Lotta genjis in mid ranks will never blade unless you nano them. Sometimes you have to just hit the button and make em go.

positioning is so important on ana. because you have no mobility to be able to quickly respond to pressure from the other team, you have to make it as costly as possible for them to apply that pressure so that by the time they get to you, they're at a disadvantage and you can take them down. as far as when to use cooldowns, the key thing to ask yourself about an aggressive biotic grenade (or even an aggressive sleep) is whether your team can / will follow up on that opening. biotic grenade's big value is that it multiplies the offense your team is putting out, so they have to be able to put out offense to get value with it.

Walk the Hog is the strat, pretty straightforward. No flanks, no high ground, but safe positioning behind the tank. Nice when you have a solid, non-dive tank that can put pressure and take space. Probably need different positioning with other comps/players and if you want higher value plays. Especially with nade, much easier to land on high-ground or in a different position.

i would have been stressing the fuck out over that tank lmao glad they were able to keep them alive so much

This Ana was good!! I remember they said they’re new to Ana too but like…they’re doing their job imo

ALRIGHT SO!

Ana was very good. didn’t scope in much. and i found their nades were mostly fine, but they seemed to spam their sleep into crowds often. in one example a genji bladed in their face two seconds later. otherwise def deserving of plat/diamond

Yeah, the falling off the map on Rialto stops around plat lmfao, although sometimes it does happen lmfap

“Alright SO”

The enemy tank has been sleeping the whole match

what a great ana

Tbh, I miss Overwatch ult charge. Remember Flats's 45 second hammers?

I was in a game where the Dva got ult in like less than a minute it was insane

you can land all the grenades and sleeps but you gotta be able to follow up on em or know when to cut and run

straight up good Ana player.

One thing low rank Ana’s do (me included) is throw sleep for no reason. Someone said use all your cooldowns as much as possible but we don’t have the game sense to understand when it’s okay to throw it out va holding it. Like after the enemy captured second point and genji ulted, I think the Ana slept the Rein? And nothing came off it then their sojourn ulted and killed Ana.

Emonggus lmao

I’m a mid plat Ana and I feel like maybe sometimes I use my nades too much for purple and not enough for heals but I always find myself saving it for that juice anti

i wish i had team mates like that

I have similar problems to this Ana, does anyone have advice for how to climb more once I start hitting most of my antis?

This ana watches awkward

This was truly an "overfart" moment

Lower damage and healing all around, but lower ult requirements. I know you remember Flat's 45 second hammer. But seriously imagine not getting melted in primal, or Bob not getting instantly deleted.

Love the content but please get some lights for that greenscreen 😂

This dude would be Diamond way if he had better enemy nades

Something I immediately notice, is lack of creativity in the positioning and angles they take. They have clearly nailed down the tried-and-true "how to play solid baseline positions in plat" which is great, but now they need to expand from that baseline. Currently, their default is "main". They push up through main, they fall back through main, they play very proper positions, very foundational, but also very predictable. The enemy team here never had to worry about what the Ana is doing (or could be about to do) because they always knew exactly where the Ana would be. Safe behind their tank in main at a respectable distance. Predictability is what is going to kill your gameplay from this point onwards. Having good safe positions and rotations when your team is doing well, is great! But when your team isn't doing well, how much of a chance do you set yourself up for in terms of being the difference maker and clutch some fights and swing the momentum on your own? Borderline zero. This makes you a sort of slave of your team, and the "team's holding me back" mentality exists specifically due to such playstyles where you're playing safe and proper and predictable. So my advice is, try to seek out more unpredictable positions when you see an opening for it, and open up the offensive angles towards the enemy team where they have to pay attention to multiple directions of engages/pressure potential. Even if you're just sitting at an off angle and still healing your tank, the mere fact you're at an off angle means the enemy has to respect your potential to suddenly start applying high pressure from that off angle, and they will either have to change their own positioning and give up space, or they will open themselves up for things like consistent big nades or easy double/triple hits on squishies to set up potential elims or confirm elims. Seek out positions that are off- from main, but not in a way where you're overextending. You have the benefit of no range penalty both healing and damage wise, so as long as your off angle also has easy access to LOS on your own team, that's all you need. Just be a little more creative, a little more daring, and see where the balance lies between safe and proper core value positions, and high impact potential carry angles. Once you get into Diamond you'll have to sharpen up your mechanics and finetune this balance to get into Masters, but one step at a time.

«stop jumping» needs to stop. jumping makes u predictable, yes. FOR HEADSHOT HEROES. and players with good aim. If you are vs aoe dmg - the wider u swing ur body, the safer u are generally. crouch spam rockets all day, see who wins. Also, even vs hitscan jumps can be safer, cause u forget about elo. in metal "ezier to predict ur jump arc" doesnt mean they are able to predict it. Vertical movement is so much harder to aim against - genji proves it. In the game where most ppl just spam head lvl if u jump - at least it wont be a headshot. Yes, its controversial but its not that clear cut. it just seems to me that everyone just repeats that "jumping makes you easier to hit" like a mantra for years, without actually thinking about it.

Where is this? I am a Plat 1 Ana player, and their dps are always on me how is this Ana always fine.

Twitch chat are a bunch of little silver haters who think they’re good because they have 1000 hours watching Emongg instead of 1000 hours actually playing the game. This Ana was genuinely pretty good. And yet Twitch chat still tries to claim this or that is bad or terrible. Losers.

One bit of advice I would give to help is STOP jumping all the time. You don't do it nearly as much as others do but it's still there. I know it's a hard habit to break because I had to force myself to stop doing it. Took me like two weeks to stop lol. But I promise if you stop doing that your aim will improve and replacing the jump with AD strafing will get you killed a lot less. It's so funny because even GMs make the mistake even though they know it's a bad habit.

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damn Im really early today

Damn im early

I feel like the tank mega ruined the game. The first 5 minutes is just Ana and hog trying to get the orisa. Dive comp is mega right now so Ana would shine by anti ing the back line so even the widow could get picks on the healers, then the orisa would eventually die. I may be wrong but just reflecting my thoughts

Is it just me or does mercy healing need a big nerf

Idk man, he spent like 90% of the game hard pocketing the tank, most nades went on the tank, most sleeps went right by the tank, most nano's went on the tank. The crosshair never moves from the tank. This man is playing healer, not support. They rarely ever shoot the enemy, or set up kills with the nade. Other than keeping the mid roadhog up, they didn't really do much.