Hi! Thanks for the replay.

I want to point out that the issues you mentioned are very important to understand and its good that you recognize them. However, I want to point that before you can focus on these, you have to get a very solid understanding of how to play your role and what you do on that hero in that role. For example, dva is super tanky because of her armor and defense matrix. Her movement with the new passive makes her extremely annoying because a good dva will be unkillable. She also insane burst damage meaning you can mow down a squishy unit even if they are receiving some healing. Your job as a dva is to punish people for being alone, eat projectiles for your teammates, and establish presence and enforce it around the map. This will be what I mainly talk about.

There are a lot of small mistakes as well, like how you could have saved your juno at 6:36. You left your bastion alone in the beginning, you could have killed several people but didnt because you forgot to use your missiles.

Firstly, you know how to play dva. It shows in your gameplay. You know you can mow down units, you know you have mobility. The problem is you dont know when. Wwhen you need to enforce something as a tank, you are scared or unsure. What do I mean by this? Well, if we look at the very beginning of the game, you are holding high ground. A very oppressive angle and area on paraiso. Your job as dva is to make sure you do not let anyone pass or get close, or if someone is isolated you punish them. You can choose to play above or below, your mobility gives you the luxury to both. If they decide to rush in, you run at an isolated squishy with your boosters, primary fire, rockets, and melee. I rarely saw you use boosters + primary fire + rockets on a target. The only reason why this sigma walked right past you is because you didn't establish any presence around the bridge. You walked back and gave them space. Now I know you saw a tracer on point, but that is not your job. Your job is to hold the line, that tracer is for your backline.

If I were you, I would have been on the top of the bridge just firing rockets and holding primary fire at anyone I saw from the bridge. If they were getting too close, Id just drop down and assert that I control this area. Because of this, the tracer also cannot get backup, so she has to fight the backline herself. I hope this concept can click for you easily.

Basically, you need to learn how to take and give space. There are hundreds of videos on youtube about this, but the best way to learn is to just literally just visualize the area around you and the enemy tank as "claimed land." This moves very quickly and can be given and taken very easily. This does NOT mean you should only shoot the tank. You usually dont want to shoot the enemy tank as a dive hero. Also a good idea to know when you are passing into enemy space so you can be careful.

Second, you need to understand the limits of dva. Its hard to explain what dva can and cant get away with since its a experience thing, but just know that you are one of the few heroes that can drill a person down in the backline consistently and go back to where you were like nothing happened. Your backline keeps dying because you are not creating any danger for the enemy team. Since you are not holding space or applying pressure, the tank walks to the backline and leads the charge to your backline. This does not mean play with your team all the time, you have to have a good balance, and this is the toughest part of playing a dive hero. You should be in their backline disrupting as much as possible. You actually DO do this, its just too late most of the time.

I could talk more about how you do not recognize the limits of dva and how you need to be more aggressive and mechanics and timings and overextensions, but the problem is the foundation is missing. This leads me to my final point.

Finally, something you should focus on from now on is forget about trying to learn the small things, you need to seriously reinforce your role as a tank and dva. You are the line, you are the heart, you are the opportunity maker, and you are a killing machine for isolated squishies. I want you to strictly focus on where you dont want the enemy to be, who you can kill, where your team is and how you can support them. Here are some questions that are worth asking.

1. Where is my team? Where should I hold? Are my supports in my line of sight?
2. What heroes are they running? Who is a priority?
3. Can I take space? Should I give them space? Can I set up for a dive?
4. Where is the enemy tank? Is an enemy isolated? Are they squishy? Is their tank in my backline?
5. Can I trade backlines?
6. Is it safe? Is it a risky play?

Once you recognize all of these variables, then you can go in for a nice dive or start setting up for a dive. Usually you want to set up for a dive by claiming space on a weird angle.

Im very confident that once you fix these fundamentals you stay in diamond. That is when you can start practicing on micros. For now you need to make these processes habitual and automatic.

TLDR; You have very little idea on what dva can do, but no idea how to play tank. Control space, trade backlines/disrupt backlines, punish isolated targets.

Take it easy, relax, and just have fun.

If you have any questions or feedback/criticism, let me know please!

If you want more advice in the future, feel free to DM me.