@@RauKnowsOW That's very good Partner, there's enough toxic people as it is and having you being one of the more helpful ones is very good for everyone.
As a support main I can attest that a good Dva is the bane of our existence. Jumping the supports and holding Defense Matrix over them to prevent any heals from getting to their teammates are really good tricks
If you don't hold down defense the enemy will also be much less confident about how much you have left. If you hold down really long it's much easier to tell that you probably just ran out.
As a certified DVa main, I often panic and hold the Defence Matrix and waste it and/or have a frequent tendancy to forget position and get myself in a bad situation🤣
2 tips: 1. you can shoot your rockets while using defense matrix 2. Defense matrix can block some enemy support healing such as Ana, Baptist, and kiriko.
Also fun fact you can get heal stats in the scoreboard with Dva by eating moira heal orb with defence matrix. Saw a vid on it.... get them top heals as well
I usually find it a bit easier to kill dps but it depends on the situation more than anything, against orisa specifically it's really important to pressure supports
When i wanted to know if overwatch is the first place of twitch (third day it lunched) i watched the stream with the most views.... It was a f*cking E-girl who can not play the game and she was 6 hours 7n training range. 6 Hours? And on top of it the UwU sounds were cringe as hell
The only thing I’d say is that while yes you can be holding down your defense matrix to long. You also don’t want to tap the button. Tapping the defense matrix usually doesn’t accomplish much and is a waste. I’d say use about a quarter or a third of it at a time
this man is actually following me discovering new bad habits 😂. a problem for me is I want to boost to get that soldier or McCree in the top right corner just feeding us but I don't want to leave the team hanging around being trampled by the orisa lol
It's about knowing if you can secure a kill or taking the pressure off so the enemy is forced to reposition. Make sure you have cooldowns, DM, rockets and fly and if you boost right into them while using rockets and DM this is often enough to kill them with a few seconds of left click + melee. Then fly back down to bully enemy supports, etc. DVa's huge benefit is her mobility! Pressuring high ground DPS is useful because you're preventing the enemy from getting a random pick if the soldier/cass is happily clicking away at your backline (chance of you losing a teammate) and you're wasting your cooldowns emptying into the tanky Orisa who has healers also emptying into her. You getting a pick could turn the fight in your favour! Recommend checking out Emongg for great DVa play :)
honestly Dva needs to be nerfed in a number of ways, defense matrix can literally just stop someone from playing the game lmao and all she has to do is press a button and shove it onto someones face.
Remember, rockets have splash damage, so if genji is low and reflecting you can get in his face and make him kill himself with the splash damage by reflecting the rockets into you. Just remember if you do this that you will take damage too!
I used to main D. Va years ago when I was playing regularly! So helpful to have advice on how to use her rockets, I never felt like I properly utilized them personally. It's tricky finding uses for D. Va now that only one tank is allowed in each match too....
An absolutely hilarious thing ive noticed when i play dva is just flying to the sky (and not using your ult). People are so used to a random flight to the sky meaning a nuke that ive seen a lot of people just escape
I also do 1s boost into the enemy to do as much damage and then 1s to escape. It gives more poke dmg and as long as u have a decent healer youll come out with more than enough health for another fight
A big thing as Dva if you’re up against a hog , in a standard team fight and in a lot of situations at least, is to make sure you’re not the one to get hooked if possible. This is because when you get hooked you can’t use DM before his first shot so now you’re down a massive chunk of health and you probably wasted a lot of your DM backing away from pork boi. If you know someone else is going to get hooked, positioning is HUGE and it’s important to make sure you have enough space between you and mr hoggins to where if he hooks a teammate, you have enough time and a ready DM to get into position and absorb all or as many of his shots until they get away from him safely. The second part doesn’t apply if you want to sacrifice your DPS Moira to appease the Hog Gods. At that point, by all means, sit back and let nature take its course
Here’s a tip for DM usage So ofc some abilities are more valuable to DM than others, here’s a few that are pretty key to grabbing: Reinhardt Firestrike Orisa Javelin Ashe Dynamite Both of Ana’s cool downs (sleep and most importantly nade) Also, if you’re stuck using DM as in you know they have a key ultimate such as Zarya’s grav, you might want to flick away and then flick back to her, or look down to the ground and then back up, these five the illusion that either you don’t have DM or you’re trying to run away.
