Heroes
This hero was once an experiment on Horizon Lunar Colony before escaping on a mechanized unit
Who is Hammond/Wrecking Ball?
This composition focuses on dealing damage from long range to slowly wear down the enemy before engaging.
What is poke?
This status effect temporarily prevents a hero from moving or using abilities, leaving them vulnerable to follow-up attacks and can be applied by many heroes.
What is Stunned?
This ability has one of the longest cooldowns in the game at 15 seconds, creating a powerful but limited defensive zone.
What is Immortality Field? (Baptiste)
This term describes accidentally losing control of an objective by leaving it, letting the enemy team secure a win as time runs out.
What is C9?
Originally designed for environmental restoration, this hero’s equipment was adapted for combat after a prolonged isolation.
Who is Mei?
This composition was once the most popular way to play before it was ultimately nerfed by changing the main way to play Overwatch today.
What is GOATS?
Applied as a projectile, this effect incapacitates a single hero without dealing damage, but can be interrupted if the target takes damage.
What is Sleep?
This ultimate travels in a straight line across the map, dealing damage to any hero it touches until it reaches the edge of the playable area.
What is Dragonstrike? (Hanzo)
A phrase, often abbreviated, used at the end of the game and can often be misinterpreted with bad intentions with additional abbreviations.
This hero’s conflict with another scientist centers on whether the ends justify the means in advancing medical science.
Who is Mercy?
This meta emphasizes coordination of quick mobility, focusing on exploiting gaps in enemy positioning rather than going to the frontlines.
What is dive?
This effect is unique to a single hero’s movement ability, and cannot be blocked, reflected, or dodged once contact is made.
What is Pinned?
This support ultimate temporarily increases allies’ survivability beyond their normal limits, often used to counter sudden bursts of damage but can still be cancelled with a well timed stunned or a barrier.
What is Sound Barrier? (Lucio)
This term describes the act of abandoning the main fight in order to turn attention to the back line.
What is Peel?
This hero was once presumed dead after a failed mission in Switzerland.
This composition revolved around careful ultimate management of a single hero who was permanently changed afterward, defining a brief but dominant meta era.
What is Moth/Moth Meta?
While under this status, a hero can still move and take damage, but cannot use any tools, defensive items, or offensive abilities.
What is Hacked?
This ability, exclusive to one hero in Overwatch 1, was removed due to balance concerns and remains unadded in Overwatch 2, changing this character for the foreseeable future.
What is Uppercut? (Doomfist)
This term describes removing an enemy from the fight or before the fight to allow a numerical advantage during the fight; said enemy is forced back to spawn.
What is Pick?
This hero upholds a legacy tied to technology that is passed between members of an elite order.
Who is Reinhardt?
This historically significant composition dominated payload and control maps before mobility-focused strategies rose, demonstrating the power and limits of static defense in Overwatch’s early meta.
What is Bunker/Bunker Meta?
This effect steadily reduces a hero’s health over time, but does not display a status icon on their HUD.
What is Burning?
This ability used to serve as an ultimate for the same hero before being shifted into a regular ability as part of a kit rework.
What is Configuration: Assault? (Bastion)
This term describes the act of maneuvering behind enemy lines, often unseen and while avoiding the main fight, to take control of an area and potentially alter the outcome of the game.
What is Backcap?