Overwatch Patch Notes (30th June 2026)

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Overwatch Retail Patch Notes – June 30, 2026

Game Client Update

This is a game client patch introducing the new Community Crafted game mode, alongside several bug fixes. Replay codes have been wiped.

Community Crafted

Experience a whole new version of Overwatch created with the help of four of your favorite creators: Guxue, Apply, Ocie, and mL7support. Every hero (except Shion) has changes for you to try out based on what our creators wanted to see these heroes play like, so jump into the Arcade to try out this new game mode from June 30 until July 13!

Tank

D.Va

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.

Bunny Power – Minor Perk

Moved from minor perk to base kit.

Team Leader – Minor Perk

New
After calling mech, nearby teammates gain 50 temporary overhealth.

Defense Matrix

Now converts every 100 damage absorbed to an additional 10 Self-Destruct damage.

Light Gun

Secondary fire now launches a grenade.

Self-Destruct

Ultimate charge generation rate increased by 20%.

Domina

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.

Sonic Repulsors

Now propels Domina backwards relative to the direction she is facing.
Enemy knockback force increased by 40%.

Panopticon

Can now envelop allies with a 200 health barrier.

Doomfist

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.

Power Block

Can now empower the next use of any other ability, not just Rocket Punch.

Rising Uppercut

Re-added.
Empowered Uppercut stuns enemies.

Seismic Slam

Empowered Seismic Slam slows enemies by 40% for 2s.

Meteor Strike

Slowing effect removed.
Now knocks down enemies.

Hazard

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.

Vault

When maximum wall climb height is reached, continuing to hold Jump now allows Hazard to cling onto the wall instead of falling off the wall.
Hazard's camera is shifted to third person while clinging to a wall.
Using any ability while clinging to a wall immediately detachs Hazard from the wall.

Downpour

Increased width and range.
No longer roots enemies.
Impact damage increased from 90 to 270.

Junker Queen

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.

Carnage

Axe is now thrown instead of swung.
Thrown axes can critically hit enemies.
Thrown axes stick to enemies on impact for the duration of the bleed.
When a thrown axe impacts the environment, or when an enemy is eliminated while an axe is stuck to them, the axe drops on the ground.
Picking up a dropped axe reduces Carnage's cooldown by 3 seconds.

Mauga

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.

Overrun

Stomp damage now scales with height, up to a maximum of 250 damage.

Cardiac Overdrive

Lifesteal and damage reduction removed.
No longer affects allies.
Duration increased from 3s to 5s.
Now grants Mauga 20% move speed for 3s when taking damage.
Now converts every 1 damage taken to 1 healing resource.
Stored healing resource persists until Cardiac Overdrive's cooldown completes.
Reactivating Cardiac Overdrive converts stored healing resource to heal Mauga.

Orisa

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

Energy Javelin

Can now impact allies.
When impacting allies, target receives 100 healing and their move speed is increased by 25% for 3s.

Fortify

When activated, Orisa charges forward while still Fortified.
Reactivating Fortify ends Orisa's charge.
Fortify lasts for 1 additional second after charge ends.
Charge knocks enemies out of the way.

Javelin Spin

When aimed upward, allows Orisa to fly upwards.

Ramattra

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.

Void Barrier

Barrier now lasts indefinitely.
Can be recalled by pressing secondary fire again. Recall places Void Barrier on cooldown.
Cooldown reduced to 2.5 seconds.

Ravenous Vortex

Now hinders enemies upon initial deployment.

Annihilation

Damage per second reduced from 35 to 20.
Now lifesteals at 100% effectiveness.

Reinhardt

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

Berserker - Passive

New
As Reinhardt loses health, his movement and attack speed increase.
For every 100 HP lost, Reinhardt gains 8% move speed and attack speed.
Maximum bonus reached when 200 HP remains.

Barrier Field

Barrier health reduced from 1500 to 1100.

Charge

Maximum duration increased from 3s to 20s.

Roadhog

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.

Chain Hook

Can now hit teammates.
If Chain Hook hits a teammate, Roadhog is pulled to the teammate.

