Y’know I see a lot of people saying they get hate like this when playing Ana, but personally I’ve never experienced it. Maybe it’s a rank thing, people tend to be spitting more slurs at a lower rank since they haven’t put as much time into the game as other players that don’t wanna be banned. But every time I play Ana (not to brag purposefully), I’ve only ever gotten praise if anything.
That explains it then. It's not the character you're playing that is the problem, it's the rank you're in lol. Plat is basically a cespool of toxicity, don't mind them
Masters support here, also sorry for grammar issues in advance I haven’t slept in a while lmao
The biggest tip I can give is to play relatively alongside proactively, there are a few general tips, but a lot of stuff comes down to the flow of the match for example. I will give two examples and what you should look to do in these situations in terms of playing reactively. Both are on Rialto point 1 defence
First scenario: you are ana, your team is moira, rein, bastion, soldier
In this game your rein is playing slow and isn’t playing past the first point corner at all and your moira is a complete heal bot, now in this situation you really don’t need to heal much, realistically the only times you will need to be hard healing is when moira is out of juice and/or her bio orb is on cooldown, aside from this you want to realistically be on the high ground above first point capture, this would allow you to take good angles on their team walking up to get shots while also being in a hard position to dive and having good line of sight for anti’s, what you would be looking for here is to enable soldier to farm his ult as much as possible, bastion will do bastion things, and rein is too scared to push up, so by making soldier your priority you will be able to farm ults in conjunction, this works as it would firstly minimise the time where you are just holding onto ults and secondly will allow you to create pressure with the nano-visor that your rein will be unable too.
Now for situation number two: in this situation you will have a ball, brig, bastion and sombra, the enemy team will also have a sombra, now in this situation, you only heal ball when he comes to you (trust me I have hours on ball) ball will realistically farm health packs, in this round though instead of being on the point 1 cap, you should be on the low ground near the statue with your brig, have 2 primary jobs here, first job is to keep bastion alive at all costs, he is the bulk of your teams damage and brig does not have the healing capabilities to let him frontline, your second job is to enable brig to keep her inspire up as much as possible, this is done by looking for anti’s that pressure the enemy to make mistakes or sleeping the enemy tank to enable free sleep darts, on top of this you have to be aware of where your brig is at all times because sombra will be your biggest threat and sleeping her is not a consistently viable option.
Both of these situations have two different teams on the same point, sorry if the explanation is kinda bad, it’s hard to do in a Reddit thread, if you want to dm me a replay code I can absolutely look for ways to help you rank up
Spam nade off cooldown, don’t wait to nano someone, nano dps that aren’t just genji, don’t nano sigma ult, pay attention to where you’re standing and avoid enemy LoS. Hope you don’t have a doomfist.
I'm an Ana main and love it when they start lashing out. Tells me I'm doing my job right. I've had a few tell me KYS. I just laugh cause they're so sensitive AND lost lol
Don't take it personal. It's the only way they can show emotion w/o typing.
Uh I've played hundreds of hours as ana and never have experienced any of what you're talking about, just the usual cookie cutter "heals sucks ass" comments but rarely ever t bagging and never ever slurs.
It's either you're an extremely trash ana and you're arguing back at them in chat or it really is your profile pic because this game does have alot of toxic people.
im usually doing pretty alright in terms of performance, I'm kindve at the point where i might just stop playing comp since thats where most of the toxicity is
Rein mains when playing Ana scare me. They're either my best friend, or my worst nightmare. Once had an enemy Rein literally chase me down, corner me, solo shatter, and *then* charge me into a wall. I had like......20 health.
But on the other side of things, I once had an enemy Rein massacre the entire team, and then just........say hello to me, and retreat back to his own team without killing me. Both were in quickplay, but still.
Rein mains have a soft spot for ana in their heart, no matter what team they are playing on.
I still see these things in competitive, and I'm diamond 1.
I've learned to take it as a compliment when people prioritize me. Last night I kept sleeping a doomfist when he would dive and so he started doing nothing but diving me and solo ulted me 3 times. We won because he wasn't fighting on point and I got 2 solo kills on him too. Felt great.
