Patch, Skills and Extra (2024)

The googly eyes have returned, so we’re counting all Overwatch April Fools modifications — and highlighting those that ought to keep.

Overwatch 2’s April Fools’ Day occasion is again, and it comes with a ton of (completely balanced) hero modifications. Together with a brand new recreation mode, gamers can anticipate absurd twists to hero skills, extra googly eyes than ever earlier than and pure, unbridled chaos.

This is the entire listing of all overwatch april fools modifications in 2024, our favorites and which of them deserve to remain within the recreation.

All Overwatch April Fools Modifications

D.Va

D.Va’s Boosters now transfer backwards.
Self-Destruct’s knockback elevated by 900%

Doomfist

Melee assault now will get empowered by Energy Block and Meteor Strike.
Strikes quicker throughout Energy Block.

Junker Queen

Remembers in the direction of Gracie throughout Jagged Blade’s secondary fireplace.
Decrease cooldown on Jagged Blade

Mauga

HP nerfed from 350 >>> 25.
Is 50% smaller.
Incendiary Chain Gun ignites enemies who’re ‘On Fireplace’

Orisa

Power Javelin ricochets twice.
Power Javelin explodes on remaining goal.

Ramattra

Armor elevated from 100 >>> 225
Final potential “Annihilation” mapped to ‘Skill 1′.

Length elevated 3 >>> 5 seconds.
Harm decreased 30 >>> 20 per second.
Radius decreased 12 >>> 9 meters.

Nemesis Type mapped to ‘Final’.

Prompts Annihilation on use.
Fully heals Ramattra.
Pummel Harm elevated from 60 >>> 75.
Pummel Vary elevated from 10 >>> 15.

Reinhardt

Urgent Main Fireplace when Barrier is up deflects enemy projectiles.
-20% HP after deflecting a projectile.
Barrier dimension turns into 50% smaller after deflecting a projectile.

Roadhog

Pig Pen velocity elevated from 26 >>> 80.
Pig Pen harm elevated from 0 >>> 40.

Sigma

“Accretion” launches a floating rock that crashes down and stuns a number of enemies if you reactivate the flexibility.
Accretion offers 50 harm in a 4-meter radius and stuns affected enemies.

Winston

Tesla Canon’s Secondary Fireplace and Primal Rage assaults chain lightning between enemies.

Wrecking Ball

New crab replace provides Hammond 55% extra velocity and elevated harm everytime you stroll sideways.

Zarya

Getting bubbled will increase your dimension by x1.75.

Ashe

Use Scroll Wheel to name in F.R.E.D.
Weapons swapped.

Bastion

Turret kind is now Bastion’s default kind.

Motion penalty eliminated.
Ammo decreased to 150.

Cassidy

New “Wished” passive provides Cassidy 50 HP after killing a marked enemy.

Echo

Elevated harm on Focusing Beam when goal is inside 8 meters.
Can solely duplicate allies.

Eliminated 300 HP cap.
Receives extra 100 Shields.
Elevated ult cost acquire fee.

Genji

Completely urgent Main Fireplace throughout Deflect turns the deflected projectile right into a vital hit.

Hanzo

Storm Arrows now fires 5 projectiles per shot.
Every projectile ricochets into three new projectiles.

Junkrat

Frag Launcher projectiles can now be detonated by urgent Secondary Fireplace.

Mei

Urgent Soar mid-air creates a big ice pillar below Mei.

Pharah

Crouching mid-air propels you to the bottom.

Reaper

Secondary Fireplace now fires the second Hellfire Shotgun.

Sojourn

Disruptor Shot pulls enemies in on deploy.
Disruptor Shot will be deployed earlier by urgent E once more.

Soldier: 76

Can now “run and gun” with the Heavy Pulse Rifle.

Sombra

Virus jumps to a different close by enemy should you kill the goal.

Symmetra

Can solely place down “Exit” teleporters.

Torbjorn

Turret can now be positioned on partitions, ceilings and allies!

Tracer

Utilizing Recall both takes you to the previous or the longer term.

Previous: Pulse Rifles firerate is decreased.
Future: Pulse Rifles firerate is elevated.

Widowmaker

Grappling Hook now has three fees.
Getting headshots whereas zoomed in replenishes a cost.

Ana

Slept enemies slowly float upwards.
Enemies take fall harm after waking up.

Baptiste

Utilizing Exo-boots launches you ahead.
Projectiles shot by way of Amplification Matrix get thrice as quick.

Brigitte

Dimension and Armor elevated.
Defend Barrier is all the time in its bigger kind.

Well being elevated from 250 >>> 700.

Rally’s motion velocity elevated.

Illari

After utilizing ult, Illari turns into “Photo voltaic Put in” when the solar is out.

1.2x quicker.
40% much less assault cost time.
1.2x bonus therapeutic.

Kiriko

Safety Suzu buffs harm, therapeutic, velocity and provides 700% extra bounce peak to affected allies.
New passive lets Kiriko bounce longer mid-air.

Lifeweaver

Petal Platform peak elevated from 8 >>> 20 meters.

Lucio

Final Skill knocks up enemies throughout the beat drop.
Sonic Amplifier shoots 5 bullets per volley throughout Therapeutic Increase.

Mercy

Caduceus Blaster eliminated.
Harm Increase potential changed with “Harm Employees”.
Secondary Fireplace now shoots projectiles out of Mercy’s workers.

Elevated projectile dimension throughout ult.
+2 to Harm.
Can shoot whereas therapeutic allies.

Moira

Biotic Grasp’s therapeutic and harm fingers are swapped.

Zenyatta

Now you can cost as much as 8 orbs with Secondary Fireplace.
Charging Secondary Fireplace fires projectiles 33% quicker.
Zenyatta levitates whereas charging Secondary Fireplace.

Our Favourite Overwatch 2 April Fools Modifications

Torbjorn’s Newly-Balanced Turret

This yr, Overwatch 2’s tallest hero acquired a enjoyable rework to his Turret which lets it stick with partitions, ceilings and even your personal teammates!

The Hero steadiness modifications you’ve all been ready for 👀

Soar on this week for our most balanced replace EVER ✨ pic.twitter.com/HavuYDjYMj

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 1, 2024

The funniest steadiness change this season “balances” Torbjorn’s turret on high of shifting allies. This totally-not-broken addition is certain to smash somebody’s day, however who might keep mad at such an lovely turret? Not me, that is for certain.

Mini Mauga

Overwatch 2 builders lower the sport’s newest tank hero all the way down to dimension for April Fools’.

“Smauga” has bought to be the most effective Overwatch april fools modifications of the bunch. And it is definitely a novel means of addressing the entire complaints in regards to the hero’s massive hitbox.

Sensible Virus

Sombra’s Virus now jumps to a different enemy should you handle to kill the final enemy affected by the flexibility. It is a surprisingly cool buff to Sombra’s package that we argue ought to have made it within the rework. However whereas it is right here, we’ll be placing it up as the most effective April Fools’ modifications that ought to keep within the recreation.

The Overwatch 2 April Fools’ Occasion will run from April 1-9.

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