Overwatch 2: All Hero Changes

The servers of the multiplayer shooter Overwatch, which was released in 2016, were officially closed on October 3, 2022. Now only a full-fledged continuation of the game is available for the game - Overwatch 2, but the project is completely free.

The developers at Blizzard Studios have made a lot of changes to the balance of heroes, so it's best to familiarize yourself with their new characteristics before playing.

The characters in Overwatch 2 have gone through a lot of changes. Each beta test of the game made its own adjustments to the balance and capabilities of the heroes, which significantly affected the gameplay of the shooter. Almost all the characters received minor edits, and some of them even completely changed their role. For example, Doomfist became a tank, and Orisa got a new skill. Below you can find a list of all the heroes and the changes they received in Overwatch 2.

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General character changes in Overwatch 2

Overwatch 2 introduces several major changes to the overall gameplay that can be confusing if you've only played the first game. It will be useful for beginners of the shooter to find out the basic elements that have been changed for all the heroes of the game:

• Changing the hero allows you to return up to 30% of your ultimate ability.
• Armor, represented by the orange health bars, now reduces damage taken by 30% instead of reducing each hit by five damage like before. This damage reduction effect applies to all damage sources equally.
• Temporary Shields and Temporary Armor have been merged into Temporary Health, which is displayed in bright green on the health bar. Hero abilities now grant temporary health instead of temporary armor or shields. Players that deal damage to enemies with temporary health gain half the normal charge of their ultimate ability.

Passive abilities

One of the major gameplay changes in Overwatch 2 was the introduction of role-based passive abilities. Now all characters get an additional ability that depends on their role: Tank, Damage or Support.

• Damage: Killing a Damage Hero now increases reload and movement speed by 25% for 2,5 seconds. Killing another enemy within 2,5 seconds will simply reset the timer. The effect cannot stack.
• Tank: Tank Heroes gain 30% less knockback, but also gain 30% less Super from healing and taking damage.
• Support: all support characters gradually regenerate health after taking no damage for a short time. The health regeneration rate is 15 HP per second, and it triggers after 1,5 seconds out of combat.

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Ana

• Biotic weapons: magazine size increased from 12 to 15.
• Biotic Grenade: Effect duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
• Tranquilizer: cooldown increased from 12 to 15 seconds.

Ash

BOB: BOB's base health reduced from 1200 to 1000.

Baptist

• Biotic Machine: primary fire damage increased from 24 to 25, and the minimum fall range increased from 20 to 25 meters. Heal Grenade magazine size increased from 10 to 13.
• Regeneration stimulator: this explosion now instantly restores 50 health and an additional 50 over time instead of 100 over time. In addition, a portion of the instant heal will be doubled for targets that are at 50% health or below, but the explosion no longer heals Batista twice.

Bastion

• Ability and self-healing configuration during the use of the tank were removed.
• Configuration: Intelligence: Weapon damage increased from 20 to 25, rate of fire reduced from 8 shots per second to 5, and magazine size reduced from 35 to 25. Weapon spread has also been removed.
• Storm configuration: now has a 6 second duration and a 12 second cooldown. During this time, Bastion can move with a 35% movement speed reduction, but the minigun has infinite ammo. Weapon damage has been reduced from 15 to 12 per shot, but the spread is now XNUMX degrees and no longer becomes more accurate when fired.
• Tactical grenade A-36: This is a new Bastion ability with an 8 second cooldown and is tied to the secondary fire button. Fire a grenade that can bounce off walls but stick to players and the ground. The grenade explodes after a short delay and deals up to 130 damage.
• Battleship: A passive effect that reduces damage by 20% when transformed in Bastion Assault or Artillery configurations.
• Configuration: Artillery: a new ultimate for the Bastion that replaces the tank configuration. When used, Bastion locks into place and transforms into an artillery piece, allowing you to hit three areas with an artillery shell that deals high damage over a large area with significant damage reduction.

