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The newest hero Shion was added to overwatch with this map accompanying her.
Neon Junction
Omnics have an unnamed religion that worships this godlike entity.
The Iris
This was the final hero to be added to Overwatch 1 before the 2 year content drought prior to Overwatch 2's announcement.
Echo
This former SF shock player is good at most games they play but has been noticed in more recent time for their cross dressing cosplays
SuperTF
Overwatch 1 used to have this rule for tie breakers that was notorious on Hybrid and 2cp maps for basically deciding the round depending on the map before the round began in its first competitive season.
The coin flip
If no one votes for another map, a landslide is called with this amount of votes for a map.
7
Sierras mother was in a super soldier program to fight in the omnic crisis along with these other heroes.
Soldier 76 and Reaper
This was the only ever skin to be outright removed and offered players refunds to get rid of it entirely due to an abuse allegation.
Alien Zarya Sinaatra Skin
This team and its players were the champions of the inaugural OW league championship.
London Spitfire
This character gave way to one of the most infamous metas in overwatch history leading to the almost complete outphasing of the DPS role for as long as this meta lasted.
Brigitte
In 2026 Overwatch 2 moved back to the traditional name since the PvE mode that was advertised heavily for Ow2 was cancelled. In a bold move they also offered 5 heroes at once the next 5 heroes roles are now set to come out in this order.
2 DPS, 1 Tank, 2 Supports
DAILY DOUBLE
Sombra alludes to having information on basically every single hero except this singular character who she knows next to nothing about.
Junker Queen
The name of the no longer purchasable currency to acquire skins for the ow leagues team skins.
OWL Tokens
This country won the first Overwatch world cup back in 2016
South Korea
Overwatch 1 on release was unbalanced in many ways this paved the way for some insane balance changed including a change that basically turned off this characters falloff damage.
McCree/Cassidy
This is the name of the Sub role that increases your reload speed upon getting an elimination.
Specialist
While it does not have an official name, this is the current placeholder name for the God AI that controls Emre's brain at will.
Chernobog
This person in charge of the lore of overwatch left the team and as such overwatch lore was in a jumbled state near the end OW1.
Michael Chu
This man was responsible for pushing the league to limits it couldn't handle and ultimately killed it due to his poor management of its structure, this included but was not limited to forcing balance to be centered around the league, horrible scheduling and moving the viewing of it from twitch to youtube.
Bobby Kotick
After role queue was added the game saw a significant increase in matchmaking quality despite the longer queue times, however it's balancing issues did not end and gave way to another miserable meta mainly consisting of Orisa, Sigma, Baptiste, and Symmetra
Double Shield
This Mythic skin including aspects has the LEAST amount of options out of every mythic
Onryo Hanzo
The name of the man Gabriel Reyes aka reaper killed during the mission they undertook during the retribution lore event.
Antonio Bartalotti
DAILY DOUBLE
This was the last day of Overwatch 1's online service before the launch of Overwatch 2
October 2nd 2022
This man has been well known in the community for ages, a former junkrat main and player for the League. He still is involved in the competitive scene today doing coaching and commentary.
JakeOW
This character has undergone the most MAJOR changes to a kit ever, including changing their ultimate multiple times even including their ultimate in their base kit.
Symmetra