A peel focused version (likely D.Va herself)
A dive focused version (New Mech squad hero)
Currently her versatility makes her too dominant, specialize her in these two and we would see more variety. This opens up a 2nd dive tank which can be an off-tank depending on what type of dive your running.
Here’s a concept
why not give her both
she’s not “too dominant”
Now where is the dominance dva is showing that you imply here?
OWL pickrates is not good enough of an answer btw. She didn’t show an ounce of dominance on the league, only the complete opposite by being dominated by enemy sombra’s, zaryas and whatnot.
Please show me stats or videos that indicate dva is dominant. Average pickrate and bottom tier winrates ain’t gonna do it.
Actually hold up lemme just do that for you. I only see one pickrate dominant hero and that’s reinhardt here. And the one being succesful is Orisa.
I see no dva dominance here. And it’s only worse in high ranks.
She’s been meta for 3 and a half years
She is specifically powerful at the top level and with coordination. She dominates the off-tank slot only falling out… never falling out.
Splitting D.Va into dive and peel would help create diversity
There’s whopping 2 offtanks who can defend heroes.
One is always going to be meta simply because of the nature of this game is that you will need to peel for people.
Problem is lack of variety, not dva’s versatility.
Removing variety only makes it worse.
This is specifically for the lack of variety
D.Va is just being split into two different but still similar heroes
In other words, you can’t actually prove him wrong and are just whining that Blizzard never dumpster-tiered a hero for you purely at your convenience.
Then they would admit they failed another rework with bazillion nerfs if they removed dva’s core abilities and gave it to another hero. Horrible, horrible game design.
I can, done it often enough not to care though.
It stems from our fundamentally different ideas of how the game should be balanced. Nere wants to balanced around gold-plat. I want to balance around GM+Pro-play while fixing the occasional anomaly.
Removed core abilities? Only one would be micro missiles which is taken by the other mech hero.
Then you would not dumpster dva, because she’s doing pretty awful in high ranks and better at low ranks lol. She only starts doing bit better when people run goats.
She’s still not doing too hot in pro play either, if you actually follow the gameplay a bit. She’s a bit more useful than roadhog by eating firestrikes, having a big explosion ultimate and that’s about it. Pro dvas play extremely passively because anytime they get close to use their kit, they get obliterated.
Keep in mind that you’re talking about a tank hero. There’s only 7 of these, and she’s 1 out of 3 dive-tanks. An ideal team composition consists of 2-3 tanks. D.Va, who’s playstyle is unique compared to the other tanks (being more DPS-like) is almost garaunteed to be in most compositions. There’s nothing weird about it, and she’s not dominating.
D.Va is far more important than that, but i’m not going to take the time to explain it. To put it shortly she just exerts massive amount of defensive pressure against the opposing team.
Like having her as the only dive off-tank when she is also the best peel tank in the game. Thats my issue, she’s the only dive option but is at the same time the best non-heal peel option
Im saying split for a reason, it adds a tank and moves them into the two concepts of a dive tank. Peel oriented version with minor dive capabilities. Dive oriented version with minor peel capabilities.
The game came out 3 years ago, huh
Blizzard’s bad game design and neglecting hero variety is really no reason to nerf a non-problematic hero just because they can do something in this game. They can introduce more heroes in this game and not nerf existing heroes because they have skillset.
Lucio is still the only speed booster in this game too. Ana has the only anti-heal. Rein still has the only mobile walking shield. And so on. But I don’t see the nerfs because of that.
Only dva is apparently not allowed to have unique abilities that are good in this game without suffering constant nerfbats.
It’s not like Reinhardt hasn’t been THE MAIN TANK ever since the conception of this game, for crying out loud. Even during dive meta, he was only usurped by winston in GM+ and nowhere else.
Split, she’d get some compensation buffs toward peeling as she would be split into 2 heroes.
Then it would not be dva if she couldn’t be mobile and peel. I’ll pass on destroying hero design tyvm. Heros should be allowed to keep their identity.
No one who plays dva wants to see half of her abilities ripped from her and given to someone else. That’s a lazy way to “rebalance”
Geez Zen stays Meta forever and he gets slap on the wrist nerfs. Dva is meta and its “remove her abilites”
Being meta =/= overpowered. They shouldnt be nerfed just because people are bored with them.
Lemme just rip Reinhardt’s shield away from him, surely that’ll rebalance him so he’s not gonna be forever the best main tank in the game right?
And then give it to some new random hero and rein can become a dps tank with bit of buffs. And everyone is happy because Rein stopped being good main tank, everyone can try this new shiny hero who’s replacing rein and Rein got stripped of his identity, ay!
Everyone just about had enough of Reinhardt being the best main tank amirite? So we can just split the good stuff. =P
“Splitting” a hero is very unlikely to happen, ever. It seems like an extremely unnecessary and unreasonable change for Overwatch. Feel free to share your ideas to make the game more balanced, but keep it realistic.
She would still be mobile, both heroes would keep the same boosters ability.
D.Va
Boosters
Defense Matrix
Bomb
pilot
Mech hero 2
Boosters
Micro Missiles
Ultimate
Pilot
They’d be similar, yes, but still different enough in playstyle to be possible.