Take a Breather

Generates poison gas around Roadhog, dealing 50 damage/s to nearby enemies.

Sigma

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

Kinetic Grasp

Now grants free flight while active.

Accretion

Knockdown duration increases with distance.

Gravitic Flux

No longer lifts enemies.
Now pins enemies to the ground, preventing movement and mobility abilities for 3 seconds.
Now deals 25 damage per second.
Slam damage changed from 50% of maximum health to 75.
Now grants an additional 4s of free flight.

Winston

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.

Jump Pack

Within 1 second of first activation, can be activated again with 50% effectiveness.

Barrier Projector

Can now be thrown forward
Barrier no longer immediately deploys.
Barrier deploys when Winston presses the ability button again, or after 2 seconds.

Wrecking Ball

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.

Enemies hit by ability damage are revealed to Wrecking Ball’s teammates for 1.5s.

Grappling Claw

Can now attach to the ground.

Minefield

Mines can now be manually detonated after 2s.

Zarya

The Projected Barrier changes give Zarya the option to enable her allies who lack mobility tools to reach high ground more easily.

Projected Barrier

Allies with barriers can now jump higher.

Graviton Surge

Now has an outer attraction range that is 50% larger.
Enemies within the outer attraction range do not have their movement abilities disabled.

Damage

Anran

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.

Base move speed increased from 6 m/s to 6.5 m/s.

Zhuque Fans

Fire rate increased by 50%.
Projectile speed increased from 90 to 150 m/s.

Inferno Rush

Anran can now hold backwards to dash backwards.
Initial launch speed increased by 27%.

Ashe

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.

Dynamite

Now sticks to surfaces.
Fuse timer increased from 5s to 20s.

B.O.B.

When B.O.B. is killed before timing out, B.O.B. explodes after a short delay.

Bastion

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?

Lindholm Explosives - Major Perk

Reworked into Tuned Treads.
Move 35% faster while in Configuration: Assault or Configuration: Tank.

Configuration: Artillery

Reworked into Configuration: Tank - Configuration: Tank's weapon fires fast-moving shells that deal 205 explosive damage.

Cassidy

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.

Minor Perk - Even the Odds

Replaced with True Shot - Deadeye's bullets pierce barriers.

Combat Roll

Now grants Invincibility during Combat Roll.

Deadeye

Every Final Blow earned via Deadeye grants 1 additional max ammo for the round, up to a cap of 18 max ammo.

Echo

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.

Focusing Beam

Input changed to Secondary Fire.
Cooldown decreased from 8s to 1s.
Now functions on a regenerating resource.

Sticky Bombs

Projectile speed increased by 60%.
Enemies with Sticky Bombs stuck to them are revealed to Echo for 5s.

Duplicate

Echo deals 20% more damage when duplicating a Support hero.
Echo has 20% more health when duplicating a Damage hero.
Echo moves 20% faster when duplicating a Tank hero.

Emre

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

Cyber Adhesion - Major Perk

Reworked into Optimized Targeting - When scoped, hitting all 3 burst shots increases the next unscoped burst shots' damage by 35%.

Cyber Frag

Cyber Frag final blows refund 1 charge of Cyber Frag.

Override Protocol

Now has 30% Lifesteal.

Freja

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.

Take Aim

Explosion Damage reduced from 80 to 40.
Explosion causes the Stuck target to bleed for 40 damage over 2 seconds.

Bola Shot

Area slow increased from 45% to 75%.

Bounty Hunting

Now marks a random enemy player as a bounty.
Eliminating the bounty target grants 15% Ultimate Charge.
6s cooldown between bounties.

Genji

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.

Dragon's Thirst – Minor Perk

Moved to base kit.

Swift Backcap – Minor Perk

New - Genji progresses objectives faster.

Deflect

Deflected damage increases with distance to victim.
Deflect final blows grant Genji a 15% damage boost for 5 seconds.

Dragonblade

Can now be cancelled.
Cancelling Dragonblade early sends out a large energy projectile and refunds Genji's cooldowns.

Hanzo

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.

