you’re going to kill her character,
and im screenshotting this to make a compilation when she gets a pick rate lower than winston.
She’s the only fun tank to play because she’s doesn’t do much tanking to begin with. DPS is the fun role after all.
d.va will be just fine with these nerfs. her booster cooldown could literally be changed to 7-8 seconds and she would still be a-ok.
Even nerfed, she’s still funnier and better than all other tanks except Winston.
It’s not about her DPS but her mobility, her DM and second life. She’s not a slow truck getting bullied all the time like Rein, Ori, Zarya and RH.
Then why isn’t Winston just as popular if it’s not about bursting down enemies?
Hm, he is ? He s the face of the dive meta lol. Dive meta started with his buff.
But (it’s my opinion), I find DVA funnier than him. She’s cute, has a good personality, I like her kit more, she’s more forgiving, her DM is better than his shield too. She has 2 lifes. ETC… ^^
Mobility and versatility > everything in this game
Ofc Tracer or D.va are must pick
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Just as a quick reminder. D.va has been popular in the low tiers for AGES through all patch changes. Dva is just a popular character to play for personality and such for those regions.
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True. She’s the Mercy of tanks. People kept playing her even when she was trash tier (back in the old ages of Overwatch lol).
People kept playing her even if she got changed so many times.
So, her pickrate is a big lie about her being “op” or “must pick”. Because even if she was over nerfed like an Ana, she still would have a good pick rate like Mercy. They’re both popular for their character, more than their kit or efficiency.
I think it is very stupid that pick rate will determine if a character gets a nerf or a buff. It should be the characters gameplay, not their pick rate.
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Nerfing dva doesn’t fix the fact that the other 2 off tanks have terrible peel and no mobility thus they can’t participate in a dive meta. Same for winston, nerfing him doesn’t help the fact that rein gets bullied by dps and orisa can just be ignored by a dive team.
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I think now tanks are suffering from the same problems supports had a long time ago. Too few viable choices, with a large part of the tanks roster having huge weaknesses… 
I feel like this nerf is just a tickle though, but please no more nerfs. This nerf is okay to me.
I don’t really play D.Va that much at all really. I only came to this because I saw the title “Nerf justified because of pick rate”. I just wanted to leave my opinion on how stupid that sounds.
Yea because OWL players play heros because they are fun and not because they are good. So even though both ladder and pro play saw her have some of the highest play time, and the fact that a DVA was so powerful that she’s basically made Zarya one of the worst picks, even though she soft counters DVA, is pretty bad.
Ah yes, the insistent blame DPS mains argument
nah, just one duo outclasses the rest by a large margin
there’s nothing inherently wrong with zarya and hog - d.va just does their jobs better. winston isn’t that great all on his own but pair him up with a d.va to cover for him and he is oppressive. rein and orisa are dead in the water on most maps because there’s no hope for them to ever actually get anything accomplished - hypermobile tank duo just bypasses the shield, kills the team behind it, and wins the fight.
intuitively a tank duo that goes all in on mobility should sacrifice either damage or mitigation as a tradeoff, and neither really happens.
Winston doesn’t do a lot of damages, and the old DVA didn’t neither. DVA was perfect with her DM and no rockets.
But RH and Zarya have been nerfed and are bad since then. Orisa got a bit viable thanks to buffs she got but that’s all. Rein is full of bugs and is like Ana, he can’t follow up all the changes that have been made (buff/nerfs/reworks/releases) and need to be touched.
No skill right click Dva was the worst thing ever in the game. It needed to be toned down.