Overwatch 2 patch gives Zenyatta a badass round-house kick
Overwatch 2 is in its beta stages. Blizzard was obviously keen to get players in on what it's developed so far for the PvP portion of the game, but it's been far from balanced. The game is basically in freefall at this point, with the Overwatch team trying to rework and reimagine character abilities, damage, and more as quickly as possible. So after acknowledging that Overwatch's support heroes were a bit lacklustre, Blizzard have updated the game with a bunch of new changes once again, including a super kick for Zenyatta.
The patch notes are pretty extensive. Support heroes have the most changes as a whole, but not all of them buffs. Zenyatta gets an entirely new ability, a Snap Kick passive, which makes his melee more powerful. It shoots enemy players backwards dealing 50% more damage than normal melee, thereby allowing the monk to stay alive a little longer in skirmishes.
Brigitte also gets buffs to her knockback abilities, with her Shield Bash doing double the knockback that it did before. Ana's Rifle ammo is increased from 12 to 15, and her biotic grenade effect duration is decreased from four to three seconds, putting more of a focus on her shots. Baptiste has had his healing ammo increased from 10 to 13, nothing too exciting, while Lucio has been nerfed to make his self-healing ability less effective on himself as his survivability was ridiculous.
Elsewhere Zarya's ult Graviton Surge is slightly nerfed, only lasting 3.5 seconds. Wrecking Ball has been buffed again just by increasing his knockback when rolling. Winston's new secondary fire's ammo has been decreased from 20 to 12 and Sombra's speed boost when in stealth mode has been decreased from 65% to 50%.
Soldier has been nerfed too, making his movement
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