I want D.Va to be more incentivized to use Defense Matrix to protect teammates, and I want D.Va to be rewarded in turn with more Self-Destruct damage. D.Va outside of mech is too lacking in power, so we've buffed her survivability and lethality in pilot form.

Sonic Repulsors now gives Domina the ability to access high ground more easily, while Panopticon now has more flexibility to be used defensively as well as offensively.

Uppercut has always been super popular, and the community jokes about re-adding it a lot. Adding the ability to empower every ability, combined with Uppercut, gives Doomfist a lot more outplay potential.

The wall cling presents Hazard with more assassin-style gameplay options. Downpour is currently too easy to dodge, so it’s been reworked to be more straightforward to use.

This set of changes strengthens Junker Queen’s long-range pressure by allowing her to alternate throwing Gracie and Carnage to suppress enemies from a distance.

Mauga finally understood something: as a 2.2-meter-tall, half-ton Samoan beast of a man, it’s honestly way too “gentle” and way too team-spirited to be giving his teammates damage reduction and lifesteal on the battlefield. So he decided to be selfish all the way—his heart now only beats for himself. He takes the nastiest damage and builds up the thickest health. Mauga also now uses his size to stomp on and crush his enemies.

Orisa has always been a bulky and stalwart hero, so these changes aim to explore what a more mobile Orisa would look like.

Ramattra has been running around the lobby yelling at everyone to “suffer as I have.” So we decided to turn his Void Barrier into a permanent-duration ability, and give his ultimate 100% lifesteal—so he can make everyone feel his suffering for even longer.

Reinhardt should be able to spend less time holding up his shield, and more time laying into enemies with his hammer with these changes.

I added more mobility to Roadhog, enabling him to quickly reach his teammates to protect them. The Take a Breather changes ensure that Roadhog is not stuck purely taking damage while using the ability.

Rise up with Sigma’s newfound control of gravity, then crush your enemies into the ground with Gravitic Flux.

Adding the option to use Jump Pack twice every leap gives Winston more mobility options, including turning corners more easily and extending the jump to reach further.

Oftentimes when your teammate picks Wrecking Ball, it can be hard to know what they’re doing or how to support them. These new changes should help everyone work together better with Wrecking Ball.

Anran struggles to light opponents on fire to secure kills, often having to choose to trade in order to obtain kills. These changes make it much easier to light opponents on fire and allow Anran to deal slightly increased damage from range, and her range of movement with Inferno Rush has been increased to allow her more escape options.

B.O.B is now a threat. No one considers B.O.B a threat on the battlefield, but they will now. I also bet we're all tired of D.VA eating our dynamites, so with some careful planning, Ashe can stick Dynamite on the wall before the fight starts, and that's not a problem anymore.

Are you into race cars? Bastion is now a speed demon in configuration form. No longer is he slow and an easy target. He's now a speed demon. We also dropped the 2 from Overwatch so why not bring back his original ult as well?

I want the enemy to FEAR seeing 12 on the clock. Also, I know you like to hide behind shields when you hear it's high noon... good luck with that.

Echo’s Duplicate often has very obvious targets, usually a Tank or certain DPS heroes (such as Tracer or Reaper), to try and provide more effective options for copy, changes are made that provide buffs for copying certain types of heroes. Focusing Beam is now also a more controllable utility to finish off targets as a resource meter.

MORE GRENADES!!! Also, when you hear Emre use his ult, I bet you think he’s an easy target in the sky… not anymore.

These changes slightly increase the power of Bola Shot while slightly reducing the instant damage Freja can deal, and thus the burst overall. The Bounty Hunting mechanic introduces some interesting goals for Freja to pursue.

Dragonblade is often used to bait out supportive ultimates such as Sound Barrier or Rally. Allowing Genji to cancel Dragonblade provides the player far more authority over the kit as a whole. These changes also play into Genji’s strength as an anti-Double Hitscan pick with his increased deflect damage at range.

Hanzo lacks consistency, so changes to fire-rate and damage should mitigate that and allow more shots to be taken. The ultimate changes allows for more value to be found from Dragonstrike. Hanzo’s primary use case is on maps with more verticality, so his vertical jump allows him more flexibility in movement on those maps.

Although Junkrat’s existing kit is interesting, it struggles to find value at higher levels of play while simultaneously being frustrating to play against at lower levels of play. Providing Junkrat a similarly themed kit while changing how it fundamentally functions might allow for higher match quality for Junkrat at all levels of play.

Mei’s primary source of slow being tied to her primary fire is frustrating to play against, so moving Mei’s ability to slow enemies to a skillshot (secondary fire) adds fairness in that regard. Allowing Mei to empower her secondary fire introduces additional skill expression into the kit by allowing her to switch between prioritizing damage (less charge, more shots able to be taken) or prioritizing slow (more charge, less shots able to be taken).

Pharah’s Concussive Blast is a piece of utility that is normally difficult to use. Providing it with a very clear utility, in this case slowing non-tank enemies, allows Concussive Blast to be used aggressively more often.

We all get scared hearing Die... Die... Die… but what if that went on even longer for every single kill he got? Reaper is no longer an easy target if you see him use Wraith Form; his soul orbs have turned into orbs that lengthen his Wraith Form so good luck chasing him down…

Sierra now rewards precision aim when firing Tracking Dart with even more damage, which, when paired with the new major perk "Dart Redeployment," will lead to Sierra becoming a homing damage killing machine.

