Defense Matrix revert

I think the defense Matrix change on the ptr should be reverted. DM eats a ton of spam and nonsense in the game. Abilities like DM keep dps like zarya, Mei, Widowmaker and Junkrat from becoming completely ridiculous. If anything she should have more DM time. If the idea is to make her less of a must pick than we need heroes that do a similar job to her. Especially in qp spam and 5 dps on the enemy team feels opresive already. It would be very miserable without tank abilities like defense Matrix.

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Would those problem heroes be ridiculous or just allowed to spread their wings a bit?

Defense Matrix is still in the game, it is just shorter and requires more precision. This allows some of those countered Heroes to shine more.

They would be completely out of hand. The only counter to Ana’s bio grenade is d.va’s defense Matrix, or a genji deflect, but really the only sensible counter is defense Matrix. Otherwise Ana can just completely carry a game with bio nade.

I would say that no really big nerf to DVa defence matrix are being made. Yes, it’s being made smaller which if anything just promotes DVa players to get better and stop the amount of randomness within the game by a DVa just accidentally catching a ultimate it didn’t mean to. But most importantly it’s mainly a nerf to GOATs which is highly reliant on DVa to catch the enemies Zarya’s Grav. This means that Zaryas can be more free to Grav and no worry as much about DVa.

So just think of it as increasing the amount of skill it takes to use DVa effectively.

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the nerf is justified. D.VA eats way too much from ridiculous distance, which blizzard finally fixed.

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Combined with the fact, that it has no limiting factor outside of “Time”, potentially letting it eat insane amounts of damage and as you point out, a lot of it not justified by the d.va´s skill to do so.

It is already a limited ability by time. Tanks are supposed to mitigate damage, to prevent it from landing on your teammates. The balance of the game highly depends of controlling the enemy team’s threat, not just dealing damage on your own. We need more ways to mitigate damage, not less. D.va is incredibly important but she shouldn’t be nerfed to bring her down to other tank’s level. There should be more viable options and alternatives to defense Matrix. Nerfing the range on DM will not hurt goats, because the best strategy to defeat goats is to mirror it, so now both teams will have less dm range. D.Va is subbed for sombra or Mei currently in goat comps already, it’s not like she is irreplaceable. Defense Matrix makes the game much more balanced as a whole, and really encourages team play vs solo dps play. You can eat damage but unless you follow up with your own offense it doesn’t earn you a win.

roundabout plays

Zarya is a tank.