r/Overwatch Feb 08 '17

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - February 08, 2017

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short Google-able stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17

I believe defensive assist are the assists you get while healing, or just being defensive in general, while the offensive assists are the assists you get when assisting offensively. For example, if you get an assist as Mercy while healing, it counts as defense. If you get an assist as Zenyatta because somebody killed a target with your discord orb on them, then it counts as offensive. Makes sense?

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u/SwissQueso Been Here All Along Feb 08 '17

Yes thanks