5/29/2025
Developer Comments: D.Va's been having a hard time asserting space effectively, especially when trying to control key areas. Buffing Lava should help her create more threatening zones and discourage enemies from waltzing into her turf uninvited. As for Focused Fusion—the concept was solid, but in practice it struggled to keep up when enemies were practically doing laps around her. We're adjusting just a bit, so it doesn’t feel like D.Va brought a sniper rifle to a knife fight but still have the ability to hit enemies from near and far.
Focused Fusion - Power
- Decreased Fusion Cannon spread to 50% (Down from 66%).
Ignition Burst - Power
- Increased Lava damage to 80 (Up from 30).
Vesuvius Protocol – Rare Ability Hero Item
- Increased Lava damage to 80 (Up from 30).
5/9/2025
Developer Comments: D.Va has been struggling in matchups against beam-focused heroes like Zarya, where her defensive tools feel less effective. We're adding some synergy with Defense Matrix Powers/Items when using it to mitigate Beam damage. We're also adding some power to some of the builds that utilize her main defensive tool, Defense Matrix, in hopes to allow them to have a bit more flexibility and apply more pressure in team fights.
Countermeasures – Power
- Decreased mitigation requirement to 100 (down from 150).
Mastermind's Mitigator – Rare Ability Hero Item
- Decreased damage mitigation requirement to 200 (down from 300).
Stat Boost – Power
- Increased Defense Matrix recovery rate to 125% (up from 100%).
Ultrawide Matrix – Power
- Defense Matrix duration increased to 25% (up from 20%).
Multi-Task Mod – Epic Weapon Hero Item
- Increased Weapon Power to 20% (up from 10%).
Singijeon's Pulse Plating – Epic Survival Hero Item
- Increased Ultimate Charge gain to 10% (up from 5%).
Plot Armor – Rare Survival Hero Item
- Damage reduced now gets counted as damage mitigated by Defense Matrix.
5/1/2025
Developer Comments: Nano Cola™ Nitrous has been making it too difficult for opponents to take down D.Va while out of her mech and allowing her to get her mech back consistently. These changes will help add some risk of being out of her mech back into her kit.
Busan Blaster was allowing D.Va to get her mech back instantly, which was not the intention of this item's design.
Nano Cola™ Nitrous – Epic Survival Hero Item
- Health reduced to 25 (down from 50).
- Reduced Max Life increase to 5% (down from 25%).
- Reduced duration of Nano Boost to 4 seconds (down from 8 seconds).
Busan Blaster – Epic Ability Hero Item
- No longer generates Ultimate Charge.
4/25/2025
Developer Comments: We want to make sure that every Hero has answers to their potential counter so we're increasing D.Va's ability to combat Zarya’s beam damage.
Plot Armor – Rare Hero Survival Item
- Increased damage reduction against Beams to 65% (up from 30%).
4/22/2025
Bunny Stomp
- Now combined with Ejection Suit.
Bunny Power
- New Minor Perk
- Eject grants 75 temporary overhealth and Call Mech’s damage radius is increased by 50%.
Extended Boosters
- New Minor Perk
- Hitting an enemy with Boosters increases the duration by 0.5 seconds.
4/1/2025
Developer Comments: The Meka Squad are having a rough time against the Gwishin Omnics. So, they are experimenting with new designs to save on materials and rations.
- Mech Size reduced by 50%.
- Mech Base Health reduced from 375 to 25.
- Mech Armor Health is unchanged.
- Pilot D.Va size reduced by 50%.
- Pilot Base Health reduced from 175 to 25.
Fusion Cannons
- Rate of fire increased by 100%.
- Damage reduced by 50%.
Light Gun
- Rate of Fire increased by 100%.
- Reload Speed increased by 25%.
- Damage reduced by 25%.
Self-Destruct
- Press Interact during Self-Destruct to freeze mech in place.
2/18/2025
Bunny Stomp
- Call Mech's damage radius is increased by 50%.
Ejection Suit
- Eject grants 75 temporary overhealth.
Shield System
- Convert 150 health to shields. Defense Matrix restores shields based on 25% of its damage absorbed.
Heavy Rockets
- Micro Missiles are swapped for Heavy Rockets which fire fewer projectiles with increased damage and explosion size.
12/17/2024
- Base health increased from 225 to 350.
- Base armor reduced from 325 to 300.
