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Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer first-person hero shooter game by Blizzard. Two teams of six players fight for the map’s objective within a limited amount of time, either a king-of-the-hill style of gameplay or push the payload. Blizzard released the game on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Windows in May 2016, followed by a release of the Nintendo Switch version in October 2019.

History and Development

Blizzard initially was supposed to be an MMO due to the studio’s specialization in MMO games. However, the developers gained enough experience creating a shooter game while working on their supposedly new IP (intellectual property) called Project Titan.

In May 2013, Blizzard decided to cancel the game entirely and use the assets to create a new game, Overwatch. At the 2014 Blizzcon event, Blizzard unveiled their latest game, Overwatch which they eventually released in Closed Beta from late 2015 until early 2016. Critics and players praised the game for its character’s diversity, cartoonish art style, and quite seemingly addictive gameplay.

Almost six years since its release, Overwatch is getting a sequel called Overwatch 2 that features an extensive PVE (player versus environment) co-operative campaign which explores the plot and lore of Overwatch. Blizzard also implemented changes to the gameplay,

Plot

Overwatch is set in a futuristic Earth, sixty years into the future. Thirty years before Overwatch took place, an “Omnic Crisis”  began. The Omnic crisis is when omnium, an automated facility, began producing lethal and hostile robots which turned against humans. This event caused the formation of the Overwatch, an international task force, a United Nations-assigned team to combat the Omnic threats.

Two veterans, Gabriel Reyes, and Jack Morrison are in charge of overwatch. However, a rift formed between both the leaders, in which Morrison became the true leader of Overwatch while Reyes became the leader of a covert operations division called the Blackwatch.

Morrison and Reyes’ beef intensified even more when several allegations of wrongdoings and failures prompted the United Nations to investigate. An explosion destroyed the Overwatch’s headquarters, which supposedly killed Morrison and Reyes. This event forced the UN to pass the Petras Act, dismantling Overwatch.

Without Overwatch, corporations took over, and terrorism broke out in multiple parts of the world. With the recent signs of a second coming of the Omnic Crisis, former Overwatch members decide to reform Overwatch without the UN’s permission. Overwatch soon discovered that Reyes was alive and is now known as Soldier: 76, while Reyes joined a criminal organization called Talon and became Reaper.

Gameplay

The gameplay is similar to Quake and other fast-paced action shooter games. The difference is that each hero you choose has specific abilities that can either change the tide of battle or work against your team.

There are different game modes within the game, such as Assault, Control, Escort, Hybrid, Push, and Capture the Flag. There are also other game modes such as Deathmatch, Elimination, and even community-made ones.

Mechanics

Roles

Blizzard initially released Overwatch with four roles; Tanks, Offense, Defense, and Supports. However, Blizzard combined the Offense and Defense roles into one called Damage.

• Tanks– These heroes specialize in being the team’s front line and protecting allies while they deal damage. They have an immensely high amount of survivability and abilities that provide protection to themselves or their allies, such as shields and CC (crowd control.)
• Damage– These heroes are responsible for wearing down the enemy tanks until the entire team can push through and win the fight. They have various abilities and playstyles; hence this is one of the most sought-after roles in-game.
• Supports– Support heroes are responsible for providing heals, buffs, and other valuable utilities during team fights. They increase the team’s survivability and damage. The one downside of being a support player is that they are at their worst when enemies confront them in a 1v1 duel.

Shields and Barriers

Shields and barriers protect you from enemy damage; however, a few attacks don’t protect you from shields. These attacks include melee attacks such as Reinhardt’s Rocket Hammer, Torbjörn’s melee attack with the forge hammer, and even regular melee attacks (every hero has one).

Winston’s Tesla Cannon will damage and lower the shield’s hitpoints and damage the enemy behind it. Shields can regenerate for a few points per second. There is a unique indicator beside your HP bar that lets you see the health of your shield. The regeneration begins once you stop taking damage for three seconds.

Barriers, on the other hand, do not reduce the enemies’ damage, and they do not regenerate. Zarya’s barrier and Lucio’s ultimate ability, the Sound Barrier, are two notable barrier skills. They absorb the entire damage that you take, and these barriers have a limited amount of time before disappearing.

Armor

A few heroes have default armor to their HP bar (denoted by the yellow boxes in the HP bar.) Armor reduces damages that enemies inflict on you by half; however if the damage exceeds ten or more, the protection caps at five damage. Brigitte’s ultimate, Rally, will provide armor to her allies within the AOE (Area of Effect).

