Overwatch: Why You're Bad at Support! - Ana Git Gud Guide

[@YourOverwatch]

Send in your gameplay so i can call you a potato too! (Please send HD) Requirements for submissions; -Ranked gameplay -full game -loss where you played well but lost or weren’t sure why you lost -high quality video footage; good framerate and visual fidelity. -Live patch

[@MG-zx3px]

thanks i'd love to get called a potato

[@napstabuuyt9672]

Do i have to record my voice?

[@Water-fo8co]

Ur t500 ????? Or that someone else’s clips

[@freefa1118]

Man I'd totally send something in, but my computer is garbage. So it wouldn't be in HD :(

[@Henbot]

Ana is one of the most stressful heroes in the game and she pretty obsolete now against some comps and even ml7 been playing way more Baptiste and Moira and told people you should switch with so many barriers and diving. Ana was completely extinct with Dive and that is plenty playable. Also, platinum below it almost not worth playing Ana if you a plat or Gold Ana because your team won't peel, you cant win duels and the teammates don't stick together, don't stop moving or stay in the line of sight. As soon as I stopped playing Ana in platinum I climbed. So you shouldn't even bother using Ana if you platinum or below.

[@CornedBee]

I never have a problem with sleep dart follow-up. I simply miss in the first place.

[@isaacmurphy3910]

Sebastian Redl This is dumb but made me laugh cause it’s true for me as well

[@BlackMindPrime]

Same!

[@justalfric8719]

I read this and said “I don’t think I’ve commented on this video before..?”

[@hawke1800]

facts 😌✋

[@tapublast5459]

Lmao I just can't get the stupid combos down

[@soukun7321]

my only problem with ana genji : my ult is ready ana : press Q lucio jump between Boostiooooooooooooo

[@AudioGlitch42]

Boostio is amazing tho xD

[@thomaslmn8308]

That's the reason why I'm a GM Lucio One Trick lul I always predict when my ana is going to nano and i just try to get it lul

[@kingboohoo]

what playing ana is like in a nutshell

[@marccervantes6130]

Happens to me all the time lol

[@sakitoshi]

if only nanoboost would increase his boop distance

[@mlgsty8880]

What upsets me most in my Ana plays is almost everytime I see good anti-nade spot some teamm8 randomly jumps out to block it. Kills me inside everytime.

[@PerciusLive]

Its about finding high ground and off angles. Personally i like to play high ground behind my team since i use the scope and dont miss any chances to put dps. When the enemy team gets fed up with that and dive me, i just hop down and run into my team

[@zetaknight8440]

Ughhh man I feel ya on this. I mostly focus on landing a good antinades and ooop someone stands in front of my LOS. It's fucking annoying for reals -_-

[@cosmicpotato3849]

*finds someplace where teammates won’t block me* Flankers: allows us to introduce ourselves

[@woroGaming]

Thing is, is that the fault of your teammate or of your own positioning? Take more distance from your team, thén throw it.

[@k4roshi]

It's always Lucio or Roadhog

[@floyamios8722]

me: wants to throw the perfect anti into the enemy team Orisa creates new shield Sigma pulls up second shield mei walls sym: YAKHEEEEBARAMBASHTAWITRAHEEE~

[@avocado5539]

If they're going double shield and sym you might wanna switch off ana-

[@cihanvural7541]

​@@avocado5539 try to flank with ana if they're going double shield. it's like ultra effective. After you just nade everyone on enemy team your team must go in and you should nano your tank.

[@thatonedude-6819]

Just use Ana’s double jump to get to high ground

[@MG-zx3px]

"we'll just call him potato ana cause your quality is pretty bad there" *weeps on xbox one*

[@pre-jordanbasketballfan7429]

Lucio wall riding while aiming is the worst on Xbox 1

[@MG-zx3px]

@@pre-jordanbasketballfan7429 GOD YES IT IS

[@pre-jordanbasketballfan7429]

@@sakitoshi and ability 1 to a I guess?

[@sakitoshi]

@@pre-jordanbasketballfan7429 I have crossfade on X (that would be A on xbox). you can quickly crossfade and shoot while wallriding that way. I also changed mercy to have jump on L1, rez on X and guardian angel on L2 so I don't rez on accident while floating (as you can use angelic descent with the rez button too).

[@tobe.moemeka]

Sakitoshi I think amp on x is better cuz then u can cross fade while wall riding and aiming

[@ryanmccarthy7572]

“Why I’m bad at support” “Because teammates are bad and I can’t carry on support” 4Head

[@sakitoshi]

tanks feed or don't press forward and dps can't kill anything or walk past our team shields/flank with a hero not suitable for flanks.