Fusion Cannons
- Weapon spread increased from 3.375 to 4 degrees.
- Movement speed penalty increased from 30% to 40%.
Defense Matrix
- Maximum duration reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.
Boosters
- Cooldown increased from 3.5 to 4 seconds.
Micro Missiles
- Cooldown increased from 7 to 8 seconds.
10/28/2024
Anti-Boost
- Fixed an issue where Booster impact was dealing extra damage in addition to the anti-healing debuff.
No Escape
- Weapon Damage increase is reduced to 75% was 100%.
9/17/2024
Developer Comment: There has been a lot of community feedback surrounding D.Va lately. On average she hasn't been overperforming, but she’s quite difficult to take down. So we're shifting some of her armor to normal health and reducing her max combined health by 25 armor. With armor's effectiveness being hit in the same patch, we'll keep an eye on how this plays out and adjust as necessary.
- Mech armor health reduced from 375 to 325.
- Mech base health increased from 200 to 225.
8/20/2024
Developer Comment: The increase in Defense Matrix availability didn't help D.Va's overall performance that much compared to the amount of frustration it is causing players on the opposing team, so we're reverting it to the previous duration.
Defense Matrix
- Maximum duration reduced from 3.5 to 3 seconds.
7/5/2024
Developer Comment: The maximum duration of Defense Matrix is increased by half a second by reducing the rate at which the resource meter drains when in use, so it won't take longer to regenerate. The increased damage on Micro Missiles will help the ability feel relatively more impactful against larger health pools.
Defense Matrix
- Maximum duration increased from 3 to 3.5 seconds.
Micro Missiles
- Explosion damage increased from 4 to 5.5 damage (from 126 to 153 max damage with direct impacts).
6/20/2024
Developer Comments: These changes will improve D.Va's effectiveness against smaller targets as she became less effective against armored enemies in the previous patch.
Fusion Cannons
- Weapon spread reduced from 3.75 to 3.375 degrees.
Boosters
- Impact damage increased from 15 to 25.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Mech go zoom and D.Va bomb go boom.
Boosters
- Can now move backwards.
- Can now be canceled with Crouch.
- Canceling the ability with Crouch in the first .4 seconds reduces the cooldown to 1.5 seconds.
Self Destruct
- Knockback increased by 900%.
2/20/2024
Light Gun
- Base projectile size reduced from 0.25 to 0.2 meters. Total projectile size is now 0.3 meters.
2/13/2024
- Pilot health increased from 150 to 175.
- Mech armor increased from 300 to 375.
Self-Destruct
- Explosion maximum damage increased from 900 to 1000.
- Inner explosion radius (range for maximum damage before falloff begins) increased from 4 to 6 meters.
10/31/2023
Developer comments: The added projectile speed to Micro Missiles helps improve their consistency at medium range while the decreased movement speed penalty on Fusion Cannons enable D.Va to stick closer to mobile targets, making her more of a threat when diving into the enemy team.
Fusion Cannons
- Movement speed penalty reduced from 40 to 30%.
Micro Missiles
- Projectile speed increased from 40 to 50.
10/10/2023
Added the hero-specific options:
- Light Gun Input -- Primary Fire by default.
- Relative Light Gun Aim Sensitivity – 100% by default.
- Relative Light Gun Gyro Aim Sensitivity – 100% by default (only available on gyro-supported platforms).
8/10/2023
Developer Comments: Once D.Va’s mech was destroyed, there was a window of time where the pilot could be damaged or killed before the player fully had control over their character. With this change, D.Va can no longer be damaged by things like explosions or melee attacks before the player fully transitions control from the mech to the pilot.
Boosters
- Cooldown reduced from 4 to 3.5 seconds.
Eject Mech
- Pilot is now damage immune for 0.4 seconds while ejecting.
5/9/2023
Added the Hero-Specific Options:
- Hide Boosters Cancel Text - Off by default
- Hide Boosters Timer - Off by default
2/7/2023
- Mech base health in Role Queue modes remains the same at 350
- Mech base health in non-Role Queue modes reduced from 350 to 200
11/17/2022
D.Va felt too deadly after the last round of changes given how resilient she can be with her improved Defense Matrix.
Fusion Cannons
- Spread increased from 3.5 to 3.75
Boosters
- Impact damage reduced from 25 to 15
Call Mech
- Fixed in last update- Call Mech ultimate cost reduced by 12%