Through my gold level anecdotal experience, when the enemy has a Sigma and we run D.va we lose every single time. I’m not saying Sigma is OP but D.va at this level is very frustrating to have on my team. I don’t say anything toxic to my teammate but deep down I know we are at a disadvantage. I don’t feel like defense matrix is much better than kinetic grasp and am honestly confused that they brought in a second defense matrix to the game. Plus Sigma has an amazing barrier and his rock stun. D.va’s at this level don’t peel and run in like they are a front line tank.
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They don’t have anymore new ideas. Things are just recycled.
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I distinctly remember Jayne asking a few times for an alternative DM hero.
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Dva is bad at every rank, her kit/design is outdated compared to more recent tanks.
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I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when one of my tanks goes d.Va. she’s a feedbot.
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I really, really hate to echo in on this, but its sadly true it seems at mid to low ranks. I see about 2/5 D.va’s seem to know what they are doing, that’s a pretty bad ratio.
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D.va’s just really, really not good right now. Her design is falling apart at the seams.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: D.va’s kit design is, from top to bottom, an absolute mess. She’s always either the best hero in the game or the worst one, her kit seems to want to have and do everything at once and interactions with her are either “she wins 100% of the time because there’s nothing your hero can do to stand a chance” or “she loses 100% of the time because there’s nothing she can do to stand a chance against your hero”.
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I also remember Jeff Kaplan during Sigma’s release saying he regretted having an ability in the game that eats ultimates (defense matrix) and that kinetic grasp doesn’t eat ultimates. He was mistaken because it obviously does. So now we have 2 heroes that have an ability that Jeff thinks is a mistake, plus grasp also grants shields.
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Well, Seagull was also asking for “non-ultimate abilities that can deal with ultimates”.
So now we got Matrix, Grasp, and Immortality Field.
I like to think of Grasp as a fixed Defence Matrix. Matrix is relatively spammable, has a large area covered and is the primary defensive ability of the hero it’s attached to. Grasp has a small hitbox, long cooldown, rewards you for using it tactically with shields and plays second fiddle to the Experimental Barrier as a defensive tool.
Defence Matrix being as powerful as it is and being D.va’s only defensive tool would be like if Ana’s Sleep Dart was on her secondary fire and she didn’t have Biotic Grenade.
And we always needed alternative shield frontliners, but I’m guessing no one wanted both on the same hero…
Oh Blizz…
I think Sigma is in an okay place right now.
They just need to make D.va more viable.
(Which in turn should make Tanking more popular overall).
On the contrary, the only way an ability like Matrix can ever be balanced is if it’s not the only defensive tool the hero using it has got, because either the ability’s on too short a cooldown and it’s eating ultimates left right and centre, or it’s on too long a cooldown and the hero’s trash because their only defensive CD is about 45 years long.
Genji and Sigma get away with it by being mobile and having Experimental Barrier respectively.
Dva gets away with it…
Love how we as a community have beaten people down so much that they refer to themselves as trash 
No she doesn’t. She’s never been “decent”, she’s always either been busted or unplayable, mostly because of balance changes that get made to Defence Matrix.
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She was fine before the GOATS nerfs…
Did you know that Sigma deals more damage on average in a game than Hanzo in high tier? It’s definitely a bit on Sigma too
Also sleep, it works on a large number of Ultimates.
This is why it needs to go (but never will)… they continue to balance around it, and too many players think tank means super hulky gob of health and armor… which she isn’t.
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