All hero changes in Overwatch 2’s “Balanced Overwatch” April Fools’ event (2024)

Overwatch’s April Fools’ Day occasion is again and higher than ever, bringing with it unique rewards for the primary time ever. This information incorporates each change to heroes and gameplay throughout the Balanced Overwatch occasion, including adjustments not detailed within the official patch notes.

All April Fools’ Day Overwatch 2 hero adjustments

All hero adjustments highlighted within the April Fools’ Day patch notes are unique to the limited-time Balanced Overwatch Arcade mode, except for googly eyes and alternate voice strains.

Balanced Overwatch runs from April 1 – April 9, 2024, supplying you with a complete week to earn the model new Sprays designed by the sensible Megabubu.

All heroes / miscellaneous adjustments

• All heroes have alternate Final voice strains. (Together with common sport modes)
• All heroes have googly eyes. (Together with common sport modes)
• Payload and sure different goals have googly eyes. (Together with common sport modes)
• Most Final cost between heroes is elevated from 15% to 49%.
• 17 new Sprays may be earned by way of Challenges.

All April Fools’ Tank adjustments

D.va

Boosters

• Can transfer backwards.
• Will be cancelled by crouching.
• Canceling the flexibility inside 0.4 seconds reduces the cooldown to 1.5 seconds.

Self Destruct (Final)

• Knockback elevated by 900%.

Doomfist

• Energy Block and Meteor Strike empowers Fast Melee.

Energy Block

• Motion Pace Modifier elevated to 1.25x from 0.65x

Junker Queen

Jagged Blade

• Urgent Secondary Hearth whereas Jagged Blade is energetic pulls Junker Queen to Gracie, quite than the opposite manner round.
• Cooldown begins when the blade returns to Junker Queen.
• Cooldown decreased to 4 seconds from 6.

Mauga

• Well being decreased to 25 from 350.
• Mauga is 50% smaller.

Incendiary Chain Gun

• Hitting enemies who’re “On Hearth” will trigger them to Ignite.

Orisa

Power Javelin

• Richochets as soon as when thrown.
• Explodes when caught.

Ramattra

• Armor elevated to 225 from 100.

Annihilation

• Annihilation is now not Rammatra’s Final and is as an alternative sure to Capacity 1.
• Now not pauses period whereas dealing injury.
• Motion Pace elevated by 20%.
• Length elevated to five seconds from 3.
• Injury per second decreased to twenty seconds from 30.
• Radius decreased to 9 meters from 12.

Nemesis Type

• Nemesis Type is now Rammatra’s Final.
• Completely has Annihilation energetic when in use.
• Totally heals Rammatra when used.
• Pummel injury elevated to 75 from 60.
• Pummel Vary elevated to fifteen from 10.

Reinhardt

• Gamers will discuss like Reinhardt when typing.

Barrier Subject

• Use Major Hearth to replicate projectiles.
• Well being decreases by 20% each second whereas reflecting.
• Barrier measurement decreased to 50% whereas reflecting.
• Digital camera Lock enter is now sure to Fast Melee.

Roadhog

Pig Pen

• Projectile pace elevated to 80 from 26.
• Now inflicts 40 injury as a projectile.

Sigma

Accretion

• Projectile Pace decreased to 30 from 37.
• Projectile Gravity decreased to 2 from 18.
• Urgent the flexibility button whereas utilizing Accretion will crash the rock into the bottom, dealing 50 injury and beautiful gamers in a 4-meter radius.

Winston

Tesla Cannon

Secondary Hearth chains between enemies. (Similar to PvE!)

Primal Vary (Final)

• Punches trigger lightning to chain between enemies.

Wrecking Ball

• Sideways motion elevated by 55%.

Quad Cannons

• Injury will increase as you stroll sideways.

Zarya

Projectile Barrier and Projected Barrier

• Will increase the dimensions of a bubbled goal by 1.75x

All April Fools’ DPS adjustments

Ashe

F.R.E.D.

• New skill calls in F.R.E.D., who knocks again enemies upward and leaves.

Bastion

Configuration: Assault

• Now the default kind.
• Motion pace penalty eliminated.
• Now has 150 ammo, beforehand infinite.
• Damge per bullet decreased to five from 12.
• Offers 1.5x injury on essential hits.

Reconfigure

• Transforms Bastion into Configuration: Recon.
• Grants a 35% motion pace bonus.
• Now fires shotgun blasts.

Cassidy

Wished!

• New passive that marks enemies. Kill them to achieve 50 well being till your subsequent loss of life.
• After 5 kills, you acquire 1 well being each time.

Echo

Focusing Beam

• Targets inside 5 meters of Echo take injury as in the event that they’re below half well being, rising injury accomplished.

Duplicate (Final)

• Can’t select who to duplicate.
• Can now duplicate allies.
• Well being is now not capped at 300.
• Duplicate beneficial properties 100 additional Protect.
• Bonus Ult cost acquire fee elevated to six.5 from 4.

Genji

Deflect

• Press Major Hearth with good timing to critically deflect a projectile.