The only heroes with natural armor are Bastion, Brigitte, D.Va (Mech mode), Orisa, Reinhardt, Winston, and Wrecking Ball.

Damage Amplification

Damage amplification is as straightforward as the name; it boosts your hero’s damage to a specific percentage. Here are some of the skills that increase your damage/amplify the damage that the enemy takes.

1. Ana’s ultimate ability, Nano Boost, provides +50% if applied to your hero.
2. Baptiste‘s ultimate ability, Amplification Matrix, provides +100% damage if you shoot through the window that Baptiste builds.
3. Mercy’s Caduceus Staff (Right Click) boosts the damage of the hero by +30%
4. Orisa’s ultimate ability, Supercharger, grants a +50% damage increase to all heroes within a particular AOE of the ability.
5. Zenyatta’s Orb of Discord, Zenyatta will apply an orb to an enemy (the indicator is visible through walls) that debuffs them and amplifies their damage taken.

Headshots

Headshots are a recurring mechanic in shooter games. Headshots multiply your damage by 2x, meaning that if you do 50 damage to the body, then your headshot damage would be 100.

The only exception to this rule is Symmetra, Winston, who cannot do headshots, while Widowmaker has a headshot multiplier of 2.5x. Headshots are distinguishable with their “Ding” sound effect and an X around your crosshair.

Hit Points

Hit Points are your hero’s health pool. If it goes down to zero, you die. Each character has a different health pool and depends on the character’s role. Tanks usually have a higher health pool, while supports and damage roles have a lower health pool.

Healing and Health Packs

Healing abilities are primarily exclusive to supports, except Roadhog (Self Heal) and Soldier 76. If you receive healing, it has a specific order depending on the type of hit points.

1. Health (White)
2. Armor (Yellow)
3. Shield (Can generate itself while a support hero heals you)

Health packs, on the other hand, are found throughout the map. You can pick any of these up if you’ve taken damage, and once you pick up these health packs, they take a few seconds before they will respawn again. These health packs cleanse any DoT (damage over time) on your heroes, such as Ana’s Biotic Rifle, Ash’s Dynamite, and Widowmaker’s Venom Mine. There are two sizes of health packs; small and large.

• Small health packs restore 75 HP, and they respawn after 10 seconds.
• Large health packs restore 250 HP, and they respawn after 15 seconds.

Ultimate Abilities

Ultimate abilities are powerful game-changing abilities that players must charge before using them. A yellow circle indicates the ultimate ability charge. Players gradually earn an ult charge every five seconds and can hasten their ult charge by dealing damage or by healing.

Some heroes have a higher ultimate cost. This aspect means that you need more time to generate the ultimate; however, this does not equate to these heroes being late to the ult pop party as this is still highly dependent on the ult generation (DPS and healing).

In-Game Objectives

Assault

Assault is a game mode in which there’s one attacking team and one is defending. The attacking team must capture two points, pushing the defending team off the point. The defending team is responsible for fending off the attacking team until the time runs out. The timer will increase once the attacking team captures one point.

Overtime will trigger if the timer runs out while the attacking team is still touching the point. The overtime timer will not go down as long as they are on the point. Both teams will take turns as the attacking and defending teams for the competitive version of this game mode.

Assault Maps:

1. Hanamura
2. Horizon Lunar Colony
3. Temple of Anubis
4. Volskaya Industries
5. Paris

Control

Control is the king-of-the-hill style of mode in Overwatch. Both teams will be fighting each other to take over a single point. Once a team takes a point, they will need to defend their control until it reaches 100%. The overtime timer will trigger if one team reaches 99% while a hero in the enemy team contests them.

More teammates in the point will increase the capture speed; however, only up to three teammates will speed up the capturing of the point. The competitive version of the game mode is similar to the quick-play game mode.

Control Maps:

1. Lijiang Tower
2. Nepal
3. Ilios
4. Oasis
5. Busan

Escort

In the escort game mode, an attacking team will escort a payload to a delivery point while the defending team tries to prevent them from pushing the payload. There are two to three checkpoints per map before the final delivery point, and each time the payload reaches these checkpoints, the timer will increase and move both teams to their new respective pawning locations.

