Ana's Sleep Dart ability can be a tricky one to use for some Overwatch 2 players, but one player shows off their talent as the hero by using it to incapacitate the enemy Reinhardt even after being launched off the map. The plethora of abilities able to send enemies falling to their doom in Overwatch 2 only seems to grow, with such abilities often leading to moments both hilarious and outright impressive.
While Ana's Sleep Dart is not one of these abilities, its usefulness lies in its ability to subdue powerful enemies for a time instead. It has long been recognized as a unique and often crucial ability by professional players, though players who have less experience with Overwatch 2 can often find aiming it difficult due to the firing delay and projectile velocity involved with the weapon. With a relatively long cooldown, hitting sleep darts in key moments can mean the difference between victory and defeat during intense Overwatch 2 matches, but one player proves their skill as the support hero after hitting a sleep dart and saving their team with their dying breath.
The player in question goes by Vanishir on Reddit, and while their sleep dart play may have been due to nothing other than sheer luck, they captured an impressive clip nonetheless. Their clip shows a heated skirmish between teams as they battle for dominance over the control point on the Lijiang Tower map, but the approach of the enemy's charging Reinhardt puts several of the player's teammates at risk. Despite being smacked over the edge of the map by the Reinhardt, the Ana player manages to get their revenge on the way down by scoring a sleep dart hit at the last moment. Hilariously, the Reinhardt is then given the same treatment by a Wrecking Ball player, who sends the sleeping Reinhardt off the map to join Ana.
Ana's Sleep Dart ability arguably comes in even handier in Overwatch 2, as the shift to 5-player teams has led to each team having only one tank hero. This change appears to have put a much greater focus on Overwatch 2's tank heroes, who have each had a significant boost to their health bars when compared to what they had in the original Overwatch.
When it comes to changes from the original, Overwatch 2 is almost a completely different beast when it comes to team compositions and gameplay mechanics. While players have their own opinions on whether many of these changes are good or not, there have been voices criticizing the state of hero balancing since the release of Overwatch 2. Getting the balance right between the game's many characters seems like a near-impossible task, but with the developers planning to add many more heroes in the future, the tweaks to hero capabilities could well be without end.
Overwatch 2 is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
