When did I say she wasn’t.
She certainly doesn’t deserve harsh nerfs at all though.
We’ve had new players pop up recently begging for nerfs across everything, not just Dva, no matter how non sensible all because they don’t have a good understanding of the game.
Don’t act like you haven’t seen awful takes around here. When people are asking for turret nerfs, I don’t take any call for nerfs seriously.
She’ll get a minor nerf and that’ll be it.
I’m not going to be wishing whatever hero you play gets nerfs out of nothing but spite though.
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I had a long convo with Chubby before about this, this is not something you’re going to talk him out of. He plays some character that has always had it rough, I think doomfist? Not sure though, and he has a chip on his shoulder about how the devs have treated that character.
She deserves more than a small nerf she’s literally the best tank but loses to her counter pick which is Zarya…
I mean she’s objectively the best tank in the game rn she literally needs more than a small nerf lol
She isn’t. Full damage deletion every four seconds. Doesn’t have to reload. Gets mini rockets on top of the standard shot DPS. A flight mode that damages and pushes. If a healer so much as farts in her general direction during the use of that damage deletion you just can’t kill her. Orissa is in the same boat. Way too much mitigation so if a healer sneezes on her, let alone humps one of her legs, you aren’t going to get rid of her. The only time I’ve seen a Dva get killed is when she over extends. Either she isn’t in range to be healed or she extended so much that the healer had to chase her and it got the healer killed.
She objectively does not.
She was buffed going into launch in 3 ways for a good reason. We quickly forget her 43% winrate from beta.
My guess is micro missiles will be reverted back to 8 seconds and that’ll be it. That or DM recharge rate changes.
The biggest change was junkerqueen nerfs as she directly countered Dva up until her nerfs and the fact they made knife eatable by DM.
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She is hardcountered so much by lazers/rays.
Zen can make her life hell.
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That would be Zarya actually. But again, you know she did really bad during the betas and the only changes they made were 1 second off micro missiles and 20 damage on boosters instead of 5. I didn’t even think those buffs would be enough to help her, because they were small. So anything other than a small nerf will dumpster her again. Which yeah is what you want, but I don’t since I like playing her and don’t want people telling me to swap off like in the betas.
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She’s literally 4 buffs in since the beta and is sitting at the top of the meta…
I genuinely don’t know how you can defend this when other heroes have been nerfed harder for much less.
Her Zarya and winston are all top dogs and most likely all need nerfs.
She got shadow buffs as well, she’s able to eat queens knife and orisas spear.
4 buffs is 4 buffs regardless of how little you perceive them.
I believe there’s a major difference between actual meta and perceived meta and right now players are having a knee jerk reaction to things.
She was bad in the betas and barely changed. What actually changed then? Junkerqueen got pushed out the meta, doom got pushed out, DM can eat knife.
She’s not that strong, Zarya is. The meta has simply opened up enough that you can play her. Once you see a Zarya + sombra you’re screwed though. It’s not like counterplay doesn’t exist.
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D.va has Sigma on release issues rn, they overdid it for sure, shes doing too much of everything, gotta receive at least 2 small nerfs on her dmg/matrix/boosters or a big one on one of those, i’d take a big nerf on Matrix anyday.
Yeah I bet you would but where do you imagine that would leave her as a solo tank?
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“Dva why aren’t you defending me”
Oh sorry, I literally can’t since you asked for nerfs
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Somewhere balanced, right next to Winston, as an more adaptable dive tank with lots of dmg but less team protection.
It would just be 1 second less btw, also yea, maybe i shoulda accounted for that and played better… also their tank would hopefully be a balanced one too so i can take advantage of that.
When you say “balanced” you mean what exactly though? Like do you want tanks to go back to being as strong as they were in 6v6? Just curious because I have heard that opinion tossed around by some people.
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I lose way more games when the tank is a Dva than i do when the tank is a Rein or Orisa. In 6v6 she was beastly for the reasons you mentioned. As a solo tank she seems fine (and I’d rather have an actual tank on my team).
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No, imo they have to be stronger than 6v6, weaker than current Zarya/Dva/Sigma/Wins, somewhere around current Rein.
1 second less would be a complete revert.
So a Zarya has two bubbles (100% more defenses compared to ow1) but Dva gets nothing?
That would kill her viability in 5v5.
There are a few things that you absolutely cannot touch on Dva’s balancing as it would destroy her otherwise.
Armor, DM cooldown, DM uptime, and booster cooldown.
The rest of her kit can be messed with but these things are waaaaay to vital to nerf in anyway.
If you want a dm nerf, it would need to be to regen rate.
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