Console Ana-Main here, despite Ana’s subpar Pick-Rate (2.06%) & Win-Rate (43.78%), I’m probably going to play her until Overwatch dies.
Contrary to most people’s opinion, I honestly find Genji-Mains to be my favorite people to heal and a fun challenge to my own abilities , not to mention they’re usually the only people who can effectively and consistently use Nano Boost without panicking and absolutely flubbing it. (I find it strange how most players who use Soldier: 76 can never capitalize off of Nano Boost…)
That said, I find that most people don’t actually know how to play with Ana as there’s little to no situation where you’d actually use her in place of another healer.
Just the other day I was in a match where I consistently slept this Reaper and the Widowmaker on my team kept waking him up because they thought they could kill him without using her scope (I got a Death Blossom in the face for that…)
Then you have the Tanks that’ll charge back in the fight despite being at critical health and the Support players who are not used to having an Ana on the team and constantly neglect to heal her as if she had passive self-sustain.
At the rate that the game is going, I fear that Ana will still struggle even if Dive goes out of meta as everyone is too used to playing with less demanding healers.
…Regardless, I’m gonna keep doing what I do, praise or vitriol be damned.
Anyway, I just came in this thread to let you fellow Ana-Mains know that if you guys ever need a pick-me-up:
…there will always be places for you to feel welcome at.