Shepard, Kenneth (September 8, 2023). " Overwatch 2 Heroes' Official Ages Sound Extremely Made Up". Kotaku . Retrieved November 14, 2023. Self-Destruct: In line with D.Va's ultimate voice line, "Nerf this!", which can be interpreted as a challenge to the developers to nerf her ultimate, as of October 15, 2021, Self-Destruct has never been nerfed. At higher skill levels, the classic "dive" composition almost always includes both D.Va and Genji, along with Winston and Tracer. Khan, Imran (August 28, 2018). "Get New Skins In Overwatch For D.Va With Nano Cola Challenge". Game Informer . Retrieved May 25, 2023. Heroes of the Storm 2.0 – Hanamura Showdown. April 25, 2017. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019 . Retrieved January 6, 2020– via YouTube.

a b Saed, Sherif (June 1, 2016). "Overwatch: D.Va could get a buff to make her more like Winston". VG247. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016 . Retrieved June 9, 2016. If some hero rushes into a group of enemies, use Defense Matrix to cover your allies when needed. For example, cover Winston when he jumps in or cover Pharah when she is using her ultimate. You can protect your teammates with Defense Matrix without needing to be right next to them thanks to its long range. Keep its short duration in mind; try not to spend all of its charge and leaving yourself as the enemy's main target.The Light Gun does not have damage falloff, and is actually more effective than the Fusion Cannons at long range. Barrett, Ben (June 9, 2016). "Overwatch nerf gun has Widowmaker in its sights next". PCGamesN. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016 . Retrieved June 9, 2016. D.Va is a unique tank with some mobility. With very high health and Boosters, she can close a gap to the enemy with ease. She has high damage output at close-range, making her a strong fighter in a 1-on-1 match. Her Defense Matrix is useful against all incoming projectiles regardless of DPS, protecting her teammates from enemy fire. The Micro Missiles deal high amount of damage when used in close range. She is a dangerous flanker in the Tank class, dealing consistent damage to the enemy. Self-Destruct will wipe all opponents within the blast area. However, she doesn't have an extended barrier to properly protect her team like Reinhardt. She is also slow while firing, allowing the enemy to outrun her to disengage or move around her to distract her aiming. Both Fusion Cannons and Micro Missiles are ineffective against anything further than medium-range, meaning she can be outranged by the enemy before she even has a chance to close a gap with Boosters. While D.Va is considered a Tank, a lot of successful D.Va players use her like Reaper. Flanking and harassing are some of D.Va's strong suits. Her high damage output at close range coupled with her Boosters movement ability makes it easy for her to get "shotgun-like" damage in and escape with ease.

Valdes, Giancarlo (November 19, 2015). "How Blizzard is using Overwatch to evolve its storytelling approach". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on July 4, 2016 . Retrieved June 9, 2016. Song has been friends with Dae-hyun since childhood. They would stay up late working on his hoverbike. Hana took part in a race with it and won, albeit at the cost of the bike and nearly her own life, due to its reactor overloading. [6] In August 2017, in response to their observations of the meta-game, Blizzard planned to introduce changes to D.Va to be tested in the Public Test Realm (PTR) server and evaluated before full release. [15] Namely, the developers found that D.Va was being used more frequently to absorb damage through her Defense Matrix and was not being played offensively. [15] The revamped skill kit would increase the rate of energy depletion of the Defense Matrix, effectively reducing its use time by half, but would allow her to use her main weapon while boosting. [15] The update also added a new Micro Missiles ability that launches a number of small missiles that do damage in a small area on impact. Kaplan said that the overall goal of D.Va's ability retooling was to "reduce her reliance on Defense Matrix and make her more fun to play," and stressed the changes were not meant to nerf D.Va overall. [15] These changes were added for all players in a September 2017 patch. [16] With Dae-hyun going over the mech's status, on the mention of the reactor becoming unstable Song remembered their earlier conversation of the destruction of his hovercycle, and suggested purposely overloading the mech's reactor. After some protest, Dae-hyun obliged, and as Song distracted the omnic to buy him some time he successfully triggered an overload that would destroy the reactor in sixty seconds. The omnic would reach Busan before that however, so Song ejected from the mech and used her light gun to shoot the exposed reactor from afar, destroying both the mech and the omnic. She fell into the sea, where she was recovered by a search-and-rescue team and taken for medical treatment, Dae-hyun accompanying her.McWhertor, Michael (August 18, 2016). "Blizzard embraces 'Gremlin D.Va' with new Overwatch emote". Polygon. Archived from the original on August 19, 2016 . Retrieved August 19, 2016. Lumb, David (April 25, 2017). " 'Heroes of the Storm' adds everyone's favorite 'Overwatch' hero". Engadget. Archived from the original on April 26, 2017 . Retrieved April 25, 2017.