Brigitte

• Shield Bash: no longer stuns enemies, but its cooldown has been reduced from 7 seconds to 5 seconds, its damage has been increased from 1 to 50, and its knockback effect has been doubled. The distance traveled by Shield Bash has also increased from 7 meters to 12 meters, and Bridget's movement is no longer stopped by Shield Bashing a Barrier.
• Inspiration: the duration has been reduced from 6 to 5 seconds, but it can also be activated with Shield Bash.

Cassidy

• Ability flashbang grenade was deleted.
• Peacemaker: Cassidy's revolver has its fan hammer rate of fire increased by approximately 7,5%.
• Magnetic grenade: A new ability that replaces the flashbang grenade. Throw a grenade that can stick to enemies. The grenade has a light tracking ability when thrown at an enemy that is within 10 meters of you and next to your crosshair. After a short time, the grenade will explode, dealing up to 131 damage. damage.
• Somersault: Cassidy now gains 50% damage reduction for the 0,4 seconds it takes to roll.
• Accurate shooter: Cassidy now receives 40% damage reduction while channeling, and the maximum duration has been increased from 6 to 7 seconds. In addition, Marksman's damage from each shot now increases at a rate of 130 damage per second for the first two seconds, and then by 260 damage per second for the remaining five seconds. However, the cost of the ultimate has been increased by 10%.

D.Va

• Mech base health increased from 300 to 350.
• Atomic cannons: movement penalty when firing cannons has been reduced from 50% to 40%, and spread has been reduced from 4 to 3,5 degrees.
• Accelerators: impact damage increased from 10 to 25.
• Microrockets: cooldown reduced from 8 to 7 seconds.
• Mech Challenge: cost reduced by 12%.

Doomfist

• Now the hero is a tank.
• Health increased from 250 to 450.
• Ability Uppercut was deleted.
• Hand gun: Shot damage reduced from 6 to 5, but ammo regeneration rate increased from one shot every 0,65 seconds to 0,4 seconds.
• Jet Strike: hit damage range reduced from 50-100 to 15-30, and wall hit damage range reduced from 50-150 to 20-40. The maximum charge time has been reduced from 1,4 seconds to 1 second. Finally, hitting a target now causes a larger cone area secondary check to grab additional targets to potentially knock them back.
• Power block: Doomfist's new defensive ability. Enter a blocking stance, reducing damage taken from the front by 80%. Blocking at least 90 damage causes Doomfist's gauntlet to become supercharged and your next Rocket Strike deals 50% more damage, 50% more range, and 50% more speed. The area of ​​effect of the explosion that knocks back additional targets is also doubled with an enhanced Rocket Strike, and enemies hit by a wall from the Rocket Strike can be stunned for up to 1 second based on the amount of Rocket Strike charge.
• Meteor strike: Doomfist now launches into the air in the direction the player is aiming at, and upon landing creates a shockwave in a wide arc, dealing 50 damage to enemies. It no longer has a different behavior when activated in the air or on the ground and does not pull enemies closer, but it can be canceled during use by pressing the ability key again.

Echo

• Directional Beam: maximum damage per second reduced from 200 to 175 .
• Duplication: When copying an enemy hero with their ultimate, Echo copies the target's total health, including health, armor, and shields, up to a total of 300 health. This means that if she copies a high health tank hero like Reinhardt or Roadhog, her copy will only be limited to 300 health.

