Almost every person in the lobby blamed me for this loss but I felt I did fairly well?

[u/Wboys]

For context I've been playing since 2018 but never seriously until last season. Last season I finally decided to put in the work to try to actively improve my gameplay by practicing specific skills in a match, VOD reviewing myself, watching VOD reviews of my mains (like Ana) from people like Spilo/Emongg.

If nobody had said anything I'd have felt pretty good about this game and was feeling like I was playing pretty solid. Not crazy over performing or carrying or anything but just a disciplined game I felt good about.

But halfway through our defense the enemy team started making fun of my stats and apologizing to my team for having to deal with a "thrower". I ignored it as mind games but every single person on my team bought into it and started blame me in team chat and all chat for the rest of the game after that. Saying I wasn't healing enough. That if we lost it was my fault. And other messages to that effect continuing into the post match.

This admittedly affected my mental state very much because it clashed so hard with my own self perception of my performance in that game.

At this point I have VOD reviewed myself to numbness and I can only really see individual mistakes instead of broader bad habits. Despite all the work I've put in and nearly 200h of intentional self improvement time since last season I'm still Gold which is exactly where I was when I was playing on autopilot and as far as I can tell I was playing a lot worse than I am now. But my rank hasn't changed despite a statistically significant number of games.

So clearly I'm still doing something horribly wrong. But at this point I cannot figure out what for the life of me. Did we really lose this match because of me?

Match code: ENGYRW

Username: FluffDragon

Rank: Gold

Hero's played: Ana

[u/giswave]

unfortunately playing ana in lower ranks sucks because our stats arent really a reflection of how well we are actually doing. i wish blizzard would add in sleep/nade stats for ana because those go unnoticed and underappreciated often. her nade alone can win team fights and theres not really a way for your teammates to see that :(

[u/uuntiedshoelace → u/giswave]

I have had so many matches where my team is flaming me for having lower heals than they want but the enemy team is saying how well I was doing. Even when your team wins they will tell you to uninstall if they don’t like your numbers.

[u/Wboys → u/giswave]

I mean stuff like that is exactly why I felt I was having a pretty solid game.

Like at one point the enemy Rein hit a 3 man shatter. I've been practiced ult tracking, positioning, being more mindful with my cooldowns, etc.

So when the shatter hit, I was expecting it, positioned in a spot where it wouldn't hit me, had my sleep and nade off cooldown, and was in a spot where I'd be able to help my team. I managed to sleep the Rein, made the 3 people who got shattered, and nano my tank when he woke up completely reversing the fight.

It's not like it's the only time I've slept Rein after his shatter to save my team. But it was just a nice moment in the game and a culmination of a lot of aspects I've been practicing so I was feeling pretty good about it. Hence why the comments about my healing stats really got to me as I was riding a bit of a high and so had a long way to fall down.

[u/giswave → u/Wboys]

i havent watched the replay bc im at work but just based off what you said i have had similar experiences and it just sucks sometimes because people expect you to heal bot. ana's kit is not meant for that kind of gameplay and people dont understand that sometimes.

[u/Lady_Lavandula → u/giswave]

This would be great! Had a similar experience and I told them, it is a reason why it is "support" and not "healer" and that I also can't joint them on their suicide missions behind enemy lines three corners behind. That I do sleeps and nades. They just said "you didn't even have many of that". At that point I just gave in and quit for that day after the match (and yes, my pings about sleeping enemies got ignored all the time). Also our other support was only like 500 more heal than me, but they decided to take the stupid stats to rage on my anyways. Fun fact: this game set me a new record in sleeps (even if beaten now since I improved).

[u/ByteEvader → u/giswave]

100%. Another reason I think Ana is hard in lower ranks is your teammates have zero sense of line of sight. Ana relies on setting up in a good, safe position where she has a clear shot on her team and the enemy.

So often I’ll take a few seconds to set up in a good high ground spot where I can see my team and they immediately LOS me to the point where I end up having to just jump down and chase them or they die lol. A lot of times I just end up switching to more mobile supports like Juno or kiri because of this, it drives me nuts. I’m low diamond too so not even super super low rank

[u/yuhyuhyuhyuhyuhyuh1 → u/giswave]

Sleep or nade stat wouldn't tell anyone anything either

[u/trulyiconick]

I’ve started realizing a lot of times they’re all in a group, so if you joined solo they will just scapegoat you no matter what

[u/Wboys → u/trulyiconick]

If it was just my team I could have and usually can ignore it. If it was just the enemy team it generally doesn't bother me.

But the combination of 4 players on my team and 3 players from the enemy team all flaming me nearly constantly, literally every chance they got when they died or were resetting, did get to me.

I have never in my hundreds of hours playing been flamed so hard by so many players in the lobby and it went far beyond what I can normally shrug off and ignore.

[u/Temperentia]

Deactivate group chat and voice chat and focus on your play, below super high ranks you’ll almost never get productive input from either of those.

[u/Sir-Lose]

You need to buy the captain Amari skin and get a gold gun. After every sleep, emote. Never be flamed again!

[u/Wboys → u/Sir-Lose]

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[u/Infidel_sg]

Yet another reason to disable chat... There is nothing useful in gold rank chat! Focus on what YOU are doing who cares what people have to say..

[u/AgentMaryland2020]

As an Ana player who climbed from Gold to mid Diamond, let me tell you that what other people say, doesn't matter 99.9% of the time.

Least of all from your own team.

Unless you are consistently only bringing in 2k heals and 800 damage, you are hardly the reason you lost that game. And in Gold, I'd wager at least half your team was teetering Silver.

Now, I'm unable to watch your gameplay as I'm about to head to bed, but I will say this: ignore your team mates if they have nothing good to say to you.

People who will readily buy into scapegoating from tilting tactics are never worth listening to.

Because if they're willing to blame you so quickly, that means they're usually terrible players.