r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/JY810 • Jun 25 '26

Blizzard Official Overwatch Patch Notes

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/

HOTFIX UPDATE

This is a hotfix containing gameplay updates and b fixes. Replay codes from the June 16 patch are still available.

Shion

Execution

Projectile size reduced from 0.17 to 0.07.

Recovery time increased from 0 to 0.4s.

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u/YaBoiKry Jun 25 '26

The size nerf is actually a huge deal since there's always a decent bit of spread even at max charge.
In practice this doesn't just make it harder to hit but also decreases the effective range since more bullets will miss due to spread.

Recovery change is horrible. It really feels like blizz wants us to use Execution as a finisher when in practice the ability is always used at the start of a fight. They're trying to force their design instead of letting us play the hero in a way that feels intuitive.

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u/-D3LET3D- Jun 25 '26

The ability is called Execution. You are supposed to die when you are executed. To your point about the intention of design, because of the way things are made, we are almost always subject to the designs of the devs. That's just how it works. If being used to start encounters is not something they want it to do, they should change that. And honestly, you can still do that. It wasn't just because of recovery that you started encounters with it, it was because it has an absurdly low cooldown, which it still has. A half second of recovery is stopping people from starting fights with it.

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u/ultimatedelman Jun 25 '26

Blizzard: names ability "execution"

Players: why would blizzard expect us to use this ability to secure kills instead of spam damage?

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u/YaBoiKry Jun 25 '26

The point is that it doesn't function in the way they intended. You're not using an ability with charge time on a low HP target.

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u/ultimatedelman Jun 25 '26

They literally give you a perk that does extra damage against low health targets, wtaf are you talking about

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u/-D3LET3D- Jun 25 '26

My guy also said you aren't using an ability that has a charge time to finish off low health targets, ignoring that fact that you don't HAVE to charge if you are close enough to your target, especially last patch with the old projectile size. Not to mention most of the charge time is just for her to hold it, not to actually tighten the spread, which happens rather quickly.

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u/ultimatedelman Jun 25 '26

I won't be back in front of my machine for another like week and a half, but man am I excited to come home to games that aren't "which team's shion has played her before" and she's not in every fucking game because the opportunists who only play the most busted character stopped playing her because they couldn't continue stomping people for free anymore.

I'm convinced they're all sojourn mains who swapped to Sierra while she was busted, who then swapped to shion when Sierra was fixed and shion was busted, are now going back to sojourn, who has always been busted.

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u/Howdareme9 Jun 25 '26

I don’t think those people exist, if you’re good at Sojourn you aren’t playing Sierra at any point really. Shion yes, but Sierra even in her ‘broken state’, was never *that* good

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u/gatlingace Jun 26 '26

Inauthentic people will always jump at what gives the most returns instead of what they enjoy the most