Overwatch 2 has 35 heroes unfold throughout three key roles – Tank, Damage, and Support. Tanks mitigate injury and create house for the crew. Damage sellers, nicely, deal injury and choose off opponents. Supports are healers however also can buff allies in several methods.
As with an MMORPG or MOBA, all heroes in these roles don’t serve the identical features. How do you go about taking part in them greatest? Our sequence of hero guides ought to assist, beginning with Ana.
How to Play Ana
Though not at present within the meta, Ana is a Support hero who can utterly change the move of a match. She’s geared up with Sleep Dart, among the finest crowd-control talents within the sport. It places enemies to sleep for just a few seconds, which permits for shutting down a few of the most harmful Ultimates within the sport (like Dragonblade). Biotic Grenade offers injury and inflicts anti-heal on enemies, briefly stopping them from receiving any therapeutic. This negates Ultimates like (*2*), however when thrown on allies, it boosts the therapeutic they obtain.
Her Ultimate, Nano Boost, will improve a teammate’s injury whereas additionally decreasing the quantity of harm they take. This pairs exceptionally nicely with Dragonblade and Tactical Visor, however will also be used for Barrage, Terra Surge and Whole Hog. You also can give it to a Tank and allow them to run wild, particularly if it’s somebody like Reinhardt. Finally, although her hip-fire fires projectile pictures, scoping in makes them hitscan, which is sweet for coping with Pharah and Mercy.
Ana has passive well being regeneration like different Support heroes however lacks any escape talents. If flanked by Tracer, Genji, Reaper, and whatnot, she will solely actually depend on Sleep Dart and Biotic Grenade to defend herself. Also, given the character of her therapeutic – which requires firing at an ally to heal them – she might be tough for many who have bother aiming.
Those who don’t have such points will nonetheless have to handle cooldowns successfully, prioritize injury and therapeutic accordingly, and handle their positioning. Having Brigitte or Lucio alongside Ana is sweet since they might help repel flankers (extra so for the previous) and present AoE therapeutic. Again, whereas Ana is just not at present the meta, she does allow some of the devastating Ultimate combos within the sport with Nanoblade. If you desire a Support hero with tons of utility and don’t thoughts the excessive talent ceiling, Ana is a fairly good possibility.
How to Play Ashe
Good ol’ “Calamity” Ashe is like an in-between level for Soldier 76 and Widowmaker. Her weapon is a lever-action rifle known as the Viper that may fireplace rapidly from the hip or scope in for extra damaging headshots. Her Coach Gun is used to knock again enemies, however when aimed on the floor, it may possibly shoot you upwards, which is nice for reaching greater factors.
Dynamite throws an explosive that offers injury in an space and leaves enemies burning for a short interval. It will also be shot in mid-air by Ashe. Finally, her Ultimate, B.O.B., sends out her buff robotic butler. B.O.B. will cost ahead, both stopping at a wall or when hitting an opponent. He’ll ship them flying into the air and assault along with his arm cannon. If that weren’t sufficient, B.O.B. can contest the purpose and payload, shopping for time on your crew or night odds when you’re a participant down. Be cautious, although as he simply be despatched off the map.
Ashe excels at mid-to-long-range fight. A number of methods to use her embrace concentrating on Supports and taking them down with ADS pictures earlier than utilizing hip-fire to break a Tank’s protect. You may additionally whittle foes down with pictures and Dynamite, reposition to the excessive floor with the Coach Gun for higher angles, and usher in B.O.B. for added firepower.
One great way to end off Supports and different Damage sellers is to ADS, shoot, and instantly swap to hip-fire once they’re weak. You may additionally nail a headshot, then throw Dynamite and shoot it in mid-air to end them off (which is sweet in case your opponent retreats across the nook). Nowadays, Ashe can pair nicely with Sojourn, whose Disruption Field will weaken targets sufficient for Dynamite or sluggish them for a well-placed headshot.
While shields aren’t a deal-breaker for Ashe, D.Va – who can dive on her and deal insane injury when not consuming her pictures with Defense Matrix – generally is a nuisance. A great Reaper and Genji also can maintain her off steadiness, whereas a powerful Tracer can outright counter her. Finally, Ashe might be outranged by Widowmaker, so when you’re in a sniper battle, it may be higher to change to the purple girl.
How to Play D.Va
There’s most likely no Tank within the historical past of aggressive Overwatch as contentious as D.Va. Not solely is she tanky – which is saying one thing, even amongst different Tanks – however she offers loads of injury and is outright oppressive for hitscan heroes. Also, even when you destroy D.Va’s mech, she doesn’t technically “die,” as a substitute roaming round in Pilot Form till her mech might be summoned once more.
First, her talents: Boosters enable D.Va to fly within the route that one is dealing with. This grants unimaginable mobility, as gamers can dive onto targets even when they’re on the excessive floor and knock them off. She has two cannons that are considerably like shotguns – they’ve a fairly large unfold from vary however deal tons of harm up shut. They additionally don’t have to be reloaded, permitting one to pump out injury with impunity.
This might be paired with Micro Missiles, which have extra vary and additionally deal splash injury, for much more punishment. D.Va’s Ultimate is Self-Destruct, which permits for overloading the mech and inflicting it to explode in a large radius after a delay. She also can use Call Mech to summon a brand new mech, Titanfall-style, with the impression of the mech drop inflicting injury to close by enemies (and outright one-shotting the weaker ones).
Despite how good all of that is, it pales subsequent to her greatest means – Defense Matrix. Defense Matrix has a useful resource meter which recharges over time and a brief cooldown between every use. It destroys projectiles in entrance of D.Va, which incorporates the whole lot from bullets and rockets to arrows and even Junker Queen’s knife throw. It also can eat Ultimates, like Graviton Surge, Pulse Bomb and Dragonstrike (the arrow and not the dual spirit dragons). Perhaps the one weak spot of Defense Matrix is that it has a hard and fast distance, so when you’re attempting to defend allies from High Noon, Death Blossom, Tactical Visor or Barrage, you want to be proper up within the enemy’s face.
Nevertheless, even and not using a conventional barrier like Reinhardt or injury resistance like Orisa, D.Va is without doubt one of the greatest heroes within the sport. Her injury permits her to dive onto Supports together with your flankers and take them down rapidly. She also can function a extra “conventional” Tank, nullifying injury and pushing enemies away. Self Destruct additionally offers plenty of injury, outright one-shotting most heroes – although its delay implies that opponents have time to cover earlier than it goes off.
In phrases of counters, heroes like Mei, Symmetra and Zarya – whose Primary Fire bypasses Defense Matrix – are ideally suited. Ideally, you need to focus fireplace on D.Va and forestall her from diving onto your Supports, outlasting Defense Matrix and burning by means of her well being. In these conditions, as D.Va, staying nimble and dipping in and out whereas in search of a possibility to take down susceptible targets is vital. Keep a line of sight when evading together with your Support since their therapeutic is invaluable. Of course, defending your teammates with Defense Matrix can also be essential throughout all of this.
Overwatch 2 is at present out there for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch. For particulars on how to unlock all current and new heroes, head right here. You also can take a look at our official overview right here.
