Overwatch is the popular shooter from Blizzard, a game that has been hugely popular on all platforms for a long time. An aspect that has clearly helped the popularity of this game are its heroes, the great selection that is available of them. An important aspect is to know more about these heroes.
Here we tell you everything about these Overwatch characters and heroes, the popular Blizzard game. Knowing more about all of them will help you to have more information about the game and know what to expect from each one when you are playing on the selected platform for this title.
Overwatch characters in categories
At present we find a total of 32 characters in Overwatch, which are divided into several categories, three in total. Within each of the categories in the game we have different roles, which make up that group. The current organization of the characters and heroes in the game is as follows:
Tank
- D.Va: Pro grammer and mech pilot is an agile and powerful character. Its two fusion cannons blast everything in close range, and it can use its boosters to overcome enemies and obstacles, as well as absorb projectiles with its defense matrix.
- Orisha: Act as a central anchor point for your team and defend your allies. He can attack from long range, reinforce his own defenses, launch graviton charges to displace and slow his enemies.
- Reinhardt: This character has an empowered armor and comes equipped with his hammer. He can perform propelled lunges across the battlefield and defend his allies with a massive protective field.
- road hog: Use your grapple to lure enemies and destroy them with shots from your junkyard. It is robust to withstand a large amount of damage and can be restored to health with a portable inhaler.
- Sigma: He is an eccentric astrophysicist and has a volatile tank that gained the power to control gravity during a failed astrophysics experiment.
- Winston: He has beastly strength and impressive inventions, which make him an extremely helpful character.
- Wrecking Ball: He rolls around the field and uses his arsenal of weapons and his mechanical body to crush his enemies.
- Zaria: It is an invaluable aid in any battle thanks to its powerful personal barriers, which can convert damage to energy.
Hurt
- Ash: He fires his rifle quickly and that shot deals a lot of damage. In addition, she can blow up her enemies with dynamite and her clip is so powerful that it can drive her away from her enemies.
- Bastion: A character who helps us win with his repair protocols and his ability to adopt immobile assault modes.
- Doomfist: He is a very agile and strong front-line fighter. It can deal ranged damage and hit the ground or launch enemies into the air. In addition, it can go out of the field of vision, which helps to be strategic.
- Echo: It is an evolutionary robot that has been programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence whose versatility allows it to perform different functions on the battlefield.
- Genji: This character throws shuriken at his targets and uses his katana to deflect projectiles or inflict swift cuts that cause enemies to bleed.
- Hanzō: It has arrows that can be fragmented to attack various targets and is capable of scaling walls to fire from heights or summon a dragon spirit.
- Junkrat: Its anti-personnel armament is composed of a grenade launcher that launches projectiles, concussion mines and traps that immobilize its enemies completely.
- McCree: It has a peacemaker that stands out for its lethal precision and can flee from danger at high speed.
- mei: It has weather manipulation devices that slow down opponents and protect locations. In addition, it can be cryonized to protect itself from attacks or obstruct the movements of the opposing team with walls of ice.
- Pharaoh: Take to the skies in his combat armor and also has a rocket launcher that fires highly explosive missiles that cause great commotion.
- Reaper: One of the deadliest beings in Overwatch with his infernal shotguns and his ability to become immune to damage and the power to navigate the darkness.
- Soldier: 76: This soldier has a high-tech weaponry, in addition to being fast and having great experience in battles.
- Shadow: It has invisibility and attacks that weaken enemies, and its hacking can alter enemies' strategy.
- Symmetry: Use your photon projector to dispatch opponents, shield your teammates, build teleporters, and deploy turrets that fire particle beams.
- Torbjorn: A character that stands out for his wide arsenal of weapons, which will cause enormous damage to enemies in battles in Overwatch.
- tracer: It has two pulse pistols, bombs, humor and can be moved from site to site quickly.
- Widowmaker: It is equipped with anything to eliminate targets such as mines, a scope, rifles ...
Support
- Ana: He has a versatile arsenal that allows him to heal and empower his allies from afar, while shots from his biotic rifle, darts or grenades allow him to neutralize enemies that can deal damage to his teammates.
- Baptist: They have an arsenal of experimental devices that keep allies alive and eliminate threats. It can save lives as well as take them away.
- Bridget: His armor is his ability, being able to automatically heal his allies and damage enemies. That shield will protect you from attacks, while also damaging your enemies at all times.
- Pike: Its sonic amplifier hits enemies with projectiles and knocks back opponents with blasts of sound. His songs heal his teammates at all times.
- Mercy: She has a Valkyrie outfit that helps her stay close to her teammates and heals, resurrects, or strengthens them.
- Moira: His abilities allow him to heal or deal damage, depending on the situation, so he's one of the most versatile characters in Overwatch.
- Zenyatta: He has Orbs of Harmony to heal his teammates and weaken opponents, and when in his Transcendence state he is immune to damage.
The 3 categories of heroes in Overwatch
As you can see, we have three categories, where we are with a series of characters in each. It is also important to know what each of these categories or groupings that we have in the game consists of, because it will help us to understand more about the role that each of these characters has within this universe. In addition, it is important to know more when facing the combats that are in Overwatch.
- Hurt: Characters in this category are highly mobile and known for being able to cause a lot of damage in a short period of time. Since they can do a lot of damage, they tend to have few defense points. Some are known to protect and dominate strategic points on the map.
- Tank: Tanks are the characters that have the highest number of defenses and health they have. The main function of these characters in Overwatch is to protect allies from massive enemy damage, something they will do by intercepting that damage.
- Support for: Supporting characters are essential in games in the game. They apply various healing effects, shields, or invulnerabilities of some kind to friendly characters. In addition, they are also responsible for weakening enemy characters using their abilities, helping allies to take control of enemies with ease.
Game modes
Overwatch is a game that stands out for having a lot of fighting. In these combats each player will choose one of the characters that are available and that is when we have the game mode in question. The game modes that we find within it are the following:
- Attack: The attacking team has to capture critical targets, and the defending team has to keep them under their control until time runs out.
- Shooting guard: The objective of the attacking team is to move a specific load to the delivery point, while the defending team has to prevent such progress.
- Control: Two teams fight to capture and hold a single goal and the team that wins two rounds has won.
- Assault / Escort: The goal of the attacking team is to capture a cargo and then move it to a delivery point. The defending team must impede their progress.
- Competitive: This game mode collects the previous game modes but there is also a ranking system where the skill of the players can be seen. The higher the skill, the higher the level you will have and you will go up in these lists that are organized in the game.
- Arcade: There are several game modes that give you wins and help increase your experience. You will face different types of games, so there will always be an unexpected element in them.
- Custom game finder: This is a search engine where players can join games that other players have created, with their own rules. As a player you can also create your own for others in Overwatch to join.