Honestly I think dva is complete ass. Most of the time the enemy tank is imposing, but when I see a dva I feel like she is actually more scary in baby form because shes harder to hit. I'm a torb main so maybe that has something to do with it but her mech form dies so quickly, her boost is actually kinda mediocre for diving and retreating, her primary does no damage even point blank, her rockets do no damage and are easy to just dodge, and her ult is absolute shit. Very rarely have I faced a dva that has killed me even once let alone oppressed me.
sometimes i boost forward and sideswipe the enemy frontline to create more space for my team, but i won't do that unless i know i can make it out of that alive
Tip to counter dva ult: You can stand behind any solid object, and as long as her mech is out of your line of site, you will be safe 😎 even hiding behind a thin pole will work as long as you cant see the mech
I agree with number one but over time we’ve learnt the timing & higher level players time her matrix so holding it down for a bit longer than normal Might actually do more than conserving it
tip for moira players: do not hear about waahhh dps moiras and play exclusively healing, dont play exclusively dps either, do a steady mix of both because while you can 1v1 Reinhardt, your team still needs healing, but theres also still guys that need killing, so dont fully focus on healing either
Another tip I can give as a long time Dva main is not to focus the enemy tank too much. I've found the most success as Dva by pretending the enemy tank doesn't exist for the first 5-ish seconds of a fight and focus on support and dps enemies.
As a Dva main lover, I can say that I accomplish only 2 outta 3 successfully... I'm still guilty of the rocket spamming bit😅 It's just helpful when I am too far away from someone to cover them, but they're not completely out of my line of sight
Telling people to tap defense matrix is just bad advice, it uses more meter than just holding it. Even if you are eating nade or ash dynamite you usually shake your crosshair over it because it does not like to get eaten at times and you might throw the fight if you just “tap” it. As long as you have a goal in mind when using matrix it isn’t bad at all to use all of it, especially when you are protecting mercy rez, eating soldier/soujorn ult etc.
I can’t believe how many people play Dva but don’t know how to play Dva right now. I have games of Dvas just hiding behind supports or standing just in front of team getting blown up by focus fire. Fly into their back line INTO their supports or dps. The charge does 25 damage when you hit them plus rocket them and shoot them at the same time. Yes you can do all 3 at the same time. In the current meta you can kill any squishy faster than they can run away.
One issue. Getting better positions makes it so your whole team is tankless. The rest of the team is limpin and probably saying “wtf is out diva doing”
Not all TANKS should just eat damage like rein. Dva is very versatile with verticality and DM so you shouldn’t just be standing in front of your team. You know?
I mostly use the boost as a life saver or troll move Pushing enemies off the map Or saving myself Or re positioning myself from Below to a Roof top where i cant get by default And the rockets well i use them like a useless dva
Hello, Hanzo main here! PLEASE stop charging into me and wasting all you defense matrix. It makes it super super easy for me to use that storm arrow I've been saving to headshot you to the respawn zone.
I actually learned all of this off of a girl dva main in comp she had so much crazy good tips with dva so this is literally all natural to me sick tips!!
Your tips are solid and really good for new players, they might be good for returning players too if they forgotten a thing or two.
That’s my goal! I wanna start out beginner and as my community and I improve start to make my tips more advanced :)
@@RauKnowsOW That's very good Partner, there's enough toxic people as it is and having you being one of the more helpful ones is very good for everyone.
I’ve been sending some of these to some new players I’ve been playing with as a good guideline to play whichever champ they want. Fantastic stuff 👍
"returning players"
yeah, the game is totally still alive
"You just boosting because you could" I feel personally attacked
As a support main I can attest that a good Dva is the bane of our existence. Jumping the supports and holding Defense Matrix over them to prevent any heals from getting to their teammates are really good tricks
Bruh nothing worst than Ana heals or dart getting eaten haha
Yea I just started eating the actual heals around a low target, shit is hilarious watching them get upset they recieved no healing
As a Dva main I shut that shit down no exceptions xD
Im trying to be a better Dva, I'll remember that trick
tbh a default tip for pretty much all tanks should be "don't focus the other tank if supports are still alive"
Don’t forget you can use Rockets and your primary fire at the same time too
you can also use defense matrix during using rockets
If you don't hold down defense the enemy will also be much less confident about how much you have left. If you hold down really long it's much easier to tell that you probably just ran out.
