Overwatch 2 Patch Notes (17th June 2026)

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – June 16, 2026

Reign of Talon: Season 3 - Into The Tiger's Den

Reign of Talon - Season 3: Into the Tiger's Den takes Overwatch to a place where bright lights cut through the shadow and who you stand with matters most. Shion arrives as a fast and deadly new Damage Hero leading the notorious Hashimoto Clan, testing your resolve at every turn. Plus, explore the first new Hybrid map in the Anima Strike Meta Event, uncovering secrets and earning rewards by playing your way through the story. Then blaze into battle as Mythic Ascendant Phoenix Illari, wield Hanzo’s Tokyo Rebel Mythic weapon, and suit up in a brand-new Ultra Skin cosmetic tier to bring more spectacle and style to your fight for a better future.

Anima Strike

A shadow looms over Tokyo...

With support from Overwatch, Kiriko and her companions - the Yōkai - fight to loosen the grip of the Hashimoto criminal organization over the city. To do so, they must face off against the Hashimoto's vicious leader, Shion.

Over the course of three weeks from June 16th - July 6th, players will battle their way through different locations in Tokyo by completing challenges. Each week features a unique 2D hub layout themed around a different location:

• Neon Junction
• Yōkai Hideout
• Hashimoto Headquarters

Each layout has branching paths, narrative unlocks, and new rewards - available for only that week. There's also a new Prestige track to tackle each week for the most dedicated players.

After completing the Prestige track, players unlock the ability to complete the path(s) they didn't choose for that week's layout; however, once the week resets and a new week begins during the event, a new map with new rewards becomes available, and the previous week's layout becomes inaccessible.

In total, players can earn:

• 18 Lootboxes
• 3 Epic Lootboxes
• 3 Legendary Lootboxes
• 3 Voice Lines
• 1 Victory Pose (from Milestone challenge)
• 3 Sprays
• 4 Namecards
• 90k BP XP
• 5 Titles (3 from Milestone challenges)
• 4 Avatars
• 2 Charms
• 1 Souvenir

Community Crafted

What if Ana had a jetpack? What if Junker Queen could throw her axe? What if Widowmaker could place an explosive tripwire? Well wonder no more, because we've worked with four of your favorite creators – Guxue, Apply, Ocie, and mL7support – to change every single hero based on their ideas! From June 30 until July 13, play this brand new version of Overwatch in the Arcade and earn the following rewards:

• Zenyatta Pachi Icon
• Reinhardt Spray
• Sombra Pachi Icon
• Hanzo Pachi Icon
• Genji Feather Weapon Charm
• Cassidy BAMF Weapon Charm
• "Doomscroller" Rare Title

Excavation Initiative

It’s time to break out the excavator and find some treasure! Join us for this new season-long event from June 16 to August 10th, unlocking lootboxes along the way!

• Win one game per day, on any 3 days during the week to complete a dig and earn a lootbox. Dedicated players can complete two digs a week to earn an additional lootbox.
• Complete a dig twice during the season to gain access to an additional lootbox.
• Complete a dig 4 times during the season for an epic lootbox.
• Our most dedicated archaeologists can complete 6 digs during the season to unlock a legendary lootbox
• Track daily/weekly progress directly from the lobby
• View your season progress from the event hub

Junkrat's Loot Hunt

Junkrat's Loot Hunt is back again, running from July 10 - July 14! Earn lootboxes by completing challenges that unlock as you play!

General Updates

• Our Nintendo Switch™ client will be receiving a rebase, which will result in longer download times for users on that platform.
• Continued to expand our Advanced Info Panel keywords for some of the more opaque ability interactions with: Crush, Heal Amp Cap, Ignore Energy, Reduction Cap and Strong Reduction - Read them to find out more!

Sound

• Added a new Option under Sound → General → Sounds to control the volume of Teammate/Enemy Eliminated Sound Effects.

Controls

• Removed the default keybind for Toggle UI (previously ALT+Z). Players who wish to use this feature can reassign it manually under Options > Controls.

Accessibility

• Added two new Options under Accessibility → General → Chat.
• High Contrast Chat lets players have a dark background that makes chat easier to read.
• Chat Background Opacity lets players control how dark the background is if High Contrast Chat is disabled.

Social

• In a previous update, added a Favorites category to the Friend Panel to help players quickly find favorited friends.

