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Overwatch players are now entering the second month in a row of a Double-Shield meta and people are not stoked about it. Despite shields being massively nerfed since the last iteration of the composition, ranked players still hold a grudge against the slower paced gameplay. Tank players especially hate being forced into playing the same…
What a crazy fever dream the past meta was huh? Roadhog just running around, terrorizing everyone. Zarya’s had to time their bubbles to protect friendly Roadhogs after they get hooked, because there wasn’t a shield to hide behind. Snipers were just left uncontested because no one could get to high ground. Goodness what a mess.…
Piggybacking off of the excitement of the Summer Showdown, the Countdown cup saw plenty of action from a wide-array of playmakers. Genji was still the most popular DPS pick, but teams leaned towards other Dive heroes like Sombra and Winston in order to find small advantages over their opponents. Unfortunately for viewers, this past tournament…
After a strange few months in competitive Overwatch, the hero pool system has been removed from all ranks of the game. Players may go back to one-tricking their favorite heroes, without worry that they will be randomly removed from play. Now that all heroes are readily available, the meta has warped back a bit towards…
[The June Tier List is Now Out] Competitive Season 21 has come to a close. And with it, the majority of the Overwatch playerbase waves goodbye to Hero Pools. From now on, the pools will only affect matches in Masters and above (3500+ SR). Additionally, map pools no longer exist in Competitive play. Horizon Lunar…
The Overwatch 2020 Anniversary Event will begin May 19 and with it as always comes some incredible new skins. In the week leading up to it, Overwatch will normally show off at least the Legendary skins ahead of time in tweets or videos of their own. There are normally about five or six legendary skins…
Overwatch is another year older and with it comes the Anniversary event. This event will be starting on May 19 and run through June 9. In the announcement, Overwatch hinted at new rewards and seasonal brawls. [Related: What To Expect in the Overwatch Anniversary Event 2020] This means that as per usual there will be…
With the Overwatch Anniversary Event looming, there arises speculation as to what content will be released with it. Originally, Overwatch launched May 24, 2016. This has placed the anniversary event in the last weeks of May each year. In 2017, it ran from May 21-June 10; 2018 was May 22-June 11; 2019 was May 23-June…
After a few weeks of Hero Bans being completely separated between Competitive Overwatch and the Overwatch League, Blizzard has decided to combine them. This means that there will always be four heroes banned from here on out. One for Tank and Support while two for DPS. They are announced every Sunday after the Overwatch League…
After a two month run, Competitive Season 21 is coming to a close on May 7. There are also no longer any delays between seasons. This means that Overwatch Competitive Season 22 is slated to start immediately after, on Thursday May 7. This season should also have a two month runtime, giving around eight weeks…
April sees the middle and ending phase of Competitive Season 21, and a unified hero ban system between the Overwatch League and Competitive Play. Matching the bans across all levels of play makes it easier to understand, but also takes unnecessary stress off the OWL and Contenders players. Blizzard has also forgone the limited map…
Overwatch Archives just finished up on April 2 and now people may be wondering, when is the next Overwatch event? Well, the Archives event normally would just be starting, so it seems as though the Overwatch team has a bit of a different schedule this year. Another reason to believe this is that they added…
After what has been a crazy last few months, Overwatch Season 21 will be coming to an end on May 7. This means that while in quarantine, one should be grinding as much as possible over the next few weeks to get as high on the ranked ladder as possible. There are no major changes…
At the conclusion of the Watchpoint: Hero Pool Draw immediately following Week 9’s matches, the four heroes that will be banned or disabled in Week 10 of the OWL were announced. There were a few new aspects to the way these heroes were picked for the second week in a row. This time, Wolf and…
At the conclusion of the Watchpoint: Hero Pool Draw immediately following Week 8’s matches, the four heroes that will be banned or disabled in Week 9 of the OWL were announced. There were a few new aspects to the way these heroes were picked. For starters, Soe’s cat, Nori, made the picks which added a…
Overwatch ranked can be, for a plethora of reasons, headache-inducing. One of these reasons is centered around a few heroes that are particularly annoying to play against in ranked. These might not be the most overpowered heroes but they are certainly the ones that require the most coordination and teamwork to defeat. Things that are…
According to images allegedly leaked to @OverwatchNaeri via DM, it appears that internal playtests for Moira and Brigitte in Overwatch 2’s PvE will feature some interesting new abilities. Chief among them, Jetpack Cat. The images leaked to Naeri can be seen below, with abilities in PvE for Moira and Brigitte listed out. On Brigitte’s, there…
Overwatch’s latest patch (1.46) has shaken up the meta for heroes in each of the three roles, which affects heroes all across the game. For example, the nerfs to several of the different DPS heroes in the game have greatly affected which Tanks and Supports are viable as a result. Because each change in this…
Overwatch’s latest patch (1.46) has shaken up the meta for heroes in each of the three roles, which affects heroes all across the game. For example, the nerfs to several of the different DPS heroes in the game have greatly affected which Tanks and Supports are viable as a result. Because each change in this…
Overwatch’s latest patch (1.46) has shaken up the meta for heroes in each of the three roles, which affects heroes all across the game. For example, the nerfs to several of the different DPS heroes in the game have greatly affected which Tanks and Supports are viable as a result. Because each change in this…
