Overwatch 2 Patch November 11, 2025 Notes

2025-11-11 - Story

This Overwatch 2 patch includes 43 buffs, 14 nerfs, and 51 rework/adjustments.

Hero balance changes

• D.Va - neutral - Boosters now deal 100% additional damage.
• Hazard - neutral - No longer prevents critical damage.
• Hazard - buff - Cooldown reduced from 6 to 5.5 seconds.
• Ramattra - neutral - No longer has half effectiveness while in Annihilation
• Zarya - neutral - Energy Converter Perk
• Zarya - nerf - Energy gained reduced from 3 to 2
• Ashe - neutral - Secondary Fire falloff range rescaled from 30–50 meters to 40–60 meters
• Cassidy - buff - Hinder duration increased from 0.9 to 1.2 seconds
• Echo - buff - Movement acceleration in air increased by 100% when changing directions while Flight is active.
• Mei - buff - Damage per second increased from 100 to 110
• Sojourn - buff - Damage per second increased from 80 to 90
• Sojourn - buff - Projectile speed increased from 30 to 40
• Sojourn - nerf - Maximum travel duration reduced from 1 to 0.75 seconds
• Sombra - buff - Stealth duration on successful hack increased from 2 to 3 seconds
• Sombra - buff - Time before overhealth degeneration increased from 6 to 10 seconds
• Sombra - buff - Overhealth degeneration increased from 10 to 25
• Sombra - buff - Overhealth granted increased from 50 to 75
• Sombra - neutral - Packs can now be picked up at full overhealth to reset the degeneration timer
• Brigitte - buff - Cooldown reduced from 5.5 to 5 seconds
• Juno - buff - Movement acceleration in air increased by 50% when changing directions while Glide Boost active.
• Lifeweaver - nerf - Model and hit volume size reduced by 8%
• Lifeweaver - nerf - Automatic reload time for the inactive weapon reduced from 2.5 seconds to 2 seconds
• Lifeweaver - nerf - Time between weapon swap reduced from 0.25 seconds to 0.125 seconds
• D.Va - nerf - Recharge rate reduced by 15%.
• Doomfist - nerf - Overhealth gained per target reduced from 35 to 25 HP.
• Doomfist - buff - Amount of damage to gain Empowered Punch increased from 100 to 120.
• Doomfist - buff - Self-healing from wounds damage scalar increased from 1.5x to 1.75x.
• Mauga - buff - Cooldown reduced from 17 to 15 seconds.
• Reinhardt - buff - Shield health increased from 1500 to 1800.
• Winston - buff - Cooldown reduced from 6 to 5 seconds.
• Wrecking Ball - nerf - Overhealth gained per target reduced from 75 to 50.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Now has a cooldown per target.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Drafts have been updated to use blind pick system. This means that both players on each time pick at the same time and their hero is revealed together.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Draft mode now automatically assigns tanks to the 5th slot.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Players are now able to unequip powers on the same round they are equipped.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Powers are locked at the end of the Armory timer.
• Zenyatta - neutral - HP bars are now displayed for your team in Stadium matches.
• Zenyatta - buff - The hero stat section in the Armory has been updated to sort by your highest stat increases.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Detailed tooltips for each row in the Armory hero stat section have been added.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Impacted abilities and weapons are displayed in these tooltips.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Interact on any tooltip to access the full details screen.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Weapon Power and Ability Power are now displayed as two separate floating numbers. This feature can be adjusted from Settings.
• Zenyatta - neutral - A new setting has been added to adjust the lifetime of floating text.
• Zenyatta - neutral - A new setting has been added to display self-healing. This setting is defaulted to off.
• Zenyatta - neutral - We are now dynamically adjusting the height at which floating text is displayed to improve visibility for heroes in melee range.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Overkill and overhealing values are now displayed when eliminating an enemy or healing a friendly target.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Kill cameras will now display stadium combat text.
• Zenyatta - neutral - Improved the stability of stadium combat text on moving targets so it’s less distracting.
• Hazard - nerf - Damage decreased to 60 (Down from 80).
• Hazard - nerf - Damage decreased to 25 (Down from 40).
• Orisa - neutral - Added: +10% Attack Speed
• Orisa - neutral - Added: +5% Weapon Power
• Orisa - neutral - Added: +15% Ability Power
• Orisa - neutral - Added: +15% Weapon Power