Competitive Play Updates

Hero Bans

• The Roster (described in more detail in Core Game Updates below) gives players the ability to share their favorite heroes with their teams to enable better coordination.
• A player's Preferred Hero (their #1 hero in the Roster by default) now contributes 3 negative votes during Hero Bans. This would nullify one player's 3rd place vote.
• Lobby Bans are a 5th ban slot that can break the 2 hero Role Limit. Unlike all other hero bans, Lobby Bans are calculated by adding together all votes from both teams. If both teams had at least 1 vote for a hero and there were 10 total votes for a hero (such as one first place and one third place vote), the hero will be Lobby Banned.
• The Ban Results page of Hero Bans has new visual updates to help players understand the snake draft and to display the Lobby Ban.
• The Hero Bans phase now displays the number of votes for each of your choices (7 for 1st place, 5 for 2nd place, and 3 for 3rd place) and the total number of votes your team has contributed together for each hero.

The Roster was built with Competitive Play in mind, allowing players to communicate their preferred heroes effortlessly, but it's also useful to Quick Play players that want to pick the best map for their allies. Negative votes for preferred heroes prevent most cases where one teammate could successfully vote to ban your preferred hero alone, assuming you also vote to ban at least two other heroes. If two players on your team want to ban your preferred hero they'll still be able to out-vote you though. Lobby Bans are designed to ensure that Hero Bans feel more responsive to player preferences, banning heroes that both teams prefer not to play against. Lobby Bans also give players a better reason than ever to vote if they want a specific hero banned.

Top 500 Challenger Live Replays

• All players can now watch live replays of ongoing matches for players on the Top 500 Challenger Leaderboards.
• Live Replays are streamed to viewers with a delay to prevent the feature from being used for a competitive advantage by other players.
• Live replays share controls with the existing replay function.
• For players on any leaderboard, this feature can be disabled in the Options under Social → Privacy → Leaderboards. The setting is called "Hide Leaderboard Live Replay" and is defaulted to Off.

Cheater Compensation

• Rank Progress compensation awarded to higher Rank players no scales down by respecting the Pressure Modifier.

Hero Updates

The perk system has continued to evolve since Season 1, with ongoing additions to heroes and perks across the roster. This patch includes targeted adjustments to perks that are out of line in pick rate, win rate, or overall effectiveness, with the goal of improving viability and maintaining meaningful choice.

Tank

D.Va

• Shield System – Major Perk
  • Shield conversion reduced from 150 to 100.

Domina

• Corporate Retreat – Major Perk
  • Added.
  • While Barrier Array is active, it can be moved one time to another location.
• Power Move – Major Perk
  • Removed.

Doomfist

• Power Matrix – Major Perk
  • Duration reduced from 1 to 0.8 seconds.

Hazard

Hazard has become a strong pick across multiple scenarios due to his survivability, mobility, and lethality. Reducing Spike Guard’s duration lowers his ability to sustain during engagements, while adjustments to his perk distribution reinforce a tradeoff between mobility and lethality within his Major perks.

• Anarchic Zeal – Minor Perk
  • Healing increased from 30 to 40%.
• Reconstitution - Minor Perk
  • Moved from Major to Minor Perk.
  • Extra resource cap reduced from 50 to 25.
• Deep Leap – Major Perk
  • Moved from Minor to Major Perk.
  • Range increased from 15 to 20%.
• Explosive Impalements – Major Perk
  • Damage reduced from 40 to 30.

Spike Guard

• Maximum duration reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds.

Ramattra

• Relentless Form – Minor Perk
  • Duration bonus increased from 1 to 2 seconds.
  • Half effectiveness during Annihilation.
• Nanite Repair – Major Perk
  • Healing increased from 75 to 100.

Reinhardt

Reinhardt can struggle against the high mobility of the hero roster. Increasing Firestrike’s projectile speed increases its consistency at range and better rewards accurate use. This also crosses double Firestrike breakpoints against 250 health targets.

Firestrike

• Damage increased from 120 to 125.
• Projectile speed increased from 30 to 33.

Zarya

Zarya has fallen below intended performance following recent reductions to her Primary Fire and perks. Reducing energy degeneration increases her ability to retain energy more consistently, increasing uptime while retaining her lower maximum damage output.

Energy

• Energy degeneration rate reduced from 2.5 to 2.0 energy per second.

Damage

Anran

These changes enhance the fluidity of Anran’s abilities, allowing for smoother ability flow without significantly increasing her overall power.

Inferno Rush

• Reduced recovery after the ability from 0.3 to 0.1 seconds.