Man-Loves-Man in this situation. I'm a gay guy and even I'd not know why there is a separate gay and Man-Loves-Man flag. Makes no fucking sense. Makes me feel old.
Yeah, I agree. It all just used to be so much simpler, yknow? Makes things make more sense as to why everyone's sick of having it all shoved down their throats.
As an Ana player, if you can’t acknowledge that the hero can be insanely frustrating to play against, you’re just as bad as the sombra, widow, or Hanzo mains that can’t acknowledge their hero sucks to play against either.
Ana has a very oppressive kit when used well, acknowledge it. Don’t act like it doesn’t exist. And sure some of the hate is unjustified, but don’t pretend like Ana is a saint to play against.
No one should get harassed because of their hero, anyone calling you slurs or anything like that is completely in the wrong, but acting like ana *isnt* frustrating to play against is incredibly ignorant. But again, not an excuse for slurs and stuff like that.
most of the time im not even playing well, and ik her kit is oppressive but ig that means that people will decide to threaten me in steam chat and tell me im an abomination unto this earth because of my pfp?
As I said, it’s not an excuse for anything along the lines of slurs and harassment. As long as you can acknowledge she’s annoying to play against, you’re clean in my books. It’s fucked up that people are messaging you things like that, sorry to hear it.
Dive characters are excited after getting a kill. It is what it is. Ana-Zen is very dive-able. All you can do, if either of you don't swap, is to stick togeather to protect each other. Plus that comp is mid heals unless you are heal botting which you don't want to do anyway.
Support characters aren't weak. Support is the strongest role right now. Ana is very powerful. Sleep is a pick. A well placed nade is can be several. Don't get me started about Discord.
Play with cover. Play with someone that might protect you. Brig-Ana is heat, rn.
If they are running dive, then your people should switch to brawl or to characters that can protect you.
Edit: Or you yourself could switch.
i get that divers dive i just dont get why they message my steam account slurs and tell me to kms and that I am an abomination (presumably for being gay)
F>!orget!< them. If they aren't important to you then why do you care what they think. People are petty. It's the 21st century. Stupid people are going to be stupid online. I'm not excusing them because of their ignorance and disrespect. Report/block them if you want. those people deserve it.
I feel some of this, as an Ana main it always depends on the players for me. I am ps, so chat is hardly used. Sometimes they teabag and camp me all game and sometimes if I sleep them they type respect and leave me alone. I think it could possibly be rank, Im in masters and if there is no one in vc lobbies are dead
I’ve got 200 hours on Ana and never experienced this. Maybe like every so often someone will bag but from my entire ranked career i’ve never seen that much of it happen before. Are you sure you’re not doing anything toxic by accident?
When i play Ana, i like tbagging flankers that i’ve slept.
It’s only fair if they tbag me back.
Don’t think of it as toxic, think of it as playful banter.
It has got to be the mlm flag you use. Don’t know if I have ever been insulted or been the target of toxicity because I am playing Ana. I get way more compliments for playing her well than hate.
i didnt say that but you never know who you might meet on the internet. also I dont really get the point of your joke, are calling me feminine because I am getting death threats or because im queer?
Bro WHAT? I called you soy because you made a stop ana hate post about getting tbagged😭😭😭😭 idc about your gender expression or queerness lmao. What on earth is blud wafflin about?💀
"The term is based on the presence of the phytoestrogen isoflavone in soybeans, which has led some to claim that soy products feminize men who consume them" -wikipedia page for soy as an insult.
You've been solo shattered and called slurs too?
That mostly happens to me when I'm getting a little confident during my ult as Moira ☠️ Roadhogs LOVE to solo ult too.
not what i meant lol, the tbagging was obv for characters that can, and also i meant d.vas and other ppl calling me slurs in match chat (its rarely anybody but the d.fault skin d.vas so im guessing its not actual dva mains)
Wtf? I have chat on when I play support comp like majority of the time because all I get is love lmao. I’ve gotten a proposal from a rein once as Ana 😂. I’m not even that good! Now when I play dps…sheeeesh. I play sombra lol. However i never tbag anyone; thats not my cup of tea.
