Weapon

Weapons are the primary tools heroes use to deal damage to enemies or heal their allies. Every hero in Overwatch has at least one weapon.

Overview[ | ]

All weapons have a primary fire, but some weapons also possess a secondary fire. Most weapons consume ammo and have a magazine, which if emptied, requires the hero to reload. Some heroes have multiple weapons, which can be switched using 1 and 2. Some heroes also have transformation abilities that give them new weapons.

A vast majority of the weapons in the game are ranged. Although the effect distance of many weapons is potentially infinite, the effectiveness of a weapon can be limited by damage falloff, bullet spread, or projectile travel speed. Most weapons are fully automatic.

Weapon types[ | ]

Hitscan[ | ]

Hitscan weapons have no travel time on their shots, meaning that their effects take place immediately when the weapon is fired. Hitscan weapons are subjects to damage falloff, meaning that they'll do less damage at longer distance. The damage at max range is typically 30%. Ana does not have falloff damage for her scoped shots.

There are types of hitscan weapons: pinpoint, spread, and recoil. Pinpoint will have perfect precision at all times. Spread weapon start precise but after a few shots, but then spray erratically. With recoil weapons, your weapon starts pointing upward either after a few shots.

List of hitscan weapons

Pinpoint hitscan weapons

Ashe: The Viper (scoped)
Ana: Biotic Rifle (scoped)
Bastion: Configuration: Recon
Cassidy: Peacekeeper (primary fire)
Illari: Solar Rifle (primary fire)
Sojourn: Railgun (alternate fire)
Widowmaker: Widow's Kiss (scoped)
Winston: Tesla Cannon (alternate fire)

Hitscan weapons with weapon spread

Ashe: The Viper (semi-automatic fire)
Bastion: Configuration: Assault
Cassidy: Peacekeeper (alternate fire)
D.Va: Fusion Cannons
Junker Queen: Scattergun
Mauga: Incendiary Chaingun, Volatile Chaingun
Reaper: Hellfire Shotguns
Sombra: Machine Pistol
Tracer: Pulse Pistols
Widowmaker: Widow's Kiss (automatic fire)
Wrecking Ball: Quad Cannons

Hitscan weapons with vertical recoil

Baptiste: Biotic Launcher (primary fire)
Soldier: 76: Heavy Pulse Rifle

Projectiles[ | ]

Main article: Projectile

Unlike hitscan weapons, Projectile weapons have a travel time on their shots, making it slightly more difficult to score successful hits. To balance that, projectiles have larger hitboxes and, excluding shotguns, do not have damage falloff.

Some projectiles travel in an arc ( Arcing projectile) rather than a straight line, and some are homing, meaning that they attempt to follow their target, but can miss if they hit a wall or their target leaves their range.

List of projectile weapons

Linear projectile weapons

Ana: Biotic Rifle (automatic fire)
Bastion: Configuration: Artillery
D.Va: Light Gun
Doomfist: Hand Cannon
Echo: Tri-Shot
Genji: Shuriken (primary and alternate fire)
Kiriko: Kunai
Lifeweaver: Thorn Volley
Lúcio: Sonic Amplifier
Mei: Endothermic Blaster (alternate fire)
Mercy: Caduceus Blaster
Orisa: Fusion Driver
Pharah: Rocket Launcher
Ramattra: Void Accelerator
Roadhog: Scrap Gun (alternate fire, before detonation)
Symmetra: Photon Projector (alternate fire)
Zenyatta: Orb of Destruction

Arcing projectile weapons

Baptiste: Biotic Launcher (alternate fire)
Hanzo: Storm Bow
Junkrat: Frag Launcher
Sigma: Hyperspheres
Torbjörn: Rivet Gun (primary fire)
Zarya: Particle Cannon (alternate fire)

Homing projectiles

Kiriko: Healing Ofuda
Lifeweaver: Healing Blossom

Shotguns[ | ]

Shotgun weapons fire a large number of pellets over a large spread and can be either hitscan or projectile. They are designed to deal immense amounts of damage at close range and typically experience severe damage falloff, with the range being 10 to 20 meters, or 15 to 30 meters. At maximum range, they do only 30% of their original damage. Due to the spread, shotguns are less effective against enemies with small hitboxes or enemies at long range. The exact spread of a shotgun is random or semi-random.