[@callisto4149]

But it’s true though

[@alextopete78]

Or you're just not good enough to rank up

[@thesurgeon0462]

Bro I deadass played a game and I'm like "alright I'll play Moira instead of zen" and our Rein just fuckin PINS IN, AT THE START OF EVERY FIGHT and I'm now stuck chasing down rein as Moira doing my best to heal him when he's in trouble and I end up dying Because he doesn't know how to use his shield. 😕🤷😐🔫

[@micmccond7]

mroe like: instead of focusing on gold medals...why dont you focus on "on fire". much better representation of your effectiveness.

[@MysterioBerlin]

Some teams just can‘t be saved - no matter how skilled the support player is

[@JoseMendoza-dl4hg]

@metalfaust19 That said it is still frustrating being the other dps. "Gosh dammit Ana, let me kill your teammate already! Stop doing your job, grrrrr!" Even more frustrating when you're doing it with no heals.

[@TheLastEgg08]

@metalfaust19 Or when there's a pharmercy and no one wants to deal with it. Personnally I pick mercy or moira, wait for the ult, kill the mercy than the pharah.

[@greywolf5896]

The other day my team all died to bastion bc i looked away for one second to sleep a Moira.... they all just decided together that shields were for chumps

[@TheLastEgg08]

@@greywolf5896 I was trying unlimited heroes, they gave me ana, I was healing 3 widows non stop, and it took one mcree they didn't even see, and he took the only route available, that the widows were on, and he killd me, they were god like cosole widows with the game sense of a trisomic baboon drowning in its own pee. And th they got rushd and we lost. We managed to stop the payload for 5 minutes straight, but I died and then everyone died.

[@spookiedukey]

Bet 😤

[@level12lobster8]

Anti-Nade is one of the most powerful abilities. It is the same as having killed both enemy healers for 4 seconds. It is also the same as having 4 healers for your team. Use them nades well.

[@Rachel-tq5vq]

I'm not bad at Ana!!! I'm equally bad at all characters....

[@camerondavis801]

"Do you know how many game I've played in GM."💀💀

[@sakitoshi]

I bet the answer was 0

[@chainer8686]

Something that came to mind after hearing that was how the game has changed so much with how character work, like it was so easy to die to random spam and other stuff, and the skill rating of players, I'd be so bold as to say gold or low plat players today perform like GM's did in season 1

[@slandergames9494]

@@chainer8686 I wouldn't say that but they aren't as bad as people think. It's just that as they get better the better players also have gotten better.

[@fulkry5841]

@@slandergames9494 When i look at season 1 gm genjis, tracers, lucios they look like bronze players.

[@mamoskates8473]

“You’re a sniper goddamnit” lol I love you Weagal

[@Jojo.R.Kaiser]

I pretty much know why I'm bad at support but I will watch anyway

[@BoomerElite4u]

People who think they're a GM Ana need to watch ML7 stream for about 10 minutes, LOL.

[@brandondegraw825]

Sleeps diving Winston, teammate wakes him up immediately and doesn't commit to the kill, Winston kills me and flies away. Thanks teammate

[@Judoka008]

Got to high masters as dps and tank.... As healer, I'm pumping unlimited healing.....Tanks won't go through choke points. *Dies last every team fight*.

[@taragnor]

Yeah being a healer is brutal, you're basically at the mercy of your team. Doesn't matter how good you are, at best you can just keep them alive but if they can't kill things... well you're screwed.

[@Izual739]

Before seeing video: Hmm, maybe I should give Ana a try! After seeing video: Yeah, I can't do that, MOIRA it is!

[@TheLastEgg08]

Correction: DPS MOIRA it is!

[@euanmcgowan957]

You should watch ml7 it will blow your mind

[@nathant6888]

Could you make a callouts video? I just started ranked with a mic, and am unsure of what information is vital for the whole team.

[@manaeth]

Thats easy. Call position of flankers, call for help when needed or when you are dead (it can be sometimes hard to notice) and call pushes/regroups. And most importantly, call your rein isiot when he charges mindlesly.