As a certified DVa main, I often panic and hold the Defence Matrix and waste it and/or have a frequent tendancy to forget position and get myself in a bad situation🤣
2 tips:
1. you can shoot your rockets while using defense matrix
2. Defense matrix can block some enemy support healing such as Ana, Baptist, and kiriko.
Yessir also sleep dart while is HUGE
Also fun fact you can get heal stats in the scoreboard with Dva by eating moira heal orb with defence matrix. Saw a vid on it.... get them top heals as well
I usually find it a bit easier to kill dps but it depends on the situation more than anything, against orisa specifically it's really important to pressure supports
love the three bad habits vids solid tips every time
Thank you Vinnie :)
"Don't spam. Don't spam. GODDAMNNIT DON'T SPAM."
~ Me, trying to implement this.
Huge tip for new dva players. Don’t try to snipe. You do nearly 0 damage at more than like 10 meters with primary fire
So that’s what you were doing in the practice rang earlier!!😂(P.S. I was not stalking you I was online too)
Yup haha today is off day for stream BUT no off days for content :)
When i wanted to know if overwatch is the first place of twitch (third day it lunched) i watched the stream with the most views....
It was a f*cking E-girl who can not play the game and she was 6 hours 7n training range.
6 Hours? And on top of it the UwU sounds were cringe as hell
@@SirJ-qq3ye 💀 simps
@@SirJ-qq3ye I typed this with my nose
You can also use your rockets while boosting and shooting at the same time..sadly you can’t Defense matrix while shooting but you can with rockets
remember to actively look for things to eat with dva’s dm, dont just randomly click it on and off
The only thing I’d say is that while yes you can be holding down your defense matrix to long. You also don’t want to tap the button. Tapping the defense matrix usually doesn’t accomplish much and is a waste. I’d say use about a quarter or a third of it at a time
this man is actually following me discovering new bad habits 😂. a problem for me is I want to boost to get that soldier or McCree in the top right corner just feeding us but I don't want to leave the team hanging around being trampled by the orisa lol
It's about knowing if you can secure a kill or taking the pressure off so the enemy is forced to reposition. Make sure you have cooldowns, DM, rockets and fly and if you boost right into them while using rockets and DM this is often enough to kill them with a few seconds of left click + melee. Then fly back down to bully enemy supports, etc. DVa's huge benefit is her mobility!
Pressuring high ground DPS is useful because you're preventing the enemy from getting a random pick if the soldier/cass is happily clicking away at your backline (chance of you losing a teammate) and you're wasting your cooldowns emptying into the tanky Orisa who has healers also emptying into her.
You getting a pick could turn the fight in your favour! Recommend checking out Emongg for great DVa play :)
Still learned something and im a dva Main with 200 hours xD
Let’s goooo
i barely have a hundred hours on the whole game 😨
honestly Dva needs to be nerfed in a number of ways, defense matrix can literally just stop someone from playing the game lmao and all she has to do is press a button and shove it onto someones face.
Remember, rockets have splash damage, so if genji is low and reflecting you can get in his face and make him kill himself with the splash damage by reflecting the rockets into you. Just remember if you do this that you will take damage too!
Rau you should make a overwatch series on the best ways to counter all the heroes
Oh trust me I got plans ;)
I thought of your tips from the Baptiste video when I played yesterday, and managed to get a POTG on my very first match. :)
I used to main D. Va years ago when I was playing regularly! So helpful to have advice on how to use her rockets, I never felt like I properly utilized them personally. It's tricky finding uses for D. Va now that only one tank is allowed in each match too....
An absolutely hilarious thing ive noticed when i play dva is just flying to the sky (and not using your ult). People are so used to a random flight to the sky meaning a nuke that ive seen a lot of people just escape
It negates Mei ult as well …… found out the hard way ……. Twice
Can you please do one of these for Sojuorn?