List of shotgun weapons

Hitscan shotguns

Projectile shotguns

Doomfist: Hand Cannon
Roadhog: Scrap Gun
Torbjörn: Rivet Gun (alternate fire)

Explosives[ | ]

Some weapons fire projectiles that explode upon impact and deal splash damage to enemies in Area of effect. This explosion also typically contains a knock-back effect, with the exceptions of Symmetra's Photon Projector and Sigma's Hyperspheres, the latter of which instead cause a slight graviton effect. Explosive weapons cannot headshot.

Some explosive weapons have self-damage, while others do not. This self-damage is equal to 50% of the splash damage the explosion can do.

List of explosive weapons

Explosive weapons with self-damage

Pharah: Rocket Launcher
Sigma: Hyperspheres
Zarya: Particle Cannon (alternate fire)

Explosive weapons without self-damage

Junkrat: Frag Launcher
Symmetra: Photon Projector (alternate fire)

Beams[ | ]

Some weapons are channeled instead of fired and emit a Beam. Beams ignore Defense Matrix, Deflect, Javelin Spin and Kinetic Grasp. Beams cannot headshot and have a finite maximum range.

Some beams are hitscan-like, meaning they act immediately, while others are projectile-like, meaning there's travel time.

List of beam weapons

Hitscan-like

Illari: Solar Rifle (secondary fire)
Mercy: Caduceus Staff (primary fire and alternate fire)
Moira: Biotic Grasp (alternate fire)
Symmetra: Photon Projector (primary fire)
Winston: Tesla Cannon
Zarya: Particle Cannon (primary fire)

Projectile-like

Mei: Endothermic Blaster (primary fire)
Moira: Biotic Grasp (primary fire)

Melee[ | ]

Main article: Melee

Melee weapons are short-ranged but have no ammo or reload time. Melee weapons pierce barriers and enemies, and ignore Defense Matrix and Kinetic Grasp. They are be blocked by Deflect and Javelin Spin, however. Heroes with melee weapons equipped are generally incapable of using quick melee. Melee weapons cannot headshot. Some melee weapons have knock-back like quick melee, while others do not.

Weapon Cosmetics[ | ]

Weapon Variants[ | ]

Main article: Weapon Variants

Weapon variants are weapon cosmetics that can be purchased using Competitive Points and Legacy Competitive Points that are earned via Competitive Play. They do not affect gameplay, but rather change the colour of the weapon equipped, such as with Golden weapons.

Weapon Skins[ | ]

Main article: Weapon Skins

Weapon skins are weapon cosmetics. They can be bought from the Shop using Coins . Weapon Skins change the appearance of a Heroes weapon regardless of what hero skin is equipped. They can be used alongside Weapon Variants.

List of weapons[ | ]

Below is a list of all weapons and their stats.

