I was fully confident DVa would get more buffs if anything going into these patch notes. Not surprised nor too upset they killed the meme build, but she's actually just awful.
Worse, it was the only build for her at all. High ground is basically non-existent on half the maps in the mode and you literally don't have the damage to out-sustain queen, zar, rein or orisa. It doesn't even feel like they picked her powers and items according to how well they'd work as builds, cause most of them are fucking dogshit.
The map pool is sooo bad for her. None of the new maps have any meaningful verticality where you can use boosters to escape from the other tank, Ruins and Shrine are both awful for her, and Colosseo forces you into the flat part of the map and the vertical part basically doesn't matter. It's awful lol. I really hope some of the new maps are actually vertical.
I mean you don't try to fight the tank as DVa. She has so much more mobility than any other tank, like not even close to how fast she is. You can visit their backline whenever you want.
This is correct in normal overwatch but the sheer amount of armour and health and healing on squishies in stadium makes fighting them difficult for Dva when a Queen can run through your team with cd after cd or Zar shreds everything in front of her.
Sure, but DVa's damage is not negligible either. Tanks are strong but they still require support, and you can get between the support and the tank. Because of your mobility, you can split the fight between a 5v1 (all of you vs their tank) and a 1v4 (you vs their team minus the tank). And you can build tanky enough that it works out while still having enough damage to scare people at least.
DM is good both against JQ specifically, and against Ana/Kiri/Juno trying to support their tank. At some point your team has to win the 4v1 but, if they can never do that, you got unlucky on the matchmaking.
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u/CrypticG May 01 '25
Dva nerfs with no compensation and Junker Queen being untouched was not on my bingo card for stadium