The Junkers and Talon descend on Busan, so new Tank Hero D.Mon joins D.Va and the rest of the MEKA Squad to protect their home! Choose your favorite pilot in the Shooting Stars: My MEKA Mania event, earning stars and unlocking the squad's story as your support helps them climb the global rankings. Then fight through a revamped Battle Pass with flexible progression and the option to swap an eligible Legendary reward. Plus, explore revitalized versions of Busan, Paraíso, and Eichenwalde before you take on Team Drives, where teams progress together and improved in-combat feedback makes every player’s impact easier to see. Cap things off by unlocking Mythic Genji or Sojourn's Mythic weapon, and other cosmetics to complete your collection!
Yuna Lee has spent years defending Busan from inside her mech, Beast. Now it's your turn! The long-awaited MEKA pilot steps out of the story and into your hands as D.Mon, a new Tank who leads from the front. Cut through enemy lines with her Plasma Saber, take one for your team with a strategic Power Barrier, get moving with Propulsors, and then trade close-range pressure for the reach of a Fusion Repeater. You'll be at your best when the whole team moves with you, so MEKA Squad up with D.Mon and bring out the Hero in each other!
Three familiar battlegrounds get revitalized and updated for a fresh feel. Busan bears the scars of the Junker assault and Talon's attack on the MEKA base, with new spaces, summer scenery, and mementos from D.Mon's life tucked throughout. Paraíso is getting ready to party despite Domina looming over the city, while Lúcio has plans of his own. Eichenwalde rounds things out with new routes and traversal options designed to keep its classic fight flowing.
A more flexible and player-friendly update to the Battle Pass experience—letting players choose which rewards to pursue first, swap one Battle Pass skin for a curated skin from the seasonal Swap Pool and engage with a refreshed UI that makes progression feel clearer and more rewarding.
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We wanted to provide a set of visual updates with the goal of helping players better understand the current game state, and to celebrate high-impact moments. With these changes, you should have a better idea of what is going on during and after team fights, which should allow you to make better decisions in the moment.
Over the years the ping system had slowly become our most expensive script for memory usage as its complexity increased. With this update, some new bugs will occur (several that we're planning to fix in the mid-season patch), but please still let us know if you see any new bugs or loss of functionality that we missed!
Team Drives are shorter than regular Drives in an effort to be less disruptive to Competitive Play. We'll be listening to player feedback around the event, but this system is an example of how we want to focus on adding more social elements to the game over time.
This tuning makes winning at our highest ranks more rewarding, but we've heard the community feedback that the Challenger System has more foundational problems that can't be addressed by tuning. We're discussing potential solutions to address this feedback now.
Several underutilized perks have been replaced with new options, while others have been adjusted based on their performance. We've also updated ultimate costs for select heroes to better align the time required to earn them with their overall effectiveness while adjusting hero balance.
Flanker
Small Health Packs have become too effective for heroes in this subrole. We're reducing the additional health granted to better balance its survivability effect.
Panopticon Barrier's health is being increased to improve its reliability. A higher health pool makes it more difficult for enemies to break free, increasing the likelihood of a detonation or forcing them to spend more time dealing with the ultimate.
Increasing Seismic Slam's damage makes it a more effective tool for weakening targets before following up with Doomfist's other abilities.
Explosive Impalements - Major Perk
Increasing Overrun's cooldown lengthens the window where Mauga must commit to a fight before he can disengage, reducing his mobility without directly impacting his ability to engage.
Combat Fuel – Major Perk
Charged Javelin – Major Perk
Heavy Javelin - Major Perk
Revitalizing Barrier – Major Perk
Even the Odds – Minor Perk
Giddy Up - Minor Perk
Aerial Munitions - Minor Perk
High Beams – Major Perk
Focused Rush - Major Perk
Suppressive Security – Minor Perk
Concussive Blast provides Pharah with both mobility and displacement. Increasing its cooldown reduces how often she can reposition herself and disrupt enemy movement.