Hero	Weapon	Effect type	Damage	Damage falloff range	Headshot	Healing	Proj. speed	Range	Radius	Fire rate	Ammo	Reload time
Ana	Biotic Rifle Biotic Rifle	Projectile (unscoped) Hitscan (scoped)	70 over 0.59 seconds		✕	70 over 0.59 seconds	125 meters per second (unscoped)			0.8 seconds recovery	15	1.5 seconds animation
Ashe	The Viper The Viper	Hitscan	40 – 12	20 – 40 meters	✓					~0.266 second recovery (3.75 shots per second)	12	0.5 seconds (initial animation) +0.2 seconds per bullet 2.9 seconds (full reload animation)
Ashe	The Viper (ADS) The Viper (ADS)	Hitscan	75 – 22.5	30 – 50 meters	✓					0.65 second recovery	12	0.5 seconds (initial animation) +0.2 seconds per bullet 2.9 seconds (full reload animation)
Baptiste	Biotic Launcher Biotic Launcher	Hitscan	25 – 7.2 (per round) 75 – 21.6 (per shot)	25 – 45 meters	✓					1.7 shots/s	36	1.5 seconds animation
Baptiste	Biotic Launcher Alt Fire Biotic Launcher Alt Fire	Arcing projectile Area of effect				20 (direct hit) 50 (splash, ally)	60 meters per second		3 meter radius	1.11 shots/s	13	1.5 seconds animation
Bastion	Configuration: Recon Configuration: Recon	Hitscan	25 – 7.5	30 – 50 meters	✓					5 rounds per second	25	1.2 seconds animation
	Configuration: Assault Configuration: Assault	Hitscan	12 – 3.6	30 to 50 meters	✕					30 shots per second	∞
	Configuration: Artillery Configuration: Artillery	Projectile Area of effect	550 (center) 250 – 200 (inner ring) 200 – (outer ring)		✕				2.5 meters radius (inner ring) 6.5 meter radius (outer ring)		3
Brigitte	Rocket Flail Rocket Flail	Melee	45		✕			6 meters		1 swing per 0.6 seconds
Cassidy	Peacekeeper Peacekeeper	Hitscan	70 – 21	25 – 35 meters	✓					2.02 shots/s	6	1.5 seconds animation
Cassidy	Peacekeeper Alt Fire Peacekeeper Alt Fire	Hitscan	50 – 15	20 – 40 meters	✕					8.93 shots/s	6	1.5 seconds animation
D.Va	Fusion Cannons Fusion Cannons	Shotgun (hitscan)	2 – 0.6	10 - 20 meters	✓					6.667 shots/s	∞
D.Va	Light Gun Light Gun	Projectile	14		✓		50 m/s			7 shots/s	20	1.4 seconds
Doomfist	Hand Cannon Hand Cannon	Shotgun (projectile)	5 – 1.5 (per pellet) 55 – 16.5 (per shot)	15 – 30 meters	✓		80 m/s			3 shots/s 1.36 shots/s (continuous fire of final shot)	4	0.4 seconds (per shot)
Echo	Tri-shot Tri-shot	Projectile	17 (per pellet) 51 (per shot)		✓		75 meters per second			0.3 second recovery (3 shots per second)	12	1.5 seconds animation
Genji	Shuriken Shuriken	Projectile	27 (per shuriken) 81 (per shot)		✓		60 meters per second			1.14 shots/s	30	1.5 seconds
	Shuriken Alt Fire Shuriken Alt Fire	Projectile	27 (per shuriken) 81 (per shot)		✓		60 meters per second			1.47 shots/s	24	1.5 seconds
	Dragonblade Dragonblade	Melee	110		✕			5 meters		1.43 strikes/s
Hanzo	Storm Bow Storm Bow	Arcing projectile	27.2 - 120 (depending on charge)		✓		25 - 110 m/s			0.5 seconds recovery	∞
Illari	Solar Rifle Solar Rifle	Hitscan	75 - 22.5 (max charge) 25 - 7.5 (min charge)	30 - 50 meters	✓ (1.5x)					1 shot/s (max charge)^[Verify] 1.7 shots/s (min charge)	16	1.8 seconds
Illari	Solar Rifle Alt Fire Solar Rifle Alt Fire	Beam			✕	105 per second		15.3 meters				2.9 seconds (recharge to full) 3.36 seconds (cooldown when fully depleted)
Junker Queen	Scattergun Scattergun	Shotgun (hitscan)	8 – 2.4 (per pellet) 80 – 24 (per shot)	15 – 25 meters	✓					1.33 shots/s	8	1.5 seconds