Dancing Blaze

• Reduced recovery after the ability from 0.2 to 0.1 seconds.

Ashe

• Double-Barreled – Minor Perk
  • Knockback reduction of second shot removed.
• Viper Sting – Major Perk
  • Ammo gain removed.
• Airburst – Major Perk
  • Ammo gained increased from 3 to 6.

Bastion

• Armored Artillery – Minor Perk
  • Removed.
• Smart Bomb – Minor Perk
  • A-36 Tactical Grenade's self-knockback is increased by 25% and no longer damages you.

Cassidy

• Even The Odds – Minor Perk
  • Healing increased from 30 to 40 healing per second.
• Silver Bullet – Major Perk
  • Bleed total damage over time reduced from 70 to 50.
  • Duration reduced from 2.5 to 1.5 seconds.

Echo

• Partial Scan – Minor Perk
  • Ultimate charge gained reduced from 50% to 30%.
• Full Salvo – Major Perk
  • Number of additional projectiles reduced from 3 to 2.

Emre

Emre’s ultimate generation rate is high due to his damage output and exceeds the impact of the ultimate. Increasing its cost better aligns its charge rate with its overall effectiveness.

Override Protocol

• Ultimate cost increased 10%.

Genji

Lowering Genji’s deflect cooldown improves engagement frequency while also compounding the increased value of the Meditation perk.

• Meditation – Major Perk
  • Healing increased from 35 to 50 per second.

Deflect

• Cooldown reduced from 10 to 8 seconds.

Junkrat

• Bomb Voyage – Minor Perk
  • Attack speed bonus increased from 25% to 35%.

Mei

Mei’s Primary Fire range has increased to improve its effectiveness when closing distance on enemies. Deep Freeze is rarely effective, as low-health targets are often eliminated before being frozen. Increasing its freeze rate against non-tank heroes makes it more usable without increasing effectiveness against tanks.

• Deep Freeze – Major Perk
  • Freeze rate increased by 30% against non-tank heroes.

Endothermic Blaster

• Range increased from 10 to 12 meters.

Reaper

Dire Triggers has increased Reaper’s strengths across many matchups and added more lethality to his kit. Combined with his survivability, this pushes him past intended durability and kill potential. Reducing his health lowers his survivability while preserving the lethality Dire Triggers provides.

• Health reduced from 300 to 275.
• Lingering Wraith – Minor Perk
  • Movement speed bonus reduced from 40% to 30%.

Sierra

Sierra’s projectile size is large relative to her fire rate, making her weapon too consistent. Reducing projectile size lowers this consistency, while improvements to Anchor Drone's responsiveness increase her mobility.

• Tight Grip – Minor Perk
  • Improved weapon spread reduced from 100% to 70% faster.
• Locked-In – Major Perk
  • Now only provides increased attack speed when Tracking Shot hits an enemy hero.

Helix Rifle

• Base projectile size reduced from 0.175 to 0.15m.

Anchor Drone

• Drone deploy speed increased from 30 to 40 meters per second.
• Drone deploy range increased from 14 to 16 meters.
• Drone grapple range increased from 17 to 19 meters.

Sojourn

• Friction Generators – Major Perk
  • Max energy gained increased from 50 to 75.

Tracer

• Kinetic Reload – Minor Perk
  • Ammo gain reduced from 20 to 12.

Vendetta

Previous reductions to Overhead Swing range and Onslaught movement speed reduced Vendetta’s ability to secure eliminations. Increasing Onslaught’s movement speed and duration improves its effectiveness as a mid-fight tool to stay within striking distance. Her ultimate cost has also been reduced to better align with her current damage output.

Sundering Blade

• Ultimate cost reduced by 15%.

Onslaught

• Movement speed boost per stack increased from 2% to 3%.
• Maximum duration increased from 5.5 to 7.5 seconds.

Support

Ana

• Speed Serum – Minor Perk
  • Movement speed bonus reduced from 40% to 30%.

Brigitte

• Whiplash – Major Perk
  • Damage increased from 50 to 60.

Illari

• Rapid Construction – Minor Perk
  • Cooldown reduction increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds.

Jetpack Cat

While Jetpack Cat’s win and play rates remain low, Lifeline is highly effective at higher ranks when continuously carrying certain heroes. Increasing the fuel regeneration penalty while carrying a target and reducing the strength of Transport Shielding weakens this strategy, while weapon improvements increase effectiveness outside of Lifeline.

