#Bastion play of the game meme Patch#

MOMnic Explanation Due to being a sweet, protective, and adorably dorky female Omnic, this nickname has been quickly catching on with fans.Explanation Given how the current competitive scene is almost always mandatory to have a Reinhardt tank for each team to try to succeed, many believe that Orisa has finally provided an alternative. Thus, shippers tend to see Orisa as someone who shot torpedoes to the Pharmercy ship, even moreso after Blizzard seems to swing more into Genji-Mercy.

Pharmercy sinker Explanation Due to alphabetical sorting, Orisa's place in Hero Gallery is between Mercy and Pharah, who complement each other's playstyle and are sometimes shipped together.

When Orisa was announced to take her place but was revealed to be only a month old, people have jokingly called out this Double Standard, since robots are people too.

Orisa is only 1 month old! Explanation Back when Efi was first introduced, a mild debate sprouted on her inclusion as an in-game hero since she's only 11, which would've been.

Though some Reinhardt mains appreciated this because people almost never gather behind his shield (see below).

During the PTR, because almost everyone there was there to play Orisa, the barrier and thus the voice line got spammed.

'I recommend moving behind my barrier.' Explanation One of Orisa's lines when activating her barrier.

Explanation One of Orisa's skins makes her take on a beetle-like appearance, which immediately got popular among fans. The leadup to, and reveal of, Orisa was virtually out of nowhere especially compared to Sombra's incredibly long ARG and Ana's presence in lore beforehand. Explanation After Sombra's release, players were convinced the next released hero would be Doomfist, especially when a change to Numbani's map showed the Doomfist gauntlet being stolen. With the buff to D.Va's Call Mech, many began comparing the two abilities, many quickly realizing how D.Va won out in sheer practicality.

The better Meteor Strike Explanation Doomfist's Meteor Strike has been notoriously underwhelming for its intended purpose (more often than not, it's used as an escape rather than an attack due to how risky it is to use that way).

#Bastion play of the game meme Patch#

Mech drop Explanation Following the April 2021 patch which increased the damage of the Call Mech ability to 250, it's actually become a running gag for a de-meched D.VA to try sneaking up on a group of enemies and killing them by dropping the mech on their heads.It's usually heard through player communication when one informs their teammates that D.Va is now vulnerable to kill. Naked D.Va/Baby D.Va Explanation Basically D.Va's Fan Nickname when she's out of her mech.Explanation Given the inability of D.Va's MEKA to crouch, there are often jokes about how she can't communicate with other players in Skirmishes by crouch spamming or not being able to Teabag her enemies.

Became Hilarious in Hindsight after people started legitimately using this tactic, and was even recommended by the #1 Junkrat player, PvpTwitch. This quickly became a source of mockery, with angry fans pointing to it as 'proof' of the developers not understanding how the character's actually played. Explanation Referring to an infamous comment by Geoff Goodman, one of Blizzard's Lead Designers, in which he suggested D.Va could use her Defense Matrix to protect ally ultimates like Junkrat's RIP-Tire.

NERF THIS! Explanation Like Cassidy's 'It's high noon' and Mercy's 'HEROES NEVER DIE!', D.Va's Self-Destruct call-out has been repeated by many fans.

Junkrat, being the second-youngest (human) character, is sometimes added in as D.Va's brother.

As such, the other female characters are sometimes depicted as overprotective and doting older sister/mother figures for D.Va (who in this situation is often portrayed in the above 'gremlin' mode).

D.Va's Mom Squad Explanation D.Va isn't as directly femslashed with many other heroes due to her being much younger than the rest of the cast.

Referenced in her sitting 'Game On' emote, which has her eating D.vas chips and drinking a green-colored soda while playing a video game.

This meme incidentally got big enough to popularize 'gremlin' as a catch-all term for any short, wide-eyed, wide-faced person- fictional or not- with a similar energetic and/or irritating demeanor.

Gremlin D.Va / Korean Gamer Explanation A popular fan depiction of D.Va as a stereotypical MLG gamer that lives entirely on Doritos and Mountain Dew, usually drawn in a Super-Deformed style.