Overwatch 2 Will Buff Damage And Tank Heroes With Passive Healing In Season 9

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This massive change will see Damage and Tank heroes get a passive heal next season, drastically changing how Overwatch 2 is played.

By James Carr on

Damage and Tank heroes will be getting a self-heal passive ability in Season 9 of Overwatch 2. This major change will see non-support heroes get an automatic heal passive, which kicks in after not taking damage for a short period of time.

Announced by Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller in a blog post, the new passive ability will be added as part of Season 9, which kicks off in early February. Support heroes already have this passive ability, though it's much stronger. The version being given to the damage and tank roles will be toned down. The blog doesn't list how this version will be toned down.

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«This should give non-Support players more options in terms of sustaining themselves. It should also take some of the pressure off Support players to keep everyone alive since individual players now have more control of their own health pool,» Keller wrote. «In Overwatch, there is a constant tug of war between the power of a team and the power of an individual hero or player. A change like this shifts that balance a bit.»

The main reason for the change is that Overwatch 2 currently has a bit of a problem when it comes to teamwork. When teams stick