GoKawiilGet ready to unleash your inner demon when Overwatch Season 4 begins on Aug. 11. The game’s next chapter brings new tank hero D.Mon, who comes from the same robot suit-piloting Meka Squad as launch hero D.Va but brings a different style of gameplay to the hero shooter’s tank roster.
Yuna “D.Mon” Lee enters the roster as the first new tank hero since Domina back in February. The mech pilot has been in the lore since 2018, when she appeared in D.Va’s Shooting Star cinematic, and the community has been begging for more mech heroes ever since.
And here she is: the new leader of South Korea’s Meka Squad. D.Mon is an “untouchable, cool ice queen,” according to Eleni Rivera, a narrative designer for Overwatch. That’s an interesting contrast to the Meka team’s former leader as mentioned in the lore, who was much louder and more in your face. D.Va was a bit more of an individualistic leader, doing her own thing, Rivera said, whereas D.Mon is much more about being a cool, collected team player.
In a group media interview, Lead Hero Producer Kenny Hudson said, “The story of this hero has been great attention to detail, and pride in the craft.” Much like the rest of the community, the Overwatch team has had high expectations for this hero for years.
D.Mon can also battle without her mech. Blizzard
D.Mon design and gameplay
In contrast to D.Va’s design, which fulfilled a more ballistics-based mech fantasy, D.Mon brings agile, sci-fi sword and shield gameplay to Overwatch. Referencing the popularity of the game’s iconic, hammer-swinging tank, Reinhardt, Hudson said the team wanted to expand the melee tank roster, aiming to “give those players who like to play up-close and personal with their tanks more to choose from.”
D.Mon’s primary fire swings a plasma sword in an arc in front of her, while her secondary fire pulls up a shield. While the shield is up, you can activate primary fire to lunge forward with the sword, dealing damage and knocking back enemies. She also has a Fusion Repeater ability that gives her a few seconds of ranged damage and a resource-based horizontal dash ability that boosts her quickly along the ground.
D.Mon’s Fusion Repeater allows her to deal early damage or finish off low-health enemies as they flee.
Hudson said D.Mon’s design was partly inspired by the team wanting to see what happens when you have a melee tank with more mobility. As a result, she’s able to dash around while holding up her shield, giving her a distinct feel from other melee tanks, who generally lack movement abilities.
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