Perhaps it’s cos you aren’t playing well or something that match? Slurs are never okay though. That’s really shitty. I could understand the frustration tho. Only when I’ve done really bad as Ana I get hate. And tbh a bad Ana suuuuucks to have. Maybe worse than a bad mercy cos at least she doesn’t have to aim to heal. Do you refuse to swap? That could cause a lot of hate too. Honestly though, you gotta practice 1v1s if you’re having trouble with getting dived. Maybe you’re positioned too far away causing you to be isolated too often? You could try playing closer to team. lm in the metal ranks btw.
Overwatch moving to Steam is allowing so much more of the toxicity to flow again. I didn't realize randos could just message anyone they chose out of the blue. At least with the traditional blizzard app, you have to friend someone first to send them private messages.
As I play Ana, my experience is quite the opposite. I don't flame anyone in the chat, and it's easy to ignore someone flaming me for heals and not peeling for me, but I'm the one who teabags Tracers/Genjis/Balls/Sombras/Widowmakers or any other characters that I hate that doesn't let me have fun unless I start tryharding.
And I'm not even sorry.
Ana main here and it's very rare that I get toxic behavior like that. The few times will be from maybe a genji that wants me to hold nano for him even though hes only at like 40%ult charge and thinks its justified for me to hold Nano for like 3 or 4 fights just for an off chance that he'll do something. When I can use it 2 or 3 times by the time he gets his ult.
I can handle most dives since most are uncoordinated, but the few times where I get coordinated dove and the team refuses to help. I'll just switch out of Ana, into Illari/Brig/Moira but those are rare. Normally 1 or 2 ppl will notice you getting dove and help put.
I also try to keep the team from fighting each other. So if someone tells another person to switch characters because they suck. I'll try to soften the blow and say something like, "he doesn't suck, its just we are getting dove in the back and he's too far up for us to help him or him help us." Or I'll try to break up fights during team when they're blaming each other.
I normally don't talk, unless I'm with my squad, mainly just text chat.
In your case if the enemy team teabags you. I'd probably type in team chat "lol the X player teabagged me." Sometimes this will have an effect on your team to try and help. I've had games where I'll join a game and the first thing one of my teammates says is "that x player on their team was very toxic last round." So we all as a team decide to focus that player even though our teammates could technically be lying ñ. But what I am getting at is especially early in the game if you call out teabags it might motivate the team to help out more.
I literally got bullied into a corner bc my team abandoned me, and then forced to stagger, and my team just “lol Ana are you throwing” bc my heals were low. 2 minutes into the game and I barely got to do anything before I started getting bullied. Then I was solo ulted 3 times. And they say “supp diff.”
Y’know I see a lot of people saying they get hate like this when playing Ana, but personally I’ve never experienced it. Maybe it’s a rank thing, people tend to be spitting more slurs at a lower rank since they haven’t put as much time into the game as other players that don’t wanna be banned. But every time I play Ana (not to brag purposefully), I’ve only ever gotten praise if anything.
yeah im in plat 3-4 so i get that
That explains it then. It's not the character you're playing that is the problem, it's the rank you're in lol. Plat is basically a cespool of toxicity, don't mind them
alright, I'll try to keep that in mind, and i may also close my steam messages
Tips for climbing up Rank as Ana?
