Hey, all.
So, I tend to get a lot of harassment when I play Ana sometimes. I donāt have the best accuracy, but I think I have somewhat decent shot consistency; I manage to pull 70-80% accuracy on average, and sometimes pull ~85% on a really good night. Iām, currently ranked in the 96th percentile (top 4%) on Overbuff, but I take that with a grain of salt.
I can miss important shots sometimes. I may miss a Genji whoās using Dragonblade because he double jumps at the last second which results in his death, or I may miss a flick-no-scope shot because I didnāt predict someoneās movements enough, or I could miss a grenade simply by being bad. I could land 49 perfectly aimed shots in a row on a blinking Tracer across the map, but then miss one shot, and that results in her death.
I will get called out for it if I miss.
āAna, please heal me.ā
āAna plz shoot me.ā
āAna your aim is trash.ā
āAna plz go mercy so you donāt have to aim.ā
āTrash Ana.ā
This happens a lot. Itās one of the reasons I donāt play Comp anymore. I could manage to have miracle level accuracy all game and keep our tanks alive through monstrous amounts of damage, and land almost every sleep dart I fire while managing to cancel tons of enemy ultimates, or land a grenade to secure a kill or save a teammateās life; as soon as I slip up once, Iām throwing and need to switch off of Ana and to never play her again because Iām awful as her.
It kind of hurts sometimes, but I tend to try to not let it bother me. My accuracy will probably drop by 5% for the rest of the game, but itās not too bad of a difference. Iāll stick with Ana as long as I know Iām doing okay and pulling above 66% accuracy.
If we lose after I get called out, ridiculed, and insulted, Iām blamed for the loss - then Iāll get a ā35% healing doneā card, and no one will change their mind. We lost because I went Ana and had horrible aim - despite it being around 75%.
If we win, usually no one will say a word. It must have been the DPS carrying our team or the other healer picking up the slack of my horrible healing. Yeah, thatās it.
Soā¦ why do I still play Ana with all of this miserable treatment from other players?
A while ago (in Quickplay), I played with a friendly Reinhardt and Soldier: 76 duo; two low key, easy, and fun-to-heal heroes. We were defending on Eichenwalde. The rest of our team was a D.Va, Genji, and Zenyatta. Keep in mind the Genji.
We held first point for a good amount of time, and ended up finally losing the first fight when the Genji and D.Va overextended, and Zenyatta and I got overwhelmed. Reinhardt and Soldier held off for as long as they could, but couldnāt win the fight alone. Okay, no worries.
Same story with second point. We held pretty well in a mundane game; I nanoed the Soldier and Rein when they ulted since they were easy to hit, and healed my team as best as I could aim. We finally got pushed back to the door due to too much damage spam, and we held until the last 30s.
Finally, their Genji managed to bait out our Trans by attacking Zenyatta. We managed to pick an enemy off with the Trans, but immendiately afterwards, our Soldier, Genji, D.Va, and Zen got murdered by a Grav+Blade combo. It was Rein and I against 5 of their team.
I popped my nanoboost into him and spam healed him as much as I could and dealt as much damage in between as I could. I dodged the enemy Genji long enough for Reinhardt to get 3 picks - 2 enemies left.
I managed to kill the Genji with a Sleep+Primary+Nade+Melee combo - 1 enemy left. Roadhog.
Roadhog managed to pull our Rein off the map, and it was just me left. 3 seconds until someone gets here, probably. .05m left to the door. Itās in Overtime. Dodge the Hog, bounce around the payload, anti him when he heals. I just have to last until someone gets here.
3 seconds pass.
5 seconds pass.
10 seconds pass. The enemy team is coming back. Whereās my team?
Hog manages to hook me and kill me. They get the point.
I watch the respawn camera; my team was sitting back waiting for them to cap. Okay, I guess. Weāll just hold them here.
āana swap ur uselessā - Genji
What? I just held the point alone against a Hog for almost 20 seconds while you all sat backā¦ why am I to blame?
āgo back to mercy you stupid mercy mainā - Genji
Uhhā¦ okay then. Iām not going to switch, but now I know this guy is a jerk.
We get back into position. Our Genji dives in with his ultimate while avoiding my LoS, so I try to get in a position where I can hit him with nano or heal him. He keeps dodging my LoS and goes deeper and deeper, so I canāt heal him. He dies.
āana plz #$@%ing nano and heal me u dumb @$%&!ā - Genji
āI couldnāt, you werenāt in my LoS. Sorry.ā - Me
ā@#$% uā - Genji
Okay, well letās just try and hold. Itās a 5v6 now, but itāll be okay.
Anon switch the Torbjorn (was Genji).
Sighā¦ we can work with this. Iāll just nano the Soldier or Rein. Oh, waitā¦ is he sitting in spawn? Oh wellā¦ 5v6 it is.
After that, our D.Va got picked off. We got pulled into a Grav, but luckily Zenyatta used his ultimate to keep us alive. However, they didnāt attack us. Right after Trans ran out, the enemy Genji used Dragonblade and destroyed our Soldier and Zenyattaā¦ Iām next.
I fired a sleepdart at the last second, and managed to hit him as I dropped to 60 HP. Rein pinned him, and now the fight was 2v5. We can do it.
I nanoed Rein again and he slammed his hammer down - all 5 of them stunned. He swug his hammer and threw his firestrike, killing 3 of them. 2v2. I finish off another one with a lucky flick shot. 2v1.
My beloved Rein dies. 1v1. Itās Roadhog again. Fire, fire, fire, dodge, sleep, fire, fire, fire, anti-nade, fire. Heās dead. We win.
The Genji (now Torb) is still sitting in spawn.
I pulled 87% accuracy and 43% team damage healed. It was an amazing game for me.
After the match, the Reinhardt and Soldier complemented the hell out of me, saying I saved them so often and we wouldnāt have won without me. I got a card for healing done. 10 upvotes - the enemy team said that I was an absolute pain to play against. I guess I did my job. I felt really pround.
So, despite the troll calling me awful, I managed to pull my own and really help the team win, and got heavily recognized for it. I felt appreciated, and it was after a hard game played with a ton of stress and effort put into my fight.
The hard fights, the reliance on aim, the ability to make big plays, and the ability to help other people make big plays while keeping them alive. Nothing beats that feeling.
Thatās why I main Ana.
EDIT: Now that Iām finally Level 3, hereās 2 POTGs that I got as Ana to show my "meh"ness as herā¦
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Keep it up my dude.
