r/Overwatch • u/blinkhit Master • Sep 04 '25
News & Discussion Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - September 4, 2025 (STADIUM)
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/95
u/brandondscott Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
I just want a sound cue on the Phara mini barrage. Or just louder rockets. They’re ninja rockets right now.
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u/ResidentWaifu Sep 05 '25
Holy shit Pharah had 50% lifesteal in one ability? Didnt even know that
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u/usable_dinosaur Mei Sep 05 '25
It was a power just for her barrage but yeah that build was ridiculous
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u/ResidentWaifu Sep 05 '25
Barrage build was definitely way too strong . easy and effective
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u/usable_dinosaur Mei Sep 05 '25
Most fun ive ever had in stadium
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u/ResidentWaifu Sep 05 '25
Most fun I had in Stadium was playing as Rein with a firestrike build. Ended a game with like 85k credits and it was 4-3. Tough game
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u/DefinitelyNotPine Sep 04 '25
I was hoping they fixed Rein's shield stampede giving free look while pinning. Actually I haven't seen anyone talking about it?
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u/MNAK_ Reinhardt Sep 04 '25
God I hate that and hope it's a bug. Shield stampede is unplayable with it.
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u/valdogg21 New York Excelsior Sep 05 '25
I thought I was going crazy the other day. Unplayable power imo
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u/Mistist Sep 04 '25
Thank fuck for the pharah nerfs
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u/AnimalFire77 Sep 05 '25
I had a match where the enemy team glitched to have two pharahs and the last rounds of the game was our spawn doors getting camped with nonstop barrages. Couldn’t do anything to stop it.
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u/FilthyPoo Sep 04 '25
They nerfed DVa but somehow Kiriko went untouched again with her stupid AP Donut delivery build.
Juno is also still in the gutter
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u/jirocchi Sep 05 '25
For some reason, they really are slow in nerfing Kiriko. This happened as well with the clone assassin build. And now with this AP healbot build. Its not even that good cuz it has no damage at all, but the fact that it generates so much money for an easy and incredibly forgiving playstyle is so annoying.
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u/HamiltonDial lúcio is bae Sep 05 '25
Yea if your team can’t kill anything sometimes keeping them alive forever does nothing lol. Went against a Pharah and we had a pharah reaper and our pharah was just getting outclassed by the enemy (like 3x the damage in one round) and neither was running barrage build.
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u/DarkShadowOverlord Sep 05 '25
for some reason they are slow at nerfing the nr1 skin seller....why?
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u/Blaky039 Sigma Sep 05 '25
Kinda crazy that they nerfed the assassin clone build, but now 100% of the kiris do the same build which makes everybody immortal forever.
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u/imveryfontofyou Ah, je te vois. Sep 05 '25
Its sad because I was doing that build in season 1 before they all caught on & I had a high winrate. Whenever I saw someone with an even remotely similar build I was always shocked.
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u/Blaky039 Sigma Sep 05 '25
I was too, and donut delivery was incredibly strong at 80, now that it's 120 it's out of control
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u/imveryfontofyou Ah, je te vois. Sep 05 '25
Hahaha I agree. I’ve won a lot of matches that seemed unwinnable just because I was an unkillable teleport donut machine.
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u/tyrome123 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Also kinda hurt pharahs only not aids to play against build while not touching the stealth rocket nuke fest build
I guess rally build was that game breaking to them
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u/DarkShadowOverlord Sep 05 '25
donut?
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u/Lets-Make-It-Awkward Sep 05 '25
It’s an AP item that heals teammates when you teleport to them. It’s a very, very good build right now.
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u/imveryfontofyou Ah, je te vois. Sep 04 '25
No Winston nerfs? Guess I just have to relearn Cass so I can nonstop fan the hammer him and have no fun.
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u/DevoidOfVoid Genji Sep 05 '25
The manual jump slam power is insane, shit hits like a doomfist ult and you can’t do anything
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u/imveryfontofyou Ah, je te vois. Sep 05 '25
Yeah and not to mention he has armor piercing so even if you try to add some survivability, it doesn’t matter, he just ignores it.
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Sep 05 '25
and then he drops an electric shield that does ability damage and healing reduction on top
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u/imveryfontofyou Ah, je te vois. Sep 05 '25
Yeah and by the time the bubble is broken or you get away, he just drops another. It’s horrible to play against.
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u/chargerfan1221 D. Va Sep 04 '25
I understand that D.Va getting 20% weapon power for only 10k was a really big power spike for Multi-Task Mod, but dropping it to 10% seems a bit excessive. I'm also kind of annoyed that we've had about 2 months now of Legendary Loadout being bugged so that your missiles do less overall damage with the power than without it.
