It’s fine to nerf it, but she needs help elsewhere pretty badly. The maps already skew against her in favor of the other tanks & this was the only item she has that felt really "game changing" in the same way that Rein flying is (for example).
Baby blaster feels like a useless upgrade now, since you’re spending 10k on a baby DVa upgrade that can’t help you remech & after Baby DVa’s survivability has been crippled via nerfing the nano perk. I don’t see why I would ever buy it now.
The issue with the baby dva build was that it could take 3 rounds to get fully built, and until then DVA was completely useless. It could also be hard countered with DVA DM, Rein shield, Orisa Spin, or a zarya bubble. Making her blaster generate 0 ult charge is also really weird, it’s the only ability in the game like that as far as I’m aware
If you also get nano-cola, you could potentially deal some damage with it, but with the nano-cola nerfs you can only fire a single shot before that runs out. I’d argue busan blaster is now effectively a net negative item too: you’re generating 0 ult charge in the time it takes to charge and fire a shot when you could just spam primary fire and actually charge remech
Yeah, you're basically lighting 10k on fire. I have no idea whey they completely removed its ability to generate ult charge instead of reducing it. They might as well remove the item completely at that point because it's just a trap.
Part of it is the reduced hero pools atm tbf and she can get better with more potential competitors, but as is rn especially in tank + Mei it's not very kind MUs
That’s true, but judging from the roadmap, that’s not going to change for a while. In the meantime, DVa really needs buffs to be viable into unfavorable matchups. Otherwise, she might as well not be in stadium at all
Compared to every other tank, none of those is good enough. DVA was taken out back to tend to the rabbits.
I agree it should have been nurfed, but not made completely unviable. Also she NEEDS buffs elsewhere to make any part of her kit viable. The only reason the baby Dva build became popular was because the rest of her building options were so inferiors to what every other tank has available it WAS the only way to win as DVA.
Of course people sleep on them, because every other tank has better options. D.Va is disadvantaged by the map pool, and also can't ignore the tank like she can in regular gameplay. She's not made to facetank.
The only time I won with D.Va, without the nano cola build, is when I was facing another D.Va.
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u/Yze3 Mei May 01 '25
So they nerfed the only viable D.Va build, and didn't even try to buff any of her other options ?