Is it only D.Va & Winston as the Tank duo?
Only Genji & Trace as DPS duo?
What about the support duo?
How it works properly and stuff?
What are their weaknesses?
Sounds like a beginner question, but I really wanna improve my knowledge about it first before talk about it.
That was a long time ago. Right now dive is run with Winston+Dva/Hammond. For dps, doom/Genji with pharamercy/sombra with other healer being Ana for nanoblade.
Generally speaking, Winston dives in and Dva matrixes him. But if you run hammond, after Winston dives in,he piledrives and it is good enough to get squishes. Other dps are extremely good at cleaning up.
But that’s on paper,in practice dive is much difficult to run in ladder because it takes a lot of coordination.
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D.Va, Winston, Genji, Tracer, Zen, Ana is in my eyes “full dive” >>> Zen discords some poor soul and calls it out >>> You dive said person >>> Repeat
This was when I last played comp properly in Season 4 or something.
Long story short and simplified - Dive comp is for diving enemies ie. getting to or on enemies in the shortest time possible across large distances. So yes, Dive heroes are heroes who can do that Winston, D.va and Hammond for tanks, Genji, Sombra, Tracer, Doomfist for dps. (the other dps are not as fast as these guys). Mercy and Lucio for supports (cuz only they can specifficaly “dive”)
Basically heroes that can travel large distances in short amounts of time, allowing them to engage the enemy on their own accord.
But how you play dive is a different thing. For example: Zen works well with Dive cuz he can heal from afar and discrod doven enemies from afar aswell, while staying behind “safe” dealing damage as his tanks are taking all the enemies focus.
And Widow works well with dive aswell, cuz unlike waiting for Rein to get to enemies and engage, she can get out of hiding to snipe enemies sooner (fyi, good widow’s hide until the time is right to snipe, or take the optimal sniping position unoticed, her beiggest weakness is getting scouted, due to enemies just hiding out of her sights knowing where she is)
So basically, tehre are dive heroes, but the dive comp, doesn’t neceserly consists of only dive heroes.
When Dive was meta heroes played were: Winston, D.va, Genji, Tracer, Zen, Mercy. With dps swapping to Pharah or Widow depending on the maps.
Here’s one short example
Bad comms or no comms (team needs to coordinate which targets to dive. If Winson and Genji dive different targets accidentaly it’s not gonna go well probably)
And CC’s : basically anything that would disallow any of these dive heroes to run away or disengage from a fight like a stun/hack/freeze etc. (because Winson and D.va cannot overstay their welcome without feeding if they didn’t get enough elims or at all).
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The composition consists of highly mobile tanks, Winston, D.va or Wrecking Ball in any combination, and very aggressive supports, Zenyatt, Ana and Mercy in any combination, with a wide array of DPS from Genji, Tracer, Doomfist, Sombra, Pharah, Junkrat, Widowmaker, Hanzo, Soldier 76 and Reaper.
Generally, the idea is that you combine your mobility, range and debuffs to focus down one enemy target as fast as possible. There are many variations of Dive, it is more of a general idea than it is an exact composition. My personal favorite is Winston, Wrecking Ball, Ana, Mercy, Genji and Sombra.