One Last Ride

While D.Va's strongest state had less armor and less mobility, she was far more lethal with her increased burst damage and had a larger defense matrix. Unfortunately, the Workshop is not really able to elegantly increase the size of Defense Matrix, so that part had to be left out.

Unfortunately arguably the biggest defining factor of Orisa's most powerful state, her much stronger shield, was not quite able to be replicated in the Workshop. In addition, her Halt!'s original behavior was not possible to replicate either, hence the cooldown not being bumped back to the original 8 seconds.

While Overwatch 2's Reinhardt sports many changes to his kit, arguably the best state Reinhardt has been in only includes bumping his base armor pool up a notch. At least, according to KarQ.

Arguably the most prominent feature of Sigma's broken state was, again, his barrier's overall power. While the Workshop can't increase the health of deployable barriers, his insta-deploy barrier is back. In addition, it's not really possible to granularly alter the way Flux works, so the uninterruptability and extra high-gravity linger aren't back either.

Wrecking Ball has no singular thing that made him super strong in his prime, but the extra health and extra knockback certain didn't hurt.

A lot of what made Zarya good is not possible to recreate in Workshop. For example, Zarya's strongest state was mostly a function of her increased energy gain per bubble, which is not really possible to recreate with Workshop. That being said, Zarya also had some other

Much of what made Ashe so scary in her peak state was the global state of hitscan falloff. However, her increased scope damage and 50% stronger initial dynamite burst didn't hurt either.

The Omnic Crisis of Season 5 is a meta most would rather sooner forget, but this was, nevertheless, Bastion's strongest state. His 35% Ironclad passive was the most notable part, but more Self-Repair juice certain didn't hurt.

As with Ashe, Cassidy's peak state was bolstered by the global hitscan falloff being weaker back then, which isn't so easy to reverse in Workshop. However, his faster reload and longer roll are all nice additions to the cowboy regardless.

The terror of supports everywhere in his peak state, Doomfist has since received a number of nerfs. In this case, his Rising Uppercut air lock duration and Meteor Strike damage are the biggest ones to look out for, with the rest of his peak state being fairly impossible to remake.

Much of what made Echo such a menace in her peak state was her Focusing Beam's longer duration and range, both of which are sadly not possible to recreate in the Workshop. However, extra Tri-Shot ammo and a genuine full restore in the form of her Duplicate were definitely not unwelcome changes for the Echo mains out there.

Release Genji was arguably the strongest state of Genji due to his insane Dragonblade duration. Triple jump as originally introduced probably wasn't a huge part of that, but I thought I'd include it regardless. A slower secondary fire was also part of this older iteration, but due to the potential for bugs, I decided not to include it.

A lot of what made Hanzo such a menace in his peak state was his Storm Arrow damage and capacity. Tanks beware!

There was only one change which Junkrat needed to return to his peak state, and that was a damage buff to his direct nades

2019 Mei was a menace, boasting more sustained freeze potential and a longer freeze stun, not to mention a faster recharge on Ice Wall, which made the life of any tank completely miserable.

As with most other hitscans, Soldier benefitted a great deal from the global hitscan falloff being less punishing in the past, which unfortunately has not been implemented in this project. However, he does have a higher base damage stat to compensate somewhat for this issue, so the only change is a small one to his Biotic Field.

Sombra has alternated between terrorizing OWL and ranked lobbies, and being a borderline throw pick. Her strongest state was arguably in 2019, when EMP was almost instantaneous to cast, and Hack generally lasted longer. Unfortunately, EMP's cast time is not modifiable in the Workshop, so that could not be brought back. In addition, with Sombra's nerfs since then, she has received other buffs which are being rolled back to rewind to her 2019 state.

The mean beam machine of 2019 lasted only a month, but in that time, Symmetra undoubtedly microwaved away many ranked players' SR. While the beam width, higher sentry turret damage, and increased Photon Barrier health and duration are not recoverable via Workshop, the ridiculous damage output certain is.

Tracer is one of the least balanced heroes in Overwatch 1 history. Thus, the only changes required were a revert on Pulse Bomb's damage. While technically her falloff range has also changed with time, it has only been improved, and even that only marginally, so I felt comfortable not tweaking the falloff there.

Release Widowmaker was an absolute beast, with 150 damage bodyshots and 10 scoped shots per magazine instead of today's 7. Her rifle also charged faster, but that's not really possible to recreate in the Workshop. Finally, as with every other ultimate over time, it has become more costly to earn Infra-Sight as the years have passed, so that's been reverted to rewind us all the way back to 2016 for the final damage hero in the list.

Shortly after her release in 2016, Ana got a round of buffs which brought her into the meta spotlight for the first time. Every single one of her abilities was stronger then, but unfortunately the effects of old Biotic Grenade are not really possible to recreate nicely in Workshop. In addition, the old "pre-heal" made possible by shots passing through full HP allies is similarly impossible to bring back via Workshop.

Nevertheless, Ana mains rejoice! The 30% move speed buff from Nanoboost is back*! Along with that, Sleep's original 6 second duration and Biotic Rifle's beefier impact in both the healing and damage department have returned.

Unfortunately a lot of what made Baptiste so good in his peak state during 2019 is difficult to recover in Workshop. In particular, Immortality Field is almost completely unmodifiable in its specific mechanics. However, Baptiste player should expect to enjoy more healing ammo, better self-healing via Regenerative Burst, and a faster-building Amplification Matrix.

Ahhh, release Brig. How (almost) none miss thee.

Infamously busted at launch, Brigitte has received (say it with me) 16 nerfs since then, most of which were possible to somewhat roll back with Workshop. Enjoy the chaos.

Lúcio used to speed people around a bit faster, but recreating that in the Workshop is error-prone, and I opted not to go for that with less than a week of Overwatch 1 remaining. However, a faster building Sound Barrier is certainly not something I think any Lúcio player will complain about.

Way back in 2017, a large rework which the community would dub Mercy 2.0 came through. It quickly became apparent that Moth Mercy (another community nickname) was extremely powerful, and looking back it's not hard to see why.

Stronger staff healing, instant resurrect, and Valkyrie providing a whole host of benefits, not the least of which was Resurrect coming off cooldown 3 times as fast, all these benefits were subsequently sized down over the next few months. While the Valkyrie duration and instant rez were not quite possible to bring back, everything is is back as it was.

There is no escape from the Moth. I'm not sorry.

At her peak in 2019, Moira was a healing machine with her more potent and longer duration Biotic Grasp healing, and faster Biotic Orb healing. However, she was not able to jump very high during Fade during that time, which I have also brought back.

The only change that could really be implemented to bring Zenyatta back to his most powerful state in 2016 was a cost decrease on Transcendence. Everything else was not possible to implement.