I know we're all used to playing Sojourn from a safe location and killing players. That is a playstyle of the past! Get in there and slide!!

The enemy will FEAR the healing station. We are also taking "I've got you in my sights" very seriously: Soldier 76 now damages all players in his sights at the SAME time while using Tactical Visor.

Sombra’s rework essentially eliminated the flanker playstyle of Sombra, and she is no longer capable of setting up dives for her team in dive compositions. These changes look to bring back that flanker identity as well as give her more power as a scout (with her unique ultimate charge revealing passive).

Developer Comments: Teleporter is the strongest aspect of Symmetra’s kit but is often underused by teammates. Providing shielding to teammates as a ‘reward’ encourages teammates to group up around Symmetra’s teleporter and use it more often. The change to turrets is made with the goal of allowing Symmetra more practical utility with an otherwise weak ability.

Torbjorn’s new hitscan shot during overload provides him with the ability to compete with other heroes that are more often played and provides a new level of utility.

Have you ever seen your teammates in trouble and wanted to share your Recall with them? Well, now you can do just that! Also when you see your teammate get stuck with a Pulse Bomb, help them out by shooting it off... or else.

Stop swinging around mindlessly, and focus on setting up your team. Vendetta’s Whirlwind Dash now pulls enemies in, leaving them an easy target for teammates. On top of that enemies will have to think twice about dumping cooldowns and bullets into Warding Stance now that it can reflect projectiles. Oh, and one more thing… don't tell your enemies, but Sundering Blade now hits behind Vendetta as well as in front.

Venture's changes are intended to provide more flexibility for them mid-fight. Venture can be a bit helpless after using drill dash, and it can be difficult to decide when to use it, so the goal is provide more flexibility. Should allow for Venture to use drill dash more easily for movement purposes. The additional knockback provides a bit more disruption from burrowing aggressively into the enemy team.

The days of trying to flank Widowmaker are over. Widowmaker is no longer a scared spider. She is on the hunt, plays closer to the fight, and uses her automatic rifle more.

Ana Banana can’t be achieved in this, so we go with the second-best option: mobility. All Ana mains want is a form of mobility (a jetpack wouldn’t seem too much, would it?). The Biotic Grenade change will make less of her grenades go to waste and create new usages for them. Biotic Rifle headshot healing deserves to be tested to see if it’s viable.

Immortality Field has always been a pain point of his kit, so turning it into an ultimate should feel better because even if you’ll see less of it, it will be stronger. Amplification Matrix as an ability should have more flexibility now with its shift to an ability.

There’s little to no point of playing Brigitte if you can’t close the distance to the enemies, so all of her changes are aimed at making her not just viable, but also a threat on all maps and against all comps.

Providing a bit more team utility to the outburst, while also heavily leaning into her lore accurate sun powers.

Jetpack Cat thrives when she is all over the battlefield, so trading HP for more mobility is always a welcomed improvement. Her ultimate wasn’t well received (especially by tanks) so I tried changing it to a more team-based ult. Also, making her carry turrets into enemies sounds fun and encourages hero synergies.

Juno’s speed ring is always seen as an alternative to Lucio’s speed, so introducing a slow in a support’s kit might make her more distinguishable as a hero. Also, her ult is literally a beam from the sky so it should deal damage and be controllable.

The changes are made with the intention of maintaining Kiriko’s identity and fun factor while eliminating the frustrations of playing against her by making her not be able to do a lot of damage from across the map. Kunai healing will be a new challenge for Kiriko mains that I think will be a lot of fun and feel very rewarding with the headshot multiplier. The Suzu change is a tradeoff for the lack of long-range damage that can create opportunities for your team’s engages.

Lifeweaver has always felt a bit clunky, so these changes to his weapons should help. The enhanced Petal Platform control should allow the platform to be used to reach more interesting angles. Tree of Life should be able to be used both offensively and defensively in order to enhance his carry potential. Right now it feels like a weaker version of other defensive support ults, so these changes give the ultimate its own identity.

Lúcio’s boop is a big part of his identity, so rewarding players for being more intentional with how far they want to boop enemies should make him feel even better. His ult being cancellable is necessary for a fair and balanced game, but I tried looking at it from a different perspective: what is it doesn’t affect him, but only allies and enemies (every Lúcio main fears their ultimate being cancelled so this relieves the pressure while also maintaining a risk element). The speed boost for payload and push bot is just something I thought actually happened when I first started playing Overwatch and was slightly disappointed it didn’t.

Mercy’s Resurrect is a staple for her kit, so with these changes we are leaning heavily into the nostalgia by bringing back a little bit of how the old Resurrect used to work. She also needs more carry capabilities outside of her ultimate, so the bleed on the wings paired with Guardian Angel being able to target enemies should provide a bit more potential for aggressive playmaking.

The Mizuki changes are a result of community feedback on the hero and would encourage players to experiment with him more as it gives him more fluidity. If he can’t wallclimb let him at least use the walls for mobility and repositioning.

Moira’s changes are intended to give her more control over her kit, because although her numbers are strong, it can often be hard to capitalize fully on her abilities and ultimate.

When I saw the animation for Wuyang's wave, I felt like it should do more to enemies, so I wanted to give this effect to it. Also, with all the burning effects being in game right now, there is a need for something to extinguish the flames that is not Suzu.

The intent of these changes is to change the gameplay flow of Zen. Instead of putting an orb on an ally and forgetting about it while non stop shooting the enemy, now you have to manage your ammo between enemies and allies while also having stronger effects on your Harmony and Discord orbs.