Storm Bow

Damage reduced from 125 to 85.
Recovery time between shots reduced from 0.5s to 0.25s.

Storm Arrows

Can now bounce twice.

Lunge

Holding Jump launches Hanzo upwards.

Dragonstrike

Ultimate cost decreased by 12%.
Dragons travel speed increased by 20%.

Junkrat

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.

Health reduced from 250 to 200.

Frag Launcher

Projectile speed increased from 30 to 112.5 m/s.
Impact damage reduced from 45 to 30.
Explosion damage reduced from 80 to 50.
Projectiles now detonate on impact.

Steel Trap

Now has 2 charges.
Cooldown increased from 10s to 13s.
Can now be thrown much further.
Deployed trap takes 1s to arm and lasts for 6s.
All enemies within 6m of an armed trap bleed and are revealed to Junkrat.
Trap health increased from 100 to 120 health.

Concussion Mine

No longer throws a projectile.
Now triggers a concussive explosion under Junkrat.
Damage reduced from 120 to 90.

Mei

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).

Deep Freeze – Major Perk

Replaced with Ice Spikes - Enemies near Mei's Ice Wall are damaged and slowed.

Endothermic Blaster

Slowing effect removed.
Range increased from 12 to 14.

Icicle

Now slows impacted enemies.
Secondary Fire can now be held down to charge up the icicle. Charged icicles deal more damage and inflict a stronger slow over a longer duration.
Damage changed to range from 15 to 95.
Slow scales from a minimum of 5% for 0.25s to a maximum of 30% for 1.5s.

Pharah

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.

Concussive Blast

Now pulls enemies in after a short delay instead of pushing them out.
Temporarily slows non-tank enemies.

Reaper

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…

Soul Reaving - Minor Perk

Collecting a soul orb now also extends Wraith Form's timer by 1s.

Wraith Form

Deals 40 damage per second to enemies within 4m.

Death Blossom

Can now be cancelled manually.
Every elimination earned with Death Blossom extends the duration by 1s.

Sierra

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.

Full Flight – Minor Perk

Moved to base kit.

Locked In – Major Perk

Moved to minor perk.

Dart Redeployment – Major Perk

New - When a target dies with a Tracking Dart on them, refunds Tracking Dart's cooldown.

Tracking Shot

Landing a critical hit with the initial shot will cause follow-up homing shots to critically hit as well.

Sojourn

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!!

Base health increased to 250.

Dual Thrusters - Major Perk

Moved to base kit.

Deceleration Field – Minor Perk

Now heals allies within it for 30 health/s.

Dual Disruptor – Major Perk

New - Grants a second charge of Disruptor Shot.

Railgun

Fire rate increased by 25%.

Charged Shot

Damage reduced from 120 to 80.
Falloff range (min and max) reduced by 20m.

Power Slide

Sliding into enemies knocks back enemies into the air.

Soldier: 76

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.

Biotic Field

Now follows Soldier: 76 around.
Now repeatedly pushes enemies within Biotic Field away from Soldier: 76.

Tactical Visor

Now targets all enemies within view simultaneously.

Sombra

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).

Encrypted Upload – Minor Perk

Reworked - Sombra can now throw Virus without breaking Stealth. Sombra is Revealed for 3s after throwing Virus while Stealthed.

Viral Replication – Major Perk

Reworked - Final blows reduce the cooldown of Virus by 4s.

Hack

Removed.

Stealth

Moved to Ability 1.
Maximum duration increased from 5s to 8s.
Move speed bonus increased from 60% to 75%.

Translocator

Projectile physics altered – now arcs through the air slower.
No longer has a maximum flight time.
No longer immediately teleports Sombra upon impact or timeout.
Translocator now persists indefinitely on the ground. Translocator has 5 health when on the ground.

Virus

Now applies Hacked status effect to impacted enemies.
Now Hacks healthpacks nearby when impacting the environment.
Cooldown increased from 6s to 8s.

Symmetra

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.

Shield Battery – Major Perk

Moved to base kit.
Now affects all allies nearby.
Now works on all health types.

Acceleporter – Major Perk

New - Allies receive a 30% speed boost for 2s after using Teleporter.