Junkrat	Frag Launcher Frag Launcher	Arcing projectile Area of effect	120 (direct hit) 80 - 10 (splash, enemy)		✕		25 meters per second		2 meters (splash radius)	1 shot per 0.667 seconds recovery stops while using melee	5	1.5 seconds animation
Kiriko	Healing Ofuda Healing Ofuda	Projectile				13 (per talisman) 26 (per burst)	24 m/s (homing) 18 m/s (non-homing)	35 meters (lock on)		0.2 seconds (per burst) 1.7 seconds (full clip)	5	0.9 seconds
Kiriko	Kunai Kunai	Projectile	45		✓ (2.5x multiplier)		90 m/s			1 shot per 0.5 seconds	15	1 second
Lifeweaver	Healing Blossom Healing Blossom	Projectile				Min: 10 Max: 70 over 0.3 seconds	60 m/s	30 meters (targeting)		1 second charge 0.3 second recovery	16	1.5 seconds
Lifeweaver	Thorn Volley Thorn Volley	Projectile	6 (per thorn) 12 (per shot)		✓		80 m/s			11 shots/s	80	1.5 seconds
Lúcio	Sonic Amplifier Sonic Amplifier		20		✓		50 m/s			1.08 shots/s	20	1.5 seconds animation
Mauga	Incendiary Chaingun Incendiary Chaingun	Hitscan	4 - 1.2 (direct) 15 per second (damage over time)	30 - 40 meters	✓					18 shots/s	300	2.2 seconds
Mauga	Volatile Chaingun Volatile Chaingun	Hitscan	4 - 1.2	30 - 40 meters	✓					18 shots/s	300	2.2 seconds
Mei	Endothermic Blaster Endothermic Blaster	Beam (projectile)	5		✕		20 meters per second	10 meters		20 shots/s	120	1.5 seconds animation
Mei	Endothermic Blaster Alt Fire Endothermic Blaster Alt Fire	Projectile	75		✓		115 meters per second			1 shot per 0.8 seconds	120	1.5 seconds animation
Mercy	Caduceus Staff Caduceus Staff	Targeted (lock-on)	+25% damage amplified			55 per second		15 meters
Mercy	Caduceus Blaster Caduceus Blaster	Projectile	20		✓		50 meters per second			5 rounds per second	25	1.4 seconds
Moira	Biotic Grasp Biotic Grasp	Beam (projectile)			✕	70 per second, then lingers to heal 51 over 3 seconds		15 meters			156 biotic energy
Moira	Biotic Grasp Alt Fire Biotic Grasp Alt Fire	Beam (no target indicator, soft lock-on)	65 per second		✕	24 per second (self)		20 meters			∞
Orisa	Augmented Fusion Driver Augmented Fusion Driver	Projectile	13		✓		100 m/s			10 rounds/s	∞	3 seconds (cooldown after overheat) 2 seconds (recharge from full heat)
Pharah	Rocket Launcher Rocket Launcher	Projectile Area of effect	40 (direct hit) 80 – 24.6 (splash, enemy) 20 – 6.15 (splash, self)		✕		40 m/s		2.5 meter radius (explosion)	1.25 shots/second	6	1.5 seconds animation
Ramattra	Void Accelerator Void Accelerator	Projectile	5		✓		80 m/s			25 shots/s	100	1 second
Ramattra	Pummel Pummel	Melee Projectile	60		✕		105 m/s	10.5 meters		1.67 shots/s	∞
Reaper	Hellfire Shotguns Hellfire Shotguns	Shotgun (hitscan)	5.4 – 1.62 per pellet 108 – 36 per shot	10 – 20 meters	✓					0.496 seconds recovery	8	1.5 seconds animation
Reinhardt	Rocket Hammer Rocket Hammer	Melee	100		✕			5 meters		1.04 shots/s
Roadhog	Scrap Gun Scrap Gun	Shotgun (projectile)	6.25 – 1.88 (per pellet) 15 – 4.5 (per shrapnel) 160 – 48 (per shot)	30 – 50 meters	✓ (1.5x)		80 m/s			1.25 shots/s	6	1.75 seconds animation
Roadhog	Whole Hog Whole Hog	Shotgun (hitscan)	7 – 2.1	30 – 40 meters	✓					8 shots/s
Sigma	Hyperspheres Hyperspheres	Arcing projectile Area of effect	25 (direct hit) 30 – 9 (splash, enemy) 7.5 – 2.25 (splash, self)		✕		48 m/s	22 meters	3 meter implosion radius	0.67 shots/s	∞