• Transport Shielding – Minor Perk
  • Duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds.
  • Maximum shields reduced from 75 to 50.
• Headbutt – Major Perk
  • Speed threshold to activate lowered from 16.5 to 14 meters per second.
  • No longer refunds fuel.
  • Damage increased from 30 to 50.

Frenetic Flight

• Fuel regeneration penalty while carrying a target increased from 2x to 3x slower.

Biotic Pawjectiles

• Damage and healing increased from 4 to 4.5 per pellet.

Juno

• Faster Blaster – Major Perk
  • Shots per second increased from 20 to 22.

Lifeweaver

Improvements to Lifeweaver’s healing have increased his ultimate charge rate. Increasing the ultimate cost adjusts for this, while also reverting a previous change to Tree of Life’s overhealth conversion that made the ultimate too strong in sustained healing.

Tree of Life

• Ultimate cost increased by 9%.
• Overhealth conversion rate from overhealing reduced from 100% to 50%.

Mercy

Flash Heal has increased Mercy’s overall healing output, so her ultimate cost has been increased to account for this. Damage Boost is reduced to offset her increased value, with that power shifted into Chain Boost to improve its viability.

• Chain Boost – Major Perk
  • Additionally increases damage boost by 5%.

Caduceus Staff

• Damage boost reduced from 30% to 25%.

Valkyrie

• Ultimate cost increased 7%.

Mizuki

Mizuki’s Katashiro Return is limited by its short duration and longer cooldown. Reducing the cooldown and increasing duration improves its availability and flexibility as a mobility tool.

Katashiro Return

• Cooldown reduced from 12 to 11 seconds.
• Duration increased from 4.5 to 5.5 seconds.

Moira

Biotic Orb’s output is limited by the mobility and durability of the hero roster. Increasing its damage and healing increases its impact, while rewarding efficient placement.

Biotic Orb

• Damage per second increased from 50 to 60 damage per second.
• Healing per second increased from 65 to 75 healing per second.
• Maximum damage per orb increased from 200 to 250.

Wuyang

• Ebb and Flow – Major Perk
  • Rewind healing increased from 50% to 100%.

Core Game Updates

The Roster

• Players can now choose their Top 3 preferred heroes in each Role to be displayed to their team during all Pregame phases (Map Voting, Preferred Hero, Hero Bans).
• Players can change which heroes appear in the Roster from the Main Menu, while they're in queue, and during Pregame phases (changes made in the Pregame are not saved, since they'd often be in response to a map or allied hero choice).
• Players can opt into only displaying 2, 1, or 0 heroes (no preference), but by default the 3 displayed heroes will be the same heroes used on the Player Cards.
• Players can see their group members' Roster of heroes by opening the social context menu that offers other social options like Whisper and View Career Profile.

Map Voting Updates

• The maps on offer should be much less likely to be maps you played within the last 5 matches. This change will help players that play for shorter sessions to be much more likely to experience more map variety.

Practice Range

• Floating Combat Text has been enabled for the Core Game's Practice Range.

Post-Match Accolades

• Retuned many cards that showed up too often (looking at you Echo Sticky Bombs) and increased the odds of some cards appearing.

Streamer Mode

• Added many new fake names...

Stadium Updates

This update is aimed at refreshing the Stadium meta and adding more build variety, especially to many of Stadium's heroes that have had limited viable build options since Stadium's launch. Every hero is being changed, with several heroes getting larger scale reworks. We'll be keeping a close eye on these changes and will be quick to react to any balance outliers or issues here.

General Changes

• Grouping Restrictions have been removed from Stadium Ranked.

Due to the progressive nature of Stadium Ranked, grouping restrictions felt ineffective and often prevented players from playing with their friends while still allowing players to queue into other players with wide Stadium Rank disparities if their hidden MMRs were close enough.

Tank

D.Va

These changes are aimed at giving D.Va a healthier Pilot oriented option, improving her Missile build and opening up its itemization by lowering reliance on hero specifics, and lowering the ease of value of Defense Matrix oriented strategies.

Express Detonation - Power

• Added "+50% [Call Mech] Radius."

Legendary Loadout - Power

• Bonus Explosion Damage increased to 375% (Up from 325%).

Multitask Mod - Power

• Reworked to Power.

Nano Cola Nitrous - Power

• Reworked to Power.
• Reworked from "When you eject from your Mech, gain [Nano Boost] for 4s" to "While ejected from your [Mech], gain 40% increased Max Life and 30% Move Speed".

