I feel like in order to find a good solution, we need to first identify why she’s a bad pick in the first place.
1. Global Armor nerfs
I feel like the global armor nerfs should be reverted. I hated them from the day they were announced in the patch notes and now that goats is impossible, I am even more strongly against them. D.Va was effected by this nerf a lot. It feels like she needs a pocket healer a lot of the time.
2. Her main role isn’t needed in this meta
D.Va is great against snipers/dps that like to sit on highground by themselves and peeling against projectile heroes like Tracer. She would also still be good at saving her team from Roadhogs hook combo but her range nerf makes that much harder. The only benefit to running D.Va in this meta is to eat Moira orbs. D.Va can delete half of Moira’s kit.
3. Other
What do you think is holding D.Va back?
So how do we fix this?
Well for one I’d revert the armor nerf and maybe the matrix range nerf. I think an ult charge rate buff would be great as well.
What do you guys think could change to make her more useful in this meta? Should anything change at all? Should we just wait several months and hope the next meta is better?
Even below diamond where meta isn’t really as important, she still struggles though. Her winrate is below 50% for every rank below diamond. This makes me think that perhaps she isn’t just simply a victum of the meta.
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Reduce the insane burst damage a bunch of DPS have nowadays. D.Va is about diving into the enemy to pick off key targets using her armor and large health pool to survive the attempt. But when diving into things like Storm Arrow and rapid McCree D.va can be put to critical health before micromissiles is even finished casting. Diving into a dedicated tank buster like Reaper is one thing, but that at least used to come with the drawback of Reaper being less capable of fighting other dps, but even that weakeness was significantly lessened on him.
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Matrix range. It just feels so awful. I can deal with the cool down nerf, but the short reach is perpetually frustrating.
Increase booster speed. More engine power mitigates boops basically freezing her in place, helps respawn returns, reaches further locations, and let’s her be more effective at rapid response without being deadlier.
Also forget everyone wanting to revert armor. No. Armor is still incredibly strong.
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I feel like it’s strong when Brig gives it to squishies but on tanks it just gets destroyed.
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Allow Dva to Matrix Sigma’s Accretion rock.
(And Genji to maybe destroy it, instead of reflecting it).
Presto, Dive is back in business, and Dva is riding high.
Pros are happy, cause Dive is back. (I.e. The meta that hasn’t been meta for the longest, so it’s the freshest)
And Sigma is fine, because low tiers are bad at Dive.
I’m not sure if it would be that simple. I don’t think that would be enough to make her playable in the meta. Would be a nice addition though.
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I think it would be enough.
As a guy who focuses on the smallest changes, that have the most impact, with the least side effects.
I mean there’s no way to tell until it’s tested.
True enough, but if you think about it.
What is being used in this meta?
Sigma Rock
Orisa Halt
Moira Orbs
Dva would block all of those.
As well as Sigma/Orisa/Reaper attacks.
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Reaper, Mei, and Doomfist still are hard for her to deal with though.
I do see what you mean though and I agree.
Mei actually lost a ton of pickrate after Sigma came out.
I’m not entirely sure what dps are meta if I’m honest. I thought it was doom reaper Mei and Sym. Earlier I watched a video that said Sym is the 4th worst hero right now so uh I guess I was horribly wrong there.
I have personally been seeing Mei a lot more lately.
Tell her to stop asking for nerfs when she ults…
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I usually just go here, and click This Week, and Grandmaster
https://www.overbuff.com/heroes
Where she’s currently 17th most picked out of 31 heroes.
Alright. So it’s doom and reaper. D.Va still has a harder time peeling against Doomfist and she is an ult battery for reaper.
Global armor nerf revert and range revert would help a lot, including with the meta situation.
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There’s much more damage that can get through to her than there ever used to be.
Due to this she is always at least soft countered by default.
No Armor changes will fix this.
I don’t really have the answer but this to me is exactly her issue… even if she face tanks with matrix up, a ton of damage still gets to her.
I think faster boosters could alleviate this a bit, allowing her to get places faster and travel further overall.
So from your perspective, would the main difference there be that Reaper and Roadhog would be less effective?
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First, remove her slowdown while firing her guns. This is unnecessary.
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Next, GREATLY speed up her climbing into mech animations. Like, more than halve it.
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Same with her eject. In fact, make her eject like Doomfist’s ult where you pick the spot she lands with a reticle and she isn’t able to be damaged until she lands.
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Set her boop damage to 50, like everyone else.
That’s baseline; where she should start before you think about buffing abilities.
Then consider addressing her weaknesses.
She’s not tough.
She doesn’t really secure a lot of kills.
She doesn’t tank well.
Pick one, address it.
Then when DPS mains complain about it, close their threads because that’s the source of the problems with D.Va.
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Reverting Armor nerfs and increasing her armor to health ratio so like subtract 50 HP, replace it with armor. Then reduce her self slow while firing by 10%. Next reduce consumption rate on Defense matrix by like 10-15%. Then you’re basically done. She can tank a bit longer, she can use DM better, she is better at diving and she isn’t severely blown up for taking one simply dive.
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