She obviously has weaknesses but is it alright that she works in 99% of team comps and situations? Most characters have places they dont work(ie roadhog and zarya and maps with lots of high ground tend to be friends) but there is not a single map d.va is terrible on
She is a key pick for dive, a key pick for goats, a key pick for triple tank, just kinda works everywhere and personally i dont think one character with that much versatility is good for the game
Similar to how mercy used to work in every situation, once they stopped that the game became much better
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Harass the hell out of her with Mei. Her freeze is a beam weapon she can’t use her defense matrix on.
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But mei doesnt work on a lot of maps, honestly this isnt about countering her, its not about her pickrate she isnt too difficult to counter but she is too versatile
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As I understand it, the “ideal meta” is one where every hero is viable, and it looks like D.Va is the ultimate example of what that’s like.
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she cant do everything. she just is a good hero.
you can pick heros like genji or 76 basically into anything but no one conplains about that
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That literally can’t be the case.
A meta is defined by who it can include, not that it can include everyone.
What we need is multiple metas to be viable at the same time
That’s the key. There almost shouldn’t be a meta
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You confuse flexibility with being op.
Ask Blizz to create another high mobility bruiser and you’ll never have to see her kawaii face again.
Srsly, stop with the threads.
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Hammond doesn’t have the same role as D.va, he focuses more as a disruptor main tank than a Bruiser offtank.
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For metas that d.va has been in it’s dive and goats.
Dive is her type of meta and there’s 3 tanks in goats, i’m not seeing the problem with d.va, she’s just been fitting the mold which she should with these metas.
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While that’s fine that she’s a great example, it’s not fine that nearly every other hero doesn’t have that. If every hero was in the “ideal meta”, there wouldn’t be a problem.
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76 is weak if the meta includes shields or is dive, so pretty much every meta
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but he can still be played, and do well
90% of OWWC aka pro team comps maybe.
Hardly in ladder where zarya and rein are far more picked than she is. Dva is hardly immune to being counterpicked in ladder either, aka not working.
Versatility is hardly bad for the game when the character in question is not actually OP. Pickrate =/= character power.
Dva is only versatile pick because there is nothing else to choose. 3 dive tanks and only 2 block. 4 offtanks and only 2 of them block again. The choice is obvious the block tanks are going to be picked if otherwise the team feeds too much ulti charge to the massive dps sources in this game.
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True both characters are picked more but its their meta right now, the difference is pretty much every meta is a d.va, and obviously 76 can do well but so can any character in the right hands doesnt mean they are versatile
i think its ok actually, other than her pick rate in pro games her stats show shes very balanced and really doesnt need any nerfs
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she doesnt dominate any particular situation. she’s just a good choice in every situation. she’s always useful but never wrecking the other team, she just helps everyone against everyone. her adaptability is what makes her strong, not her own power, if that makes sense.
as far as off tanks, if they have a lot of damage coming in you want a dva to mitigate it. if they have a lot of CC you want a zarya to mitigate it. if they just need to die, you want a hog. all of them fulfill that role well.
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Its weird cause i agree she doesnt need nerfs but she is too versatile still, if that makes sense
Please stop. Just stop. D.Va has been nerfed over and over and over again since they changed DM to a resource mechanic with the only buff she’s recieved being 100 more HP and missile (oh, and then they nerfed her armor and missiles).
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i think a big part of it is there is no competition for what she can do, there is no hero that can do a good chunk of what she does, which is contest high ground, be mobile and have decent damage mitigation
i think we could use a mobile offtank that can contest high grounds to get after pesky snipers and that should reduce her pickrates in a healthy way i believe
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