are on long cooldowns. Ana needs to either get better SS, or some mobility. Now that’s not to say that her Nade needs to be on a shorter cooldown, the anti-heal part of it IS deserving of the 10 second CD, but she does need better self-healing.

[TonTon-11555]

I imagine Ana bringing out a cup of tea drinking it and saying “ahhh could use some sugar.”

[GrossGamer-1129]

Yeah, should she be able just to like shot her self in the foot or something.

I like this idea. Make her the only hero that can look down and see her own feet so she has to take the time to aim downwards to shoot and heal herself.

[n0Tn0w-1674]

i think all healers should have self-heal, like zenyatta and mercy have.

I mean, they are healers, so why would they only be able to heal others and not themselves? Ana could just shot herself and then heal herself, it does make sense right?

BUT it only should happen like zen and mercy self heal, they just heal after some seconds not taking damage.

[TonTon-11555]

What if Ana get an ability where she brings out a needle and heals herself but also increases her speed.

[Meiday-11308]

Yeah, it annoys me that a more skill based healer doesn’t have a self healing passive.

[Player-114199]

I disagree. Ana wasting her grenade comes from having fought off a flanker or receives chip damage where she’s low hp. Because of this the next attacker can easily kill her due to being below 200 or 100 hp. She needs to heal outside of a skirmish with an attacker so that she can again defend herself. This gives a fine weakness because 9 times out of ten Ana is going to use her grenade while defending herself anyway. It’s after that causes problems for her and her team.

Well see there’s the problem with her kit. Ana should really be using her nade on tanks or low hp targets and sleep for flankers. But guess what sleep is hard to land on flankers, so much so that even OWL teams don’t trust their supports on Ana. I mean you even said it yourself, “Ana wasting her grenade…”

Sleep dart needing a buff is the root of the problem in her kit.

I still think she should heal off enemies, because healing off allies in team fights is unreliable. Considering the travel time of your shot to your tank versus the burst damage a flanker or sniper will do to you, the damage will outpace the self heals. Even if Ana scopes her tanks for immediate heals, she will be easy to headshot.

Also healing off allies would be way to passive. Every support in Overwatch has to actively react to a damage hero. As Ana, you have to react by landing sleep. Zen reacts by discording and damage, Mercy by GA, Brigette by stunning etc. Healing off enemies would better support active gameplay.

[Miscanadian-1419]

healing off allies would reward ana directly for doing her main job. After defending against an attacker, she’s almost always going to be behind in healing her team so hitting enemies instead of her team would be counter productive. Healing her team and herself to get ready for the next attack would be more reliable.

Also I don’t see how healing off team mates would be more unreliable than team members when allies have hitbox buffs and her unscoped weapon has a hitscan sized hitbox. It would be much more reliable hitting friendlies compared to enemies especially when not scoped.