[@Xavibbb4782]

@@manaeth it's really not easy, you need to be able to realise what is necessary which itself is super situational, on top of that you must do so in a quick manner that clearly and precisely communicates to your team the information, and doing all without coming across as bossy, tilting your teammates, or negatively influencing your own gameplay by putting to much focus on callouts

[@DATBLACKKIDD]

nathan Tamplen if targets are low flankers call out if any targets with escape abilities have been used like tracer blink winston jump call out targets to dive and hack and just generally tell ur team to focus fire if ur sym or lucio tell ur team if ur speeding past choke or tele past choke if u are a projectile healer tell ur team if u can’t see u can’t heal of if there are shields in the way and tell ur team good positions for certain characters to be in so they don’t just hold at enemy spawn and call out enemy ult usage and if u need ur team to combo stuff like grav dragon hope that was helpful

[@DATBLACKKIDD]

Lubinator 666 yea but don’t do aggressive as most ppl will get triggered and keep doing or switch to off tank then u are left with hog and dva

[@somethingsomething8511]

1. Low hp enemies ("rein low/1") 2. Enemy statuses ("genji slept/stunned/antied") 3. Enemy positions ("There heading bottom", "doom flanking right", "sombra in the back line") 4. Enemy ability uses ("Anna no nade", "rein no charge") 5. Your cooldowns ("Rez in 5 seconds", "healing orb in 3") 6. Tactical planning("head right I'll flank around top", "Anna feed me nano when I dash into the air") 7. Strategic planning("I'm switching to mcree to counter the phara", "we need a counter to their doom","switching to phara, Anna can you go mercy?") When in doubt just think if a call out would help you if a teammate made it.

[@andre-d8v5v]

"Why you're bad at support" I'm bad at everything...

[@ThaGodLegacyHD]

Teamwork doesn’t exist on PS4 Overwatch. Sincerely, A solo PS4 player

[@mywin_8275]

I second this

[@xberserkerx-1445]

Third

[@multiplayergamer5728]

Not completely true Once every year I’d say

[@ThaGodLegacyHD]

Joshua Petty 😂 if you’re lucky. Twice a year.

[@multiplayergamer5728]

IKR

[@goronado8446]

You know, with the amount of guides I watch to get better at certain characters, it just never seems to help me play any better, I try my best each match and remember what I learned but it just doesn’t work 🤷‍♂️

[@voguefurret]

It's good for me to watch these kinds of videos as an Ana main myself trying to Climb out of Bronze at the momemt... but seeing good Ana players kinda scares me tho, as they seem extremly good

[@TheLoraxshadenough]

"I should be GM" said every diamond player ever. That guy is full of himself, he should be looking at what he does wrong more often 😂😂😂

[@futureow6043]

Lol. I am 3400 and even scared of that Masters Icon xD

[@iamyaaay5825]

You forgot to mention about ammo management. If you see there is no low hp teammates and no danger for your team dont spam left click. It's better to reload. If you out of ammo during the fight its critical for you as Ana. Also quick scope is the main skill for Ana players. I want to bring more attention to it.

[@davidrogers5817]

227 hours on Ana, Xbox master player here - this video still makes me think about mistakes I still make! Thanks

[@edwardhansen4570]

as ana if you sleep a 200 hp hero use this combo: Shoot, granade, shoot, melee.

[@hehehehaw2703]

Can't you just do shoot,nade,shoot?since the damage is 70,60,70?

[@edwardhansen4570]

@@hehehehaw2703 @youtube account This was over a year ago so forgive me if I remember wrong, but assuming you are right I'm pretty sure Ana's shots do damage over time so both combos work (assuming you listed the right numbers) but my combo would kill faster because shooting does damage over time. Please correct me if I'm wrong :D

[@vaporhtrail4350]

Me: *Literally has Lucio, Hammond, **D.va**, and Winston diving me for 99% of the match. Having to fend them off with ana, brig, or bap. Gets 10k healing. Silver. But still 10k out* Also me: *Gets yelled at by my team for the lack of heals and being screamed at for not being near the point while being CC'd away by Hammond and Lucio boops* 凸ಠ益ಠ)凸

[@hjl4204]

Ah just ignore them m8. You're doing a great job.

[@AudioGlitch42]

1. Your a great person for playing support. 2. Im one of those lucios, and im sorry, wr cant help it. We've got that need. The need for speed.

[@oxyroid]

Same shit happens to me. My teams also always run so far away from me to the other side of the map, and expect healing. Even when I’m dead because they couldn’t protect me, they think I can magically resplendent immediately to heal them.

[@Daccura]

Pick moira then? Like he said in the video.

[@vaporhtrail4350]

@@Daccura True, but what happens when dva eats my healing orb and they close on my from my dash?

