Best Heroes in Overwatch 2: Tier List Rankings (Mid-Season 13) (2024)

Overwatch 2 Tier List Rankings – The Best Heroes

In this tier list, we’ve got you covered with the best heroes in Overwatch 2.

We’ve updated our tier list for Season 13 and its latest balance changes.

Let’s dive in!

If you play other shooters be sure to also check out our Apex Legend Tier List or Marvel Rivals tier list.

Here are our rankings for the best heroes in Overwatch 2:

For a visual reference of our Overwatch 2 tier list, check out our infographic below:

Note that the heroes are organized by difficulty for new players/beginners who haven’t tried them yet.

Orange represents a high/hard skill floor, Blue represents an average skill floor, and Green represents a low/easy skill floor.

Overwatch 2 Tier List Commentary

As always with our tier lists, we want to highlight that we believe that the player always matters more than the character you play as.

If you have an off-meta main that is working for you, by all means, no need to switch! Keep rocking it.

This list is more to understand if one of your characters is favorable in the current meta, or to help players that have run into a plataeu.

Quick Notes

Season 13 Update

Lots of big changes this patch! Ramattra and Sombra got reworks to their abilities, multiple maps have been reworked, new areas added, walls removed and staircases added. Juno’s healing and falloff damage/healing was heavily nerfed. Also a number of more minor buffs and nerfs have been made to other heroes as well. Going into Season 13 the previous Dive meta that dominated much of Season 12 has fallen off after multiple nerfs to heroes like D.Va and Winston, and a series of buffs to heroes like Orisa and Sigma.

Ramattra Rework Reverted!

Ramattra received the following changes to his Pummel ability in Nemesis Form at the launch of season 13:

Pummel

• No longer pierces barriers.
• Now deals 2.5x more damage to barriers.

As of the October 29th Hotfix patch, these changes have been reverted and Pummel returns to its regular functionality. This marks the fastest rework change and revision ever experienced in Overwatch’s history.

Hotfix Patch:

Pummel

• Reverted to pierce barriers again.
• No longer deals critical damage to barriers.

Sombra Rework

Sombra has not been particularly strong, and only time will truly tell if her rework has made her weaker or stronger. Losing permanent stealth and now only having access to 5 seconds of invisibility will certainly have a harder time flanking, staging and scouting, but she got Opportunist passive back so does have increased damage per second. Don’t expect to be seeing much Sombra this season as the community has a very negative view of the changes and Sombra players are being flamed as soon their teammates see them load into a game.

Universal Changes:

• Counter Picking
  • Swapping your hero hides your selection on the enemy scoreboard for 15 seconds.

Carried forward from Season 12:

• Armor flat damage reduction decreased from 10 to 7 per impact.
  • The reduction has previously changed from 5 to 10, now to 7.

Tank Role Passive:

• Knockback resistance was reduced from 40% to 25%.
  • It was briefly 50% a few seasons back.
• Ultimate generation reduction remains at 40%.

Damage Role Passive:

• Remains only half as effective against Tank heroes.
• 10% healing reduction was applied to Tanks.
• 20% debuff applied to Supports and DPS.

With all these changes in mind, let’s take a closer look at who the strongest heroes in each role are this season and what makes them so dominant.

Fundamental Differences from Overwatch 1

Since you’re here, there’s a good chance that you already know the core differences between Overwatch and Overwatch 2.

If not, know that there are some kit adjustments across the hero cast. Be sure to know what has changed for your hero pool before diving into ranked.

The other major change to know is that now, there are five players instead of six (sorry to all you sixth men and women out there). This means that there are now one tanks instead of two.

Although it depends on the comp and the map, in general, this means that there is a noticeable decrease in the amount of crowd control and shields in the game.

There will be less instances of just defaulting to deathball teamfights and more instances of skirmishes and duels that happen.

How tiers work

In S-tier, you’ll find the best heroes in Overwatch 2 which will be very present in almost all maps and comp combinations.

A-tier heroes are still great choices but tend to be present for fewer maps than S-tier characters in pro play. However, in some situations, A-tier characters might shine more than S-tier characters.

In B-tier, we’re continuing the trend of heroes that have lower overall presence and are even more specialized. Some heroes here are just worse versions or downgrades of heroes in a similar niche above them (such as Ashe usually being the better choice over Cassidy).