• Orisa - neutral - Added: +25 Armor
• Orisa - buff - Cost decreased to 9000 (Down from 10000)
• Freja - nerf - Spread of additional bolts reduced by 60%.
• Freja - neutral - Additional bolts fire every 3rd shot (Down from every 5th shot).
• Freja - neutral - Added +20% Updraft Height.
• Freja - buff - Max Life per hit increased to 8% (Up from 5%).
• Freja - buff - Added: "Take Aim Bolt Explosion damage reduces Updraft Cooldown by 1s".
• Freja - neutral - Removed: +20% Updraft Height.
• Freja - neutral - Added: 5% Ability Power.
• Freja - buff - Removed: 5% Cooldown Reduction.
• Freja - neutral - Added: Restore 10% Max Ammo every 1s while momentum is slowed by Take Aim.
• Freja - nerf - Added: 25% reduced explosion damage from extra Take Aim Bolt.
• Sojourn - nerf - Damage reduction decreased to 25% (Down from 50%).
• Sojourn - buff - Cost decreased to 10000 (Down from 11000)
• Sojourn - buff - Cost decreased to 4000 (Down from 5000)
• Sojourn - buff - Damage reduction increased to 35% (Up from 25%).
• Sojourn - buff - Attack Speed increased to 35% (Up from 25%).
• Sojourn - buff - Weapon Lifesteal increased to 100% (Up from 50%).
• Sojourn - buff - Slow increased to 25% (Up from 15%).
• Sojourn - buff - Railgun Charge increased to 50% (Up from 33%).
• Junkrat - nerf - Concussion Mine damage upon landing after detonating Concussion Mine on yourself increased to 20% reduced effectiveness (Up from 30% reduced effectiveness).
• Junkrat - neutral - Removed Arming time to spawn Mini Steel Trap.
• Junkrat - buff - Max Number of Mini Steel Traps increased to 5 (Up from 2).
• Junkrat - buff - Frequency increased to every 0.25s (Up from 0.3s).
• Junkrat - buff - Added: "Detonating Concussion Mine on yourself reduces Concussion Mine cooldown by 15%".
• Junkrat - neutral - Removed: +20% Concussion Mine Knockback Distance.
• Junkrat - neutral - Added 25 Health.
• Junkrat - buff - Cost decreased to 9000 (Down from 10000).
• Junkrat - buff - Max Life Overhealth increased to 8% (Up from 5%).
• Junkrat - buff - Overhealth Duration increased to 5s (Up from 3s).
• Junkrat - buff - Cost decreased to 9500 (Down from 10000).
• Junkrat - neutral - Added: +10% Ability Power.
• Junkrat - buff - Ability Power increased to 10% (Up from 5%).
• Junkrat - buff - Steel Trap Health increased to 100% (Up from 50%).
• Junkrat - neutral - Ultimate Charge gain now triggers on all Ability damage (Instead of just Total Mayhem damage).
• Junkrat - buff - Cost decreased to 4000 (Down from 4500).
• Junkrat - buff - Cost decreased to 3750 (Down from 4000).
• Juno - neutral - Now heals extra 30 health on pulsar hit.
• Brigitte - buff - Bonus Damage on 360 Rocket Flail swing increased to 125% (Up from 100%).
• Brigitte - buff - Healing on next Rocket Flail swing increased to 125% of damage dealt (Up from 100%).
• Brigitte - buff - Fixed an issue with Wuyang and Illari that caused incorrect Healing and Resource rates to be applied when affected by Attack Speed increases.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where the Headhunter perk ignored headshot damage reduction from Bob's Tank passive.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where Reinhardt's Charge did not pull Wrecking Ball out of Roll mode.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where Mei's Deep Freeze perk could potentially freeze enemies twice within a short timeframe.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where characters affected by Ana's Groggy were still slowed after using an ability that should have cleansed the Groggy effect.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where Sojourn's charge was lost after a primary fire when using the Overcharged perk.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where the timer for Mercy's resurrect was not shown in ping messages.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed several minor color and formatting issues in Advanced Info Panel text.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where Kiriko's clone could inadvertently stop the payload from moving due to too many friendly players on the objective.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where the Salvaged Slug item interrupted Winston's primary fire to reload the granted ammo.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where Reaper's aim was not accurate immediately after using Shadow Step.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where the size of the mini Steel Trap from Junkrat's "Trap II, Esquire" power was not accurate relative to its trigger timing.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where Hazard's Downpour ability did not gain benefits from life steal bonuses.
• Brigitte - neutral - Fixed an issue where Torbjorn's Clocked Power gave the benefit to all allied heroes instead of just Torbjorn.