you cannot guarantee this
especially midfight, being in range to get deleted by d.va is not necessarily being out of position. especially for heroes such as zen. combining missiles with DM means that the only option the other hero has is emote unless they’re one of the three (3) heroes with beam weapons.
Again, if she is going into a full on battle, with her DM only being a few seconds (barley knocking or reflecting enough damage to remotely keep her safe) along with boosters only pushing more into the fight or the enemy that is shooting at her, she is still a huge target. She needs to be off fighting separate in order to pick usually or have her team have a strong defense to back her. If a D.Va dives in without back up, she will get killed.
Her bunny hop is technically her only means of escaping due to her low mobility. If a D.Va is near you or tries to charge you, you need to get a good backing so that she can’t get up close to you, otherwise doing small chip damage. She can shoot long range but she doesn’t deal great damage. Same applies to the missles, hence why she needs to use her boosters. D.Va doesn’t deal enough damage to kill unless she has that availability and even then, it’s risky. DPS I can usually pick off, like a McCree, Junkrat (sometimes) or Soldier 76, and Hanzo. However Sombra, Doomfist, Reaper or any characters that has a means of escape or not on low health make it hard at times. Not to mention the other Tanks and Supports. I need to be in a good space to pick them off though as D.Va has no defense.
Again, D.Va risks herself diving in to do the damage. She has no choice given how low her DPS is.
Power creep means you get to enjoy your overtuned hero. That’s more important than balance
I guess we read over the part where I said tweak her a little. But to answer your question, NO. I suggested to make changes to other support that way they feel the same value/ reward as you would when you play a Mercy.
I’m still waiting to hear what is op about her other than her pick rate🤷🏾♂️
Thats how you get support meta.
While Mercy was that OP no support would be the same value unless they were also sufficiently OP
the thing about d.va is the devs are introducing things that are good against her, yes, but are better against other tanks, thus making sure d.va is still an optimal pick.
sombra hack is good against d.va. but you know who it’s really good against? winston and reinhardt. they die faster and literally cannot cancel the hack if sombra is out of melee range. d.va can 360 primary fire and save herself at any range.
brigitte’s knockbacks are good against d.va. you know who they’re better against? winston. speaking specifically about the whip shot. d.va’s boosters are continuous momentum, while winston’s leap is a singular burst. this means that if you whip shot a d.va as she engages, it does nothing except the 40 damage, while it completely denies winston’s opportunity to engage. d.va is also less affected by the other forms of knockback she offers, since she is heavily grounded when shooting. none of the other tanks, except for orisa, have this. d.va also has some ranged poke (it’s not much but it’s something). a winston out of melee range and no shield to dance around is literally just feeding until he gets his leap back.
I too think she is balance now, she cold use some tweaking such as a way to cancel the rez animation. maybe one or two QoL Changes.
Roadhog can still delete supports though, it’s just not a freebie…
Just like getting stranded behind the enemy team because you used all your abilities for one pick isn’t a freebie.
If we are going be completely honest. Support Meta is probably the most fun meta to run.
And with the upcoming new hero, I can see support meta arising pretty soon.
I didn’t say I died because I didn’t, I said I got demeched which isn’t the same thing. I walked back to the point after I got demeched because my Ana darted the Reinhardt.
Considering he only got nerfed for 1 point, yea I’d say 20 damage soldier wasn’t exactly unbalanced.
No, I agree. Whatever Brigitte can do to D.Va, they can do worse to other tanks.
I also think part of the frustration revolving around D.Va is that it’s never been a minor tweak. It’s never been “Well, let’s slightly lower the damage that her pellets do”, it’s been “Let’s significantly lower them, and also take out half of her armor”
or “well, now you can shoot while you use defense matrix, and here’s another missile-launching ability that you can shoot while you’re flying and have defense matrix up, too!..but defense matrix is now half as long :>”
It’s…never a slightly adjustment to tone down one aspect of her.
He literally was though. He was originally trash and got only “three points” to suddenly being great.
Him being nerfed by one damage shows that balancing with a scalpel is always better.
Also there’s another fan of power creep. Always interesting to see
Poles no longer block ultimates since last patch.
You have to stand behind something that has a larger width then the characer now.
I found her “balance” before her last nerf honesty. The last nerf was just over nerf to secure that she would see anymore ‘power creep’
However, I am not the player who comes on here and complain… I adjusted my play style with Mercy (just can’t play superb aggressive.)
and I still wreck with Mercy, I still find her fun to play, I still find her enjoyable and balance.
Yeah always chainsaw and never scalpel with DVa. Scalpel with Soldier of 20 to 19 damage was a great change
off topic but oh my god is this why i’ve been dying to so many d.va ults recently
been feeling like a got damn bronze player dying to all these aoe ults. i’m glad it’s just not me being bad. ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=5" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
Thank you.
People just don’t seem to understand how to counter her hence the complaints. D.Va is easy to pick off if you know what you’re doing.