[@ryuji1615]

As someone who is still learning this old lady I would say some other things. 1 - you need to learn you sleep combo kill, shoot, nade, shoot and melee. 2 - you need to play ana until you dont even need to think, playing on solo instinct. This will take the longest to get use to. You as support have the highest carry factor staying alive. 3 - you are a sniper, stay away from the action. If they don't have a dive comp or a dive hero on you just stay chill in the back. If they do try to use your nade and sleep on him when they come to you. 4 - don't be afraid to kill pharah, actually you are one of the best heroes to kill her. 5 - die less, much less, and this come with positioning, learning rotation on each map, and having huge lines of sight during the battle. This takes a long time as well. Current in ps4 top 17% dying 6.3 times average per 10. 6 - you need to train a lot on using your nade, believe in me you will miss tons on your first 200 games with her. 7 - qp is one of the best ways to learning her go against 3 4 dps and try to stay alive. Before I would advice in making another account to go on silver and get against 3 4 dps but we still have qp.

[@TheLastEgg08]

Is getting above 12 thousand healing per match even if you get dived every 13 seconds is good?

[@ryuji1615]

@@TheLastEgg08 13 death is way to much man, doesn't matter if they have 2 3 dive on you, you should not die that much. Healing 12k if the match is around 15 minutes is ok. But you will do so much more. My heals is around 8.3k average per 10 minutes and I'm on console.

[@TheLastEgg08]

@@ryuji1615 I said every 13 seconds I would get doved on and wouldn't die, my maximum is 4 deaths per match.

[@ryuji1615]

@@TheLastEgg08 that's good then

[@TheLastEgg08]

@@ryuji1615 Yeah and I get ABOVE 12K healing every match.

[@ALTRON3]

Being a little critical on that bit where the player sleeps rein instead of the hog. As dart was already in-flight when the hog ults. Im sure the player would of slept the hog but the decision had already been made. But yeah, I get what you mean. Those darts and anti-nade are precious

[@purp1e300]

My ana style is kinda unique and I only see twilight also playing like that, I use my nanos always on tanks to save them because I think it's so much stronger than making a dps ult even better. This style won a lot of matches for me and got me from plat to high masters. So for people that are stuck in lower ranks, maybe use that style as well P.s. I don't need anyone flaming me saying that I'm not coach or that this is a terrible style. I'm only saying this because this style change has helped me and maybe it will help someone else😊

[@PerciusLive]

Tanks in comp are often too afraid to press w, or do it at the worst times. Its a lot better to just let them take half damage and roll for longer so you can put your attention elsewhere for a bit

[@PhantomEmperor]

Mercy mains felt this video on a spiritual level

[@thousandstar]

Wow......I learned so much ....I've been using Ana wrong....time to relearn Ana

[@TheAwesomeAsian300]

Qeycon he literally says Ana is probably top 5 hardest heroes to play in the video

[@blazeylikme7801]

Her kit is pretty simple you pretty much know what to do. It's hard to play her wrong, it's easy to have shit aim tho.

[@bdwangerin]

Aiming bad is not the same as positioning or using her kit to its fullest potential. This video was made to call out the widespread issues people have with Anna not theses know it alls in the comments.

[@blazeylikme7801]

@@bdwangerin Yeah, aiming is not the same as positioning but it should be common sense shes a sniper stay back look for high ground. I can understand if you are new to the game how it might be a learning curve but..

[@xmelloniax]

@@blazeylikme7801 he said top 5 hardest heroes to play because we have characters like:moira, mercy, brig, dva and reaper in the game

[@Goodfellowk1]

I feel like you need to stick with Ana/Bap if thats what you want to play and not switch to Moira/Mercy to gain rank or you'll be out of your league when the expectations are higher for you. Id love to get out of Plat but I wont until I'm skilled enough to be out. I want to be a good diamond Ana and maybe someday a good Master Ana. Not a "good" Diamond Moira/Mercy

[@xmelloniax]

this is smart i was a high master mercy (one trick basically) and i started learning ana on my alt until i could play her on my main. very satisfying already have 500 hours on ana

[@Century10-s7q]

Says literally one thing. YO proceeds to make a 15 minute video about you.

[@IamChrisBotha]

Basically. YO always seems to be on a high horse. Maybe they get a bit salty.

[@Century10-s7q]

Chris Botha I’m assuming that might be the case. I mean I’m all for promoting self improvement and I believe it helps the climbing process but it’s pretty silly to make an entire video demonizing one person for one little thing they said.