Sentry Turrets

Can target enemies while mid-flight before being deployed.

Torbjörn

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.

Deploy Turret

Now fires fast-moving rockets instead of bullets.

Overload

Now increases primary fire projectile speed by 100%.

Tracer

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.

Blink Packs – Major Perk

Reworked into Ult Packs – Collecting a health pack grants 10 ult charge.

Recall

When activated, grants all allies within 5m the option to Recall for the next 5s.

Pulse Bomb

Enemies can now detach a stuck Pulse Bomb by shooting it. Pulse Bomb detaches after 150 damage is dealt to it.
Explosion delay increased from 1s to 3s.
Explosion radius increased from 4m to 7m.
Damage to stuck enemies increased from 350 to 9999.
Damage to stuck enemies ignores damage reduction.

Vendetta

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.

Palatine Fang

Swing damage decreased from 45 to 30.
Overhead damage reduced from 120 to 90.

Soaring Slice

Overhead damage unchanged at 120.

Warding Stance

Now passively drains energy while active.
Can now reflect projectiles.

Whirlwind Dash

Now pulls enemies in instead of pushing them out.

Sundering Blade

Targeting indicator now visible to enemies while charging up.
Now hits behind Vendetta as well as in front.

Venture

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.

Base HP reduced to 225
Final blows regenerate 1 charge of Drill Dash.

Excavation Exhilaration – Minor Perk

Replaced with Daylight Dash - Drill Dash distance while above-ground increased by 30%.

SMART Excavator

Primary fire damage increased from 75 to 85.

Drill Dash

Charges increased from 1 to 2.
Cooldown decreased from 8s to 6s.
Horizontal range decreased by 50%.
Vertical range unchanged.
Damage decreased from 90 to 35.

Burrow

Knockback strength increased by 20%.

Explorer's Resolve

Bonus shields reduced from 25 to 15.

Widowmaker

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.

Seeker Mine – Major Perk

Replaced with Vengeful Web - Upon death, drop mini venom mines in the shape of a web.

Widow's Kiss

Scoped charge rate decreased by 70%.
Primary fire spread decreased by 40%.
Primary fire shots until max spread increased from 11 to 18.

Grappling Hook

Now stores up to 2 charges.
Widowmaker earns 1 charge of Grappling Hook per final blow.

Venom Mine

Now stores up to 2 charges.
Number of placeable Venom Mines increased from 1 to 2.
If 1 Venom Mine is placed, mine deals 75 damage and knocks players away when triggered.
If 2 Venom Mines are placed within 15m of each other, and an unobstructed line can be drawn between them, a tripwire between the two mines is formed. When triggered, the tripwire deals 180 damage to enemies.

Support

Tactician Subrole

No longer allows storage of excess ultimate charge.
Tacticians now count as an additional ally for the purposes of progressing the objective.

For Ana, Bap, Zen it’s a tradeoff between staying out of harm’s way in their safe positions or being rewarded for playing on point (depends which tactical approach you prefer), while for Jetpack Cat & Lucio it encourages them to be more team players rather than exist in the enemy backline.

Medic Subrole

No longer provides self-healing when healing an ally.
Now provides 2.5% increased healing per allied Medic hero to all allies from all sources.

Dual medic support team compositions are generally not preferred by players so this change makes the team think twice if they want to lose their potential bonus healing as it benefits them as well (healthpacks, abilities healing, passive healing, subrole passive healing etc.)

Survivor Subrole

Movement abilities no longer immediately start passive health regeneration.
Now provides an additional 10 maximum health for every minute a Survivor remains alive, up to a maximum of 100 additional health.
Bonus maximum health resets upon death.

Survivors survive so increasing their survivability as a reward for surviving longer should help them survive more.

Ana

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.

Now has a jetpack.

Biotic Bounce – Major Perk

Replaced with Biotic Detonation - Detonate Biotic Grenade midair by pressing its ability button again.

Biotic Rifle

Healing shots can now critically heal allies (2x multiplier).

Nano Boost

Cast time removed.

Baptiste

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.