Biotic Rifle

No longer impacts allies with full health

This change at first may seem as a buff for most people, but what most people don’t know about one of her strengths is that her healing applies in HoT (healing over time) that means that Ana can pre-fire someone she expects to get damaged soon and already start healing immediately (Same as all other healers e.g. healing aura, harmony orb, caudecus staff.)

However, now an Ana needs to react otherwise she wastes a shot if she is too fast (at least the developers are thinking of increasing her magazine size to 14) or she is lagging behind with her healing. This reduces her consistency which already was a huge weakness for her compared to the other healers.

A strength of hers is to heal in bursts and then immediately be able to move on to other targets. Sometimes you would flick somewhere see a friendly ally peek from cover, shoot them preemptively, and flick back to another friendly target.

What this change did aquire, though, was that she now no longer gets bodyblocked by her own teammates (only when they are full health!) when she wants to shoot someone else. This was almost always a non-issue unless you and/or your team had poor positioning.

The trade-off is not worth it in my opinion. I prefer to occasionally hit an unintended target rather than not be able to overheal and worry about timing my shots.

Her normal darts rarely get bodyblocked anyway and then it is not even that much of a deal. However, her biotic grenade gets bodyblocked so much more and that thing is on a cooldown already.

Another thing I would like to add is that people are not going to stop bodyblocking Ana anyway. Most of those bodyblocks happened by people I chose not to top off (heal to full health) and this change is not going to do anything about this, but reduce her consistency and remove overheal.

Therefore, I propose a different take on this. Scrap the piercing shot through full health targets and just reduce ally hitboxes to normal size and/or also reduce her grenade’s hitbox size as well. This proposed change would reduce unintended bodyblocking immensely while keeping her overheal.

Thank you for reading this!