[@IamChrisBotha]

@@Century10-s7q yes I fully agree there. Learning from one's mistakes and trying to get better is always a good thing, but the way YO does it is as if you don't do a single thing like they do it or want you to do it then you're apparently a bad player or being "toxic" etc etc

[@CornedBee]

@@Century10-s7q This is not "an entire video for demonizing one person for one little thing they said". 1) It was a video giving useful Ana tips. 2) The person was one of three being reviewed. 3) The "one little thing" was brought as an example of his toxic behavior, not a comprehensive list.

[@tusk779]

Weagal GO WEAGAL!!

[@Rob-kl1uz]

The thing with Ana is that your team will always dodge your heals better than they dodge enemy attacks

[@tezz2698]

It's your job to hit those heals. If you can't even do that then you should just switch.

[@emacliftsalot]

When he was critisizing krushers gameplay during the reaper backline flanks I was thinking no that is definitly wrong. His usage was not bad or unecessary the reaper was at close range at flank and his team didnt peel. So sleep him. He did. And then if the team says they'll follow up anti him. Its a free pick that puts you up. Also his team mei walled him in so he was trapped effectively allowing the cooldown to restack not costing him anything. Long stroy short. You were wrong lol. Had he jot sleep reaper, Reaper picks the main healer and their tanks agress and wall off the main tank which is a instant team fight loss. The only mistakes I saw were during 1v1's he used the anti for himself or the diving oppenent. Thats what sleep is for and if you cant hit it you dish out heals to the team as long as you can and use anti on them because it gives more value. If you let yourself get dove and distracted your tanks get ran over and everyone dies. The othrr scenario was when he used anti through burst healing scenarios way to early like early in grav not mid way through or through dragon early or hog ults. You want to time it when the first teamate drops ( main tank or squishy) is at half health that way the time per danage ults lose value and you gain the healing advantage thus winning the fights. Ana is unique in this way that she counters ult usage amongst time/sec ults better than anh other character.

[@emacliftsalot]

@Weagal okay then. Its just because of the timing of the video. Your still a great Player Liam and a good coach don't get me wrong. Awesome video.

[@trunkheadgaming9086]

My experience with Role Queue so far: 1) Lucio will be one of you healers in EVERY MATCH 2) 95% of Matches will have x2 shield tanks 3) because of 1) and 2) Zenyatta might as well not exist 4) and that sucks because it's shocking how bad DPS players are

[@justinkaz]

My experience: Sigma, Mei, widow, orisa, zen (who doesnt heal anyone) and me mercy/moira ._.

[@bartflikweert1228]

@@justinkaz haha yes, for me every game is just orisa sigma reaper mei ana moira

[@manaeth]

Or you are bad. Dont blame dps, literally 90% of supports i have met were absolute trash, and i am genji main. When i told them to shut thr fuck up and give me healer, the whole team was shocked i was like twice better than the previous healer, now playing some dps doing nothing ncs he sucks.

[@larryeksde5891]

My matches are double shield meta, people then pick sym and whoever has the better sym wins.

[@Stolas002]

Enemy double shield/ dives supps Teammates: WHERE IS MY HEALINGGGGG?!?!?

[@Shiverito]

As an Ana main, one of my biggest tips with her is learning the quick scope rhythm. And trust me, it's a bit harder than it sounds. But, the thing that made it click for me is the sound queues. Go into the practice range and listen as you quick scope. You can start the animation of your next zoom in as soon as you hear the gun chamber the next round. Any time before that and you'll get one of those awkward moments where you zoom in, pull the trigger, and nothing happens. I even watched the actual gun for visual queues when I first started, and it also helped. Hope it helps someone!

[@_Rodeo]

I know you’ve been back for a while, but it’s so great having you back Weagel! (No love lost for Freedo though-you’re both amazing!) now we just need to get Eddie back in! #unitethetrinity

[@Rekishe]

You know I’ve been trying to get better at Ana and being gm in support this isn’t the best guide for high level players but is good for starters. Gj

[@thomaslmn8308]

Ana is my worst healer lul I'm GM and dude i still don't know what to do as ana I'm always like "GUYS WHAT DO I DO I JUST SLEPT THE SOMBRA HELP"

[@whitexflash]

XD I would watch this hahaha

[@alirezayousefi3687]

If u sleep something with 200 hp just wait till it inhales and u oneshot it alone

[@Chrispyy__]

ALL DPS PLAYERS QUEUING IN SUPPORT WATCH THIS CAUSE YALL NEED THIS!!!!

[@Ronin-kk4bt]

You right😂

[@JKeemTV]

Can't wait for the Bap video, been my favorite support lately and fits well in most comps even if there might be a better pic, he's just so versatile.

[@ManexFX]

FinANAlly a good guide for support.

