Overwatch 2 March 25, 2025 Patch: Major Hero Balance Hotfix
Blizzard has dropped a surprise hotfix for Overwatch 2 on March 25, 2025, bringing hero balance changes that shake up both the 5v5 and 6v6 game modes. While no new content was added, this patch focuses on fine-tuning hero performance across all roles—Tank, Damage, and Support—aiming to keep the meta fresh and competitive.
View these patch notes below or on the official post from Blizzard.
🔧 Tank Hero Updates
- Cardiac Overdrive: No longer grants allies damage reduction.
- Cage Fight (Ultimate): Ultimate cost increased by 8%. Barrier health reduced from 1500 → 1200 HP.
- Berserker (Passive): Overhealth conversion reduced from 50% → 40%.
- Take a Breather: Healing increased from 400 → 450 HP.
- Whole Hog (Ultimate): Cost reduced by 12%.
- Primal Rage (Ultimate): Cost increased by 10%.
- Energy: Degeneration rate increased from 2 → 2.5 per second.
🔫 Damage Hero Updates
- Peacekeeper: Primary fire falloff range increased from 20 → 25 meters.
- Secondary fire damage increased from 45 → 50.
- Health Pool: Base health reduced from 225 → 150. Gains 75 shield HP.
- Heavy Pulse Rifle: Now uses a larger projectile size (0.07m), making it easier to land shots.
- Power Slide: Cooldown increased from 7 → 8 seconds. Max duration reduced from 1.2 → 1 second.
- Base Health: Increased from 200 → 225 HP.
🩺 Support Hero Updates
- Biotic Grenade: Cooldown increased from 12 → 14 seconds (non-6v6), and from 10 → 12 seconds (6v6).
- Shrike (Passive): Self-Nano Boost duration reduced from 8 → 6 seconds.
- Orbital Ray (Ultimate): Cost increased by 10%.
🧠 Final Thoughts
This patch signals a strong shift toward balancing out hero dominance, with Blizzard clearly listening to community feedback.
Mauga and Ana take significant hits, while heroes like Roadhog, Cassidy, and Widowmaker get a boost. The experimental health and projectile size changes also hint at continued refinement of the core game mechanics.
Overwatch seems to really be rolling out a lot of updates and hot fixes listening to their community and we are all for it.
See you guys in the queue!
Sad about the Ana nerfs 😢 But loving the Cassidy buff!! ❤️
Very good