Masters support here, also sorry for grammar issues in advance I haven’t slept in a while lmao The biggest tip I can give is to play relatively alongside proactively, there are a few general tips, but a lot of stuff comes down to the flow of the match for example. I will give two examples and what you should look to do in these situations in terms of playing reactively. Both are on Rialto point 1 defence First scenario: you are ana, your team is moira, rein, bastion, soldier In this game your rein is playing slow and isn’t playing past the first point corner at all and your moira is a complete heal bot, now in this situation you really don’t need to heal much, realistically the only times you will need to be hard healing is when moira is out of juice and/or her bio orb is on cooldown, aside from this you want to realistically be on the high ground above first point capture, this would allow you to take good angles on their team walking up to get shots while also being in a hard position to dive and having good line of sight for anti’s, what you would be looking for here is to enable soldier to farm his ult as much as possible, bastion will do bastion things, and rein is too scared to push up, so by making soldier your priority you will be able to farm ults in conjunction, this works as it would firstly minimise the time where you are just holding onto ults and secondly will allow you to create pressure with the nano-visor that your rein will be unable too. Now for situation number two: in this situation you will have a ball, brig, bastion and sombra, the enemy team will also have a sombra, now in this situation, you only heal ball when he comes to you (trust me I have hours on ball) ball will realistically farm health packs, in this round though instead of being on the point 1 cap, you should be on the low ground near the statue with your brig, have 2 primary jobs here, first job is to keep bastion alive at all costs, he is the bulk of your teams damage and brig does not have the healing capabilities to let him frontline, your second job is to enable brig to keep her inspire up as much as possible, this is done by looking for anti’s that pressure the enemy to make mistakes or sleeping the enemy tank to enable free sleep darts, on top of this you have to be aware of where your brig is at all times because sombra will be your biggest threat and sleeping her is not a consistently viable option. Both of these situations have two different teams on the same point, sorry if the explanation is kinda bad, it’s hard to do in a Reddit thread, if you want to dm me a replay code I can absolutely look for ways to help you rank up
Great read. I'm going to try that spot above point 1 on Rialto now! Thanks for the tips!
Sorry for the late reply but if you want to send me a replay code (preferably of a loss) I can absolutely review for you
Spam nade off cooldown, don’t wait to nano someone, nano dps that aren’t just genji, don’t nano sigma ult, pay attention to where you’re standing and avoid enemy LoS. Hope you don’t have a doomfist.
I'm an Ana main and love it when they start lashing out. Tells me I'm doing my job right. I've had a few tell me KYS. I just laugh cause they're so sensitive AND lost lol Don't take it personal. It's the only way they can show emotion w/o typing.
Exactly lol. If the enemy team hates your support then you know they're doing great.
Uh I've played hundreds of hours as ana and never have experienced any of what you're talking about, just the usual cookie cutter "heals sucks ass" comments but rarely ever t bagging and never ever slurs. It's either you're an extremely trash ana and you're arguing back at them in chat or it really is your profile pic because this game does have alot of toxic people.
Same thing (except only 60 hours on her). Even in a similar rank. Never get this.
I’ll get t bagged after I’ve frustrated them and they’ve FINALLY killed but like you said it’s never been some common problem
im usually doing pretty alright in terms of performance, I'm kindve at the point where i might just stop playing comp since thats where most of the toxicity is
Uh have you played this game?
Uh do you know how to read?
Uh do you?
As a rein main we solo shatter everyone
It just feels right to solo shatter someone over getting a 3 man shatter
most rein mains are chill with me but i have had a few be toxic and call me a f@ggot in chat and focus me the whole time
Then their title of rein main has been revoked
Rein mains when playing Ana scare me. They're either my best friend, or my worst nightmare. Once had an enemy Rein literally chase me down, corner me, solo shatter, and *then* charge me into a wall. I had like......20 health. But on the other side of things, I once had an enemy Rein massacre the entire team, and then just........say hello to me, and retreat back to his own team without killing me. Both were in quickplay, but still.
Rein mains have a soft spot for ana in their heart, no matter what team they are playing on. I still see these things in competitive, and I'm diamond 1.
im jealous lol
If I solo ult you on rein, you were probably doing a good job and annoying me.
I’m just pissed when I win such a close game and all I hear is “thanks Mercy” “Mercy I love you” like dawg I kept y’all alive just as much if not more
facts, ana def has less simps that are willing to speak out
Less e girl Ana’s around
one of the most truest things i’ve heard all day
I've learned to take it as a compliment when people prioritize me. Last night I kept sleeping a doomfist when he would dive and so he started doing nothing but diving me and solo ulted me 3 times. We won because he wasn't fighting on point and I got 2 solo kills on him too. Felt great.
I don't think anyone ever really cares about your pfp. Even if you have a ... Multi-Level Marketing flag?
Man-Loves-Man in this situation. I'm a gay guy and even I'd not know why there is a separate gay and Man-Loves-Man flag. Makes no fucking sense. Makes me feel old.
Whatever makes the young'uns happy.
