Bastion takes on the role of Tank, much like his appearance, trading his extremely high damage for more survivability and movement options.

A-36 Tactical Grenade's cooldown has been reduced, its knockback has been increased and it no longer deals damage to Bastion. The increased mobility provided by the new version of this ability should allow Bastion to maintain some survivability despite his generally lower Tank health pool while in Configuration: Recon.

Configuration: Assault has been converted into Configuration: Fortress. This version of the ability increases Bastion's size while giving him additional Armor while cutting damage, making the ability more defensive by nature. The ability can now also be used to support your team by providing Overarmor to anyone nearby.

Configuration: Artillery returns with a new effect: setting players on fire and temporarily increasing the damage they take. Furthermore, before Bastion fires off his Ultimate, he grows dramatically and gains a large pool of Overarmor, allowing his allies to evade attacks by standing behind him.

Cassidy now falls into the Tank role, trading his explosive damage for more utility, support and survivability.

Peacekeeper's damage and fire rate have been slightly reduced, making Cassidy fit more into the Tank role with lower sustained damage.

Fan the Hammer as seen a sizable change to its functionality, being replaced by Triple Hammer. Triple Hammer fires a maximum of three shots, each applying a small bleed effect and knocking back enemies based on how close they are to Cassidy, allowing him to create space and fight in his optimal range.

Combat roll now provides a small amount of Overhealth to Cassidy, giving him a quick, repeatable source of temporary sustain while his team works to get him back into fighting condition.

Flashbang is replaced by Armor Field, periodically granting Cassidy and his allies a small amount of Overhealth while they're within its area of effect.

Deadeye trades lethal combat power and space control for survivability, allowing Cassidy to more easily oppress his opponents into giving up their space without massive risk.

D.Va felt very oppressive due to her ability to frequently use Defense Matrix, an ability that mitigates almost all forms of offense. To amend this issue, Defense Matrix's maximum duration has been slightly reduced to allow more chances for her opponents to break through her defenses.

Domina's ability to create large barriers with high amounts of health per panel using Barrier Array often created difficult scenarios when attempting to take or hold space. Barrier Array's unique, multi-panel system often lead to situations where the destruction of one or more panels often proved insignificant when trying to combat Domina. In order to mitigate this, the cooldown of Barrier Array has been increased, allowing Domina to still take advantage of her incredible barrier while giving her opponents a fighting chance during its downtime.

Additionally, Domina's self-sustaining passive, Reconstruction, allowed her to stay alive for extremely long periods of time when combined with support from her allies. The healing received from her passive has been reduced in order to keep her more in line with the other Tank Heroes' power levels.

Doomfist has overall performed well when in the right hands, utilising his strong mobility and oppressive knockback on Rocket Punch to allow him to push other players around and get quick kills on squishier targets. His ability to deal damage over a wider area, as well as his ability to cooldown cycle has been improved by decreasing the amount of charge required to fully charge is Rocket Punch using Power Block.

Echo has borrowed some abilities from other Heroes, allowing her to better fit the Tank role. Her damage and mobility have been decreased while her defensive options have been increased.

Sticky Bombs have received a significant alteration to their functionality. Instead of firing a set number of projectiles and being tied to a cooldown, it now fires fewer projectiles, but is attached to her ammo, allowing her to use the ability more frequently in tandem with Tri-Shot.

Echo takes a page from Cassidy's book, swapping Flight for Combat Strafe. This new ability allows Echo to become temporarily invulnerable to all forms of damage. potentially allowing her to escape lethal hits.

Echo has also borrowed some tech from Winston, allowing her to create a larger barrier that can protect her and her allies from incoming attack.

Duplicate has now been optimised for survivability instead of destruction, increasing Echo's health pool while reducing her damage and healing and preventing her from using ultimates.

Reaper now sees use in working in a team, causing him to adopt the Tank role to lead his allies across a path of death and destruction. His enhanced kit allows him to enable his allies to deal devastating damage with strong self-sustain and devastating flanks.