Party Protector - Power

• Removed.

Ultrawide Matrix - Power

• Removed.

Mastermind's Mitigator - Rare Hero Ability Item

• Added 10% Ability Lifesteal.

Busan Blaster - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Cost reduced to 9000 (Down from 10000).
• Removed 20% Ability Power.
• Added 50 Armor.
• Explosive damage reduced to 60 (Down from 80).
• Can now generate Ultimate Charge.

Dae-Hyun's Detonator - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Cost increased to 9000 (Up from 4000).
• Rarity increased to Epic (Up from Rare).
• Removed 15% Ability Lifesteal.
• Added 15% Starting Ultimate Charge and 25 Armor.

Macro Missile - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Removed.

Onslaught Ordnance - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Cost reduced to 10000 (Down from 12000).
• Ability Power reduced to 10% (Down from 15%).

Doomfist

These changes are aimed at improving his lesser used powers. Jab Cross was reworked to enable more Weapon Power and hybrid builds. Asteroid Smash and Slam Wham were given some quality of life to improve their interaction with other powers.

Aftershock - Power

• Damage reduced to 40% (Down from 60%).

Asteroid Smash - Power

• Now pulls down enemies within its area.
• Maximum Damage decreased to 150 (Down from 200).
• Base impact damage increased to 75 (Up from 50).

Jab Cross - Power

• Now grants Bonus Attack Speed (instead of just Melee Attack Speed).
• Duration reduced to 0.75s (Down from 3s).

Slam Wham - Power

• Reworked from "Increase [Seismic Slam] damage by 2% and range by 6% for every 1m traveled downward" to "Increase [Seismic Slam]'s damage up to 75% and range up to 50% based on time airborne."
• Added UI indicator.

The Bestest Defense - Power

• The Best Defense scaling increased to 50% (Up from 35%).

Loaded Knuckles - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Removed 20% Melee Damage.
• Added 15% Weapon Power.

Wing Clipper - Rare Hero Ability Item

• Removed.

Power Bank - Rare Hero Ability Item

• Removed slow after charging past threshold.

Second Wind - Rare Hero Ability Item

• New
• 25 Health
• 20% Reduced Ultimate Cost
• Spending your Ultimate Charge resets all your ability cooldowns and restores 100% of your Life.

Chasmcrusher - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Added "You can [Jump] while Airborne during [Seismic Slam]."

Hazard

These changes are aimed at giving Hazard a viable Weapon Power build while focusing Hazard's Spike Guard oriented builds to specific windows of power.

Barbed Shot - Power

• Bonus damage now scales with Weapon Power (instead of Ability Power).
• Bonus damage reduced to 8 (Down from 10).

Bonerot - Power

• Reworked from "Ammo gained from [Spike Guard] deals 20 extra Damage. [Spike Guard] Ammo regeneration speed is increased by 25%" to "Dealing 6 instances of Weapon Damage marks targets with spikes. [Quick Melee] and [Violent Leap]'s slash detonate them for for 50(WP) damage".

Boomslang's Blaster - Power

• Changed from Item to Power.

Bunny Hop - Power

• Added "grants nearby allies Overhealth equal to 10% of your Max Life for 3s" after using Violent Leap.

Hit Me Again - Power

• Removed.

Juiced - Power

• Healing changed to 30% of Max Life over 3s (from 100 (AP) over 2s).

Slasher - Power

• Removed increased Ultimate Charge.
• Reduced enemy ignoring range to 7m (Down from 10m).

Twin Fang - Power

• Reworked from "After using [Violent Leap], your next [Bonespur] fires a second free shot with 75% damage" to "Every 3rd shot of [Bonespur] fires an additional shot with 50% damage".

Woof Woof - Power

• Reworked from "Each [Violent Leap] hit charges [Spike Guard] with 10% bonus energy. Gain 15% Extra [Spike Guard] Resource" to "After using [Violent Leap], increase [Spike Guard] Range by 50% for 3s".

Skewer Bloom - Rare Hero Ability Item

• Removed.

Blood Needle - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost decreased to 9500 (Down from 11000).
• Max Life Healing increased to 0.5% (Up from 0.3%).
• Max Healing Resource - removed.
• Health changed to Armor.

Spine Protector - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 9500 (Down from 10000).
• Weapon Lifesteal increased to 10% (Up from 5%).

Susannah's Support - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 9000 (Down from 11000).
• Damage Mitigated converted to healing increased to 25% (Up from 10%).