Lastly, we have the Situational batch of heroes in the C-tier section. These heroes are rarely seen in comparison to their peers and are usually pulled out for specific halves or holds on a very small pool of maps. If you’re having success with them, by all means, keeping playing them.

The Best Damage (DPS) Heroes

Snipers: Widowmaker & Ashe

Both DPS Snipers perform equally well with and against Orisa comps. Sight lines tend to be very open as Orisa doesn’t offer much defense for her team against sniper heroes. Widowmaker especially is currently dominating the top 500 and pro play due to all other heroes falloff damage severely limiting their long range potential. Which sniper to pick largely depends upon preference and mechanical skill as Ashe tends to generate more consistent value across all ranks as compared to Widow.

For Ashe, B.O.B. still has the Tank passives and got super buffed in the Sombra matchup because Hack only locks out B.O.B. for 3 seconds instead of the previous 10 seconds which is his entire duration. Snipers also don’t have to worry about permanently invisible Sombra hard flanking them anymore, which further increases their power and uptime.

Tracer

Tracer got buffed??? Recall has been reverted down to 12 second cooldown. Tracer holds on tight to her spot as the, do everything on every map meta pick for high rank and pro play. Even in metal ranks, Tracer is doing quite well as no other DPS can position or play how she plays.

Supports are extremely strong right now, and are enabling Tanks to control matches. Tracer excels at either eliminating the backline, or taking up their attention and resources. Against highly mobile enemies, Tracer simply stands in her own league in terms of being able to escape from, and chase down the enemy mobility abilities.

Her ability to follow up on Tank aggression, and take away the enemy Tanks Support resources make Tracer viable in virtually every single match.

The Best Tank Heroes

Winston

These past few seasons, the top meta Tank keeps getting nerfed. The power void has allowed Winston leap up being the only S tier Tank going forward in season 13. While Winston traditionally tends to have worse performance at lower ranks and gains increasing value the higher up the ranked ladder one climbs, his current state allows him to be dominant at every level of play. The new 225hp mobility heroes are like delicious peanut butter to Winston’s Jump Pack, charged Tesla cannon, melee combos.

The armor changes have been Winston’s best friend. As long as he manages his armor health, Winston no longer gets hard countered by heroes like Reaper, Bastion, and D.Va. The armor just soaks up the damage, while his Tesla Cannon ignores armor. Barrier Projector shuts down much of the enemy team’s countermeasures and is one of, if not the strongest Tank ability at the moment.

Winston really is the only Tank this season that requires the entire enemy to counter pick before he’s forced to swap off. All the other Tanks have a match up against another Tank that is challenging enough to shut them down. Winston doesn’t get shut down by any of the other Tanks on their own. Map and game mode are more of a problem for Winston than counter picking considering how much he still struggles on flat and open maps.

The Best Support Heroes

Juno

Three nerfs in a row: Season 13 launch, hotfix and midseason patch. Together these heavy handed nerfs to Juno have decrease her range support and impact of her Ultimate.

Although these changes are listed on different patch notes pages on the official Overwatch 2 page, we’ve listed them all together to show everything that has changed for Juno since the launch of season 13.

• MediBlaster
  • Falloff range reduced from 30-50 meters to 20-35 meters.
  • Healing per projectile reduced from 6.5 to 6.
• Orbital Ray
  • Healing reduced from 100 to 85 health per second.
  • Ultimate Cost increased by 10%.

Because of these changes, Juno now needs to play much closer to her team. For most of season 12, she was hard meta, seen on every match and in every mode. In the current season, expect to see her in Brawl and Rush comps, but only situationally in Dive comps, and a weaker choice in Poke.

Nevertheless, Juno remains our pick for the #1 Support hero this season due to the incredible power of Hyper Ring and Orbital Ray. Pair her with Brig or Baptise, and any of her weaknesses seemingly disappear. Just remember healing and damage numbers will both be cut in half at ranges she was previously dealing full damage just last season so more often than not you’ll have to be even smarter with your positioning!

Kiriko

For the last few seasons, Kiri has been just barely below the power level of the meta Supports. The mid season gave her three significant buffs, which has restored her as an S tier support.

Additionally, Kiri’s flexibility and pairings with the current meta allows her to be a mainstay in virtually every game. Considering both Kiri and Ana have been buffed, be on the lookout for more poke comps and less teams revolving around Juno’s speed boost.

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