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[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…
With the beginning of Season 23 comes Competitive Open Queue as a permanent part of the game. Season 22 saw this on the experimental cards along with the anniversary event. The goal of this is to allow for people who prefer Overwatch without 2-2-2 role lock to grind out solo queue. This means that people…
Heading into the middle of the year, it is clear that Competitive Season 22 of Overwatch may be the last one of its kind. The reason being that Jeff Kaplan, in a Developer Update, announced that in Season 23, Competitive Open Queue would be coming to the game permanently. This means that people who don’t…
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…
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…
[April Tier List is Out] With March comes a new Competitive Season and a new hero pool system that cycles out a set of heroes each week. This, along with some much quicker patches coming through from developers, have combined to make Overwatch feel fresh and new at the moment. However, with all of this…
The four heroes that will be disabled for Week 6 of the OWL have been confirmed as the second iteration of bans comes through. Winston, Lucio, Soldier: 76 and Sombra will all be unavailable for the following teams that are playing in Week 6: Toronto Defiant Florida Mayhem Paris Eternal Boston Uprising Washington Justice Philadelphia Fusion…
At the conclusion of the Watchpoint: Hero Pool Draw immediately following Week 5’s matches, the four heroes that will be banned or disabled in Week 6 of the OWL were announced. These four heroes were chosen from a selection of heroes receiving over 10% of playtime in the OWL. While a couple of them had…
The new season of Overwatch’s Competitive mode is finally here, bringing with it a new map pool for players to enjoy. Season 21 brings back some old fan favorites but also brings back a few maps that others may have preferred to stay out of rotation. Whatever one’s feelings about the current map pool are,…
The four heroes that will be disabled for Week 5 of the OWL have been confirmed making the official start of the Hero Pool system in the OWL. Reinhardt, McCree, Moira and Widowmaker will all be unavailable for the following teams that are playing in Week 5: Toronto Defiant Florida Mayhem Paris Eternal Houston Outlaws…
At the conclusion of the Watchpoint: Postshow immediately following Week 4’s matches, the four heroes that will be banned or disabled in Week 5 of the OWL were announced. These five heroes were chosen from a selection of heroes receiving over 10% of playtime in the OWL. While a couple of them had received much…
