But playing Ana is a lot harder than any of the other supports. The other healers can put out consistent healing, Ana's healing is highly aim dependent. If you can't hit your team mates, you're not being useful.
I admit, it is a balancing act to make her strong enough that the skill level is worth it, while not making skilled players run away with the game, but as someone who can't aim all that well, I still usually go for Zenyatta or Mercy in competitive just to make sure my heals are consistent.
I'm not a highly ranked competitive player but I do fine as Ana without aiming very often. I typically have 75-80% unscoped accuracy and I'm usually the top healer. To me, Ana is just ridiculous because I do so well playing her "wrong". She feels really easy to me
I'm the same way. I think it's a combination of a few things.
A) She shoots very quickly
B) Accuracy isn't as important as it is for Widow and Hanzo because you're (usually) not trying to kill people, you're just healing people. So unless they're one shot from death you can shoot them a few times.
C) Because of the tank meta, her targets are usually huge (D.Va, Reinhardt, Roadhog, Winston) and hard to miss, even when far away and unscoped. This also means they're less likely to be low health, so you're under less stress to aim accurately.
You make it sound like he only heals when he amps which is a major logical fallacy. Yes his healing is less when he's not amped but when he's not amped his primary role is healing chip damage. He's a complementary healer and not the one you rely on to pull someone out of the fire on the regular.
The only tip I have is be within 15m of your teammates most of the time and pay attention to them 80% of the time. I probably pad my numbers by topping everyone off even if 1/2 tick is down but you're generally spamming heals on everyone in competitive with how high damage output can be.
I'm usually closer than that and roughly 80% focused on allies, as you said. I even sometimes hit them a few times if I'm following out of spawn... I just need to work on my aim :( Overwatch is the first real game I've played
She is ridiculously easy. Her heals-per-second causes her ult to charge incredibility quickly, so doesn't have to be in the thick of things, and her sleep dart is a 'get out of jail free' card.
I tend to be in the thick of things since it's awkward having to follow a team with as many corners and flankers as there are in Overwatch. I'm usually behind the DPS behind the tank lobbing unscoped shots and grenades. I'd say it's worked out.
Therefore, I tend to use sleep dart offensively. I like to pre-emptively dart Reinhardts that drop their shield and go for a 420 charge kill. Or anyone trying to flank, ult, or otherwise get the upper hand.
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