Hanzo

Storm Arrows

• Variety of ricochets elevated to three from 1.
• Variety of projectiles per shot elevated to five from 3.
• Injury of every projectile decreased by 78%.

Junkrat

Frag Launcher

• Frag Launcher projectiles may be detonated with Secondary Hearth.

Mei

Avalanch Launch

• New skill that creates a big ice pillar below Mei.
• Press leap whereas within the air to activate.
• Will be cancelled with Ineract.

Pharah

Jet Land

• New skill that dashes in direction of the bottom.
• Press crouch whereas within the air to activate.

Reaper

• Reaper bleeds shotguns when broken.

Hellfire Shotguns

• Major hearth shoots a single shotgun.
• Secondary Hearth shoots the opposite shotgun.
• Injury per bullet decreased to 2.8 from 5.4.
• Ammo elevated to 16 from 8.

Sojourn

Disruptor Shot

• Now pulls enemies on deploy.
• Can deploy early.

Soldier: 76

Heavy Pulse Rifle

• Can be utilized whereas sprinting.
• Utilizing whereas sprinting has a variety of two.

Sombra

Virus

• Killing an enemy contaminated with Virus will unfold it to a close-by enemy.

Symmetra

Teleporter

• Solely locations an exit Teleporter.
• Allies can use Teleporter from any location.
• Teleporter period decreased to 4 seconds from 10.

Torbjörn

Deploy Turret

• Turret now sticks to partitions, ceilings, and allies.

Tracer

Recall

• Randomly adjustments the hearth fee and unfold of Pulse Pistols when used.
• Modifications music and display screen filter for a short while.

Widowmaker

Grappling Hook

• Now has 3 expenses.
• Getting a essential hit with secondary hearth replenishes one cost.

All April Fools’ Assist adjustments

Ana

Sleep Dart

• Enemies slowly “rise” when sleeping.
• Enemies take fall injury when touchdown.

Baptiste

Exo-Boots

• Launches ahead quite than upward.

Amplification Matrix (Final)

• Elevated pace of projectiles shot by way of it by 200%.

Brigitte

• 1.5x bigger.
• Armor elevated to 150 from 50.

Protect Barrier

• Well being elevated to 700 from 250.
• Completely makes use of Final measurement.

Rally (Final)

• Resets Protect Bash cooldown.
• Motion Pace elevated to 1.3x from 1.15x.

Illari

Captive Solar (Final)

• Illari turns into Photo voltaic Put in.
• Sollar Put in permits Illari to maneuver sooner, expenses her Photo voltaic Rifle sooner, and at all times expenses it to full injury.
• Motion pace bonus of 1.2x.
• Assault cost time decreased by 40%.
• Therapeutic recharge bonus of 1.2x.

Photo voltaic Powered

• Illari is Photo voltaic Put in when standing within the solar.

Kiriko

Safety Suzu

• Grants allies a ten% injury enhance, 10% therapeutic enhance, 50% motion pace enhance, and 700% elevated leap top.
• Elevated period to 1 second from 0.65 seconds.

Vulpine Agility

• Kiriko can leap one additional time within the air.

Lifeweaver

Petal Platform

• Now raises to 20m from 8m.
• Platform now has googly eyes.

Tree of Life (Final)

• Tree of Life now has googly eyes.

Lúcio

Sonic Amplifier

• Ammo elevated to 30 from 20
• Restoration decreased to 0.125 seconds per bullet from .14 seconds.
• Now shoots 3 bullets per volley throughout Pace Enhance
• Soots 5 bullets per volley throughout Therapeutic Enhance.

Sound Barrier (Final)

• Knocks enemies upwards when used.

Mercy

Caduceus Employees

• Injury enhance eliminated and changed with Caduceus Blaster projectiles.
• Projectiles have a smaller measurement
• Grows throughout Final.
• Projectiles do 2 extra injury.
• Projectiles reload mechanically whereas not firing. Can’t be manually reloaded.
• Projectiles reload at twice the pace whereas therapeutic or after 4 seconds with out firing.
• Can hearth projectiles at a decreased pace when therapeutic
• Therapeutic heals at a decreased fee when utilizing “Injury Employees.”

Caduceus Blaster

Moira

Biotic Grasp

• Therapeutic spray now damages, and damaging spray now heals.

Zenyatta

Orb of Destruction

• Ammo elevated to 32 from 25.
• Secondary Hearth cost time per projectile decreased to 0.47 from 0.52.
• Secondary Hearth projectiles hearth 33% sooner.
• Secondary Hearth injury decreased by 30%.
• Can now cost as much as 8 Orbs.
• Zenyatta “accelerates upward” whereas charging Orbs.

Overwatch 2 Balanced Overwatch problem rewards

Gamers can earn as much as 17 brand-new Sprays by finishing numerous Balanced Overwatch challenges. If you happen to hate enjoyable and don’t need to spend time in Balanced Overwatch, the excellent news is which you could earn each Spray in round 5 – 10 video games.

For extra April Fools’ shenanigans in gaming, together with a limited-time Useless by Daylight mode, take a look at our favourite April Fools’ pranks of 2024.