Wraith Form becomes Wraith Cloak, an ability that allows Reaper to protect nearby allies by granting them damage reduction and slight lifesteal. The ability also leaves behind a Shroud after use, providing a weaker version of Wraith Cloak's effect to those who stand in its area.

Shadow Step now acts as a team repositioning tool, allowing Reaper to take his allies with him to flank or regroup.

Death Blossom gives Reaper and his allies increased survivability, allowing them to effectively take space using its high damage without putting Reaper at too much risk.

Wrecking Ball has become a rather large nuisance to backline fighters and supports due to his high health, survivability and movement options. This has been combated by making a slight reduction to his health and ability cooldowns, toning his dive capabilities and survivability down while keeping his identity intact.

After the fall of Doomfist, Vendetta claims the mantle of Talon's previous leader, both in his role of authority and command, as well as his Hero role. Vendetta's kit now puts less focus on mobility and damage while putting more on survivability and sustain.

Palatine Fang's overhead strike has been removed, allowing Vendetta to deal strong, consistant damage while removing the brutal burst damage of the third strike of Palentine Fang.

Warding Stance now gives Vendetta an additonal strong damage reduction from all angles, as well as no longer reducing her movement speed, allowing her to walk into her optimal range with minimal risk. This, combined with the drastically increased energy regeneration rate allows her to confidently move into her preferred attack range with ease.

Projected Edge now travels faster and strikes Vendetta's foes down from the skies, closing the distance between them and Vendetta, allowing her to strike.

Whirlwind Dash now travels a shorter distance, but its cooldown has been reduced and no applies an upward force to Vendetta's enemies that keeps them from moving, giving her more chances to open up her opponent and attack.

Soaring Slice has been replaced with Siphoning Slice, a piercing sword throw that deals damage over time to enemies hit by it and healing Vendetta in the process. After throwing the sword, Vendetta cannot attack for a short time, but gains a heavy damage reduction and movement speed boost.

Sundering Blade has received a slight cut to its damage and its versatility has been reduced due to Vendetta's lack of vertical mobility after her change of role. To compensate, Vendetta now gains a surplus of Overarmor to protect her while she uses her Ultimate.

Zarya made use of her Particle Barrier in order to protect herself and her allies from damage while harshly punishing enemies for their mistakes, allowing her to deal absurd amounts of damage while keeping her team protected. A side product of heavily rewarding successful Particle Barriers has resulted in Zarya becoming very oppressive in two ways. The first consists of her primarily using her bubbles on herself in order to further increase her charge, leading to exposive damage output when combined with the rest of her team. The other relates to how strong her ability to enable certain allies, primarily dive and brawl Heroes, while still reaping the benefits of Particle Barrier.

Particle Barrier and Projected Barrier have been effectively placed on individual cooldowns, incentivising a mix of both abilities in order to achieve optimal gameplay, preventing Zarya from gaining excessive benefits from the current situation by effectively cutting her resources in half.

Anran's ability to store two charges of Inferno Rush, combined with the invulnerability of Dancing Blaze as well as the frequency of which she can use it allowed her to execute a threatening and hard to counter playstyle that often overwhelmed squishier targets. This, combined with her ability to frequently escape after poor decision making by saving one charge of Inferno Rush to disengage gave her a playstyle that was quite difficult to punish. To resolve this issue, Inferno Rush has effectively been set to a single charge while the ability as a whole has been improved to compensate. Furthermore, the cooldown of Dancing Blaze has been increased to prevent situations where Anran is capable of becoming invulnerable and dealing damage over a wide area several times per fight.