This change better aligns the impact radius with the size of the motorbike, requiring players to either be more accurate with the ground launch or rely on the air launch.
While Tracer's damage has landed in an effective spot following recent adjustments, reducing Recall's cooldown allows her to disengage more frequently.
Chronal Dash – Minor Perk
Temporal Regen - Minor Perk
Reducing Soaring Slice's cooldown on respawn reduces downtime after respawning while maintaining the reduced ability to quickly return to the fight.
Deep Burrow – Minor Perk
Covered in Dirt – Major Perk
These changes are intended to make Jetpack Cat's movement more responsive while keeping Lifeline movement speeds similar to before. Frenetic Flight movement speeds remain unchanged.
Headbutt – Major Perk
Purrfect Form - Major Perk
This change reduces the minimum lock-on time for nearby targets, allowing Pulsar Torpedoes to be used more reactively while creating a clearer distinction in lock-on times across different ranges.
These changes give Life Gripped players greater control over whether they are pulled all the way to Lifeweaver's position. The pull now begins more gradually, creating a larger window to react and cancel the movement if desired. A new hero setting has also been added for players who prefer to disable the cancel option entirely.
Mizuki's mobility uptime has increased significantly following recent changes to Katashiro Return's duration and cooldown. While the increased duration has improved its usability, the cooldown is being partially reverted to reduce overall uptime. Binding Chain's projectile size is also being reduced to make its powerful hinder effect require more precise aim.
Quickstep – Major Perk
Increasing Guardian Wave's width makes it easier to position the ability to affect multiple allies and enemies.
Discordant Repair – Minor Perk
These changes are aimed at adding some more build variety to D.Va's powers, making some of her weaker builds more transformative and exciting while tuning down some of her more generically powerful options.
Facetanking - Power
Focused Fusion - Power
Ignition Burst - Power
MEKA Evac Shield - Power
MEKA Ejector - Power
Stat Boost - Power
Tokki Slam - Power
Nano Cola™ Nitrous - Rare Weapon Hero Item
Matrix Empowerment - Epic Weapon Hero Item
Vesuvius Protocol - Rare Ability Hero Item
D.Mon's Detonator - Epic Ability Hero Item
Robo-Bowling - Epic Ability Hero Item
Solo Spec - Rare Survival Hero Item
MEKA Exo Suit - Epic Survival Hero Item
Critical Charger - Power
OR-15 Escalator - Power
Core Cooling - Epic Weapon Hero Item
3D-Printed Lance - Epic Ability Hero Item
Vengeful Vortex
Insatiable Spiral
Zarya has become more prevalent especially at higher levels and in coordinated play. We're trimming the efficiency of her most outlier option and will continue to keep an eye on her.
Blastproof Boots - Epic Survival Hero Item
B.O.B Jr. - Power
Bingo - Epic Weapon Hero Item.
This change is aimed at reducing the effectiveness of Tracer's Recall oriented Pulse Bomb build. We'll be continuing to keep an eye on this build, particularly on Temportal, for future changes to increase its counterplay.
Impulsive - Power
Artsy Dartsy - Power
Dream Field - Power
These changes are aimed at reducing the effectiveness of Ability Power Purr builds while empowering her Weapon Power oriented options.
Purr-sistence - Power
Tow-Beans - Power
Recycling Rounds - Epic Weapon Hero Item
Purr-imeter Expander - Epic Ability Hero Item
Fuel Pod - Rare Survival Hero Item
Fleet Foot - Power
Foxy Fireworks - Power
Keen Kunai - Power
These changes are aimed at strengthening the options Wuyang has to sustain himself and increasing his underperforming powers.
Bifurcation - Power
Paindrops - Power
Aquajet Amplifier - Epic Weapon Hero Item
Tidekeeper's Connector - Epic Weapon Hero Item
Wave Lance - Epic Weapon Hero Item
Hydro Mender - Rare Survival Hero Item
Oceanic Ointment - Rare Survival Hero Item
Hydration Break - Epic Survival Hero Item
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