Sojourn	Railgun Railgun	Projectile	9		✓ (2x)		160 meters per second			14 rounds per second	45	1.2 seconds
Sojourn	Railgun Alt Fire Railgun Alt Fire	Hitscan	130 – 30	40 – 60 meters	✓ (1.5x)
Soldier: 76	Heavy Pulse Rifle Heavy Pulse Rifle	Hitscan	19 – 5.7	30 – 50 meters	✓					9 rounds per second	30	1.5 seconds animation
Sombra	Machine Pistol Machine Pistol	Hitscan	8 – 2.4	15 – 35 meters	✓					20 shots/s	60	1.2 seconds animation
Symmetra	Photon Projector Photon Projector	Beam	60/120/180 per second		✕			12 meters			100	1.5 seconds animation
Symmetra	Photon Projector Alt Fire Photon Projector Alt Fire	Projectile Area of effect	50 (direct hit) 50 (splash, enemy)		✕		50 meters per seconds		Up to 2 meters radius (explosion)	0.1 seconds recovery for reuse 0.25 s. recovery for use primary	100	1.5 seconds animation
Torbjörn	Rivet Gun Rivet Gun	Arcing projectile	70		✓		70 meters per second			1.96 shots/s	18	2 seconds
	Rivet Gun Alt Fire Rivet Gun Alt Fire	Shotgun (projectile)	12.5 – 3.75 per pellet 125 – 37.5 per shot	10 – 20 meters	✓		120 meters per second			1.43 shots/s	18	2 seconds
	Forge Hammer Forge Hammer	Melee	55		✕	50 (to Torbjörn's turret)		2.5 meters		1 swing per ~0.7 seconds
	Molten Core Molten Core	Arcing projectile Area of effect (pools)	Impact: 25 Pools: 160 per second, +90 against armor				40 meters per second		2.5 meter interact radius	1 ammo per 0.144 (if holding primary) 1 ammo per 0.016 (manual rapid fire)	10
Tracer	Pulse Pistols Pulse Pistols	Hitscan	6 – 1.8 (per bullet) 12 – 3.6 (per shot)	10 – 20 meters	✓					20 shots/s	40	1 second
Widowmaker	Widow's Kiss Widow's Kiss	Hitscan	13 – 3.9	20 – 40 meters	✓					10 rounds per second	35	1.5 seconds animation
Widowmaker	Widow's Kiss (ADS) Widow's Kiss (ADS)	Hitscan	12 – 6 (at 0% power) 120 – 60 (at 100% power)	50 – 70 meters	✓ (2.5x multiplier)					Up to 1 seconds to charge 0.5 second recovery before it starts charging again recovery stops while zoom in	35	1.5 seconds animation
Winston	Tesla Cannon Tesla Cannon	Beam (multi-target)	75/s		✕			8 meters			100	1.7 seconds animation
Winston	Tesla Cannon Alt Fire Tesla Cannon Alt Fire	Hitscan	15 (min charge) 50 (max charge)		✕			40 meters
Wrecking Ball	Quad Cannons Quad Cannons	Hitscan	5 – 1.5 per shot	15 – 25 meters	✓					25 shots per second	80	1.6 seconds animation
Zarya	Particle Cannon Particle Cannon	Beam	95 per second (at 0%) 190 per second (100% Energy)		✕			15 meters		20 ticks per second	100	1.5 seconds animation
Zarya	Particle Cannon Alt Fire Particle Cannon Alt Fire	Arcing projectile Area of effect	47 – 9.4 (enemy, 0% Energy) 95 – 19 (enemy, 100% Energy) 23.5 – 4.7 (self, 0% Energy) 47.5 – 9.5 (self, 100% Energy)		✕		25 meters per second		2.5 meter radius (explosion)	1 shot/s	100	1.5 seconds
Zenyatta	Orb of Destruction Orb of Destruction	Projectile	48		✓		90 meters per second			1 shot every 0.4 second	25	1.5 seconds animation
Zenyatta	Orb of Destruction Alt Fire Orb of Destruction Alt Fire	Projectile	48 per orb Max 240 per volley		✓		90 meters per second			1 orb per 0.524 seconds (charging) 1 shot per 0.144 seconds (firing) 0.6 seconds recovery	25	1.5 seconds animation