I’m sure I’m not the first person to complain about this. But this is my first time complaining here. Divas Ult is bull. The radius is ridiculous. Few characters can run fast enuff to avoid death. And it shouldn’t always have the power to do a team wipe. AND there’s NO WAY to stop it. Junkrats Ult can team wipe if done at the right moment. And it can also be stopped by shooting him before he explodes. I have never seen Divas Ult be stopped. I’ve been playing OW for years now. And like it for the most part. I just think the characters abilities aren’t all balanced. Which makes some characters always have the upper hand.
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Might I introduce you to the vast amount of random objects strewn around the map that you can hide behind?
D.va has one of the weakest tank ults in the game. It’s only really good for area denial, and it’s rendered totally useless by a competant shield. It can be powerful if and only if it’s accompanied by fabulous teamplay, usually including an EMP or a Grav
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It can be stopped though, multiple ways in fact.
- A big blue rectangle/dome AKA a shield.
- Natural Cover
- A well timed ability like Immortality field, dashing away, shadow step, translocator, a good Beat, etc
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Dva ult is OP, when echo copies it.
Dva herself is kind of sad and miserable with her hail mary ult.
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3000-hour D.Va main here. No way to avoid D.Va’s bomb? Wow, you must be playing a completely different game than me, OP.
Let’s see all the BS ways I’ve seen my bombs go completely to waste over the years:
- Map geometry: Anyone can hide around a corner, even stand behind a light pole or a palm tree, or the payload (except when it's on a slope).
- Ana: only hero with no special abilities to protect herself from Self-destruct and therefore regularly dies to it.
- Ashe: can occasionally save herself by blasting herself backwards behind cover.
- Baptiste: can throw down his lamp, protecting his ENTIRE team.
- Bastion: Ironclad passive offers additional protection while in sentry and tank forms allowing him to survive a bit closer to the blast radius (which does have a damage falloff btw).
- Brigitte: can use her mobility to reach additional map cover, [and possibly shield herself with her dinky barrier.]1
- Cassidy/McCree: can use his combat roll as mobility to reach additional map cover.
- D.Va: can literally fly away.
- Doomfist: has his slam and uppercut mobility options as well as entering Meteor Strike to escape D.Va's bomb.
- Echo: has a burst of mobility when entering her flight, can fly up to safe ground and can even use her ultimate to copy another hero to "die" as, and thus survive D.Va's bomb. Can use her ultimate to copy a shield hero and shield her ENTIRE TEAM.
- Genji: can dash away behind map cover.
- Hanzo: can lunge and wallclimb to additional cover spots.
- Junkrat: can use concussion mines for mobility to find additional cover spots.
- Lucio: Sound Barrier can protect his ENTIRE team. Failing that, Speed Boost + Amp and a little teamwork can enable his entire team to run away to safety.
- Mei: can wall off the bomb, saving her ENTIRE team Failing that, she can enter her cryostasis to save herself.
- Mercy: can use her Guardian Angel to fly to any of her distant teammates to reach safety.
- Moira: can use her Fade ability to save herself.
- Orisa: can drop a barrier and save her ENTIRE team. Failing that, she can fortify to save herself from all but close range hits.
- Pharah: can use her flight, her jump jets, and her concussion missile to blast herself to safety.
- Reaper: can wraith to escape the bomb blast
- Reinhardt: can raise his shield and protect his ENTIRE team (even from air blasts!)
- Roadhog: can hook the bomb away, saving some, if not ALL of his teammates (especially if he can drop the bomb off a cliff or down a hole). Can use his Take a Breather while at full health and survive a direct hit from the bomb.
- Sigma: can rapidly position his Experimental Barrier to protect his ENTIRE team.
- Soldier: 76: can literally run away from D.Va's bomb.
- Sombra: can Translocate away from D.Va's bomb to anywhere else on the map. As a bonus, can then hack D.Va before she re-mechs to stagger/kill her.
- Symmetra: can use her ultimate to drop a gigantic map-spanning wall to shield her ENTIRE team from D.Va's bomb.
- Torbjorn: [his players are typically positioned near map cover, but can fall back on his Overload ability to take extra damage and run away if needed.]2
- Tracer: can blink away or recall to save herself from D.Va's bomb.
- Widowmaker: typically located on the high ground, and can easily jump down away from the bomb to safety. Alternatively, she can grapple up or to the side to reach safety.
- Winston: can leap over the bomb and drop his bubble shield, which completely engulfs the bomb and saves his ENTIRE team from the blast.
- Hammond: super fast, can easily roll circles around the bomb then run away to safety, all while laughing himself silly.
- Zarya: can bubble herself and another teammate to emerge with an instant +80 energy to punish D.Va with.
- Zenyatta: can ult to save himself.
There is only one character—out of 32. Ana has no defenses to D.Va’s Self-destruct at all. Her only option is to attempt running to natural map cover or hoping one of her teammates can come to her aide when a bomb is tossed her way. Yeah, D.Va’s ultimate is soooo OP and there is just no way to stop it.
- Brig correction thanks to:
unmellow
- Torb corrections thanks to:
Freeza
Rocky
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I can’t think of the last time I saw more than 3 people die to it
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Umm hello, there’s Immortality Field? How can you say D.va’s ult is OP when supports have an ability to protect you from it. That’s what supports are there for, to protect you from death. It sounds like you should’ve asked your healers to go bap 
But what’s that? Lamp is broken too and should be removed? So D.va can’t have her ult and bap can’t have his lamp either? What is this, FPSwatch?
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Lol a Hog can hide behind a light post and survive Dva ult, wym?
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her ultimate is based on luck and half the time it doesn’t do anything.
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Pros: dva bomb protection
Cons: pain in the sas as lucio
I’ma pretend this isn’t a joke and mention rein shield walls bap immortallity zarya Buble orisa or sig shield take a breather Lucio speed to get behind wall fast Winston jump behind wall punch behind wall etc.
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Brig can also just block it btw this character has many ways to survive everything
Fun for everyone
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You’re trolling, right?
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No way he’s serious, right?
Look at OP’s username
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EMP Grav Bomb is my go-to combo in total mayhem, and consistent EMP Bombs win games because it’s virtually impossible to defend against.
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ngl, that video was hilarious w/ the remech kill :).
Newer players die from DVa bombs as they don’t appreciate the sound cues, etc. As you play more, you’ll find that DVa bombs are more about area denial than actually securing kills (unless combo’d with things like shatter, flux, blizzard, grav, EMP, etc.).
High level DVa play pretty much use her ult mainly to get mech back, from what I’ve seen (mostly). I.e. a ‘Free Life’ or ‘Get out of jail free’ card.
If Torb armors up, can he survive a DVa bomb from moderate distance? Or is his bonus armor too small to make a difference?
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How to tell op doesnt know how to use cover in one easy step~
Seriously, her ult is blocked by lamp posts lmao. Once you learn how to use walls your deaths to it will drop.
Im sorry you die to ults sometimes. They’re meant to kill you know.
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I remember back in 2016 I was playing as Mei on King’s Row. All my abilities were on cooldown Dva yelled Nerf This.
I stood behind a lamp post to accept my fate only to be stunned that I lived.
I felt like Tom Arnold in True Lies when that terrorist has perfect aim hitting nothing but lamp post missing all of Tom’s hit box girth.
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I mean I die around corners from time to time is more of a “really bro” moment Its usually a 90 degree corner like a bus and I get hit at the middle front of the bus around a corner while it’s on the middle of the side of the bus like in numbani