D.Va is their baby and aside from the one time years ago that they pulled her because she was actually broken, I wouldnt hold my breath.
Shes in a decent spot right now since Zarya just walks around at high charge for all match long.
Matrix is the only way to stop this spray and pray cheese Actiblizz doesnt want to acknowledge.
The only nerf I’d like to see is Self Destruct. Its a get out of jail free card when its used because the player gets caught in a situation where other tanks get punished.
I was always surprised that her damage was basically unlimited. Ya it’s got a wide spread but she does almost 150 dps, and can crit with that. With no cooldown / reload / break- it adds up quick.
Here you go again. People do not need to be ultra mega balance masters in order to form an opinion about how they feel facing or playing alongside certain characters.
Balancing purely from a statistics standpoint is inherently flawed, and the court of public opinion holding power over the balance state of certain heroes already has precedent as we all know heroes like Sym and Hog are kept weak solely due to community outcry.
People hate D.va, it is the job of the developers to parse the feedback and put them in their place inside that list of yours.
No matter who is number 1 people are never going to be satisfied but keeping the character whose entire point is to counter 99% of the DPS roster as the undeniably strongest tank surely isnt the right call.
Outright D.va does not deserve her strength, and we will never find a proper answer of “who is most worthy of being the best” under solo tanking where power levels are overwhelmingly oppressive for 8 out of 10 players in a match.
Self-destruct is used as a remech because it has next to no kill potential and D.Va is a glass cannon. That’s the trade-off. If it is to be changed to be less value to use as a remech (which I wouldn’t call a get out of jail free card; plenty of D.Vas get killed during ult), they need to make it actually lethal and they need to make D.Va tankier—she’s a damage black hole.
Every dive tank except ball has a 2nd life ultimate. Except Doom and Winston actually get a “get out of jail free card.” I guess you don’t realize that you can kill baby dva extremely easily. Shoot her then go to cover to avoid bomb and finish her off mid remech. Or just run to where she runs to remech and kill her. You won’t get squished. She will die before that happens. Or just do the classic where you headshot her mid eject. Or just play Doomfist and ensure she can never remech on any part of the map.
Yet is there any stopping Winston from going into primal? Is there any stopping Doom from hitting Q with 1 hp left? NO! They get to ACTUALLY get out of jail free. They could be feeding their brains out and still live. If dva does that then she just dies.
I’m not sure how we didn’t see a Dva nerf in season 13 first patch.
I understand that Juno kind of trips her into oblivion territory, but her Micro Missiles do so much damage it’s actually unreal. Coupled with low boosters cd and an insufferable DM that honestly feels like it just never ends, something doesn’t add up.
I got a massive feeling the next tank is being staged into these non-nerfed kits.