Overwatch 2 Season 18 Hero Perk Changes

After showing off the new character, Wuyang, on a recent livestream, developers showcased some perks coming in Season 18. The new season sees around 60 new perks. Every hero in Overwatch 2 is getting at least one new perk in the season. These new ones will replace the old perks that players did not use or enjoy as much since their release. During the stream, they displayed some of the perks coming in Season 18.

Overwatch 2 Season 18 Perks

Besides Wuyang’s perks, Alec Dawson and Scott Kennedy went through eight heroes who are receiving new perks or are seeing some reworked perks in Season 18.

Tanks

• Ramattra
  • New Minor Perk – Relentless Form
    • Replaces Prolonged Barrier
    • While Nemesis Form is active, eliminations extend the duration by 1 second, half that during Annihilation
• Junker Queen
  • New Minor Perk – Rampant Charge
    • Replaces Rending Recall
    • Gain Unstoppable and refresh all cooldowns when using Rampage
  • New Major Perk – Willy Willy
    • Replaces Deep Wounds
    • When recalling Jagged Blade, its radius is increased by 100% and it deals 30 additional impact damage.
• Wrecking Ball
  • New Major Perk – Adaptive barrier
    • Replaces Transfer Efficiency
    • Adaptive Shield generates a 1.5-second barrier on activation, consuming 50 overhealth

Damage

• Echo
  • New Minor Perk – Partial Scan
    • Replaces Enchanced Duplication
    • Duplicate starts with 50% of its ultimate charge
  • New Minor Perk – Focused Rush
    • Replaces Friendly Imaging
    • Focusing Beam’s range is increased by 4 meters, and movement speed is increased by 10% when active.
  • Perk Change – Full Salvo
    • Removed the damage reduction on each projectile
• Junkrat
  • New Minor Perk – Mine Recycling
    • Replaces Aluminium Frame
    • Killing Blows with Concussion Mine restores one charge.
  • New Major Perk – Bomb Voyage
    • Replaces Tick Tock
    • After launching with Concussion Mine, Junkrat gains 35% increased attack speed for 3 seconds.
• Venture
  • New Minor Perk – Deep Burrow
    • Replaces Seismic Sense
    • Drill Dash distance is 50% longer while burrowed.
  • New Major Perk – Smart Extender
    • Replaces Smart-R Excavator
    • Empower the SMART Excavator with E to increase its maximum projectile range by 100% for 4 seconds. Triggers Venture’s passive and reloads ammo.

Support

• Ana
  • New Minor Perk – Speed Serum
    • Replaces Biotic Bounce
    • Nano Boost grants a 40% movement speed boost to both Ana and her target.
  • New Major Perk – Biotic Bounce
    • Replaces Shrike
    • Functionality remains the same from its Minor perk variation, but deals 60 damage and healing instead of 25.
• Moira
  • New Minor Perk – Destruction’s Divide
    • Replaces Vanish
    • Coalescene can be toggled between pure healing and pure damage, with 25% greater effect.
  • New Minor Perk – Ethical Nourishment
    • Replaces Uprush
    • Moved from Major to Minor Perk
    • Same effect as Minor, but has 30 burst healing instead of 50
  • New Major Perk – Phantom Step
    • Replaces Contamination
    • Combination of Vanish and Uprush
    • Fade lasts 0.5 seconds longer and boosts jump height by 50%
  • New Major Perk – Reversal
    • Replaces Ethical Nourishment
    • Reactivating Biotic Orb reverses its direction.