The overtime will trigger once a hero in the attacking team contests and is near the payload. The competitive version of this game mode swaps both teams, and the objective is to get the payload further than the enemy team.

Escort Maps:

1. Watchpoint: Gibraltar
2. Dorado
3. Havana
4. Route 66
5. Junkertown
6. Rialto

Hybrid

Hybrid mode is a combination between assault and capture. An attacking team needs to capture the point, and after successfully doing so, the attacking team will escort the payload to the delivery point. The competitive version of this game mode swaps both teams with a similar objective to the escort mode.

Hybrid Maps:

1. King’s Row
2. Numbani
3. Hollywood
4. Eichenwalde
5. Blizzard World

Characters

Tanks

D.Va

Description

D.Va consists of her Mech mode and her Baby D.Va Mode. Once the enemy depletes the hit points of D.Va’s Mech, Hana Song (pilot of the mech) jumps out and equips an automatic pistol until she can fill her ultimate ability bar to summon another mech.

D.Va can quickly get to the high ground to drive the enemy team off to potentially remove threats for your team. Her ultimate skill is self-destruct, in which Hana Song detonates her mech; she then jumps out of it before it explodes.

Skills

• Fusion Cannons (Left-Click during Mech Mode)
• Light Gun (Left-Click during Baby D.Va Mode)
• Boosters (Left Shift)
• Defense Matrix (Right-click)
• Micro Missiles (E)
• Self Destruct (Ultimate Ability)

Orisa

Description

Orisa is a frontline tank that protects teammates from enemy damage by deploying a shield and being one of the most “tanky” heroes in Overwatch. Orisa’s ult is a supercharger that buffs teammates’ damage around the device that she drops down.

Skills

• Fusion Driver (Left-Click)
• Fortify (Left Shift)
• Halt! (Right-click)
• Protective Barrier (E)
• Supercharger (Ultimate Ability)

Reinhardt

Description

Reinhardt is a melee tank with a mighty hammer to decimate the enemies. He can pin enemies, which one-shots squishies (supports and DPS), and at the same time protect his teammates by deploying a shield that he can hold while pushing forward. Reinhardt’s ultimate is Earthshatter, where he can knock down all enemies in front of him.

Skills

• Rocket Hammer (Left-Click)
• Charge (Left Shift)
• Barrier Field (Right-click)
• Fire Strike (E)
• Earthshatter (Ultimate Ability)
• Steadfast (Passive)

Roadhog

Description

Roadhog is a deadly tank that can hook enemies and blast them with his shotgun-like weapon. He can replenish his health with his healing ability, and his ultimate, Whole Hog, fires a barrage of bullets that knock back enemies in front of him.

Skills

• Scrap Gun (Left-Click Short-Range spread blast)
• Chain Hook (Left Shift)
• Scrap Gun (Right-click Medium-Range spread blast)
• Take A Breather (E)
• Whole Hog (Ultimate Ability)

Sigma

Description

Sigma has a great mix of offense and defense. He also launches imploding spheres to damage enemies, and he can protect his allies with his Kinetic Grasp and Experimental Barrier. Sigma can also pull a huge rock from the ground and stuns enemies if he hits them.

His ultimate ability is called Gravitic Flux, which lifts enemies into the air and slams them back to the ground after a few seconds.

Skills

• Hyperspheres (Left-Click)
• Kinetic Grasp (Left Shift)
• Experimental Barrier (Right-click)
• Accretion (E)
• Gravitic Flux (Ultimate Ability)

Winston

Description

Winston is an aggressive tank that shocks enemies with his Tesla Cannon. He can easily jump to high grounds, deploys shields, and goes full monkey-mode once he enters Primal Rage’s ultimate ability.

Skills

• Tesla Cannon (Left-Click)
• Jump Pack (Left Shift)
• Barrier Protector (E)
• Primal Rage (Ultimate Ability)

Wrecking Ball

Description

Wrecking Ball is a fun tank to use. He rolls across the map, blasts enemies with his machine gun, and utilizes his mech to crush his enemies. Wrecking Ball can deploy mines with his ultimate called Minefield.

Skills

• Quad Cannons (Left-Click)
• Roll (Left Shift)
• Grappling Claw (Right-click)
• Piledriver (Ctrl while in mid-air)
• Adaptive Shield (E)
• Minefield (Ultimate Ability)

Zarya

Description

Zarya utilizes her barriers to protect herself and her allies and converts that protection to power up herself. She uses a mix of a linear beam weapon and an energy grenade launcher, plus her ultimate called Graviton Surge pulls enemies towards the projectile that she expels.