Orisa

• Base health increased from 200 to 275.
• Base armor increased from 200 to 275.
• Abilities Stand, force barrier и Catalyst have been removed.
• Energy Gun: main fire now fires 10 plasma projectiles per second. Their damage starts at 12 and decreases to 6 at 15 to 25 meters, but critical hits deal 100% more damage. Instead of using ammo, this weapon now has an overheating mechanic, gaining heat when fired and cooling down when not fired. If the weapon overheats, the heat is forcibly reset, preventing the weapon from being fired for 3 seconds.
• Energy Spear: is a new secondary fire that replaces Stand. She throws a spear that deals 60 damage, stuns for 0,2 seconds, and knocks back the target on impact. If the target is knocked back against a wall, they take an additional 40 damage and are stunned for an additional 0,3 seconds. The cooldown is 6 seconds.
• Strengthening: gives 125 additional health and reduces heat generation from Energy Cannon by 50% while active. The duration has also been increased from 4 to 4,5 seconds.
• Spear rotation: a new ability that replaces the defensive barrier. Orisa rapidly spins the spear for 1,75 seconds, destroying incoming projectiles. While active, she moves forward 50% faster and then 20% faster for 2 seconds after the rotation ends. Enemies hit by the spear take up to 90 damage and are constantly knocked back. This ability has a 7 second cooldown.
• Terra Splash: a new ultimate that replaces the Catalyst. Orisa spins the spear in place, strengthening and pulling nearby enemies. It also charges an area attack for 4 seconds, which can be used anytime during those 4 seconds, dealing up to 500 damage depending on how long it has been charged. While the attack is charging, the ability deals minor damage over time and reduces the movement speed of nearby enemies by 30%.

Farrah

• Rocket launcher: Reload now starts 0,25 seconds earlier if out of ammo.
• Blast Wave: Direct blast hits now deal 30 damage and an additional knockback.

Hanzo

Flurry: damage reduced from 70 to 65.

Queen of the Vultures

New character in Overwatch 2.

• Scatter Pistol: A pump-action shotgun that deals high damage at close range.
• Serrated Blade: this secondary fire ability causes you to throw a large throwing knife that deals damage on impact and plunges into enemies, injuring them and dealing a small amount of additional damage over time. Reactivating returns the knife and pulls the impaled enemy towards you.
• Commander Shout: briefly grants yourself and nearby allies temporary health and increases movement speed. The Vulture Queen gains 200 temporary health and a 5 second movement speed increase, while allies within 15 meters only gain 50 temporary health and a 3 second movement speed increase. This ability has a 15 second cooldown.
• Massacre: swing your large ax to damage and injure all enemies in front of you, dealing additional damage over time.
• Choice of Adrenaline: This passive causes you to heal from any damage over time when you inflict wounds.
• Rampage: dash forward and damage enemies within 5 meters, dealing damage over time. Enemies you hit also cannot be healed for a few seconds.

Junkrat

• Grenade launcher: Grenade launcher shell size increased from 0,2 to 0,25.
• Trap: Trap damage increased from 80 to 100 when it traps an enemy, and projectile speed increased from 10 to 15.

Kiriko

Kiriko is the first Hero of the Overwatch 2 Battle Pass.

• Ofuda's Healing: Kiriko's Primal Fire fires a long burst of healing talismans that can move slightly towards allies and provide enough healing in a short amount of time - a full burst of 10 talismans will give around 130 health.
• Kunai: Throw out kunai projectiles that deal high critical damage with Kiriko's secondary fire.
• Wall Climbing: with this passive skill, you can jump walls to climb them, just like Genji and Hanzo.
• Quick step: use this ability to quickly teleport to an ally within range. Has a 7 second cooldown.
• Suzu Defense: with this Ability, you can cast a defensive spell that applies the following benefits to allies caught in its explosion, including you: adds a short-term invulnerability effect, heals 50 health, and clears most debuffs and debuffs from enemies. The amulet shatters when it hits any surface, including friendly and enemy players, and enemy players even receive a small amount of knockback when struck by the amulet. This ability has a 14 second cooldown.
• Fury of Kitsune: Kirkio's ultimate ability allows her to summon a fox spirit that rushes forward, leaving a trail that you and your allies can follow to gain a temporary boost to movement speed, attack speed, and ability cooldowns.

Lucio

• Sound barrier: Super cost reduced by 12%.
• Crossfade: self-healing penalty has been increased from 30% to 60% to balance it with the new passive support role.