[@u1timatepotato930]

ManexFX the video came out 1 min ago

[@fendour_]

He didn't even mention things like nade animation cancel tech or a lot of other useful things for ana. Still a decent guide.

[@24Ippo]

the only tip i can give about it is: don't waste your sleep dart in further targets(and if you do, take your time for aiming) you can save it for close range encounters, many flankers and bold players see Ana as the weak link so they will try to sneak behind you so prepare for the assault, check your cd and set the pace. If you follow these instructions then you're going to notice how calm are you and it will let you shoot further targets without being worried about Reaper or Genji (this last one is a trial by fire but remember, they ALWAYS will dash so wait for it and then bam you're golden)

[@oni2510]

WOW CONGRATS ON TOP 500 !!

[@MrSam1804]

Me, ranking as support for my first time, playing mainly ana and baptist. Gold - welcome! Still enjoying playing them so much.

[@ruben2574]

2:20 that field was about to expire so I think his nade was on point

[@briandouglas679]

Really loving this format for guides!!!

[@ewrergeheh]

I played ana for a season of Open Division last year, and our team did pretty well! I was actually forced on to support even though I'm a tank main, but that's fine because my Ana is pretty strong. With this in mind, I think it's REALLY important (if you want to climb with Ana) to remember to always be doing something when playing her, this is what separates bad players from good ones, if you're not healing then you need to be doing damage, if you're not doing damage then you need to be healing. This will ensure you have nano for nearly every fight. Sleep dart is a good ability to completely negate ults, but if you time it right you can sleep someone before the engagement starts and then have it again by the time the mid fight happens (usually when ults start getting used). Also, if you're farming nano correctly, just use it on cooldown and don't be afraid to nano a target that might not seem like it would get good benefit from it- this means if you think your zen for example might die soon, just nano him so he stays alive longer. Another thing about nano boost is if you see that there's nobody close to ultimate to combo with it on your team, just boost one of your tanks and tell them to go in, because they will get ultimate SUPER fast if they play aggressive with it which will give you an advantage on the fight. Also in doing this, you quite often bait out a support ultimate from the enemy team because they're afraid of a nano zarya on max charge lasering down their team. All this comes from high masters/low gm gameplay. THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK

[@laerendor793]

Have you ever had that moment where you want to nano someone but you're stuck behind a tank and even after 5 seconds you can't get that tank out of your eyes to nano the genji/soldier and when you don't see the tank anymore you still nano the tank.

[@retrorevival1]

seems like a dumb thing to say but I find Mercy harder to play than anyone else, GA just doesn't seem to come off very well for me, I seem to get stuck in mid air or just kind of stopping like Mercy tripped on a stone or something, I'm just dead a lot more than I'm alive which isn't exactly helpful, I placed 2800 just playing Ana and I'd liked to get better with mercy (especially in the current meta) but I'm just worried I'm gonna drop SR like that stone my Mercy keeps tripping on...

[@bdwangerin]

I feel I'm always trying to fly away or everyone is dead and non of them even died in a "safe" place to fly to.

[@VanFahnel]

thx for sharing, it helped me alot the only thing I hate about ana is, whenever I pick ana...there is always a player insta locking genji, because he is expecting a nanoblade and beeing toxic, if he doesnt get one I'm not playing ana for this ridiculous reason, I often use nano as a bait to create space, so the dps can do dmg example: giving rein the nano, so the widow can snipe the enemy cause everyone is focused on reinhardt and doesn't focus on widow anymore and so on. won so many team fights because of that (I know it won't work always, just one way to use it).

[@Zesty__]

Another helpful Ana tip is to keep opponents asleep if you can. If you wake them up by shooting them, they get up instantly. Where as if you wait for the sleep animation to finish, they will get up significantly slower.

[@Ethan-fz6tp]

A specific tip I've picked up after 120 hours on Ana; if you're fighting a Reaper or Moira don't nade them until they've used Wraith or Fade. Those abilities will cleanse the anti-healing effects. A Moira or Reaper tagged with anti-heal has no lifesteal and will go down quickly. If you've slept them, they will almost always Wraith or Fade when the come out of sleep so, hold on to your nade for a second or two.

[@colinmcmasters5819]

The grenade + hipfire combo is much more reliable if you use hitscan instead of hipfire. Just aim in and fire the hitscan shot when you see the grenade connect.

[@jhucheng3210]

Now I learn how to manage my ana cooldown better. Thanks!

