Blizzard has released a new balancing patch for Overwatch on August 13, 2020. DPS, support, and tank heroes are all affected by this patch, so all players should pay attention to these changes so they're not caught by surprise while playing.

All of these changes are currently live for all versions of Overwatchwith Brigitte, Orisa, and Roadhog being some of the heroes that are most affected by these changes. A total of seven different heroes have been changed with this patch, making for a lot of possible changes in the game's meta to occur as well.

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The characters that have been tweaked are Brigitte, Orisa, Pharah, Roadhog, and Zenyatta. Many of these changes are related to health pools and ability cooldowns.

Brigitte

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According to the patch notes, Brigitte players were able to safely play at longer distances and didn't require as much health as she had before the patch. Additionally, Brigitte's ultimate has been tweaked overall to give her more health while giving her teammates less health. The exact numbers of these changes are:

  • Brigitte's total base health has been reduced from 200 to 150.
  • Inspire's healing has been reduced from 21 to 15 health per second.
  • Brigitte's self-healing during Inspire is no longer reduced by half.

Orisa

According to the patch notes, Orisa's Halt ability made it too difficult for enemy teams to get out of combos after an Orisa player uses Halt. Her health has also been changed. The exact changes are:

  • Orisa's base armor health has been reduced from 250 to 200.
  • Halt's radius has been reduced from 7 to 4 meters.
  • Halt's projectile speed has been increased from 20 to 30.

Pharah

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Pharah's changes have been made to apparently make her more agile in the air, as well as change up the duration of her ultimate so she's not a sitting duck for as long. The exact numbers for these changes are:

  • Pharah's Hover Jets now have a movement speed increase of 20%.
  • The Hover Jets' regeneration rate is now reduced from 50 to 35 per second.
  • Barrage's total duration has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2.5 seconds.

Roadhog

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Roadhog has gone through some changes with his Scrap Gun to make him more of the heavyweight character he previously was. The exact numbers of these changes are:

  • Roadhog's Scrap Gun has its ammo reduced from 6 to 5.
  • The Scrap Gun's damage per projectile has been increased from 6 to 7.
  • The recovery from shots has been increased from 0.7 seconds to 0.85 seconds.

Sigma

Sigma has gone through some changes to reduce his defensive capabilities. The exact numbers of these changes are:

  • Sigma's barrier's total health has been reduced from 900 to 700.
  • The barrier's regeneration rate has been reduced from 120 to 80 health per second.
  • Sigma's Kinetic Grasp's cooldown has been increased from 10 too 12 seconds.

Symmetra

Symmetra has gone through a minor change to her teleporter. The only change is that the cooldown to build a teleporter has been reduced from 12 to 10 seconds.

Zenyatta

Zenyatta has been changed to increase his total damage output via some small changes to his secondary fire. These changes are:

  • Charge rate increased by 15%
  • Rate of fire increased from 8.4 to 9 shots per second

Overwatch is available on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.

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