May

• Endothermic blaster: the blaster now immediately slows targets by 50% instead of building up over time, and the freeze stun has been removed. The duration of the slow effect has also been reduced from 1 second to 0,5 seconds, but weapon damage per second has been increased from 55 to 100, and magazine capacity has been increased from 120 to 150.
• Cryostasis: using the ability no longer removes effects.
• Ice Wall: the health of each column has been reduced from 400 to 250. The radius of the wall has also been reduced from 35 to 20 meters.
• Winter storm: Ability cost increased by 15%.

Angel

• Guardian angel: pressing Crouch during Guardian Angel now launches you vertically, while pressing Jump launches you in the direction Mercy is facing, or in the opposite direction if you hold the back directional button. When using the Guardian Angel, a new meter appears that recharges as you travel with the Guardian Angel. The more charge the meter has, the faster you will get a trigger from canceling a Guardian Angel with a jump.
• Descent of an Angel: can now be activated by holding the crouch button while in the air and slows down ascent and descent.
• Regeneration: The Passive now improves the self-healing effect of the Passive Support Role by 50%.

reaper

Infernal Shotguns: bullet spread increased from 6 to 7 degrees, and damage per bullet decreased from 6 to 5,4.

Reinhardt

• Base armor increased from 200 to 300.
• Base health increased from 300 to 325.
• Passive Ability Persistent » has been removed in favor of the Tank Role passive ability.
• Energy Barrier: Barrier health reduced from 1600 to 1200 and regeneration rate reduced from 200 to 144 health per second.
• Snatch: turn speed has been increased by 50%, dash can be canceled manually by pressing the Ability button again after a short delay. Wall-pinned damage has been reduced from 300 to 225, but Charge's cooldown has been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
• Fire Strike: now has two ability charges, but its damage has been reduced from 100 to 90.

Hog

• Base health increased from 600 to 700.
• Respite: total healing increased from 300 to 350 health.
• Turbopig: Roadhog's ult has changed from a "Guided" Ultimate to a "Transform" which means that his behavior changes in several ways: the weapon no longer fires automatically and can only be fired with the main fire button, normal abilities can be used while the ult is active.

Sigma

• Base shields increased from 100 to 200.
• Accretion: damage increased from 70 to 100.
• Experimental Barrier: Barrier health regeneration rate reduced from 120 to 100 health per second.

Sojorn

The new hero of Overwatch 2. All her abilities are listed below.

• Railgun: The main fire of the Railgun quickly fires small projectiles (14 per second) that generate Energy on each hit. You can generate up to 100 energy, and the amount you generate per shot depends on what exactly you're hitting - for example, critical hits generate more energy than normal, while hitting non-playable targets like turrets generate much less. The railgun also has a secondary fire mode where you can put all your energy into a powerful, accurate shot from the railgun. The size and damage of this shot depends on how much energy you have stored up, where more energy means more damage and a bigger projectile.
• Destructive Shot: launching an energy blast creates a slowing and damaging area on impact. The cooldown is 15 seconds.
• Power slide: a far and fast knee slide that is interrupted by a jump to get much higher than normal. Has a 6 second cooldown.
• Acceleration: Activate this ultimate to give Sojorn's Railgun automatic power generation for 8 seconds. During this time, a charged shot of secondary fire can also pierce enemies.

Soldier 76

• Pulse Rifle: damage per shot reduced from 20 to 18.
• Sprint: movement speed increase has been reduced from 50% to 40%.
• Tactical visor: now allows critical strikes if the shot would have been a critical outside of his ultimate, but also no longer removes the damage reduction from his Heavy Pulse Rifle.

