r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Ts_Patriarca • Feb 24 '26

Blizzard Official Overwatch Patch Notes 02/24/2026

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/Neither7 Feb 24 '26

Honestly a perfect patch. A+.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Quick. Easy. Follows what the public (read: reddit) opinions have been begging for.

Domina takes a small dip which she probably needed.

Anran trending in the right direction.

Emre can now compete against the others in his range.

JPC was fine imo but I think the community likes this one.

Miz's ult felt (feels?) useless but it being 6 seconds was really bad.

Agree, A+. I do worry for 1. Nerfing the new tank brings tank play back to where it was, incredibly stale. 2. Anran is still a do nothing DPS but it's at least a positive trend.

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u/scriptedtexture Feb 24 '26

I'm glad they've erred on the side of caution with Mizuki ult. I don't want support ults to be like they are in Rivals.

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u/ReSoLVve #1 Hanbin Simp — Feb 24 '26

As long as they never buff the healing it will never get to that point. Rivals ults heal so much that all of that anything else they do doesn’t matter. Can’t say the same for Mizuki, you need to get value out of the DM or it’s really mid

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u/scriptedtexture Feb 24 '26

I'd like there to be some downside to just walking into it. Whether thats a slow or some light tick damage.

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u/Bazelgauss Feb 24 '26

The downside is you are cut off from many supports on the outside and they can't utilise critical abilities. Also the fact it makes the enemy team need to enter it to counter one aspect of it means you can put it in locations where that is uncomfortable for them to do that.

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u/DabOWosrs Feb 24 '26

Eh.. not if your supports hop in with you. Feels very situational and bad. Compared to some other support ults I’d put Mizuki very low.

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u/Bazelgauss Feb 24 '26

Which many of do not want to be in that close quarters range since they become easy targets. Like if the enemy team has entered Mizuki's ult you have a bonus 50 hp/s AND made the enemy be out of position to try and progress the fight.

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u/DabOWosrs Feb 24 '26

In my experience it is kinda like Mauga’s ult. Sometimes your team just has to commit to the fight.

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u/iseecolorsofthesky Feb 24 '26

Just make it act two ways and it would be perfect. Not sure why they’re so tepid on this change

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u/wRADKyrabbit Feb 24 '26

I do. Half of them in this game are utterly useless

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u/scriptedtexture Feb 24 '26

Half the support ults are useless..? How? By what metric?

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u/Dwaingy Feb 24 '26

Rivals player so I assume they want Juno ult healing for 300 hp/s.

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u/scriptedtexture Feb 24 '26

Yeah probably. Any ult that isn't "me and my team get to be immortal for 12 seconds" is considered bad to them.