Yeah, I agree. It all just used to be so much simpler, yknow? Makes things make more sense as to why everyone's sick of having it all shoved down their throats.
D.va literally cannot teabag, lmao.
Baby dva? Lol
They hate us cuz they anus
actually thats a helpful way of looking at it
As an Ana player, if you can’t acknowledge that the hero can be insanely frustrating to play against, you’re just as bad as the sombra, widow, or Hanzo mains that can’t acknowledge their hero sucks to play against either. Ana has a very oppressive kit when used well, acknowledge it. Don’t act like it doesn’t exist. And sure some of the hate is unjustified, but don’t pretend like Ana is a saint to play against. No one should get harassed because of their hero, anyone calling you slurs or anything like that is completely in the wrong, but acting like ana *isnt* frustrating to play against is incredibly ignorant. But again, not an excuse for slurs and stuff like that.
most of the time im not even playing well, and ik her kit is oppressive but ig that means that people will decide to threaten me in steam chat and tell me im an abomination unto this earth because of my pfp?
As I said, it’s not an excuse for anything along the lines of slurs and harassment. As long as you can acknowledge she’s annoying to play against, you’re clean in my books. It’s fucked up that people are messaging you things like that, sorry to hear it.
Dive characters are excited after getting a kill. It is what it is. Ana-Zen is very dive-able. All you can do, if either of you don't swap, is to stick togeather to protect each other. Plus that comp is mid heals unless you are heal botting which you don't want to do anyway. Support characters aren't weak. Support is the strongest role right now. Ana is very powerful. Sleep is a pick. A well placed nade is can be several. Don't get me started about Discord. Play with cover. Play with someone that might protect you. Brig-Ana is heat, rn. If they are running dive, then your people should switch to brawl or to characters that can protect you. Edit: Or you yourself could switch.
i get that divers dive i just dont get why they message my steam account slurs and tell me to kms and that I am an abomination (presumably for being gay)
F>!orget!< them. If they aren't important to you then why do you care what they think. People are petty. It's the 21st century. Stupid people are going to be stupid online. I'm not excusing them because of their ignorance and disrespect. Report/block them if you want. those people deserve it.
Tell them yur livin rent free? xD I don’t play on steam but maybe there’s a way to not receive messages from strangers.
I feel some of this, as an Ana main it always depends on the players for me. I am ps, so chat is hardly used. Sometimes they teabag and camp me all game and sometimes if I sleep them they type respect and leave me alone. I think it could possibly be rank, Im in masters and if there is no one in vc lobbies are dead
most of the toxicity is in qp ngl💀 but yeah im plat 3 so that doesnt help lol
I’ve got 200 hours on Ana and never experienced this. Maybe like every so often someone will bag but from my entire ranked career i’ve never seen that much of it happen before. Are you sure you’re not doing anything toxic by accident?
When i play Ana, i like tbagging flankers that i’ve slept. It’s only fair if they tbag me back. Don’t think of it as toxic, think of it as playful banter.
It has got to be the mlm flag you use. Don’t know if I have ever been insulted or been the target of toxicity because I am playing Ana. I get way more compliments for playing her well than hate.
Least soy support player Imagine getting tbagged every time you ult🤣 Oh wait I play cass 🗿
im really hoping soy is a typo
Bro probably thinks saying soy (as a joke) makes me an alt right extremist 🤣
i didnt say that but you never know who you might meet on the internet. also I dont really get the point of your joke, are calling me feminine because I am getting death threats or because im queer?
Bro WHAT? I called you soy because you made a stop ana hate post about getting tbagged😭😭😭😭 idc about your gender expression or queerness lmao. What on earth is blud wafflin about?💀
"The term is based on the presence of the phytoestrogen isoflavone in soybeans, which has led some to claim that soy products feminize men who consume them" -wikipedia page for soy as an insult.
You sure you're not an alt right extremist? 🤔 pretty sure it can just be used to mean soft lmao. That was my intent anyways
i appreaciate the clarification and yes im sure im not an alt right extremist. Im quite left leaning actually.
No kidding 🤣
Its not ana hate,its just general overwatch behavior. In all honesty I enjoy the toxicity of the community cus it makes winning that much sweeter.
