Hey, wondering if anyone could watch the first half of this (i play lucio for the second half) and give me their honest opinion on whether i look more like a gold or plat ana. Want to know if im likely to drop back down there after the beginning of the season mmr boost goes away.
I don't play Ana, so I'm just going to be saying things that I see people playing ana doing at higher levels. The only noticeable thing to me is you could improve upon your positioning and situational awareness at some points. I think your starting positioning is a little too far back and that you should be closer the first stone, that way you have an angle on your entire team without needing to move into the point to go an heal your own pharah. Idk if you realized there was pharmercy right away or not, but if you did you should immediately target them and put pressure on them. You do manage the pharmercy later, however. The previously mentioned positioning would help with keeping shots on them without needing to adjust your angle. You had good reactions to the call for "pharah behind us" and you may need to practice being aggressive against a flanker by taking them out or sleeping them.
Around 1:30 your hog gets hooked through the choke and out of position, at that point you need to nade in or sleep (or both) because if the attackers get an easy pick like that you could lose the first real team fight right there. Great nano and nade for hog, but as soon as their mercy uses res, you should move up a little bit to get a sleep in on one of their tanks, especially rein who will most likely go for a charge or fire strike so he's an easy pick.
When their team finally pushed through the choke for an engagement at around 2:20, you immediately naded the grouping of hog and mercy, but you should probably nade your teammates, i.e. the rein and hog after their rein pinned in. Also, your positioning was too far away, because you wouldn't be able to sleep the following nano'd hog. Realistically you should have lost the point here, but luckily your mercy got a clutch res in that kept the point for another hold.
On the second point you shouldn't have gone up onto the balcony. If some of your teammates want to go up their, you should communicate with mercy to watch the healing up there since she can just fly straight up instead of you needing to sit up there the whole time with a poor angle for healing on the obj. Nano rein earlier so that he can have it when the engagement occurs rather than when the attackers are beginning to spread out. Plus, you'll force him to attack because realistically he shouldn't have continued to hold shield once the crossed the bridge.
More awareness, but don't be afraid to ask for healing in chat or commands because there's no reason to spend a nade on yourself when you have a mercy that can fly and heal you to full quickly. Not much you could have done about the opposing rein ult and getting elimmed other than backing up further into a tight angle where you can see most of the point, but just your guys on it. Generally, if the opposing team has dva in a fight and your team has a pharah, more so if the other team has dva and rein, don't nano the pharah, and projectile heroes in generally in this situation. Nano rein or hog with ult are much better options in this game's situation.
I know this seems like a lot, but honestly your play is fine. Most of this was just relating to situational awareness and positioning but it all makes a huge difference when put into practice. You can definitely maintain platinum and get higher.
E: That guy yelling "MARCO MOVE BACK" is so annoying omfg.