Junker Queen

We're improving Junker Queen's Jagged Blade oriented build and also buffing Bow Down to give Junker Queen a stronger option against some of her hard counters.

Blade Parade - Power

• Can be held for 1s longer after fully charged.
• Bonus damage reduced to 75% (Down from 100%).
• Now also increases projectile speed based on time charged up to 200%.
• No longer knockbacks.

Bow Down - Power

• Added "While casting [Rampage], become Unstoppable and reset all ability cooldowns."
• Knock Down duration increased to 2s (Up from 1.5s).

Cut 'Em Gracie - Power

• Reworked from "Each enemy hit by [Jagged Blade] reduces its cooldown by 2s and slowed by 35% for 1s." to "Each enemy hit by [Jagged Blade] reduces its cooldown by 1s. When recalling [Jagged Blade] its radius is increased by 100% and deals 40 impact damage".

Merciless Magnetism - Power

• Reworked from "Using [Commanding Shout] causes your [Jagged Blade] to home to a target within 25m" to "[Jagged Blade] can crit for 50% bonus damage. [Jagged Blade]'s pull strength is increased by 50%. When you crit, this bonus is doubled".

Tinker Tracksuit - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Cost increased to 10500 (Up from 9500).
• Added 50 Health.
• Removed 5% Cooldown Reduction.
• Reworked from "[Rampage] and [Carnage] hits grant 10% Attack Speed for 4s" to "[Jagged Blade], [Rampage] and [Carnage] hits grant 20% Ability Power for 5s".

Thick Skull - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 9000 (Down from 10000).
• Damage reduction now also triggers while casting Jagged Blade.
• Damage reduction reduced to 30% (Down from 75%).

Orisa

These changes are aimed at giving Orisa a more specific Weapon Power oriented build and improve Javelin Spear oriented strategies, while tuning down some outliers.

Core Cooling - Power

• New
• "While [Fortify] is active, reduce Heat generated by 90% and gain 10% Attack Speed."

Critical Charger - Power

• New
• "[Energy Javelin] can crit for 50% bonus damage. [Energy Javelin] can be charged for up to 200% projectile speed and pierces enemies at full power."

Factory Reset - Power

• Removed.

Hooves of Steel - Power

• Reworked from "After [Fortify] ends, gain Shields equal to 50% of the damage received during [Fortify] up to 150. Resets when you next use [Fortify]" to "After [Fortify] ends, gain Shields equal to 60% of Weapon Damage dealt during [Fortify], up to 200. Resets when you next use [Fortify]".

Hot Rotate-O - Power

• Removed.

Javelin Overclock - Power

• Removed.

Lassoed - Power

• Added "Gain 3% Ultimate Charge for each enemy pulled."

Oladele-Copter Blades - Power

• Reworked to Power.
• "While using [Javelin Spin] and [Terra Surge], gain Free Flight and 20% Move Speed, but [Terra Surge] deals 50% reduced damage."

Optimized Energy - Rare Hero Weapon Item

• Removed.

Electro-Lights - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Cost increased to 11000 (Up from 4000).
• Rarity increased to Epic (Up from Rare).

OR-15 Escalator - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• New
• 10% Weapon Lifesteal
• "Gain Weapon Power based on [Heat] up to 30%"
• 10000 Cost.

3-D Printed Lance - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Cost reduced to 10000 (Down from 11000).
• Added 50 Armor.
• Ability Power reduced to 10% (Down from 15%).
• No longer generates Heat on Energy Javelin use.
• Energy Javelin Cooldown Reduction on hit increased to 20% (Up from 15%).

Siphonic Spear - Rare Hero Survival Item

• Max Life Heal reduced to 5% (Down from 10%).
• Heal Duration reduced to 2s (Down from 3s).

Solar Regenergy - Rare Hero Survival Item

• Cost increased to 5000 (Up from 4000).

Efi's Theorem - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Removed 20% Ability Lifesteal.

Ramattra

Omnium Augment - Rare Hero Weapon Item

• Cost increased to 5000 (Up from 4500).

Nano-Mender - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 9000 (Down from 11000).

Swirling Ward - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Increased Jump Height now only affects you and not your allies.

Reinhardt

We reworked a couple less popular options to enable stronger Barrier Field builds and a different flavor of Charge builds, while making some small tuning adjustments to his hero itemization.

Amplification Barrier - Power

• Removed.

Barrier Reconstruction - Power

• Barrier Shield health restore now triggers off of all Melee damage, not just Rocket Hammer damage.

