With my system of playing different roles on my Overwatch accounts, I’ve split supports into two categories, for those of you that have watched Overwatch league you’re probably familiar with what those categories are. They are called Main Support and Off Support. Now it can be very confusing how these categories work because a lot of players tend to categorize supports in a different way called Off Healers and Main Healers which is wrong, off healer implies that a support isn’t good just because it only does a slight amount of healing. The power of healing has been lowered in Overwatch so much that with this mindset, oftentimes people wrongly think that only Moira and Ana are good and every single other support in the game doesn’t do enough healing. Lower tier and casual players always tend to say dumb stuff like “we need a main healer” acting like the only thing that matters from the support position is doing an insane amount of healing which is stupid, and the reason it’s stupid is because 1 you can’t heal through everything and 2 good overwatch players know how to not take a ridiculous amount of unnecessary damage so they don’t waste healing resources. So no it’s not about Off healers and Main Healers and that’s the worst way to look at supports in Overwatch. I hate this ignorant complex of people getting angry and insisting that a team doesn’t have enough healing unless they have a Moira or an Ana because “You need at least one Main Healer every game” when in the Overwatch league and higher levels of play there are no main healers and off healers. Support specialists on competitive teams will either call themselves Flex Support players or Main Support players. While there are a couple ways these categories bleed into each other, main support players will often specialize in Lucio and Mercy while Flex support players will specialize in Ana, Zenyatta and Moira. Through these categories, the most effective healer combos can usually be played with both support players on a team sticking to their specialties. The reason Main Support and Flex Support can be interchangeable is because adding the newer supports Brigitte and Baptiste into these categories can be slightly difficult. For me personally through the few newer Overwatch league games I’ve seen and the most effective healer combos featuring these two characters being Baptiste - Ana, Baptiste - Zenyatta, and Brigitte - Ana. I personally put both Brigitte and Baptiste in the main support category, although Baptiste is slightly more interchangeable to Flex Support than Brigitte is. Odds are though that these categories will be more interchangeable and meaningless once 2 support characters get added in Overwatch 2. And the show goes on.
