Animation Canceling [With Ana]

Ana has quite a few tricks up her sleeve.

Ana has the Sleep-Dart, the Anti-Heal, and even an extra 100 HP Health pack.

But, as stated in the title, Ana also has something else up her sleeve that not many people are aware of.

And that's Animation Canceling.

Ever since Ana has come out, this has been a trick that I and other Ana's have been using to our advantage to either increase our damage potential or our healing potential.

And now, I'm teaching you how to pull this off!

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What is Animation Canceling?

Animation Canceling is where you use one animation to cancel out another. A great example of this is with Genji. You can use Melee right after using Secondary Fire to cancel out the Secondary Fire animation and get a little more damage in.. Or how you use Swift Strike immediately after Secondary Fire

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Basic Animation Cancels.

Here is a list of a few basic Animation Cancels that I use in-game

-Primary Fire + Melee

-Primary Fire + Biotic Grenade

-Primary Fire + Sleep Dart

I use a lot of these mainly because they don't take much time to use and can have an impact on a game. And they're really easy to pull off, too.

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Advanced Animation Cancels.

Okay, these ones aren't as practical as the previous ones, but in some specific scenarios, they will come in handy and can make or break a one on one.

-Primary Fire + Melee + Primary Fire + Biotic Grenade

-Melee + Primary Fire + Biotic Grenade

-Primary Fire + Biotic Grenade + Primary Fire + Melee

-Reload Cancel

These Animation Cancels are a lot more specific and require a bit more timing than the previous ones, but I will still use some of these on occasion. You might be a little confused as to why I didn't use any of these combined with Sleep Dart because I have an entire section dedicated to Sleep Dart Animation Cancels right below this paragraph

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Sleep Dart Animation Cancels

Now the reason why I am putting the Sleep Dart animation cancels into a whole separate section is because these take quite a bit more skill.

-Sleep Dart + Primary Fire + Grenade + Primary Fire + Melee

This combination is the famous "One Sleep" combination. This is what a very few Ana's (Including me) use to kill any 200 HP hero. And for this combination, one would have to have quite a bit of patience, as shown in the video.

If you were one of the few that actually clicked on the link for the "One Sleep" combination, then you would have seen that I waited a very long time before actually finishing off my opponent. The reason being is because if you were to just straight out attack him/her before waiting for the end of the queue, the slept enemy would wake up just in time before you kill him/her and 1) Do some damage to you, putting you at risk or 2) He/She would have enough time to escape and not just die, but also alerting your position to the enemy.

-Primary Fire + Sleep Dart + [Insert any Sleep combonation]

Now the reason why I didn't include this into the first combination is that not only does it make my hands hurt because I have to write more, but this one is also, without a doubt, the HARDEST possible Animation Cancel for Ana

Oh yes, I already can smell it in the comment section below. The smell of salty Ana mains complaining. " BUT SPEEEEEDIIING, I CAN DO THIS JUST FINE AND YOU ARE SAYING IT'S HARD WHEN IT IS EASIER TO DO THAN THE FIRST ONE!!!111!!" And in one case, they are right. Although notice how I said "Any Sleep combination" and not just the "One Sleep" combination. Sure, if you can land that first shot, then yes, this combination would be easier. But in most scenarios, this would be tremendously hard to pull off. Not only do you have to hit the sleep dart, but you also have to make sure you hit your Primary FIre on your sleep target, too.

With a little quickscoping as Ana, this won't be TOO difficult, but it would still be such a pain to do.

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Okay, guys, that is all of the main Animation canceling that I do in my games of Overwatch! Some more than others, but that's beside the point. Point is, I have used all of these more than once to improve my APM [Actions Per Minute] as an Ana player.

And boy, have these helped.

Anyways, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish you all the happiest of mornings, afternoons, and/or evenings!

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