Ashe was capable of outputting high amounts of damage from a very safe distance due to the damage and fire rate of The Viper during Take Aim. Ashe often had the support of her team from this distance, making her very hard to counter using the Heroes designated to defeating her. These factors led to Ashe becoming a very disruptive and powerful Hero that has become heavily dominant in mid to high levels of play. To mitigate this, the overall damage of The Viper during Take Aim has been reduced, which will make Ashe less threatening as such a long range.

Emre possessed a strong kit that functioned well from almost any range and allowed him to dominate opponents with bursts of high damage. This, combined with his ease of use as a hitscan Hero, led to his kit being very effective for the amount of effort required to utilise his abilities. His damage has been toned down slightly to encourage a more focused approach to his game plan.

Freja's kit allowed her to deal high amounts of damage with a high degree of accuracy at a low risk due to her lack of damage falloff and high projectile speed. Additionally, her Take Aim allowed her to deal excessive amounts of damage with the same afformentioned properties. To combat this issue, her damage has been lowered slightly and her projectile speed has been heavily cut in order to make her feel more like a projectile-based Hero and encouraging the use of her mobility to take unexpected off-angles or engage in close to mid-range combat.

Moira has discarded her healing capabilities in order to strive for even greater biotic power for herself, adopting the Damage role as a result. Her new kit focuses on siphoning life from her opponents to fuel her new attack.

Biotic Grasp's primary fire has been replaced by Biotic Pulse which consumes some of Moira's healing resourse to fire a projectile at Moira's foes.

Fade has received an increase to its cooldown to reduce Moira's opportunities to escape given her higher offensive value.

Biotic Orb has traded its healing option to bolster its damaging one, opting for a slower, longer lasting damage orb to help moira build up her healing resourse to use Biotic Pulse more often.

Coalescence now allows Moira to deal extreme amounts of damage while forfeiting its ability to support her allies with healing.

Sierra, after making her debut in Overwatch, was introduced with a highly volatile kit that consists of oppressively high damage, great mobility and a strong secondary effect tied to her Tracking Shot. Her damage has been reduced across the board, being further reduced against targets that she is tracking. To compensate, the cooldown of Tracking Shot has been reduced.

Sojourn possessed an aggressive presence during games due to her high damage, fast projectile speed and lack of damage falloff. Additionally, the high burst damage of her Charged Shot would heavily cripple or pick up quick eliminations on anyone she hit at full charge. These factors combined with her strong space control using Disruptor Shot and her powerful movement, both horizontal and vertical, using Power Slide gave her an extremely well-rounded kit that made her an easy pick in many teams. Her damage output has been decreased across the board, making her gameplan less oppressive while maintaining her core features and gameplay loop.

Soldier's high damage and hitscan primary fire allowed him to play very opportunistically, punishing opponents for minor mistakes using his Heavy Pulse Rifle's high damage per second and the extreme burst damage of his Helix Rockets. Soldier: 76's damage has been cut to make his kit a little less rewarding to mitigate the high punishment of making mistakes against him.

Widowmaker posed an incredibly high threat due to her ability to one-shot her opponents using a well-timed headshot. Her kit, focusing on long range, high burst damage, sculpted her playstyle into something that was very uninteractive and unenjoyable to play against. Her scoped damage has received a large reduction to its damage, preventing it from one-shotting squishier targets. However, her high-damage headshot still heavily enables her team to pick off the weakened target while still giving that player a chance to recover. To compensate for her reduced power, the other aspects of her kit have received cooldown reductions in order to aid in close-range interactions. Widowmaker's Widow's Bite Major Perk allows her to one-shot her opponents again, restoring her scoped damage to an amount that is very similar to her original Widow's Bite scoped damage without the perk, enabling Widowmaker during later periods of a match.

Jetpack Cat proved to be a decent but annoying Hero due to her permanent flight, high mobility, high-value Ultimate ability when used on Tanks and her general ability to ignore the use of good positioning. Her health has been cut slightly in order to reduce situations where Jetpack Cat could avoid punishment using her high mobility, encouraging more thoughtful and strategic plays and positioning.

