So I feel like the community as a whole, never gives DVA enough credit. She’s incredibly strong in the right hands. Right now, I’m currently at 9 wins and 1 loss with DVA. She’s definitely my best hero in the game except maybe behind brig. Just wanted to see what others thought
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Yeah pretty much. Underrated tank this season. Being able to mitigate big bursts of damage and having good mobility with a decent tttk on squishies
Not OP but one of the better tanks for sure
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You can say that for pretty much anything.
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Seems very broken in open queue. Why does matrix have almost permanent uptime? Why didnt they nerf her shotgun damage with the bullet size increase? Why deos she have one of the lowest cost ultimates?
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I have always felt that Dva was quite powerful. And by always, I mean literally always. There has never been a point in time where she was not a top three tank. It’s just that I could never stomach playing her for extended periods of time because you are just going to play against Zarya, Symmetra, Mei, Moira, and Brig every single game if you are good at her. Sure, you CAN outplay the counters and force the issue if you are competent. I am just not in love with her enough to justify jumping through those hoops.
As of right now, she is one of the strongest tanks. Hard defense is powerful against cauterize which makes defense matrix invaluable. That being said, again, that’s just begging to play against some Dragon Ball Z nonsense.
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… there was, although very few still remember it. And that was … drumroll … on release. Not OW “2” release, OW “1” release. That 8 sec DM CD and the presence of better option aka Winston made her utterly useless at any level of play.
After DM rework though - she was present in some capacity in at least some play tiers. I don’t agree with a saying that she was always strong since then, because different metas dictated different things, but if we talk all tiers of play, not only GM? Yep, she was there somewhere at all times.
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with this huge patch there was gonna be outliers. d.va seemed to be the fortunate one along with a lot of other heroes… of course there was losers as well but the sad part some of the losers werent doing well to begin with
My brother in Christ, EVERY hero can be “OP” if the player using them is good enough
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You are probably correct. Believe it or not, she was the only tank I could play back then. These were humble times and it was my first taste of tanking in any PVP game, so I felt a bit powerful. I only tried her because other people were wrecking me as Dva.
In other words, perhaps it is my own delusion, but I felt she was lit even before the resource meter, personally.
I see her in almost every game now. So annoying that you have to go a beam hero otherwise everything you do just gets nullified by her defensive matrix. And you can’t take offensive angles either because she has only 4 seconds CD on her booster.
I just had a match against her. Against some of my heroes, its the armor thats rough to get through with some attacks or its the duration or frequency of matrix. If there’s focus fire against her, then it’s not bad to crit (once we get through the cleanse and heals) but the matrix with the new pellets does hurt when she chases you down.
Despite all this, I’m worried about nerfs to tanks because it seems like any nudge down the power level would make them unused.
On the flip side everyone is complaining about dps damage or something so they can’t be buffed either. So, it’s a tough spot.
Honestly, I’ve always felt annoyed by the matrix even before S9 so my issue is not really related to the current patch in my perspective. But being a solo tank makes it a rough choice to nerf it, and its not like when there were two tanks there weren’t problems either with the constant back and forth of buffing and nerfing over the years.
I feel like they need to give her something more personal for protection and then something for the team or general. Yes, this might mean a minor rework, but for now I think I’ll wait and see what they do for the mid season patch to think about what I’d like to see in the future.
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If by “OP in the right hands” you mean “balanced” because, yes, heroes are supposed to perform exceptionally well when they’re played exceptionally well.
I’ll admit that it’s a good day to be a D.Va player, because of a lot of her counters and most of her competition is in a really bad state. But I wouldn’t hurry to say she needs nerfs until we’ve seen what happens when her counters are viable.
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I see we’re about to be moving into the “D.Va too strong nerf now” part of the cycle. It was fun to not see these threads while it lasted.
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Winston/D.va was a thing, lol. Before that it was Winston/Zarya.
Or did you think we had a Zarya/D.va meta, lol.
I’m just saying that DVA doesn’t get enough credit
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i wish we did have a zarya/dva meta, but i could only get it the rare occasions a zarya main rando would trust me that we will do better ont hat than if i rein, or when a toxic zarya main thought they were making me mad enough to switch to rein, so they stay zar (joke’s on them, i love it and we won usually). i won almost every game with zarya dva and in my 3000 hours in OW1 on her, it was absolutely my FAVOURITE duo. but of course, a dva without that many hours will eat damage that could feed bubble, so zarya mains rarely wanted to trust lol often they would switch to rein and when they did it was 50/50 whether we could get it done but ALWAYS worse than if they had stayed zar.
more people trusted the LAST season of OW1, when everything was chaos it was the best season, the season of double offtanks. that was fun, and usually they would even compliment me and laugh at how wildly fun it was, that last season. people were always shocked. until winston rein started taking over all my lobbies 
then beta 1 came out and i bailed on that shipwreck god was that an awful comp to play against thankfully didn’t stick around to see if it became meta. became a Junkerqueen onetrick ALL of beta 2.
DM has always been insanely powerful, the problem is that dva is so easily hard countered it makes her not a viable tank most of the time.
Doesnt matter how strong she is if you can only win 1 team fight before the other team decides to remove her from the game.
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Every hero should be OP in the right hands.
It just when the right hands = everyones hands, that becomes a issue
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Don’t forget she can deny healing debuff too
So is doomfist lmao.
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