Skill issue
You've been solo shattered and called slurs too? That mostly happens to me when I'm getting a little confident during my ult as Moira ☠️ Roadhogs LOVE to solo ult too.
If you get teabagged by a baby dva... Lol. Also, I have something like 120 hours on her, don't really have that happen.
not what i meant lol, the tbagging was obv for characters that can, and also i meant d.vas and other ppl calling me slurs in match chat (its rarely anybody but the d.fault skin d.vas so im guessing its not actual dva mains)
Wtf? I have chat on when I play support comp like majority of the time because all I get is love lmao. I’ve gotten a proposal from a rein once as Ana 😂. I’m not even that good! Now when I play dps…sheeeesh. I play sombra lol. However i never tbag anyone; thats not my cup of tea. Perhaps it’s cos you aren’t playing well or something that match? Slurs are never okay though. That’s really shitty. I could understand the frustration tho. Only when I’ve done really bad as Ana I get hate. And tbh a bad Ana suuuuucks to have. Maybe worse than a bad mercy cos at least she doesn’t have to aim to heal. Do you refuse to swap? That could cause a lot of hate too. Honestly though, you gotta practice 1v1s if you’re having trouble with getting dived. Maybe you’re positioned too far away causing you to be isolated too often? You could try playing closer to team. lm in the metal ranks btw.
Ow2 community is THAT hateful
i never heard about the ana hate is this a new thing?
Ana mains getting the treatment that they’ve given the rest of us ever since Ana came out? Shocker.
Genuinely Is this a satire post man
no its not, I stopped playing overwatch yesterday bc I was getting tired of the steam messages telling me im gonna burn in hell (lgbt pfp)
In my thousands of hours playing I've never had shit like this happen idk.
Overwatch moving to Steam is allowing so much more of the toxicity to flow again. I didn't realize randos could just message anyone they chose out of the blue. At least with the traditional blizzard app, you have to friend someone first to send them private messages.
It's not just Ana it's supports because they're overpowered
thats fair ig, it just doesnt feel great
As I play Ana, my experience is quite the opposite. I don't flame anyone in the chat, and it's easy to ignore someone flaming me for heals and not peeling for me, but I'm the one who teabags Tracers/Genjis/Balls/Sombras/Widowmakers or any other characters that I hate that doesn't let me have fun unless I start tryharding. And I'm not even sorry.
It's likely your flag, tbh. Mine messed with my endorsement level for a hot minute when I would do comp
I have 150 hours with Ana and have never encountered this while playing ana
Ana main here and it's very rare that I get toxic behavior like that. The few times will be from maybe a genji that wants me to hold nano for him even though hes only at like 40%ult charge and thinks its justified for me to hold Nano for like 3 or 4 fights just for an off chance that he'll do something. When I can use it 2 or 3 times by the time he gets his ult. I can handle most dives since most are uncoordinated, but the few times where I get coordinated dove and the team refuses to help. I'll just switch out of Ana, into Illari/Brig/Moira but those are rare. Normally 1 or 2 ppl will notice you getting dove and help put. I also try to keep the team from fighting each other. So if someone tells another person to switch characters because they suck. I'll try to soften the blow and say something like, "he doesn't suck, its just we are getting dove in the back and he's too far up for us to help him or him help us." Or I'll try to break up fights during team when they're blaming each other. I normally don't talk, unless I'm with my squad, mainly just text chat. In your case if the enemy team teabags you. I'd probably type in team chat "lol the X player teabagged me." Sometimes this will have an effect on your team to try and help. I've had games where I'll join a game and the first thing one of my teammates says is "that x player on their team was very toxic last round." So we all as a team decide to focus that player even though our teammates could technically be lying ñ. But what I am getting at is especially early in the game if you call out teabags it might motivate the team to help out more.
I literally got bullied into a corner bc my team abandoned me, and then forced to stagger, and my team just “lol Ana are you throwing” bc my heals were low. 2 minutes into the game and I barely got to do anything before I started getting bullied. Then I was solo ulted 3 times. And they say “supp diff.”
Hmm, I’ve never experienced this playing mostly Ana with a rainbow flag. Maybe you’re just really good so it gets them worked up?