Crusader Slam - Power

• New
• "Ability: While [Barrier Field] is active, use [Primary Fire] to knock up enemies and deal Melee Damage equal to 5% of your Barrier Field Life. (8s Cooldown)."

Iron Drift - Power

• New
• "+200% [Charge] Duration. Charge can pin multiple enemies at once and can slow down by holding backwards."

Vanguard - Power

• Removed.

Dampener Grip - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Cost increased to 11000 (Up from 10000).

Plan Z - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Cost reduced to 10000 (Down from 11000).

Phoenix Protocol - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Health increased to 50 (Up from 25).

Wilhelmwagen - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 9500 (Down from 11000).

Sigma

These changes are aimed at helping Sigma have some more agency in difficult matchups and improve his Accretion build.

Apogee Alignment - Power

• Damage increased to 75% (Up from 50%).

Mass Driver - Power

• Accretion damage increased to 25% bonus damage (Up from 20%).
• Experimental Barrier Health Restore increased to 150 (Up from 100).

Zero Gravity - Power

• Removed 10% damage reduction.
• Duration increased to 2.5s (Up from 1.5s).
• Flight now also triggers on Gadget use.

The Harness - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Added "If [Accretion] misses, [Accretion]'s cooldown is reduced by 4s."

Winston

These changes are aimed at improving Winston's Secondary Fire, Jump Pack, and Barrier focused strategies, while trimming some power off of his more generically strong powers.

• Barrier Projector now scales with Ability Power and no longer scales with Passive Currency.

Circuit Breaker - Power

• Electric Damage Lifesteal reduced to 10% (Down from 15%).
• Removed increased Electric Damage.

Electro Cluster - Power

• Range reduced to 15% (Down from 20%).

Lightning Rod - Power

• Bounce Range increased to 8m (Up from 6m).

Lunar Leap - Power

• Ultimate Charge per target hit increased to 3% (Up from 2%).

Lucheng Launchers - Power

• Reworked to Power.
• Removed 50% Base Jump Pack Damage.
• Reworked from "During [Primal Rage], [Jump Pack]'s base damage becomes electric and can increase up to additional 100% while airborne" to "[Jump Pack]'s damage becomes Electric and can increase by up to 75% damage while Airborne. This bonus is doubled while [Primal Rage] is active".

Primal Punch - Power

• Jump Pack cooldown also reset by Tesla Cannon Secondary Fire eliminations.

Pocket Projector - Power

• Mini Barrier Projector Health increased to 10% (Up from 5%).

Surge Protector - Power

• Reworked from "Allies within the [Barrier Projector] gain 25 (AP) temporary Overhealth per second, up to 100" to "Allies within [Barrier Projector] are healed for 30 (AP) every 1s".

Volatile Volt - Power

• Secondary Fire Critical Damage increased to 250% (Up from 200%).

Volt Siphon - Rare Hero Weapon Item

• Cost increased to 5000 (Up from 4000).
• Overhealth Cap decreased to 50 (Down from 100).

Harold's Glasses - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Cost reduced to 11000 (Down from 12000).
• Removed 25% Max Ammo.
• Added 50 Armor, 10% Weapon Power.
• Added "During [Jump Pack], [Tesla Cannon]'s Secondary Fire deals 15% increased damage and charges 75% faster."

Horizon Expander - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Cost decreased to 10000 (Down from 12500).
• Added 50 Armor.
• Ability Power reduced to 10% (Down from 20%).
• Added +50% Primal Rage Duration.

Zero-G Suit - Rare Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 5000 (Down from 6000).

Fortified Jump Pack - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 10500 (Down from 12500).

Simian Supplements - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Added 25 Shields.

Zarya

We're improving some of Zarya's less picked options, particularly her Projected Barrier builds and Secondary Fire oriented strategies. Charged Link is intended to strengthen her pure Secondary Fire build while also being an interesting option for other Weapon Power builds.

Charged Link - Power

• New
• "[Particle Cannon]'s secondary fire hits grant 2 energy and increases [Particle Cannon]'s Primary Fire range by 20% for 3s."

Graviton Anomaly - Power

• Duration increased to 25% reduced (Up from 50% reduced).

Here to Spot You - Power

• Added "+20% [Projected Barrier] Range."
• Healing increased to 30% (Up from 20%).

Limit Breaker - Power

• Max Energy increased to 150 (Up from 125).

Lynx's Datadrive - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Health increased to 50 (Up from 25).

