Overwatch is the popular shooter from Blizzard, a game that has enjoyed enormous popularity across all platforms for a long time. One aspect that has clearly helped the popularity of this game is its heroes , the large selection of them available. An important aspect is to know more about these heroes.
Below we tell you all about these characters and heroes from Overwatch , the popular game from Blizzard. Knowing more about all of them will help you have more information about the game and know what to expect from each one when you are playing on the platform selected for this title.
Overwatch characters in categories
Currently 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 various roles, which form that group. The current organization of the characters and heroes in the game is as follows:
Tank
- D.Va : Programmer and mech pilot is an agile and powerful character. Her two fusion cannons destroy everything at close range, and she can use her thrusters to outrun enemies and obstacles, as well as absorb projectiles with her defense matrix.
- Orisa: Acts as a central anchor point for her team and defends her allies. She can attack from long range, reinforce her own defenses, and launch graviton charges to displace and slow her enemies.
- Reinhartd: This character has powered armor and comes equipped with his hammer. He can perform propelled charges across the battlefield and defends his allies with a huge protective field.
- Roadhog: Uses his grappling hook to draw enemies in and blast them away with shots from his scrap metal. He is sturdy enough to withstand a lot of damage and can regain 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 mechanical body to crush his enemies.
- Zarya: She is an invaluable aid in any battle thanks to her powerful personal barriers, which can convert damage into energy.
Damage
- Ashe: She fires her rifle rapidly, and that shot deals a lot of damage. She can also blow up her enemies with dynamite, and her shotgun is so powerful that she can push it away from her enemies.
- Bastion: A character who helps us win with his repair protocols and ability to adopt stationary assault modes.
- Doomfist: He is a very agile and strong frontline fighter. He can deal damage from a distance and slam the ground or throw enemies into the air. He can also move out of the field of vision, which helps him be strategic.
- Echo: She is an evolutionary robot that has been programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence whose versatility allows her to perform different functions on the battlefield.
- Genji: This character throws shuriken at his targets and uses his katana to deflect projectiles or inflict quick cuts that make enemies bleed.
- Hanzo: Has arrows that can fragment to attack multiple targets and is able to climb walls to shoot from heights or summon a dragon spirit.
- Junkrat: His anti-personnel weapons consist of a grenade launcher that fires projectiles, concussion mines, and traps that completely immobilize his enemies.
- McCree: Has a peacemaker that stands out for its lethal precision and can flee from danger at high speed.
- Mei: Has weather manipulation devices that slow down opponents and protect locations. Additionally, she can cryonicize herself to protect herself from attacks or obstruct the opposing team’s movements with ice walls.
- Pharah: She soars through the skies in her combat armor and also has a rocket launcher that fires highly explosive missiles that cause great concussion.
- Reaper: One of the deadliest beings in Overwatch with his hellish shotguns and his ability to become immune to damage and the power to move through the darkness.
- Soldier:76: This soldier has high-tech weaponry, in addition to being fast and having great experience in battles.
- Shadow: Has invisibility and attacks that weaken enemies, and his hacking can alter enemies’ strategy.
- Symmetra: Uses her photon projector to dispatch enemies, shield teammates, build teleporters, and deploy turrets that fire particle beams.
- Torbjörn: A character who stands out for his wide arsenal of weapons, which will cause enormous damage to enemies in battles in Overwatch.
- Tracer: Has two pulse pistols, bombs, humor and can move from place to place quickly.
- Widowmaker: She is equipped with everything to eliminate targets such as mines, a scope, rifles…
Support
- Ana: She has a versatile arsenal that allows her to heal and buff her allies from afar, while shots from her biotic rifle, darts or grenades allow her to neutralize enemies that may cause damage to her teammates.
- Baptiste: They have an arsenal of experimental devices that keep allies alive and eliminate threats. They will be able to save lives as well as take them.
- Brigitte: Her armor is her ability, being able to automatically heal her allies and damage enemies. That shield will protect from attacks, while damaging her enemies at all times.
- Lucio: His sonic amplifier blasts enemies with projectiles and knocks back opponents with sonic blasts. His songs heal his teammates at all times.
- Mercy: Has a Valkyrie suit that helps her stay close to her teammates and heal, revive, or strengthen them.
- Moira: Her abilities allow her to heal or deal damage, depending on the situation, so she is one of the most versatile characters in Overwatch.
- Zenyatta: He has harmony orbs to heal his teammates and weaken rivals, and when he is 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 find a series of characters in each one . It is also important to know what each of these categories or groups that we have in the game consist of, because it will help us 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 battles in Overwatch.
- Damage: Characters in this category are highly mobile and are known for dealing a lot of damage in a short period of time. Because they can deal a lot of damage, they usually have few defense points. Some are known for protecting and dominating strategic points on the map.
- Tank: Tanks are the characters with the highest number of defenses and health. The main function of these characters in Overwatch is to protect allies from massive damage from enemies, something they will do by intercepting said damage.
- Support: Support characters are essential in the game. They apply various healing effects, shields or invulnerabilities of some kind to allied characters. In addition, they are also responsible for weakening enemy characters using their skills, helping allies to take control of enemies with ease.
Game modes
Overwatch is a game that stands out for having a large number of battles . In these battles, 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 objectives, and the defending team has to keep them under their control until time runs out.
- Escort: The objective of the attacking team is to transport a specific load to the delivery point, while the defending team has to prevent this progress.
- Control: Two teams fight to capture and hold a single objective and the team that wins two rounds has won.
- Assault/Escort: The attacking team’s objective is to capture a cargo and then transport it to a delivery point. The defending team must prevent its progress.
- Competitive: This game mode includes the previous game modes but there is also a ranking system where the players’ skills can be seen. The higher your skill, the higher your level will be 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 matches, 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.