There are four sets/types/roles of heroes in Overwatch. The game is filled with fun objectives, competitive players and vivid environments. In this article, we’ll look over the hero types, their strengths and weaknesses and hopefully help you learn something and better choose your character.
Offense – these heroes scout the area, press the objective and harass the other team. They usually have high damage and better abilities, but low health and not very good defensive capabilities. Choose them if you like to play fast, move constantly, have sharp vision, quick thinking and the abilities of a true damage dealer. Offense role characters mostly have good burst stats so attack enemies with might and duck back behind your tank or support:
List:
- Doomfist
- Genji
- Mcree
- Pharah
- Reaper
- Soldier: 76
- Sombra
- Tracer
Defense – guard objectives, make choke points and help maintain the front. Defense role characters can create turrets, weapons shoot and damage in a longer range and have area control abilities. Choose defense if you prefer strategic, leading play. You like to work as a team, don’t value individual work as much as teamwork and enjoy recon work.
List:
- Bastion
- Hanzo
- Junkrat
- Mei
- Torbjörn
- Widowmaker
Tanks – tanks act as a protector to other teammates, where defense roles are focused on objectives, tanks need to defend player a bit more. They can disturb enemy attacks, rush in to attract attention, but with abilities to defend and take a lot of damage alongside good crowd control – Tanks are especially good for you if your style is: slow, tactical and it’s the best role to play if you have a slow connection of fps issues. Plus, it requires a lot less thinking and reacting, because the margin for error is a lot larger with tanks.
List:
- Va
- Orisa
- Reinhardt
- Roadhog
- Winston
- Zarya
Support – these characters are healers add powers (buff) and have tons of utility. These are the players that put you over the edge because they might be the difference makers between life and death. While being the weakest duelists, their objectives aren’t to deal the most damage: it’s to help others do more of it. Stay in between teammates and choose this if you’re a lucky bastard and don’t need kills to feel good about playing.
List:
- Ana
- Lucio
- Mercy
- Symmetra
- Zenyatta
We’ve listed and described the four main roles of characters. Hope you did enjoy our list and we will see you watching and reading our Overwatch articles more often.