Skills

• Particle Cannon (Left-Click Linear Beam)
• Particle Barrier (Left Shift)
• Particle Cannon (Right-click Energy Grenade Launcher)
• Projected Barrier (E)
• Graviton Surge (Ultimate Ability)
• Energy (Passive)

Damage or DPS

Ashe

Description

Ashe specializes in medium-ranged combat with her rifle, The Viper. She can use her rifle’s scope to prolong her line of sight and push away enemies with her Coach Gun. One of her signature skills, called dynamite, deals explosive damage upon detonation and deals lasting DOT (Damage over time). Her ultimate is called B.O.B., where she summons her butler to aid her in battle.

Skills

• The Viper (Left-Click)
• Coach Gun (Left Shift)
• Take Aim (Right-click Scope)
• Dynamite (E)
• B.O.B. (Ultimate Ability)

Bastion

Description

Bastion is a unique hero in Overwatch; it can transform into its sentry mode (deals massive damage) and recon mode (almost useless). It can repair itself, and it’s ultimate turns it into a tank. Bastion is a great hero for a beginner in the game.

Skills

• Configuration: Sentry (Left-Click Powerful machine gun)
• Configuration: Recon (Left Click Light automatic weapon)
• Reconfigure (Left Shift)
• Self-Repair (E)
• Configuration: Tank (Ultimate Ability)
• Ironclad (Passive)

Cassidy

Description

Cassidy excels in medium-ranged combat with his revolver called the PeaceKeeper. He can fend off flankers with his flashbang and instantly unload all of his bullets with Fan The Hammer. His ultimate, Dead Eye, can instantly one-shot enemies within his line of sight.

Skills

• PeaceKeeper (Left-Click)
• Combat Roll (Left Shift)
• Fan The Hammer (Right-click)
• Flashbang (E)
• Dead Eye (Ultimate Ability)

Doomfist

Description

Doomfist is a lethal DPS that can instantly kill you with one punch. He has so much maneuverability with his kit and lets him in and out of combat after killing one of your teammates. His ultimate can also one-shot anyone near the AOE of his slam.

Skills

• Hand Cannon (Left-Click)
• Rising Uppercut (Left Shift)
• Rocket Punch (Right-click)
• Seismic Slam (E)
• Meteor Strike (Ultimate Ability)

Echo

Description

Echo can deal massive amounts of damage while flying through the air. Her sticky bombs, coupled with her focusing beam, can instantly bring your tank’s HP down. Her Duplicate ability allows her to copy any heroes in the battlefield.

Skills

• Tri-Shot (Left-Click)
• Flight (Left Shift)
• Sticky Bombs (Right-click)
• Focusing Beam (E)
• Duplicate (Ultimate Ability)
• Glide (Passive)

Genji

Description

Genji is a strong flanker that resembles a ninja. A good Genji player can dash in and out of the battlefield and can easily take out your supports if they are not careful. His ultimate melee ability, called Dragonblade, can decimate supports with two hits.

Skills

• Shuriken (Left-Click)
• Swift Strike (Left Shift)
• Fan Of Blades (Right-click)
• Deflect (E)
• Dragonblade (Ultimate Ability)
• Cyber-Agility (Passive)

Hanzo

Description

Hanzo is a sniper-like bowman. He specializes in both long and short-ranged combat. His ultimate ability allows his arrow to transform into a dragon dealing immense DOT (Damage over time)

Skills

• Storm Bow (Left-Click)
• Sonic Arrow (Left Shift)
• Storm Arrows (E)
• Lunge (Press Spacebar 2x)
• Dragon Strike (Ultimate Ability)
• Wall Climb (Passive)

Junkrat

Junkrat is a great shield-breaking hero who utilizes explosives to deal massive damage to enemies. His ultimate Rip-Tire summons a tire that he can control through the battlefield and detonate whenever he pleases.

Description

Skills

• Frag Launcher (Left-Click)
• Concussion Mine (Left Shift)
• Steel Trap (E)
• Rip-Tire (Ultimate Ability)
• Total Mayhem (Passive)

Mei

Description

Mei relies on freezing and slowing down enemies. She can build ice walls to isolate an enemy, block incoming damage, and even heal herself with Cryo-Freeze. Her ultimate is Blizzard, in which she throws a device that slows down and freezes enemies in an area if they stay long enough.

