D.Va needs to lose missiles and receive a second tanking ability effective beyond bullet damage

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She’s just never gonna be relevant again since every single new ult introduced has been proudly designed to make her completely useless.

Since she’s no longer capable of tanking like 50% of the damage in the game where those damage types were once like what 25%, then I hate to take this risk but I think she clearly needs a rework.

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Blizz wants to make her a niche hybrid off tank. Sorry mate but Jeff is a hanzo and mercy main hahaha. :joy:

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I’d love her to be a true tank and not the ugly thing they want for her, but… From the creators of scatter arrow what can you expect haha

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You can’t. Micro missiles is like 65% of d.vas damage output. Not only would this make her completely impossible to dive with, but given her huge head hitbox and matrixes mediocrity, she would still probably be a poor midfield tank.

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Remember when they said they were giving her better damage because they didnt want her to be so defensive?

Then took away her damage and made her more mobile to keep her from being more offensive

Then nerfed her mobility to keep her from being more aggressive

I’m sorry Blizz, but what do you expect the girl riding in a mechanical barn to be able to do well again?

Ngl I feel like she was so much better without it. If they really wanted to they couldve made her primary spread better and then they wouldnt have needed to sacrifice a whole ability to pump up her damage number

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And the other 35% is the bunny blaster.

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Funny how true this is. The blaster is so much more reliable and I can secure kills with it so much better after I get demeched.

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34%. The other 1% is her melee.

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I got hacked by a Sombra in a small room on Gibralter. I turned my critbox away and tried to march toward a healthpack, but somebody stole it. I tried to walk away, but she demeched me first.

So I spun around and blew her head off with the pez dispenser.

Twice.

I was so proud of myself.

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The fact the best way to play D.Va as a tank is to look away from the person shooting you is so funny and sad at the same time.

I think I peaked when I realized firing at a Tracer is less useful than making her waste time trying to burst you down.

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So D.va should lose the damage in her kit and trade it for survival? I can see a few uses here and there, but she will suffer the same fate as Roadhog. Roadhog didn’t even get his survival kit until much later anyway. Tanks that can’t do damage are, unfortunately, bullet sponges for both teams.

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Fun fact, he just want’s a one trick buff on d.va.

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If it was me I’d double down and make missiles stronger. Shorter cooldown, perhaps.

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Even then, I don’t think D.va one tricks would trade most of their damage for it.

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No, he’s a Rein main and no tank shall challenge Rein’s dominance.

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They want a buff for an underpowered hero. Then again you don’t seem to be well aware of D.Va’s current state, looking at your posts in that thread.

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He’s actually a Sym main.

I’m on board with the idea of giving dva more damage mitigation in exchange for the removal of micro missiles. As it is, she’s borderline useless against bastion because dm doesn’t last long enough and bastion is immune to micro missiles while using self-repair.

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Elaborate? or do you just say words?

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But he/she have a thread that also says one tricks is what the game should be balanced around.

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D.Va’s main problem is the insane amount of CC in this game. They could give her the boop resistance passive back but I’d rather they just nerf the absolute hell out of CC instead. CC ruins the game in general, imo.

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