[@laerendor793]

At 11:00 I think the better strategy is to hipfire nade scope, this way you cancel animation and can kill a squishy. Same with sleep dart. The animation is cancelled and the dot damage doesn't break the sleep. You only need 1 shot and nade/ 2 shots to finish off that squishy

[@isaac.2031]

Summary of a bronze game as Ana (from experience) - the dva ult you boosted fell down the well - the mcree ult you boosted timed out - nobody defends or cares about you and gets toxic when you can't heal from spawn - the rein you slept after his shatter is sending you deaththreats - T E A T I M E

[@DeeLaneArts]

Ana is so fun, skins are fire. I’ve been practicing her. Great char

[@solar5286]

I watched the last Ana guide again this morning, yet here I am haha

[@superblahman]

1:36 You say that as an enemy dragon goes through their team and he uses the nade to save them. Only one of them ends up dying, compared to probably all of them normally. Then they later do use nade on the enemy in the same clip.

[@jhonjhon2]

Can't wait for the Baptiste guide! 💗

[@JordanPool13]

ML7 has a good series on it, though it's more him playing Bap and explaining his thought process and looking at replays. It's more long form, but def useful.

[@blazeylikme7801]

I relish in the fact that dps mains need to play healer now to get alright sr. NOT AS EASY AS YOU THOUGHT B.

[@MacKuhhhhhhh]

A good spot for ana in my experience on hollywood at the capture point before the escort idk why but ive never seen anybody suspect her being on the platform in the back corner you can take the lift to get to.

[@belladonnaRoot]

I can't wait for the new tank one, cuz I have seen some truly awful tank play lately. Like to the point where I was noticing it from the other team. (Junkertown A, a guy tried to push as Rein. Against mobility heroes plus reaper, and me as Anna. First 2 mins was him over-extending, getting naded/slept, and dunked on. Second half was out in the open, never got to swing on anyone, and was getting hit from 4 directions. Might not have helped that instead of retreating to B, I slept him, stole the mega, naded him, and then a reaper was there to cover my retreat.)

[@MyPronounsHeWhore]

I have a co-worker named Ana, and she made it VERY clear it's pronounced 'ah na'. Anna (2 n) is pronounced the other way. She gets upset pretty easily, so it only took me a few days to set in that muscle memory.

[@legendarygamerz7049]

I am sooo sad man every game I lose is either for a player dancing the entire game or people leaving It happened 10 games in a row its soooooo frustrating and the worst thing is when someone leaves and probably you would lose and ACTUALLY LOSE SR

[@josechianetta]

i know im bad, you don't need to be so mean ;-;

[@HeliosBeats]

the other downside to scoped in shots with ana besides trails showing is that the fire rate (therefore, heals per sec) is slightly lower. Even if your aim isnt so good if you have tanks right infront of you that could use heals just hold down hipfire LMB

[@InCoRrEcTlY1]

My problem isn’t that I’m not hitting sleeps or that my team isn’t there for a follow up, it’s that my team instantly wakes them up. I can’t count how many times I’ve slept a genii blade just for a dva or someone who can’t one shot him to walk up and shoot him before blade is done

[@ovindissanayake7251]

Extremely useful guide thank you

[@quentenkemp749]

I'd be interested on your thoughts of the other 4 hardest characters to play.

[@alirezayousefi3687]

Nothing is harder than this shit u have to carry the whole team or all lose for u

[@abnxl1887]

I just got the game but im having a blast with ana

[@Viper4ever05]

Amazes me how many Ana's wake up things they know they cant fight alone lol.

[@eruza_7716]

Ana is still the best hero blizzard has released ....I'm adding Ash as well.

[@chainer8686]

I absolutely love how her character was executed; the concept of a sniper who views her job in combat as a guardian to her team, and her abilities and kit built around that, on top of it being an unusual design not really seen in other games

[@PerciusLive]

Ashe not so much. Shes a very cheesy duelist and ult farmer

[@JoseMendoza-dl4hg]

@@PerciusLive I'm curious as to why you think Ashe is a cheesy duelist. Her only CC is a boop back on a 10s CD so very rarely do you see Ashe players get environmental kills. TNT can be cheesy at times but rushing the Ashe makes it almost useless so if you're dueling her at range predict when she is gonna throw it. Just ducked behind a wall? ...expect the tnt and move away from the potential explosion point. She actually kind of sucks in duels because her abilities are easily predictable and counterable. McCree will destroy her in close range and at mid-range he still has her beat due to not having to scope in and being able to AD crouch spam while firing. At longer range you will want Widow or Hanzo and at that point they wreck her. Genji's love diving Ashe. Tracer has to be careful due to her low HP but if she can dive the Ashe before Ashe can react its an easy win typically. Ashe really isn't a duelist, she's good at supplementing team damage. She is an ult farmer though, that I agree with.

