In retrospect, Season 3 D.Va was laughably overpowered

I know some people find D.Va to be too strong, but can we take a look back in time and see how laughably overpowered she used to be in season 3?

In season 3 D.Va had:

  • twice as much armor
  • twice as much defense matrix
  • 9% higher dps

Regardless what you think of her now, we can all agree D.Va in season 3 was the most busted character Overwatch has ever seen (except maybe for reworked Mercy before any nerfs).

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Cant comment on the D.va but the old Mercy should not be refered to as overpowered. No, i dont main Mercy and… i dont even play her and have not played that much in the past but i never lost a teamfight because of an Mercy rezz. People just did not know how to counter her. =/

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Mercy was balanced before her rework. I don’t think anyone denies that.

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Just click on her head /s

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Im sorry didn’t read you post properly. Thought you refered to the rezz ult Mercy ×_×

Why are you turning this into a mercy thread? Keep comments like this to the 100s of existing Mercy posts.

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Balance is not set on stone.
Something that is OP now may not have been OP back then and the other way around.

I think Moth meta Mercy was the strongest hero in the history of Overwatch.
Followed by powerhouse McCree, Ana, 35% ironclad Bastion, Hog 1.0 and then Dva.

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I just commented on the Mercy opinion that already was on the first post.

Moth Mercy wasn’t op?

Lmaooo

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Release Brig is in that conversation as well.

I was talking about rezz Mercy not the flying high mobility pain in the (hmm)

I think she was overpowered too. But Dva was worse at her peak than Brig was.
Dva could outlast Reaper point blank at the time thanks to her armor.

Considering how strong she is now with the power creep in this game, she was clearly broken beyond belief at that point.

Said who? The pro scene pickrate? That is even less than 1% of the playerbase.

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It was so fun eating up everyones ults. McCree, Solider, Zarya ect.

Yeah, players who know how to play the game are a terrible basis for balance. :roll_eyes:

Let’s balance around silver where any character that takes skill is considered a throw pick.

Except it was called OP and was nerfed if you don’t remember.

Yeah she was balenced, but the gameplay that she encouraged was absolutely awful. 2cp was a complete joke, you’d have Genji or Tracer off looking for the enemy Mercy and vicsa versa our Mercy would be hiding from the enemy dps saying things like “die on point I have rez” that is why it needed to change 4 v 4 battles were boring.

I agree with you - hide and Rez was absolutely awful. I hated having to die because my mercy decided she wasn’t going to heal the team anymore.