“These buffs are aimed at making D.Va feel more fluid and responsive to play.”
Yet, i’m sitting here, looking at the stats and D.Va has a 5.7% pick rate in OWL in the past 2 months, which isn’t even good for D.Va, which means OWL finally is now realizing that D.Va sucks! She’s not fluid, sure, she can eat things faster but has it really improved? No. She’s still hot garbage compared to pretty much all the tanks, at-least winston can deal damage through shield, what does D.Va have?
She has a crappy weapon with a E ability that only does damage close range, her kit is outdated. She needs buffs, big ones, yes, i’m not saying D.Va to be busted again, but right now i’d think giving D.Va 2 big buffs might shift the meta into:
Zarya/Rein
D.Va/Rein
Which would be great right now, instead of Double shield. D.Va can’t compete with burst damage like she use to pre-2017 rework. Her 4 second defense matrix would be great right now for the meta, but she doesn’t have that anymore.
How do we make D.Va more bulky and more TANK LIKE?
We buff her armor, we revert the first major changes D.Va got:
1.7.0.2 - 1/24/2017
- Health increased from 200 to 400.
- Armor decreased from 400 to 200.
Fusion Cannons
- Bullet damage decreased from 3 to 2.
- Number of bullets per shot increased from 8 to 11.
I believe reverting the armor change and giving her back the damage she needs, rather than buffing the thing blizzard hates aka defense matrix. D.Va needs to be able to survive burst damage if they want her to be meta, i believe buffing her damage and armor will help her by a lot.
Not solo reverting the whole damage change, but keep the bullet nerf she had but revert the Bullet damage.
So: Make the Bullets 8 instead of 11 and increase the damage to 3 from 2.
What went wrong?
Blizzard is buffing DPS heros, like genji and ashe when all they do is abuse the meta, they aren’t changing it. For example, genji. Genji is abusing the meta with his new brand huge buffs. He didn’t change the meta to Dive, he made double shield meta worse.
How to change the meta?
We buff the off-tanks and main tanks who need it. Buffing Dps/supports isn’t going to change the meta, there just going to abuse it. The main factor here is that some tanks aren’t as good as there new flashy counterparts, for example:
Sigma - a shield, a defense matrix that gives him a reward, CC, and higher damage, and more range.
D.Va - Defense matrix (not rewarding, no boost in armor, nothing), mobility, and damage thats only good for close range.
Sigma is just overall what D.Va wishes she can be, yes, she can take highground, that’s the only thing she’s good at, other than that sigma is just way better. We need to buff characters like D.Va, and many more tanks who just cant compete anymore with the DPS and over-all damage creep.
Blizzard, buffing DPS isn’t going to change the meta, buffing tanks will change the meta.
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