With dvas rocket boost i like spinning around in circles around a group of them then flying straight up completely throws them off
I also do 1s boost into the enemy to do as much damage and then 1s to escape. It gives more poke dmg and as long as u have a decent healer youll come out with more than enough health for another fight
Another thing is, if you are about to die and have self destruct charged, boost into the enemy and self destruct
Rau dude this is amazing your vids are blowing up rlly happy for u man
Thank you dizzzy this channel has been doing CRAZY
A big thing as Dva if you’re up against a hog , in a standard team fight and in a lot of situations at least, is to make sure you’re not the one to get hooked if possible.
This is because when you get hooked you can’t use DM before his first shot so now you’re down a massive chunk of health and you probably wasted a lot of your DM backing away from pork boi.
If you know someone else is going to get hooked, positioning is HUGE and it’s important to make sure you have enough space between you and mr hoggins to where if he hooks a teammate, you have enough time and a ready DM to get into position and absorb all or as many of his shots until they get away from him safely.
The second part doesn’t apply if you want to sacrifice your DPS Moira to appease the Hog Gods. At that point, by all means, sit back and let nature take its course
Here’s a tip for DM usage
So ofc some abilities are more valuable to DM than others, here’s a few that are pretty key to grabbing:
Reinhardt Firestrike
Orisa Javelin
Ashe Dynamite
Both of Ana’s cool downs (sleep and most importantly nade)
Also, if you’re stuck using DM as in you know they have a key ultimate such as Zarya’s grav, you might want to flick away and then flick back to her, or look down to the ground and then back up, these five the illusion that either you don’t have DM or you’re trying to run away.
Interesting placement for those empty character slots overlayed on Zarya
Moira heal orbs as well
As soon as he told me boost with the Rockets in my head I’m like bro I always boots with the Rockets 🚀
please do Junker Queen next! I feel ive got a good grip on how she works, but your tips have been very helpful for other characters!
Honestly I think dva is complete ass. Most of the time the enemy tank is imposing, but when I see a dva I feel like she is actually more scary in baby form because shes harder to hit. I'm a torb main so maybe that has something to do with it but her mech form dies so quickly, her boost is actually kinda mediocre for diving and retreating, her primary does no damage even point blank, her rockets do no damage and are easy to just dodge, and her ult is absolute shit. Very rarely have I faced a dva that has killed me even once let alone oppressed me.
sometimes i boost forward and sideswipe the enemy frontline to create more space for my team, but i won't do that unless i know i can make it out of that alive
Boosting can really mess up a tanks or a team formation like if you swurve in then out you screwed up their entire formation and can lead to a win
Tip to counter dva ult: You can stand behind any solid object, and as long as her mech is out of your line of site, you will be safe 😎 even hiding behind a thin pole will work as long as you cant see the mech
The rockets for poke and ult charge can be decent in some situations
All great advice from a former Dva main, rockets are also good for pressuring a rein or sigma shield wlin a faceoff.
They also spend most of their time watching her on ph so they don’t pay attention in the match
Also as Dva you have access to the highground and if an enemy tries to take the high ground you should try to contest them and make them leave it
Defense matrix also eat moira's healing orbs! It's useful to cancel group heal from her
I agree with number one but over time we’ve learnt the timing & higher level players time her matrix so holding it down for a bit longer than normal
Might actually do more than conserving it
Always melee when you hit someone with your boost. Idk why I started doing it but it does heavy damage to supports
Def matrix does stop Zarya ult but shes gets countered by everything else Zarya does
Do Hanzo pls I neeeed it
Doing dps in the next week or 2! Working on tanks rn ❤️
The defense matrix tip would be good if there wasn’t a cool down every time you bring it up, even if you had hardly used it.
Awesome tip video tho
Another tip to eat zarya grabs or big abilities, don’t aim at the person using them aim at your team or between them at an angle
the boost could be used to separate the supporters from the dps which is a really great thing in certain situations
You should use boost to get to point faster from spawn too but I agree.
Waiting for widow and Lucio :) these are great
Lucio is up! Widow coming next week most likely!
