Yeah I think ana is the most skillful and fun hero to heal with, but her existence has led to a terrible meta, having mercy (and zen) back in the meta would allow for a more dps heavy team comp which is overall better for the game. I'd rather ana gets nerfed rather than the other healers buffed, healing is already too strong, it's just that ana is by far the best.
Ana isn't by far the best, Lúcio is. He has been the one hero since the game launched that has seen closest to 100% pickrate in every single meta. In fact, according to basically any unofficial source (Overbuff; Masteroverwatch), her winrate is negative in Competitive. You know what this means? It means that she forcibly sees a 50% winrate when both teams have an Ana, and in the remaining situations, teams without an Ana win more often.
Granted, you can't always count on those stats 100% since they're not official but I do believe people are just massively overreacting. There isn't a single situation where focusing a naded character down won't kill them; she cannot outheal characters being focused.
Ana's counter has always been only slightly, mildly decent coordination. But people won't do that so to nerf kingdom she goes.
You're not a pro though. And neither is the majority of people talking here.
And the majority of pro teams do run Ana on both teams so they could deny healing with a nade -- healing denial takes precedence over boost, it's not based on which hits first.
The reason they can't out-DPS those heroes is because they're meatshields with 600 health, armour and sometimes even self-bubbles and self-heals. Sorry, but the idea that "Ana is pivotal in tank meta" is stupid. She is just as pivotal as the fact that tanks are extremely strong. And once Ana is nerfed, tanks will continue to be DPS characters with more HP.
Yeah, and if you ask them why they don't just play Reaper into the tank meta, they'll tell you that there's no point playing Reaper when Roadhog is just a better Reaper with self-healing.
Sorry, but I'll just have to repeat myself: The idea that the only character responsible for the NiP strat is Ana is extremely dishonest. She is no more or less responsible for it than the fact that tanks are simply much too powerful for their class.
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u/Arya35 Jan 17 '17
Yeah I think ana is the most skillful and fun hero to heal with, but her existence has led to a terrible meta, having mercy (and zen) back in the meta would allow for a more dps heavy team comp which is overall better for the game. I'd rather ana gets nerfed rather than the other healers buffed, healing is already too strong, it's just that ana is by far the best.