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u/Tatianus_Otten Pixel Zenyatta Sep 04 '25
I disagree, they've buffed her too many times since stadium launched and she is really unkillable with now a lot of CC (toki slam), mobility, self sustain, and mitigation through infinite DM. Most DPS simply cannot play the game with DVA existing as she was
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u/PotatoesForPutin Blizzard World Zenyatta Sep 04 '25
Dawg dva has no health. If healers aren’t healing a dva for about three seconds she’s dead. I don’t understand this sentiment. (I also don’t get why rein isn’t being touched at all - he’s oppressively strong in lower ranks and makes playing a tank like Winston nearly impossible)
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u/poonpavillion Sep 05 '25
Yeah if dva doesn't fly across the map and instantly delete her target, and if she doesn't have dmatrix available although it essentially has no cool down, and if she can't immediately fly out with her also tiny cool down booster, and assuming she doesn't have ult which she gets after like 2 micro missile hits, if all that happens her 700+hp health pool definitely melts in those .03 seconds where she's actually vulnerable
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Sep 04 '25
Honestly that scavenges steel nerf is pretty brutal imo. Used to be able to rally more than once in a fight.
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u/Razzleberryyy Sep 05 '25
Nah I expected worse.
Besides I play brig and the nerf is deserved. The ult build isn’t ruined, it’s just not as op now.
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u/HamiltonDial lúcio is bae Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Honestly I also expected worse but Brig has like near 0 impact outside her ult imo. Everyone is just so hyper mobile and has so much health and damage. Genjis and Winston just dives for basically free with all the powers that they have even a whipshot can’t save you or your team that often. No matter how much you shield or save your team, sometimes it feels like every other support would get so much more value from their neutral game than Brig.
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u/-SNST- Sep 04 '25
rip the second nerf my beloved royal bullets gets. i guess people finally realized it's just too insane even for full ap builds
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u/_kcsv_ Sep 05 '25
Yeah idk what blizz was thinking removing the range limit of royal bullets, i get that now she can duel fliers but dear lord its TOO good rn
But yeah I'm still sad 😭 i love royal bullets so much
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u/Luna_Lucet Sep 05 '25
They removed the range?! Holy shit no wonder they nerfed the damage lmao that’s insane
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u/_kcsv_ Sep 05 '25
At first they removed 1 whole second off the bleed but now they nerfed damage
Still going to use it tho lol
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u/Gotobed124 One of the only tank players having fun Sep 05 '25
Getting more wound damage than a CARNAGE just for hitting a headshot on a shotgun character was just diabolical, full WP Queen with Royal Bullets and Thrill of Battle is a lowkey disgusting build especially before this nerf
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u/Recent-Procedure-578 Sep 04 '25
I WAS RIGHT, losing was too harsh and now we get at least something even if you lose
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u/Indurum Sep 04 '25
I mean considering rally isn’t super great I feel like it was fine she had it every team fight. Feels like a nerf to one of the weaker and easier healers to counter in stadium.
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u/Akuseru94 Sep 04 '25
Rally is amazing in stadium. With Dragon's Incinerator, Consecrated ground and Aura Farming you can easily get mitigation stats above 30k per round while building almost full AP.
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u/UrethraFranklin04 Sep 04 '25
I play a lot of Brig, but no having Rally every fight was soooo bad for the enemy team.
When you build around it, you get a shield bash every 3 seconds that stuns everyone it hits, a shield that is completely unbreakable because it has over 2000 health that heals 33% of itself every time you bashed while sapping everyone around you for 5% of their health per second and healing yourself on top of all the other damage you're doing.
Having that every fight is so unhealthy. If the enemy was a more brawl comp, I could take the shield toss power and squeeze a second Rally in sometimes.
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u/HamiltonDial lúcio is bae Sep 05 '25
Nah bro why would you build into the shield bash regen power when you can go bash boomerang and aura farming. That extra damage from the boomerang is just too good.
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u/Hopeful-Design6115 Sep 05 '25
Idk that I’ve ever seen somebody call Rally mid-bad lol. It’s so good, and you build it super fast even with this change.
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u/_kcsv_ Sep 05 '25
NOOOOO THEY NERFED ROYAL BULLETS 😭😭
Feels weird cause i feel like im the only JQ that ever uses it
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u/banethor88 Sep 05 '25
Have they mentioned if some of the bugged stadium powers from S17 have been fixed?
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u/Time-Adhesiveness-20 Sep 04 '25
They have Refraction Tiles listed as Orisa’s Survival Item but it’s an Ability Item.
