It's a lot easier to dodge a nova while the it's almost impossible to avoid getting fisted. I shot a titan at point blank with a shotgun while they were trying to do their super and he didn't get a scratch while me and everyone else in that room were staring at the respawn screen, but when I use my nova at close range, they just had to double jump to avoid any damage. Personally, I still like being able to fling my nova across the map so I'm going with that.

Nova just because on the Venus Map I could just double jump straight up by B and rain death upon people.