Skills

• Endothermic Blaster (Left-Click)
• Cryo-Freeze (Left Shift)
• Icicle (Right-click Scope)
• Ice Wall (E)
• Blizzard (Ultimate Ability)

Pharah

Description

Pharah is an aerial DPS that deals explosive AOE damage with her rockets. She can push enemies off of an area with her Concussive Blast, and lastly, her ultimate, Barrage, fires off a bunch of mini-missiles doing massive AOE damage to enemies.

Skills

• Rocket Launcher (Left-Click)
• Jump Jet (Left Shift)
• Concussive Blast (E)
• Barrage (Ultimate Ability)
• Hover (Passive, press or hold spacebar to hover)

Reaper

Description

Reaper is a strong beginner hero specializing in getting up-close and bursting down everyone. He can teleport with Shadow Step, slip in and out of combat with Wraith Form, and heal himself with his passive The Reaping. His ultimate is an AOE in which he dances around, blasting his guns and damaging enemies near him.

Skills

• Hellfire Shotguns (Left-Click)
• Wraith Form (Left Shift)
• Shadow Step (E)
• Death Blossom (Ultimate Ability)
• The Reaping (Passive)

Soldier: 76

Description

Soldier: 76 is a lethal DPS specializing in applying pressure to enemies with his outrageous damage potential. He has a heavy pulse rifle with an alternate fire of helix rocket which has excellent damage if it hits an enemy directly. He can also sprint, and his ultimate, called Tactical Visor, is an aimbot.

Skills

• Heavy Pulse Rifle (Left-Click)
• Sprint (Left Shift)
• Helix Rocket (Right-click Scope)
• Biotic Field (E)
• Tactical Visor (Ultimate Ability)

Sombra

Description

Sombra is a deceptive DPS wherein her main kit revolves around disrupting enemies by hacking them, which effectively silences enemies. Her EMP is a much more potent version of her single-target hack; Sombra unleashes an AOE around her, hacking everyone, destroying shields and barriers.

Skills

• Machine Pistol (Left-Click)
• Stealth (Left Shift)
• Hack (Right-click)
• Translocator (E)
• Destroy Translocator (F)
• EMP (Ultimate Ability)
• Opportunist (Passive)

Symmetra

Description

Symmetra utilizes her turrets to deal damage and slow enemies passing through. She also has a potent weapon, the Photon Projector, and can teleport allies to give them a positional advantage. Her ultimate almost splits the map in half, wherever she chooses to plant the massive energy barrier (any projectiles or bullets do not go through the barrier).

Skills

• Photon Projector (Left-Click Beam)
• Sentry Turret (Left Shift)
• Photon Projector (Right-click Projectile)
• Teleporter (E)
• Photon Barrier (Ultimate Ability)

Torbjörn

Description

Torbjörn is a turret-building hero who has a powerful kit. His kit involves his rivet gun, which is potent whenever you land headshots or even an up-close shotgun-like power. His turrets attack enemies from a distance, and his ultimate Molten Core, allows him to create pools of molten slags that damage enemies.

Skills

• Rivet Gun (Left-Click Long-ranged projectile)
• Forge Hammer (Press 2 to switch to the weapon which you can use to damage enemies or repair your turrets)
• Deploy Turret (Left Shift)
• Rivet Gun (Right-click Short-range shotgun-like blast)
• Overload (E)
• Molten Core (Ultimate Ability)

Tracer

Description

Tracer is one of the most complicated heroes to utilize in Overwatch. She zip-zaps across the map and gets in your face to kill you in one clip. She can rewind the time to correct her mistakes. Her ultimate is Pulse Bomb which she can freely attack to any enemy.

Skills

• Pulse Pistols (Left-Click)
• Blink (Left Shift)
• Recall (E)
• Pulse Bomb (Ultimate Ability)

Widowmaker

Description

Widowmaker is one of the most powerful DPS in the right hands. She’s a sniper and can one-hit almost any DPS and Support with a full-charged scoped shot. Her grappling hook will help her reposition and provide her vantage points to pick enemies one by one. Her ultimate ability, Infra-Sight, is a free wallhack for your entire team, allowing you to see enemies through walls.

