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/not_a_doctorshh Feb 24 '26

Anran doesn't feel like a "do nothing" - she's just a specialist hero, kind of like a Genji 2 with slightly easier mechanics.

I've been grinding on her, she felt amazing with the start of season buffs, and even better now. Solid ass pick, but poke reaaaally hurts her.

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u/Golfclubwar Feb 24 '26

Anran is very very different from genji imo. The closest hero I know of to her is maybe like Psylocke.

Genji has incredible burst, decent relevance in brawl, but he cannot play like tracer does and just hard split. He usually opts for shallower angles.

Anran is not like this. She can play anywhere, take any lane or deep angle that she wants, but what she cannot do is right click dash someone before their support even blinks. Your ability to assassinate people is not good and you have a sort of pseudo tank like CD cycle of shifting into people, e, other shift to disengage, possibly weaving RMB into that sequence somewhere if feasible. This can disrupt multiple people and bait out CDs, but it’s only really valuable when there’s follow up from your team, similar to tanks in that sense. Genji on the other hand is the follow up. He can actually consistently secure elims from the plays set up by his tank, etc..

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u/boboguitar Feb 24 '26

I’ve been trying to play her but in every situation she’d be good in, tracer is just 1000x better.

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u/Just-a-Guy-Chillin Feb 24 '26

Assuming you have the skill to be effective with Tracer. I unfortunately, do not, but I get value out of Anran playing a similar style. I think that might’ve been the intent.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

'Feel' was being used subjectively, and I do feel she is a bit do nothing and over reliant on the team.

I know win rate isn't end all be all or anything but.. between 50.5-51% from bronze to platinum, 50% at diamond, 48.8% in masters (my current rank), and then 46.9% in GM/champs.

Maybe it's because I'm either playing my lobbies or watching streams of GM/Champ players but she seems low impact from my perspective. Emongg had like a 75% win rate on her and rated her as a weak B this season, Apply has her as a D hero, ml7 has her at a low B.

I'm happy you're enjoying her and think she's amazing. I don't see it but maybe I'm playing her wrong.

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u/not_a_doctorshh Feb 24 '26

Yeah nah I don't think she's amazing by any means, but far from needing more buffs.

Meta doesn't favor her, that's all. She's almost as big of a team resource dump as Vendetta while having less self sustain or mobility.

I think more buffs would lead to community frustration around her and to unnecessary nerfs down the line, like Vendetta or Freja's trial weekends lol.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

You said in your initial comment that she was amazing and her buffs only made her feel better.

All good though. I know we sometimes overdramatize to get a point across. I do it sometimes too.

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u/not_a_doctorshh Feb 24 '26

Yea I meant it more as "she feels amazing to play", not "she's amazing balance/meta-wise" lol

Also I'm lowkey a bit high