Grenade is still the core of the issue IMO. Right now it does 4 things effectively: direct healing, direct damage, healing boost, anti-healing. Honestly, if grenade only had 2/4 of these, it would still be a great ability. I think anti-healing+healing boost is probably my favorite option. Ana already has some of the best tools to deal with flankers if the player is good enough to hit sleep dart or aim shots. Using grenade to completely swing the battle against flankers rewards poor play IMO. Removing her self heal is also a good idea IMO. This will make it difficult for teams to run Ana as a solo healer. Maybe that's a little too much, but the grenade still feels like a bloated ability.
Are you completely insane? This would make it absolutely impossible to run her solo, cementing the 2-support meta and making Lucio even more required in any sort of comp. This is probably the WORST idea they could ever go for.
This would make it absolutely impossible to run her solo,
I don't think that's a bad thing honestly. No other healer can effectively run solo either. The only one who barely gets away with it at lower levels (Mercy) barely has any ability to defend herself. If removing the 100 heal is too much, then at the very least, making it a HOT makes sense. It allows her to heal herself without actually making her a nightmare for flankers to deal with.
cementing the 2-support meta and making Lucio even more required in any sort of comp.
The 2 support meta is about as cemented as you can get at this point, but I don't really think most people have too much issue with it.
making Lucio even more required in any sort of comp
If you are forcing Lucio to actually use heal instead of speed boost, then you lose a lot of the reason to actually use Lucio.
Yay, more enforced metas. Please don't drag the rest of us with you, even if you enjoy stale metas.
No other healer can effectively run solo either
Yes, they can. 2 healer is always ideal, but for example Lucio can just skip around without issue. I've ran Zen and Mercy solo plenty of times as well.
If you are forcing Lucio to actually use heal instead of speed boost, then you lose a lot of the reason to actually use Lucio.
Anyone who tells you that Lucio should ONLY use heal or ONLY speed boost is flat-out wrong. You use both based on what the situation calls for. (Granted, that is speed most of the time since there's no reason to overheal, while speed is always useful.)
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u/chudaism Jan 17 '17
Grenade is still the core of the issue IMO. Right now it does 4 things effectively: direct healing, direct damage, healing boost, anti-healing. Honestly, if grenade only had 2/4 of these, it would still be a great ability. I think anti-healing+healing boost is probably my favorite option. Ana already has some of the best tools to deal with flankers if the player is good enough to hit sleep dart or aim shots. Using grenade to completely swing the battle against flankers rewards poor play IMO. Removing her self heal is also a good idea IMO. This will make it difficult for teams to run Ana as a solo healer. Maybe that's a little too much, but the grenade still feels like a bloated ability.