Sombra

• Submachine gun: damage reduced from 8 to 7, but spread reduced by 10%.
• Breaking : hacking an enemy now shows them through walls for you and your team for 8 seconds and prevents them from using their abilities for 1,75 seconds. The cooldown has also been reduced from 8 to 4 seconds. However, the time to complete a hack has been increased from 0,65 seconds to 0,85 seconds, and interrupting your hack due to taking damage makes you wait for the hack to fully recover. In addition, the ability's cooldown is no longer reduced when a Medkit is unlocked, and the MedKit's duration has been reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds. Hacking BOB also only stuns him for 2 seconds (instead of 5 seconds), but Baptiste's Immortal Field is completely destroyed when hacked.
• Disguise: the spawn time has been reduced by 50%, and you can now use Hack without disabling stealth. However, stealth hacking will reveal you to enemies and you will remain undetected for another 0,75 seconds. The distance at which enemies will detect you has also been increased from 2 to 4 meters, and the movement speed bonus has been reduced from 65% to 50%.
• Opportunist: Sombra's passive now also means that damage dealt to hacked targets is increased by 40%.
• Pulse: In addition to the hack, the ultimate now also deals damage equal to 40% of each target's current health. While Pulse still deals massive damage to barriers, it no longer deals additional damage to the base shield's health bars.

Symmetra

• Photon emitter: Weapon ammo increased from 70 to 100. Primary fire no longer generates ammo when barriers are damaged. Secondary fire projectiles have also been changed as follows: their speed has been doubled from 25 to 50, their maximum damage has been reduced from 120 to 90 (divided equally between impact and burst damage), and the ammo cost for each projectile has been reduced. increased from 7 to 10, and projectile radius increased from 0,4 meters to 0,5 meters.
• Teleport: teleport build time has been reduced from 2 to 1 second, and the maximum life is now 10 seconds. The cooldown has also been increased from 10 to 12 seconds, but this cooldown starts right after the teleporter is placed. His health has also been reduced from 300 to 200 - 50 health and 150 shields.
• Defense turrets: Turret movement speed has been increased from 15 to 20, but the movement speed reduction of enemies hit by turrets has been reduced from 15% to 20% per turret.

torbjorn

Nailgun: the cooldown time for the main gun fire has been reduced from 0,6 to 0,55 seconds. The secondary fire time has also been reduced from 0,8 to 0,7 seconds.

Tracer

Pulse Pistols: damage reduced from 6 to 5.

Doommaker

Base health increased from 175 to 200.

Winston

• Base armor increased from 150 to 200.
• Tesla gun: now has a new secondary fire. Charge and unleash a bolt of electricity that deals up to 50 damage, consumes up to 12 ammo, and has a 30 meter range.
• Protective dome: Barrier durability increased from 650 to 700 and its cooldown reduced from 13 to 12 seconds, but barrier duration reduced from 9 to 8 seconds.
• Rage of the Beast: Ultimate ability cost increased by 10%.

Ram

• Base armor increased from 100 to 150.
• Base health increased from 500 to 550.
• Adaptive Shield: radius increased from 8 to 10 meters, and temporary health received per target increased from 75 to 100 health.
• Rink: Knockback has been increased by 36%.

Zarya

• Base health increased from 200 to 250.
• Base shields increased from 200 to 225.
• protective barrier и distance barrier now have two total ability charges, and both abilities have a 10 second cooldown.
• Protective barrier: Barrier duration increased from 2 to 2,5 seconds, and the cooldown now starts immediately after using it, rather than when the barrier expires.
• Distance Barrier: Barrier duration increased from 2 to 2,5 seconds, and the cooldown now starts immediately after using it, rather than when the barrier expires. Allies you place a barrier on can't be targeted by this ability again for 2 seconds.
• Graviton momentum: duration reduced from 4 to 3,5 seconds.
• Energy: the rate at which Zarya's passive energy for her Beam Cannon decreases over time has increased from 1,8 to 2,2 energy per second.

Zenyatta

• Sphere of dissonance: the orb will now drop from its target when it is not in line of sight after 2 seconds instead of 3 seconds.
• Instant Kick: Zenyatta's new passive that increases his melee attack damage by 50% and greatly increases his knockback.

Genji и Moira received no changes.

Now that you know about all the character changes, you can explore our dash list Overwatch 2, showing the best and worst heroes for each class in the game.