Overwatch 2 Patch Notes - April 23, 2026

Nine days into Season 2 and Blizzard is already pulling on some threads. The April 23 balance hotfix is a targeted pass at heroes whose win rates have dropped further than intended since the season launched, with the team flagging that mobile hero monitoring will continue to inform mid-season changes.

In the base game, Roadhog gets a one-second reduction on Chain Hook's cooldown, which isn't massive but does give him slightly more presence in fights where he's been feeling toothless. Sombra's movement speed penalty while revealed has been softened from 50% to 33%, so getting caught out of Stealth is less of an instant death sentence. Vendetta also picks up 25 extra health, bumping her total to 275.

Stadium sees the heaviest work. Hazard's Spike Guard builds have been pulled back across multiple Powers after proving too oppressive, Junker Queen's Royal Bullets wound damage drops from 40 to 25, and Ramattra gets a mixed bag of nerfs to his Vortex/Nemesis builds alongside some weapon-oriented buffs. Orisa, Zarya, Freja, Brigitte, Juno, and Wuyang all have adjustments too. For a hotfix, this is a fairly dense list. Here's everything that changed.