[@erjkvjking5371]

Man you must have read my mind. Ana game went to absolute pot last night. And I think this might just get me back on track. Was getting far too confident with the sleep dart, started using it "because I can land it" instead of when it's needed. Must have missed 3 or 4 ults, seconds after putting Rein to bed. Would also add, switching to Baptiste I find is a good move if your an Ana main. Play quite similar, but he works better if your getting dove, and want to stay in the pack. 👍🏻

[@andrewferris4539]

First example was fine, he grenades at the choke and then has the grenade back up on the first engagement - he's just getting free ult charge.

[@LiterallyJustOVEN]

I know I’m late but with the tip with running away, if you have your cooldowns and your team is fighting and the person you have slept is behind you team, if they are 200 or 150 hp can you just shoot, nade, shoot combo. Because I thinks that better then letting the Genji wake up and kill your team.

[@TuntunGamer]

I love the new role system! Its brought me back to the game in a big way. BUT.....I have noticed that I'm getting flamed more on my least skilled class, healer, because people expect me to know all of the heroes. I only really know Anna so I'm trying to git gud at Lucio and Moira.

[@matthewbowen4955]

So I did my placements yesterday for healer and played Ana all the games. By game three I was with Plats and was hitting important sleeps on flankers and good antinades and biotic nades hitting both enemy and team to really win out team fights. Called out all the sleeps so that the team could follow up and punish. However in my last two games my tanks were horrible and acted like the didn’t have a W key and stood in choke (I’m a tank main btw so this was very frustrating for me to watch). I ended up getting placed gold and I don’t know how because I did so great the first three games, doing a lot of the things you said in this video (obviously I still have a bunch to work on) and I feel like I played a plat level. I’m so upset about my placement and I’m not sure it’s deserved. Also my scoped and unscoped accuracy were both fairly high. About 60-70% uncapped and 70-75% scoped.

[@xerxer716]

ty ilysm i needed this

[@pognosmaka]

Once again, so glad ur back Weagel (al?) 😄

[@Lileedawn]

Super helpful, thanks!

[@felixrivera895]

Yah the only time I've gotten good sleeps has been when I've hit Roadhogs while they ult. When I was defending Dorado last time I took Baptist onto the rooftop beside the enemy spawn and the angle allowed me to both heal my team, exploit the squishies, and when the reaper came after me I just jumped to the other roof where they couldn't get me.

[@0UTHD]

For me as Ana main this was something I really feel connected with 👌

[@templeknights]

Ahhh yes diamond players "When they try to fire back how they were in masters games and that their diamond account is a smurf as a coverup for their piss poor decisions" lovin it.

[@LepsMere]

Only get into the mix of things if you can dps as Ana. She's one of the strongest dps healers in the game

[@jorrellrichardson3181]

I bet he just didnt realize the roadhog was ulting until it was too late there is windup

[@greywolf5896]

Ok but what if it’s a surprise pin, 😂 like junk rat has yeeted him into the sky and now he’s suddenly all the way in the back 😂

[@JubiJo]

Dude that's happened to me so many times! Or like a Lucio boop and rein is now heading my way...

[@ax1168]

Ty for the guide helps a lot

[@mi-vy4cz]

I had to laugh at krusher99 sleep at 06:40 😂 so cute

[@Ketsuegg]

in ranked i always get what i call reverse role supports. Tanks that never push and die last, and healers that LEEEROOOOOOOOOOOY into 2nd point without even looking at the first.

[@Foos3yOW]

omg YOUR INTRO IS CONTAGIOUS

[@OrggsOrggs]

Why? Coz I am older and crustier than a prehistoric riverbed. ANA is liiife!

[@schnauzebauze]

Thank you for the guide! Used to play upper platin and now with the new system I am ranked silver....

[@cristhianmontoya6648]

I hate getting nano boosted as Sombra. It makes me so nervous!!

[@theperfectcrabbo9414]

YOU’RE POWERED UP! GET IN THERE!

[@shkyp8752]

Hardest part of trying to climb on Ana is lower rank players don’t follow up on anti’s as much higher rank players do.

[@thau8316]

Really people need to ult track and save sleep dart for those moments to stop a nanoblade or barrage, otherwise going for the aggro sleep on someone to try and secure the kill increases the chances of winning the midfight

[@bluecloud4652]

The problem with switching to other supports for me is that none of them are as fun as Ana is