I know it's called Damage Boost, but unlike other healers Ana is using her weapon to heal allies, so maybe it would increase her healing. Does anyone know how these two abilities affect each other?
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No.
Mercy's Damage Boost alternate-fire increases the damage as the damage event occurs. As Ana's projectile only heals or deals damage on contact, the projectile itself cannot be "boosted".
Furthermore, as Ana's damaging shots are damage-over-time based, we can compare this directly with Widowmaker's Venom Mine.
As we know, her Venom Mine deals 75 damage over 5 seconds (source). This means that, if a Mercy is boosting a Widomaker for only half the duration, half of the ticks are not boosted.
Using this logic, Mercy's damage boost on an Ana projectile striking a friendly target will not register as a damage event, thus the healing will not be boosted.
If the Asker requires, I can provide some quick footage displaying this when I am able to test with 3 other people.
5Her alt fire is DMG boost. Damage is the key word, her DMG boost on Lucio and Ana will not effect their healing
2No, they don't with each other.
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