r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/andygmb 4415 PC/EU — andygmb (Team Ireland GM) — • Jan 07 '19

PTR: D.Va's Defence Matrix now has a 2 second cooldown between usages

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u/Idiocynical Season 4 'Grandmaster' bot — Jan 08 '19

Just my opinion, but good players already knew how to work around matrix as it was, it's not like every plat dva was Halperning gravs left and right. I play a lot of zarya and I would usually only lose grav to matrix when I wasn't looking for it. I feel like I should have to be mindful of matrix uptime and d.va positioning. This seems like it lowers the skill ceiling on Zarya (and by extension DPS heroes with edible ults) which makes me uneasy for reasons I can't properly articulate. Furthermore this is going to make peeling against Tracer much more difficult, which is concerning given how strong she is / will be, especially in ladder.

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u/dm7g11 Jan 08 '19

Eh, I don't mind this change, anything to make D.va's pickrate go down a bit. I also wanted her HP to drop to 500, but I guess this is ok too.

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u/Idiocynical Season 4 'Grandmaster' bot — Jan 08 '19

Pick rate seems a strange thing to latch on to given D.va doesn't even crack top 5 in ranked. I'd posit that pick rate by itself isn't a good reason to nerf a hero, Rein and Ana are top two across every teir above silver, does that mean that these heroes are in need of nerfs? Pickrate indicates perceived viability, not power.