Particle Accelerator - Power

• Base Secondary Fire Attack Speed increased to 20% (Up from 15%).
• Bonus Attack Speed increased to 500% (Up from 400%).

Bigger Beam - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Removed.

Piercing Beam - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Reworked to Item (from Power).
• Added 15% Weapon Power.
• Added 11000 Cost.

Damage

Ashe

We're lowering Ashe's reliance on Infrared Lenses in all her builds by making it more focused on a hybrid niche to open up her itemization more. We're also adding some quality of life to her less popular options.

• Currency earned from damage and healing reduced by 5%.
• Viper Scoped base damage reduced to 72 (Down from 75).

Calamity - Power

• Ammo restored increased to 25% (Up from 20%).
• Missed shots now consume Calamity stacks.

Pin B.O.B - Power

• Added 3s Cooldown so charge can be re-activated without eliminating an enemy.
• Now charges towards where your crosshair is pointed instead of its current target.

Reload Therapy - Power

• Changed from Restore to Heal.

Stacked Sticks - Power

• Faster Burn Rate increased to 40% (Up from 25%).

What in Tarnation - Power

• Added "If [Coach Gun] doesn't deal any damage, refund 3s of its cooldown."

Build a Blast Buckshot - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Cost increased to 11000 (Up from 10000).
• Added 10% Weapon Power.
• Category changed to Weapon (from Survival).

B.O.B Wire Defense - Rare Hero Ability Item

• Cost reduced to 4000 (Down from 10000).
• Rarity reduced to Rare (Down from Epic).
• Category changed to Ability (from Survival).
• Ability Power reduced to 5% (Down from 10%).

Silver Lighter - Rare Hero Ability Item

• Ability Power reduced to 5% (Down from 10%).
• Ultimate Charge gain reduced to 15% (Down from 20%).

Incendiary Blastpaper - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Removed 10% Ability Power.
• Added 50 Health, 5% Cooldown Reduction.

Infrared Lenses - Epic Hero Ability Item

• Cost increased to 12000 (Up from 10000).
• Added 10% Weapon Power
• Ability Power reduced to 10% (Down from 15%).
• Damage increase only applies to non-Burning damage.

Firestarter - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 9000 (Down from 10000).

Cassidy

These changes are focused at reducing Cassidy's consistency, especially around Weapon Power Survival oriented builds, while empowering some other build archetypes, including Fan the Hammer builds and AP oriented builds. Fan the Hammer has been problematic in the past, but we hope this iteration delivers on the mag-dumping fantasy in a healthier way.

• Currency from damage and healing increased by 14.3%.
• Peacekeeper base damage reduced to 65 (Down from 70).

Bang Bang - Power

• Removed.

Barrage Blastin' - Power

• New
• "The first time you run out of Ammo while [Fan the Hammer] is active, automatically reload all your Ammo and continue firing at 60% reduced damage."

Full House - Power

• Removed.

Gunslinger Grit - Power

• New
• "When you reload or restore ammo, heal 2% of your Life for every ammo restored."

Hot Potato - Power

• Throw distance increased to 125% (Up from 50%).

Just Roll With It - Power

• Removed.

Silver Bullet - Power

• New
• "[Fan the Hammer] is replaced with Ability: Fire a piercing [Peacekeeper] shot that deals 50(AP) bonus damage over 2.5s. Cooldown is reset when using an ability or Gadget."

Think Flasht - Power

• Hinder duration reduced to 25% (Down from 50%).

Quickload Chamber - Epic Hero Weapon Item

• Cost increased to 13000 (Up from 4000).
• Rarity changed to Epic (Up from Rare).
• Health increased to 50 (Up from 25).
• Added 20% Max Ammo.

Streamlined Poncho - Rare Hero Ability Item

• Cooldown Reduction reduced to 5% (Down from 10%).
• Cost reduced to 4500 (Down from 5000).

Eagle Eye - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Cost reduced to 9000 (Down from 12000).

Frankie's Fixer - Epic Hero Survival Item

• Added 10% Ability Power
• Reworked from "Heal 2.5% Max Life for each Ammo loaded using [Combat Roll] over 3s" to "After using [Combat Roll], heal 10% of your Max Life over 3s".

Freja

Freja has been difficult to balance in Stadium for most of her lifetime due to her base kit, so we're nerfing her base Take Aim damage to lower her baseline burst potential. We're also doing some small tweaks on some of her more outlier items and buffing her lower picked options.