Has Nerfing Ruined D.Va in Overwatch?

When D.Va shouted "nerf this!", surely she didn't expect to be nerfed this much. Has Blizzard rendered the mech-pilot to be far less useful?

[Kabaneri]

Yeah before she served her purpose which is a bullet sponge tank, now her mech collapses way too fast. I agree that she needed a health nerf, but not this severe. What really makes it suck is that the new skin is so cool.

[MonChiChi]

only skin i really wanted other than maybe Mei.

[Kabaneri]

I got both of those on the first day lol, the RNGods are on my side.

[GottaBjimmyb]

Sounds like an,article written by people who used DVa and used to think they were good, when really the character was just extremely OP. Now that she is even with everyone else they feel like something is wrong.

Dva can fly, Has a quick regen health section, can absorb incoming attacks, has a wide spread on shots with a very fast fire rate, after mech dies still alive and get to play as her out of mech, and just about everything beneficial you can imagine.

Still think she is OP, I never haslve an issue getting golds every time with her.

[ravinash]

D.Va been my main... racked up 16 hours with her already.
I did notice that the mech was being destroyed faster than normal and I wasn't being as effective as before.
Symmetra gone too far the other way... got 32 kills in one match with her and annoyed people in my own team who wanted the gold.

[vallencer]

They needed to change something because the tank meta was ridiculous. However they essentially just reverted her to before the buff. Granted she has another hundred life still. Personally I think they should have left her with 300 life and 300 armor. Half and half I think was the sweet spot. Have no idea why they changed her damage. Goodie we can shoot more bullets....at less damage. So now when soldier is in his heal he can still just shred through dva while she's firing at him point blank.

[vTuro24]

Idk. On one hand she's definitely more squishy and I question if that damage nerf was really necessary in addition to the armor nerf. But on the other hand I'm still doing fine with her. Gonna have to play some more.

[Silly Mammo]

I just started playing with DVa and I quickly racked up a 20 kill streak. Which I've never done with any other character, so she must not be nerfed that bad.

[feedthereaper]

Personally I didnt think she needed nerfing with health or armour or firepower at all....... I think it was fine as it was and just required a little teamwork to bring her down quickly. A Soldier or Bastian could rip her in two in seconds, while other characters could do it with some fire support to weaken her. Only when heros didnt work as teammates and tried to take her on alone did the problems appear over how strong she was.
What I think needed Nerfing if anything was the shield ability she projects. I think that it should be something that can be brought up as a last resort defence that lasts for 2 seconds, not bring it up and sit on a control point for 5+ seconds almost invincible. If the shield was something she could bring up only for 2 seconds it would be used as a "bring it up as a retreat" measure than a "bring it up and charge in blocking all bullets from hitting any of the heroes stood directly behind me" measure. Nerf the shield protection and bring the health and armour back and all will be good.

And bring a second Ultimate to Widowmaker as her current one, although useful is not great for using the character a lot, and I believe that a second one where her Sniper Rifle charges up to 100% instantly and reloads at twice the speed for 8 seconds would be a great way of giving her some extra rapid fire punch in a push for a control point or defending one.

[TechnoGoat]

It's funny that D.va gets a nerf, but bastion remains untouched since launch. and now Symmetra is ridiculously OP. Blizzard still hasn't figured out how to balance a game.

[Majors]

Bastion is very easy to kill by any character even though he is a very good at defending and covering if used correctly. D.va was Extremely overpowered to the point of unfair, she basically has 2 lives a nuke and shes as powerful as tracer when out of her tank.

[pandehz]

D.Va is on par now. Those who feel she's weaker is because they are used to her being OP. Thats all.

[NecoTehSergal]

No, every Dva player was over-confident and had absolutely no fear of consequences for any of their highly aggressive actions. She was too strong in defenses and players showed that by how cocky they'd get with their fighting style, as if nothing would happen to them for doing non-stop ballsy things. Now? She's like Winston, where if you do ballsy thngs? You GTFO when things don't work your way, Winston hops in, puts a bubble down, zaps healers or low-health attackers and then hops away - simple. Dva? Flies in, pushes people in pits or shoots them in the face if they're alone or two of them or the healers, or snipers, or absorbs ults/bullets for the team then flies away.

The difference is, Dva players could get so cocky they could fly into the Mob of every enemy player and get away without dying if they were 'skilled enough', but that skill, most of it, was just making use of the Overpowered armor she had.

NOW, She has to be conservative and more cautious about her cocky and ballsy actions, cause no hero should be able to get away from consequences so easily when you do something so aggressive and ballsy when you're all on your own. So, Dva mains can cry all they want - but the nerf was needed. Not many other heroes can boast that they can be a lone wolf and charge into the enemy territory and be annoying, fuck shit up and fly away gleefully, Dva could, but no longer.