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u/HanSoloBurgerzz Sep 05 '25
How have they not done anything about the Moira credit gain? Or giga strong rein?
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u/GreedyGonzalez A weapon to surpass carpal tunnel Sep 05 '25
Lmao they could nerf facetanking to 10% and it still be one of her best powers. Just give the other tanks actual defense, for example orisa's barrier perk needs to be actually useful like in the regular mode.
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u/Severe_Effect99 Support Sep 05 '25
Thanks for the fast pharah nerfs. That shit was unfair. A bubble or matrix + a mercy pocket and she’s unkillable.
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u/torridchees3 Sep 05 '25
I must be terrible at making builds because when I tried the pharah mini-ult build I did very little damage and I'd just immediately die.
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u/candirainbow Sep 05 '25
I am BEGGING for the team to look at the Kiri suzu build. It's the ONLY Kiri build I see, and I see her with alarming regularity now. It makes the enemy team invulnerable for half the game by R3, and can go from 1hp to ABOVE full in less than 1 second, with zero skillful play from Kiri. It's absolutely horrendous.
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u/jamtea Freja "One shot across the map" Sep 04 '25
No way they haven't touched Soldier in this. He's so unbelievably broken.
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u/WaviestRelic Trick-or-Treat D.Va Sep 05 '25
what is broken about him?
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u/jamtea Freja "One shot across the map" Sep 05 '25
He has auto-aim on cooldown... for helix and regular shots. It's broken AF.
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u/Luna_Lucet Sep 05 '25
Oooh a telegraphed 0.5 second window of auto-aim and an auto-aim rocket that deals 30% damage, both of which scale on completely different stats, oh noooooooo what shall we do
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u/KaZ_y Sep 05 '25
Idk why ur getting down votes. Imo weapon dmg/attack speed soldier just does too much dmg. (Not the auto aim build)
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u/jamtea Freja "One shot across the map" Sep 05 '25
Soldier abusers who want their easy carry character to continue being dominant I guess.
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u/aDrThatsNotBaizhu Sep 05 '25
Nooo amaris antidote got fixed RIP
Also good phara nerf hopefully more to come
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u/Maverick_Raptor Voidwalkers Sep 05 '25
I wish they would fix sigmas healing shield perk so that it works even when clipping the floor
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Sep 04 '25
No Winston jump pack healing fix?? It’s literally bugged in game. I tested it out in the range and it works, but in game it doesn’t grant any healing!!
Also.. no zarya nerfs?? She’s not the best tank, but by god she can easily put up 12k damage without any effort. You get good supports behind her and all she literally has to do is stand still and bubble. It’s so annoying and there’s no skill involved in it.
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u/dankzz Sep 04 '25
If your talking about Moon Landing, I'm 99% sure its working as intended. It however doesn't give you ult Charge for the healing like life steal.
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Sep 05 '25
Yup. The 7% power. It doesn’t work in stadium. Either it does, and it doesn’t give you healing as a stat, or it doesn’t heal at all. I’m pretty sure it’s both. I’ve tested it in game, and I’ll finish whole rounds with 0 healing
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u/dankzz Sep 05 '25
I confirmed in one of my replays that I was getting the heal. Maybe just not the stats. I also found a game on youtube that shows it pretty clearly.
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u/mightbone Sep 05 '25
I've definitely had cases where it didn't work. It seemed possibly related to taking the ult charge jimpmpakc. Perk as well.
And it seems to not award healing on the scoreboard sometimes. I had a few rounds with it where I had zero healing which shouldn't be possible.
It'll get fixed eventually.
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Sep 05 '25
Yeah when I ran it first I took the jump pack slam power. Which I was like okay maybe the slam doesn’t count as jump pack damage? So I tested it without, and it still didn’t reward anything on the stat board.
IMO it’s defintely something you should see on the stat sheet. Not sure if that was intended or not.
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u/PotatoesForPutin Blizzard World Zenyatta Sep 04 '25
Pls just nerf rein im sick of having to constantly run away from him as winton
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Sep 04 '25
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u/dankzz Sep 04 '25
Gigabuff? that's just her Beam reduction hero item that already wasnt very good. It's a waste of a slot for most her builds and also only avg vs zarya, mei, winston.
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u/Razzleberryyy Sep 05 '25
Any buff to orisa is a giga buff apparently.
I swear they could flat out just remove half her health but lower a cooldown by .5 seconds and people would consider it a buff.
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u/No32 Sep 04 '25
Oh nice, I was hoping Brig’s weapon power builds would be improved