Why can't D.va crouch?

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I’m not suggesting a balance change, but it is kinda weird. There may be a funny story that I just haven’t found or something.

Was it too hard to animate?
Were sneaky D.vas a thing in closed testing?

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Meches dont normally crouch

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Korea doesn’t want their gamers to BM while fighting in a war.

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I heard it’s because (maybe in testing) when she was able to crouch, she would look down and crouch, hiding her critical hit box.

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This, since D.Va crit box is front and center, she could prevent taking damage from there by looking down

[quote=“MagyTheMage-1534, post:2, topic:5141, full:true”]
Meches dont normally crouch
[/quote] Several of D.Ca’s emotes show the mech is fully articulated

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Mech has knee problems.

Or it was built like that because D.va wasted too much time teab*gging her enemies instead of focusing on the next.

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That makes sense… But I remember when her headshot hitbox was massive and she had 500 hp (400 armour 100 health).

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It’s still pretty enormous.

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Considering dva’s pickrate rn I think her critbox should go back to how it was

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I guess Korean engineers didn’t find it necessary to allow giant omnic-fighting gears to crouch…?

Or maybe Mechs were too thicc.

Either way

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It’s for balance. They want D.Va’s critical hitbox to be easy to shoot at

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D.va can crouch, her meka is so big though there is no benefit to crouching at all

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Silent walking is a big benefit.

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for the same reason reinhardt cannot quick melee

Because it just doesn’t seem like they should

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For flankers, D.va is both huge and laud so flanking isn’t her best option

If you want to flank as demekad dva be my guest though

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I’m going to guess that it was because they didn’t want her to be able to sneak in the meka.

As far as I know, crouched movement is silent across all characters. Instead of giving her the only noisy crouch, they prevent it entirely for consistency. They didn’t want people crouching with her expecting to be silent when they aren’t.

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Well, with DVa it’s not like you can’t flank, because you can force your way there anyways. Flanking doesn’t have to be silent. Btw, if you think about it, it doesn’t sound legit to be able to ambush with an oppressive hero like DVa, while her primary role is to off tank. The best explanation is her head hitbox problem if she ducks.

Now I’m ready to present you the real reason:
It’s implemented to counter-argue against her nerf threads!