I spectated a Silver Ana who wanted to DUEL the DPS

Hey! I'm the Ana here :). Sadly I could not watch this live but I appreciate a lot you selected this vod! I understand everything you commented and watching it now I can see how sometimes I was so tunnel focused on doing damage while I could boost more my team and try to get better teamfights overall, as well as I was risking my positioning. About the habilities, I was trying to be proactive to land more darts and nades but yeah, I totally feel that I could be more patient and even when I remember what I was trying to do, I can see that doing that left my team and me unprotected for the fight. Just for you to know, I've been playing since season 3 and since this vod I climbed back to gold :) but I'll work hard to be able to reach plat soon applying all your advices. Again, appreciated!

This person is definitely gonna feel that nade nerf

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a silver support that looked so awake. Their APM and awareness is insane for a silver player

this person falls into a very common Ana trap - people think that hitting a sleep dart means you are morally, ethically, and legally obligated to try to get that kill, and they tunnel vision on it and forget about literally everything else. no. you can use the sleep dart to buy yourself several seconds to get to safety. nade doesn't do as much damage as it used to, and Ana's primary fire doesn't do as much damage as it used to. if the target is full hp when you sleep them, you do not do enough damage as Ana to be guaranteed to kill them on your own. it is much better to use the sleep dart to get away and stay alive instead of trying to get a kill on your own, which is what this person does a lot of the time.

Definitely watched Awkward’s unranked to GM with Ana

Emongg said a lot of the abolity usage was random, but I saw intenionality with most that they threw. You can clearly see who they were targeting before they threw each one.

ALRIGHTTTT, SO, a good start to my morning ☕️ 👊

lmao when he talks about the good positioning, in my ana games the enemy would just walk through my team and kill me immediately

We should normalize Emongg summarizing the descriptions

This player has the support syndrome of "if they are not in front of my current los, then they're not my problem". They are doing well weaving damage and healing when necessary, when everyone is in front of their scoped shots. But as soon as an ally is off to the side, or lord have mercy, behind them.. well, then it's like they don't exist. And you might ask, "how do you know if someone behind you is critical hp??". Well, you make a habit of keeping track of YOUR SURROUNDINGS every once in a while. To be an effective support player, you need to have a general idea of where everyone is on the battlefield, so that you can instinctually get a gut feeling for when someone might be in trouble or not. See a lot of shots going past you on your right side? Chances are they're poking down your Widow who's besides you on the balcony. So check and see if she's actually getting hit or not, takes .1 second to do a quick glance. If you want a simple guide rule to follow, try to at least check 360 degrees every time you reload or have a lingering animation from an ability etc. Use this downtime to look around and check up on everyone's positioning and health, who's getting pressured most, who's moving forward, who's falling back, etc. And to be clear, this is not enough to get good support awareness, but it's the bare minimum that can help you get started with building good habits. The key to having a good foundation as support, is that you should always have focus on saving criticals, and applying pressure when nobody is critical. It's a simple but effective rule of thumb to expand on with your personal flair. If anyone is allowed to be critical for more than half a second and then die, you should ask yourself why you didn't save them. Simple as that.

This reminds me of a game I had a while back. I was on mercy playing on eichenwalde, defense first. We held for a while first point then got rolled until 3rd point where they capped with 4 minutes. On attack, we rolled them on first point all the way till 3rd point where we got held almost into overtime. We capped with, I kid you not, 0.7s. Back to defence, we managed to ALMOST full hold them for the 5 minutes, but they managed to cap and push just past the first gate. Back to attack, with only 1 minute to win this, we absolutely steamrolled past the choke, capped first and pushed to the gate where we got held into overtime, only just managing to win thanks to the ult economy.

ALRIGHT SO! What a swell treat!!

I blame Awkward for these supports that over commit for damage. There is a balance of healing and dps-ing that needs to happen with playing support. Low elo players take Damage, Damage Damage too literally

I love the new qp spawn changes! I play Ana so if my tank goes down I’m yeeting myself so we’re not staggered

Damn, Emongg you're being just too nice hahaha honestly i think they did quite bad, sometimes they would hit the right buttons, but most of the time they just didnt want to heal (at that point just play dmg), also i kinda feel like they're playing with such high sensitivity that their mouse clicks slightly move their mouse so everytime they shoot their aim moves around a lot, might be just their hand or could be an ergo mouse or something. GGs to the other team for staggering point cap for SO long in their defense round.

12:38 he was hooked off the high ground Emongg 😂😂 but he was in bad position still the sa

This Ana needs to 1. Stop randomly throwing out abilities. 2. Ads more often to either secure kills or heals. 3. Use abilities when you know you can land it. For that last one you tried sleeping the Moira who was using ultimate. You missed and then immediately reaper teleported to the high ground. Had you had your sleep, you could hit the easy sleep on him instead of the crazy hard sleep on Moira. As you climb people will watch that cool down and you can't use it just because the button is there and you might hit someone. Try to resolve most of your damage and healing with adsing

I noticed how this skin's Ana scoped shots sound like that one stock oldtimey jumpscare sound effect and I cannot take it seriously anymore-

7:25 Why did I hear a Rein voiceline here? "I need to get healed!".

How do you get Emongg to watch clips?