Her matrix lasts so long I swear. Feels like a throw to go dive and not have a DVA to mit a lot of the spam in the game
Another tip: boost plus ult makes the suit go further
I’ve also found out you can use Defense matrix and rockets at the same time, you just use the rockets than activate the matrix, (I think)
I don't use defense matrix enough
I like how every good player is telling people to hold matrix and this guy decides that the opposite is now the correct way
Boost while firing main weapon AND use rockets at the same time or boost with shield while firing rockets
Do Echo tips please!!
tip for moira players:
do not hear about waahhh dps moiras and play exclusively healing, dont play exclusively dps either, do a steady mix of both because while you can 1v1 Reinhardt, your team still needs healing, but theres also still guys that need killing, so dont fully focus on healing either
Blizzard stole my legendary edition overwatch skins
You can actually boost, fire rockets and primary fire all at the same time.
You can also use your primary fire while using the boost and rocketa
Another tip I can give as a long time Dva main is not to focus the enemy tank too much.
I've found the most success as Dva by pretending the enemy tank doesn't exist for the first 5-ish seconds of a fight and focus on support and dps enemies.
Please do Mei 🥶
As a Dva main lover, I can say that I accomplish only 2 outta 3 successfully...
I'm still guilty of the rocket spamming bit😅
It's just helpful when I am too far away from someone to cover them, but they're not completely out of my line of sight
That, and it keeps most dealers off my supports
Have it off cool down. On cooldown means it's unavailable
True slip of the tongue there my young padawon
Telling people to tap defense matrix is just bad advice, it uses more meter than just holding it. Even if you are eating nade or ash dynamite you usually shake your crosshair over it because it does not like to get eaten at times and you might throw the fight if you just “tap” it. As long as you have a goal in mind when using matrix it isn’t bad at all to use all of it, especially when you are protecting mercy rez, eating soldier/soujorn ult etc.
DVA is a good person in overwatch
I need one for my Demoman with depth perception
Dva is also excellent for sombra checking
I can’t believe how many people play Dva but don’t know how to play Dva right now. I have games of Dvas just hiding behind supports or standing just in front of team getting blown up by focus fire. Fly into their back line INTO their supports or dps. The charge does 25 damage when you hit them plus rocket them and shoot them at the same time. Yes you can do all 3 at the same time. In the current meta you can kill any squishy faster than they can run away.
I feel so called out by the tip on boosting lmao
One issue. Getting better positions makes it so your whole team is tankless. The rest of the team is limpin and probably saying “wtf is out diva doing”
Not true when I say strong positions I mean positions that take space and relieve pressure for your team which is the role of a tank
Not all TANKS should just eat damage like rein. Dva is very versatile with verticality and DM so you shouldn’t just be standing in front of your team. You know?
My bad habit is playing with only one hand
I don't see enough dvas make use of the fact that you can absorb both kinds of moira orbs
dvas defense matrix can also eat hanzo ult
don't forget to melee when using booster+missiles
i mainly use rockets against a mercy
You can also eat Moiras Healing balls. Really useful
I mostly use the boost as a life saver or troll move
Pushing enemies off the map
Or saving myself
Or re positioning myself from Below to a Roof top where i cant get by default
And the rockets well i use them like a useless dva
you can also eat moira's heal balls btw
Idk make the distinction abt dps Moira orbs, it's both the dps and the healing orb that you can negate
Hello, Hanzo main here! PLEASE stop charging into me and wasting all you defense matrix. It makes it super super easy for me to use that storm arrow I've been saving to headshot you to the respawn zone.
I once ate, Zars ult, Pharahs ult, Tracers ult at one 😭
😳
u can also eat moiras heal orb and its very effective if she throws it at a low hp teammate
Or use a boost and go to your nearest support if your low on health
As a dva main i can agree with these tips
Please do Junkrat
Dva also completely disabled healers like ana from doing anything
if you use her shield when a hanzo use his ult in front of you it absorbs the ult
Literally That's all the dvas Do that I play against Just Full sends me with the Boost and Rockets 😂😂😂
😳
Gotta make sure you dont leave your matrix up for too SHORT of a time either, though
I actually learned all of this off of a girl dva main in comp she had so much crazy good tips with dva so this is literally all natural to me sick tips!!
I do all of those things except the bad habits
Dva can eat the healing orbs too I think
You said DPS moira orbs but actually it negates the healing one aswell!
You forgot to mention that you can boost rocket and block attack