Why overreact to the Ana nerf?

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I feel like with the slight Zen and Mercy buff, they might shake up the support meta a bit. They’re small changes, but they might end up being beneficial overall.

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Welcome to the internet. It’s what we do.

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Pretty much this. They needed to keep Ana as is and give Mercy 10hps. So now Ana feels worse and Mercy is still nowhere near a main healer. In other words, nobody gets anything. Oh and Moira got a net nerf. This support patch was a bust for everybody that isn’t Zen

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Does she have it on her primary/secondary fire?

No.

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Baptiste also takes aim and he got nerfed the hardest. Ana isn’t even being nerfed as much as the other supports have been, and she’s been the strongest for years.

I think she’ll be fine, and it’ll let other support players enjoy their mains more.

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I mean seriously this could be the perfect example of a slap on the wrist nerf and there are actual floods of tears…

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Haven’t you heard, apparently Blizzard hates skill and is oppressing the leet gamers who play the difficult heroes…

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I’m all for voicing concerns and debates, but these people are just whining and wailing without a thought

They just see Ana and nerf in the same sentence and just go ballistic because “muh skill”

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The way I see it, it’s a very clear attempt to nerf player’s progress. The better the players get at the game (as a whole) the more they will nerf mechanical intensive heroes.

I don’t care that much about this nerf. It’s just the implications that discourage you from trying to get better. What’s the point of self improvement if you know it’s punishment awaits instead of reward?

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70 per hit*. It’s actually 87.5 hps, not including reloads.

People are getting worked up over ~6% less healing per hit.

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It’s hilarious how people acting like Ana losing 5 HP per shot is the end of the world when it could’ve been much worse like what they’ve done to other support heroes. They’re very lucky Blizzard plays the double standards game when it comes to them.

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mmm cuz skill elitists think that ana is the epitome of skill

besides widow and cree of course

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Except she was already healing the least. Now with a heal nerf to her and a buff to Mercy, her healing drops considerably compared to other main healers.

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You got a source to quote?

There's a second opinion for you.
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we get it, you liked Moth meta where you got to be the Queen Bee with 5 other spectators. That ainmt coming back you better deal with it.

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Because Ana really doesn’t need any nerfs, the only reason she’s seeing so much play is because her only competition in terms of Primary healing atm is Moira. Half the healer roster sucks right now, which is why Mercy and Zen are getting buffed.

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I could care less about Moth Meta, that crap was years ago so get over it. Clowns like you complaining about everything are the ones that caused it in the first place by encouraging Blizzard to rush it off PTR and onto live and the consequences came accordingly.

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https://i.imgur.com/3rSHsDp.png

Yes, as a matter of fact I do.

It isn’t until diamond that she even becomes comparable to other main healers:

https://i.imgur.com/8DjDlnM.png

And thats the top 10% of the player base.

Meanwhile Plat mercy’s are healing as much on average as GM Ana’s, in a meta that favors Ana.

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ML 7 even tweeted that 75-70 nerf is not as bad as people are making it out to be…

“Also mercy deserved that buff”

I think people are overreacting - Ana is a burst healer she should be good at healing a lot in burst damage heavy moments and should have less consistency while mercy is a consistent healer who’s healing weaker but is continuously reliable

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Let me just help you with those…

I have a theory, namely that Ana isn't used to heal spread or minor chip damage that can build up over time, IE got tagged by a 76 bullet or a Moira orb, so it falls to the other healer to pick up the slack.

Either that or with her increased sample size, some just perform THAT poorly that the average healing is dragged down.

What immediately strikes me as odd is that even with her lower average healing, Ana consistently is THE healer, topping pick rates for all ranks

Most notably Ana sports a 40% pick rate in GM and 39% pick rate in Masters

Lucio, the second most picked healer is only used 20% of the time.

There's a second opinion for you.
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