5/29/2025
Developer Comments: We’re aiming to make Ana feel more agile and resilient in mid-range engagements, where she often finds herself most vulnerable. By improving her survivability, these changes should help her better reposition under pressure and stay active in fights without compromising her high-impact support role. Tactical Rifle is a well-loved power, but we've received consistent feedback that its targeting could feel more like a hindrance than a help. In high-pressure moments, the auto-aim was too frequently locking onto allies instead of enemies, disrupting damage output. We're refining its behavior to better prioritize threats and ensure it feels like a reliable tool in combat.
Tactical Rifle - Power
- Reduced aim tracking angle by 50%.
Dash Boots – Rare Survival Hero Item
- Increased Movement Speed bonus to 10% (Up from 5%).
- Decreased cooldown to 3 seconds (Down from 4 seconds).
Cluster Core – Epic Ability Hero Item
- Biotic Grenade cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds for each target it hits (up from 1 second).
5/14/2025
Developer Comments: Ana’s abilities feature some of the longest cooldowns in the support roster, and their impact hasn’t always matched that investment in Stadium. This update improves the effectiveness of her utility, helping her keep allies in the fight longer and better rewarding well-timed ability usage. These changes should give Ana more consistent value in extended engagements.
Home Remedy - Power
- Increased Overhealth gain to 200% (up from 100%).
Dreamy - Power
- Decreased heal to 80% (down from 100%).
- Decreased duration to 4s (down from 8s).
Venomous - Power
- Increased damage to 50 (up from 30).
Quick Scope – Rare Hero Weapon Item
- Increased Weapon Power to +10% (up from 5%).
I.V. Drip – Rare Hero Survival Item
- Increased Overhealth to 150 (up from 100).
4/22/2025
Groggy
- Reduced initial slow from 75% to 50%.
- Now also deals 50 damage over the duration.
Biotic Bounce
- Second bounce damage and healing reduced from 50 to 25.
4/1/2025
Developer Comment: We’ve heard feedback from Ana players that their teammates ignore them when they call out that they are reloading and go and feed into the enemies anyways. We’re hoping this change makes for good practice for them to start paying more attention to their Support teammates.
Biotic Rifle
• Magazine size reduced from 15 to 1. • Reload speed increased by 25%. • Damage and healing increased from 75 to 150.
3/25/2025
Biotic Grenade
- Cooldown increased from 12 to 14 seconds for non-6v6 games modes.
- Cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds for 6v6 games modes.
Shrike
- Self-Nano Boost duration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds.
2/18/2025
Groggy
- Enemies waking from Sleep Dart are slowed for 2 seconds.
Biotic Bounce
- After exploding, Biotic Grenade bounces and explodes again for 50 damage and healing.
Headhunter
- Biotic Rifle can crit enemies.
Shrike
- Using Nano Boost also casts it on Ana.
1/21/2025
Developer Comment: Recent changes to her rifle have made Ana a highly impactful support. Reducing the damage of her Biotic Grenade will adjust some of her breakpoints and slightly affect her self-sustainability.
Biotic Grenade
- Explosion damage and healing decreased from 90 to 75.
12/17/2024
Biotic Rifle
- Maximum ammo reduced from 15 to 12.
Biotic Grenade
- Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds.
Sleep Dart
- No longer has reduced duration versus Tank heroes.
- Cooldown reduced from 14 to 12 seconds.
11/8/2024
Developer Comments: This damage value has gone back and forth a few times as it's a significant break point for the number of shots to eliminate some heroes.
Biotic Rifle
- Damage and Healing increased from 70 to 75.
7/5/2024
Developer Comments: Rather small change here but we'd like to minimize the amount of time Tanks can be taken out of the fight for and they are also the easiest targets to hit with Sleep Dart.
Sleep Dart
- Duration of effect on Tank heroes decreased from 3.5 to 3 seconds.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Rise and shine! How’s this for a rude awakening?
Sleep Dart
- Slept enemies slowly rise while Sleeping.
- Enemies take fall damage when they land.
3/8/2024
Biotic Grenade
- Explosion damage and healing increased from 60 to 90.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 200 to 250.
1/9/2024
Biotic Grenade
- Effect duration reduced from 3.5 to 3 seconds.
10/31/2023
Biotic Grenade
- Cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
8/10/2023
Developer Comment: Ana's damage breakpoint change has proven too effective overall given her long range so we are reverting it back to its previous value. We are also increasing the size of unscoped projectiles when firing at enemies (her projectiles have always had a larger size for allies) which should help them land more consistently against close-ranged threats.
Biotic Rifle
- Damage and healing per projectile reduced from 75 to 70.
- Unscoped projectile size increased from 0 to 0.1.
5/9/2023
Developer Comments: Ana’s survivability has improved significantly ever since the addition of the support passive. We are reducing the amount of healing provided by the Biotic Grenade explosion as she doesn’t need to rely on it for self-healing as much as before.
Biotic Grenade
- Explosion healing decreased from 100 to 60
4/11/2023
Developer Comment: We've been watching how effective Sleep Dart has been in 5v5 gameplay. It hasn't been overly disruptive as a whole, but since it is significantly more reliable to land against Tank heroes due to their large hit boxes and even more valuable to do so with only one tank on the field, we're reducing its maximum duration against those targets.
Sleep Dart
- Maximum duration on Tank heroes reduced 30%, from 5 to 3.5 seconds
2/7/2023
Biotic Grenade
- Effect duration reduced from 4 to 3.5 seconds
12/15/2022
Biotic Rifle
- Damage and Healing increased from 70 to 75
Biotic Grenade
- Effect duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds
12/6/2022
Developer comments: Sleep Dart is still one of the most powerful crowd control abilities in 5v5, though with the addition of cleanse mechanics to offer a potential counter to this effect we're more comfortable with reducing the cooldown here to improve Ana's personal survivability.
Sleep Dart
- Cooldown reduced from 15 to 14 seconds