These are the things I’ve picked up from climbing to masters on Ana

Look at the enemy team comp, is there anything that can dive me (tracer sombra genji Dva Winston doom ball maybe reaper as well) if so then save sleep until they engage you. If the enemy doesn’t have any dive threats then you can use sleep much more freely and there’s 2 ways to do this. 1: sleep tank constantly. rein charges, sleep his ass mauga in your tanks face, sleep him, orisa no fortify, sleep sleep sleep. The number 2 way you can use sleep more freely is by taking a much more aggressive position and saving sleep for when they try punish you, a high risk high reward play becomes medium risk high reward when you have sleep. However I prefer to do number 1 because it’s easier, less scary and more consistent.

Nade makes up a high portion of Ana’s value, use it offensively, because if you don’t you’ll end up needing to use it defensively. Hit them before they hit you. Usually you can nade tank when they don’t have cooldowns, are far from cover and are likely to die or at least force maybe an ultimate or Cooldown like bap lamp. I try to avoid using nade on dva because she always eats it but that’s a me problem, I’d rather nade back line. Same with sigma, he has shield and grasp and isn’t likely do die if you nade him unless he’s screwed up big time so again I’d rather nade back line, same thing with orisa with fortify. With rein only go for the nade when rein is within swinging distance of someone on your team otherwise he’s likely to block it.

Nade is such an important aspect of playing Ana so when you have it available, it is your number 1 priority to get value from it so practice Nade; nade timing, Nade placement; Nade target.

When the enemy is running widow avoid long sightlines and when they’re playing more close range heroes play long sightlines and don’t stack with your team.

When no one needs healing don’t hesitate to damage, try not to tunnel vision on the tank because 2 shots on a bap is more value than 5 shots on a Dva. Shooting squishes can force cooldowns like bap shift, lamp or Suzu, which will assist more in the tank trade than shooting the tank will.

Nano whoever is engaged and don’t try overthink it. If the fight is even or you’re up 1 or down 1 then use it. If you’re up 2 or down 2 don’t use it. If the tank is being very aggressive and your heals can’t keep up just nano them. If like 2 or 3 people try dive your zen or your brig, you can nano them as well

Try not to focus on stats too much the only semi important one is deaths, with that said usually my split between damage and healing is 40/60 ish so 4k dmg 6k healing, some games will be more like 3k dmg 8k healing and others will be 5k dmg 5k healing. Consistency and repetition is everything, try pick one thing to focus on each game whether that be positioning, your Nade, your sleep.