Overwatch 2’s First Big Patch Continues Cherished Tradition Of Nerfing Genji - Kotaku

Over Halloween weekend, Blizzard announced nerfs coming to 5 overpowered Overwatch 2 heroes up of its antecedently scheduled play 2 update successful December.

In an official station connected its Overwatch 2 forum, Overwatch community manager Andy Belford announced that 5 heroes are going to person less treats for their heroic tricks travel November 15. The shortlist of nerfed heroes are player-of-the-game poster lad Genji, the Russian powerhouse Zarya, the off-brand Dorito-eating gremlin D.Va, the hacker miss Sombra, and the furry-kin healer, Kiriko.

Prior to these nerfs, the Overwatch 2 squad stated, successful an October 13 blog post, that it would not beryllium making changes to characters until the 2nd competitory season. In the post, Blizzard noted that though immoderate heroes were performing amended than others,“no hero’s wide powerfulness level is acold retired of enactment with our goals.” The lone objection astatine the clip was Zarya’s caller quality to take wherever to spot each of her 2 Particle Barriers, which the squad said they’d support a adjacent oculus connected for “potential changes adjacent season.”

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However, present that Overwatch 2 is nary longer suffering from DDoS attacks and ungodly loading times, and its full roster of characters is playable, Blizzard decided to rotation retired immoderate nerfs aboriginal to the 5 mentioned heroes to bring “some tactical adjustments” to the game. Here are the nerfs coming to these heroes:

Genji

• Maximum ammo reduced from 30 to 24
• Shuriken harm reduced from 29 to 27

Zarya

• Barrier duration reduced from 2.5 to 2 seconds
• Barrier cooldown accrued from 10 to 11 seconds

D.Va

• Fusion Cannon dispersed accrued from 3.5 to 3.75
• Boosters interaction harm reduced from 25 to 15

Sombra

• Hack quality lockout duration reduced from 1.75 to 1.5 seconds
• Hacked enemies are nary longer valid targets for hacking for the duration of the effect
• Hacked harm multiplier reduced from 40 to 25%

Kiriko

• Swift Step invulnerability duration reduced from 0.4 to 0.25 seconds

Overall, these nerfs aren’t detrimental to the mode each of these heroes play, but it volition marque them a small little deadly successful Overwatch 2’s 5v5 matches compared to however they’re playing now. So if you’re wanting to get immoderate much W’s nether your loop with these heroes earlier they get deed with Kryptonite, now’s the time.

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“Our existent extremity is to deploy these changes successful an upcoming update connected November 15th, 2022. Should that program change, we volition beryllium definite to update you here,” Belford wrote. “For those wanting a preview of however these changes volition play, cheque retired the Overwatch League Playoffs connected October 30th.”