Kiriko was widely perceived as an dominant support with an extremely well-rounded kit that allowed her to provide value in every situation, using her strong healing output using Healing Ofuda, high damage using her Kunai and tide-turning invulnerability and cleansing effects provided by Protection Suzu. These aspects of her kit alongside her ability to escape dire situations using Swift Step, led to her functionality being very frustrating and hard to deal with for many players at all skill levels. Her damage and cooldowns have been adjusted to force her to make more calculated decisions regarding her tools.

Mercy's tools allowed her to be a very frustrating Hero due to the extremely low cooldown of Guardian Angel and Resurrect proportional to their utility. Mercy could easily evade incoming attacks due to the high movement speed of Guardian Angel and its low cooldown, as well as mitigate many kills with the use of Resurrect. The cooldown of these tools have been increased in order to encourage them to be used more strategically, while her healing has been increased to compensate for her reduced mobility and utility and to improve her ability to heal a large group of weakened targets. The damage and projectile speed of Caduceus Blaster has also been increased to make Mercy use a wider collection of her abilities more often, creating more varied and tactical playstyles.

Roadhog now shares his healing with his allies now that he has taken on the role of Support, his previous greed replaced by generosity... for now. His abilities have been completely reworked to focus on targeting and sustaining his allies.

Chain Hook now targets allies, instantly healing them and pulling them to Roadhog's location.

Take a Breather allows Roadhog to emit a chemical cloud, healing his allies while his own healing is heavily reduced.

Whole Hog no longer deals knockback. Instead, it keeps Roadhog alive while he uses it by granting him a healing over time while it's active, as well as healing nearby allies when Roadhog deals damage using it.

Sigma has found some resolve within his broken mind, causing him to focus more on aiding his allies with his strange powers instead of destroying his foes, causing him to fall under the Support role. His kit remains heavily defensive to stay aligned with his previous identity, while his damage has been reduced and many of his tools have been adapted to support those around him.

Hyperspheres now cause Sigma and his enemies to emit healing rings that heal nearby enemies when dealing damage.

Experimental Barrier's health and recharge rate have been cut significantly, preventing Sigma from mitigating damage in the same manner as when he was a Tank.

Kinetic Grasp takes on a new form: Symphonic Grasp, allowing him to heal nearby allies and keep them safe from harm if they stand near him.

Accretion's damage has been halved to mitigate its offensive prowess, focusing more on allowing Sigma to escape using its knockdown effect.

Gravitic Flux has been massively overhauled, becoming Harmonic Flux, a large, spherical area of effect that pulls enemies to its center while healing and reducing the gravity of allies.

Sombra has tweaked her own abilites to better suit improving the protection and security of her allies. Her tools become entirely focused on healing and bolstering her allies' defenses.

Hack now becomes Firewall, an ability that grants overhealth and a slow healing over time effect.

Virus has been reworked into Antivirus, a homing projectile that provides great burst healing for Sombra's allies.

Translocator now grants healing over time to any allies that stand near Sombra. Its cooldown has been cut to discourage stealthy plays while encouraging Sombra to stick close to her team.

EMP has taken on the form of Reboot, no longer hacking enemies but still dealing a small amount of damage and providing a big burst of healing, combined with extra healing over time afterwards to all allies near Sombra.

Zenyatta's Orb of Discord proved to be a very powerful tool that became especially destructive when used on Tanks. Zenyatta's damage is also quite high, allowing him to capitalise off of Orb of Discord's effect alongside the rest of his team, leading to oppressive scenarios where opposing Tanks are forced to give up space or be put at risk of being eliminated. Zenyatta's health pool has been reduced to make him slightly more vulnerable to incoming attacks. Additionally, he puts himself more at risk while using such a powerful tool such as Orb of Discord by applying a weaker version of its effect onto himself while it is active. To compensate, Zenyatta gains a similar effect while using Orb of Harmony.