Skills

• Widow’s Kiss (Left-Click Automatic Rifle)
• Venom Mine (Left Shift)
• Sniper Mode (Right-click)
• Venom Mine (E)
• Infra-Sight (Ultimate Ability)

Supports

Ana

Description

Ana is one of the most fun heroes to play in Overwatch. Her kit is the most versatile and can be game-changing. Ana’s sleep dart can put diving enemies to sleep; her biotic grenade can heal allies and damage enemies while applying an anti-heal debuff. Lastly, her ultimate can super buff an ally wherein they take less damage and dish out more damage.

Skills

• Biotic Rifle (Left-Click)
• Sleep Dart (Left Shift)
• Zoom-In (Right-click Scope)
• Biotic Grenade (E)
• Nano Boost (Ultimate Ability)

Baptiste

Description

Baptiste’s kit is mainly for helping your allies survive throughout the skirmish. He has two heal abilities, a charging jump, and one of the most potent abilities in the game, the immortality field. His ultimate ability is the amplification matrix, which essentially is a window that boosts the projectile’s damage and healing (allies only).

Skills

• Biotic Launcher (Left-Click Three-Round Burst fire)
• Regenerative Burst (Left Shift)
• Biotic Launcher (Right-click Projectile Healing Rounds)
• Immortality Field (E)
• Amplification Matrix (Ultimate Ability)
• EXO Boots (Passive)

Brigitte

Description

Brigitte is one of the most powerful supports that can out damage some of the DPS heroes and be potentially the third tank. Each strike from her flail (including Whip Shot) triggers Inspire, which can heal allies within a certain AOE around her. She is the only melee support that makes her hard to balance, and fans still consider her a broken hero.

Skills

• Rocket Flail (Left-Click)
• Whip Shot (Left Shift)
• Barrier Shield (Right-click)
• Repair Pack (E)
• Shield Bash (Press Left Click when your Barrier Shield is up)
• Rally (Ultimate Ability)
• Inspire (Passive)

Lucio

Description

Lucio is an agile support that constantly provides speed boosts and healing as long as his allies are within his AOE. Lucio can push enemies with his “Boop” ability, can wallride, and lastly, his ultimate gives allies temporary shields.

Skills

• Sonic Amplifier (Left-Click Three-Round Projectile Burst)
• Crossfade (Left Shift)
• Boop (Right-click Pushes enemies away from Lucio)
• Amp it Up (E)
• Sound Barrier (Ultimate Ability)
• Wallride (Passive)

Mercy

Description

Mercy is a pure support hero that can resurrect, damage boost, and even fly around the map with her ultimate Valkyrie. She’s like the ultimate guardian angel of Overwatch.

Skills

• Caduceus Staff (Left-Click Heal)
• Guardian Angel (Left Shift)
• Caduceus Staff (Right-click Damage Boost)
• Angelic Descent (Hold
• Resurrect (E)
• Valkyrie (Ultimate Ability)
• Regeneration (Passive)

Moira

Description

Moira is an offensive support that provides lots of healing to her team. She can damage enemies with either her Biotic Grasp or her Biotic Orb. Lastly, her ultimate is a beam that heals allies and damages enemies simultaneously.

Skills

• Biotic Grasp (Left-Click Healing Spray)
• Fade (Left Shift)
• Biotic Grasp (Right-click Damage)
• Biotic Orb (E)
• Coalescence (Ultimate Ability)
• Energy (Passive)

Zenyatta

Description

Zenyatta is another offensive support with low healing but makes up with his offensive power. Although Zenyatta has a low HPS (Healing Per Second) with his orb, he can dish out tons of damage, and provide damage amplification debuff to his targets with his Orb of Discord. His ultimate ability, Transcendence, makes up for his lack of healing, wherein Zenyatta becomes invulnerable, moves faster, and provides massive healing around him.

Skills

• Orb of Destruction (Left-Click Single fire)
• Orb of Harmony (Left Shift)
• Orb of Destruction (Right-click Charge up to five Orbs of Destruction and fire them all at once)
• Orb of Discord (E)
• Transcendence (Ultimate Ability)
• Energy (Passive)

FAQs

Overwatch Overview: Conclusion

Overwatch is a fun PVP game with a high learning curve. There are many micro and macro things to look out for if you’re playing this game competitively, but regardless, it is an excellent game with many dedicated players over its seven-year run.

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