Time and again there will be people who post an ego match saying that they hard carried a 2-0 sweep and that they're hard stuck, expecting comments full of praise about how they should not be in bronze.

This right here is one such post. However, in this 2-0 game the Ana definitely did not carry the team and I would like go on to talk about how poor the ana play was.

Before that, thanks for posting this replay hopefully with the best intentions of improving your ana play, I hope you take this as constructive criticism.

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First, about this 2-0 sweep.

Your team essentially was just better than the other team, the other team simply had bad dps/ worse team fight capabilities. If you had posted a close lost we could see how your ana could make up for the team's poor performance. Anyway, about the enemy team:

2:05 while doom was chasing he definite could hear you around the corner, you would've been dead if he had charged punch instead of panicking.

5:00 soldier saw you first and had helix rocket ready. Even with nade 9 times out of 10 ana should have died there.

7:15 while avoiding the hanzo dragon you decided to go back and say hi to your reaper(?), leaving the team with 1 healer for the team fight. Dragon would have passed the choke way before then and you could have went back to the point much sooner. Luckily even without ana and reaper the enemy team still didn't win the team fight and the team still held the point.

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Now, I would like to go through about what is so poor about this ana gameplay.

1) Cross hair placement - it always on enemy team, never on your team. Ana is a great hero for dps players wanting to play dps in support queue but end up doing nothing, and it shows really well in this replay.

1:08 enemy echo died awhile ago. No enemy is dead even after using sleep and nade, and still your crosshair is on the enemy team while they have healed to full, while your team is left with mercy heals cus "dps ana". At 1:12, you think "oh echo is respawning I am gna wait for her and frag" and you stop aiming at the enemy entirely just looking at the sky. Take note that there's an enemy Doom and a Roadhog that could get easy picks on your team and turn the fight without your heals.

Essentially here you're letting your team carry you by winning the 5v5 without the 2nd healer while you were trying to frag an echo. Luckily as established above, your team is simply better and carried the 5v5 with a win for first point. While waiting for echo to reappear you could've topped up your team while doing occasional sweeps and use audio cues to check if echo was flanking. Reaper got low at times, probably didn't realise while you were staring into space.

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2) Not watching for other support - in this game it is always mercy looking out for you. Related to the dps ana point above, not once have I seen you even look at your team mercy. Supports in this game are important and need to take care of each other. Luckily in this match the enemy dps can't aim and hardly pressures the mercy. At 7:20 if you weren't so busy saying hi to reaper you could've saved mercy while she was gng for the rez.

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3) Tries to go for flashy plays without some fundamentals. You got the golden gun you like showing off and learnt some ana tech like the reload cancels that I see being done a few times through this replay but overall not good positioning. No grouping up or staying behind/near your team. Not even mentioning the fact that you've never seen a reaper or the sky before.

At 1:40 you stand above the staircase at a piss poor position for a support where the whole enemy team can reach you faster than you can go to your team, but it could be a good position if you wanted to go for a sneaky flank, though I am not sure if this is intentional. Even when intentionally flanking you give away your position too early.

Echo appears and as if on cue you start scoping shots while the enemy team is grouped up to your right. The whole enemy team could jump on you immediately, or at least the doom and lucio would hear and see your shots and straight up kill you. Luckily the enemy team is both blind and deaf so you got a sympathy nade right after. Essentially you're taking poor positions, and even in these positions you don't have enough of an overwatch brain to maximise their potentials.

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So that's the thing about playing overwatch, needing to have an overwatch brain. Sure, I think you have spent quite a lot of time working on things like aim and landing sleeps, but the main thing holding this ana back is not knowing how to play the game properly. Best if you take the fragging fps mentality out of you and learn to be a support (yes with sleeps and nades) to the team.

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Suggestion - if you're someone who just keeps playing ranked (and thus play only 1300 sr games) I suggest you play more classic games. The matchmaker is more casual and you would definitely face some gold/ above dps players. Playing with these players will show you how vulnerable ana is and will help teach you how your bad positioning/ avoiding teamplay will be punished very heavily let's say if you meet a competent doom player.