It’s little skill and gets too much value for what’s its worth. But the worst thing about it is that its too random. Also this change doesn’t help much with stopping Baby D.va from getting staggered. It may have had a small effect, but its mostly used for getting random kills.
I think there’s better ways to help her from getting staggered, like adding a mobility ability to baby d.va so she can prevent herself from getting bodyblocked.
I don’t think its that bad, you just got to keep your distance or shoot the baby dva
It’s not bad, sure. But it feels kind of crappy when you get instantly killed randomly.
Like it’s even helping her with the staggering problem, its just a cheesy way to pick someone off randomly. I don’t mind instant-kills but it should require some degree of skill to pull off.
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Much like her Self-Destruct ult, it mostly comes down to your situational awareness and knowledge of the map’s geography as well as where the d.va placed it. The only change I see happening is preventing her from using it through a wall, but other than that I actually agree with making it hurt more for laughs.
You’ve admitted that, unfortunately, you’re just mad you got crushed. It sucks, it happens, but it’s like flying into a reinhardt’s waiting arms or blinking into a mei icicle. Random but fair.
Blizz will nerf something else instead, like DM Cooldown or armor.
Actually fyi, I main Roadhog so I don’t have to deal with this, fortunately. However seeing pro players in the OWL league getting randomly killed by remech proves why it should be changed imo.
If she needs a buff, buff her dm, her armor. Don’t add more randomness to the game.
They should add a more effective way to stop herself from getting staggered (mobility ability on a long cooldown for example).
Nah, it’s cool… and it makes sense. Plus it forces teams from staggering her too severely.
Besides, once everyone has scattered from her ULT, if she’s able to run up on the enemy without getting focused and gets value out of summoning her meka, then she deserves the kills and the enemy deserves the respawn.
Overcome and adapt, that’s the solution.
I feel like there’s better solutions than this. A little bit more thought needs to be put in it though, which may be the reason why Blizzard went with this easier option instead.
In practice, sure running up on an enemy and getting a kill sounds good because she’s vulnerable. But the fact that she can get a multi-kill with this ability while not even intending it is the main problem. I prefer not having random game mechanics like these.
If D.Va didn’t intend it, then the fault lies wholly on the players who swarmed her despite knowing she can call a mech from orbit to squish them.
If D.Va positioned in a way to try to hit people, and survived long enough (or coordinated with a teammate) to do so, then the kill(s) were earned.
I think this would be very fair.
No, because there are instances where the players aren’t even intending to swarm her. It just happens randomly because D.va happens to be behind a wall for example remeching and gets a free multi-kill.
There’s a clip of an OWL player getting a multi-kill when the players weren’t even intending to kill baby d.va. I can’t find the clip atm, but it was on NoobHunter some time ago.
These random instances of massive value in a pro setting is a problem imo.
Easier fix, stop being so unaware of your surroundings that you get hit by an obvious avoidable attack.
But when several pro players are dying from this (randomly), are they not aware of their surroundings? That’s a very bold assumption to make.
Squashing people is funny.
Just keep retreating if you see it though. Sometimes you get squashed from behind 
Shoot the pepega, or she will call meme-robot
So over a few months, like maybe 4 kills come from this attack at OWL tier.
And somehow that’s too much?
Should there even be random value in a pro setting, when the competition is over money?
Shouldn’t skill be rewarded and not random unintentional kills?
I mean, in that specific instance? Yes.
Pro players have moments of tunnel-vision or distraction. Sure, they do that far less often than anyone else, but it still happens. Case in point: C9.
Now multiply owl capabilities of avoiding stupid stuff to the value of crowd in ladder, omegalulmen.
I think they weren’t unaware, I think they just randomly got killed when they shouldn’t have.
The enemy d.va wasn’t intending it, nor were the pro players intending to kill the D.va. The enemy D.va got a random multi-kill when a mercy flew in (if I remember correctly). I don’t think we can blame them for being unaware in that situation, it’s just flat random.
Having a random kill ability in a pro setting is no good imo.