Overwatch. Newb's guy to choosing a hero.

[Deleted]

The game releases in open beta on the 3rd of May, that means everyone can play it.

Of course the problem you may have if you are not in the closed beta nor paid much attention to it, is that you have no idea which character to start with, so I'm gonna give you a hand.

There are two types of characters in the game Damage Dealers and Support.
Damage Dealers, just as their names says, focus on damaging and killing the enemy heroes. All DDs are solo play friendly. They are more effective in a group but are not really dependent on one.
Support characters, don't focus on doing damage, but rather on directly helping their team members. There are two types of support characters
*Tanks. These heroes have the capability of creating damage barriers between their team members and enemy fire. Provided their team mates are actually interested in making use of the said barriers, of course. They are very useful when pushing an objective as they provide moving cover against enemy attacks, or drop cover zones.
*Healers. They focus on...healing (duh!).
Support characters are very dependent on a team and have a terrible performance while lone-wolfing, so try not to do your own thing during the match or you will have a bad experience.

Heroes by order of difficulty

Easy difficulty
Requirements
-ability to tie your own shoes. If you can do that, you can play these guys at least decently.

*Soldier 76
*McCree
*Pharah

Moderate difficulty
Requirements
- average experience in the FPS genre and gaming in general

*Reaper
*Bastion
*Roadhog
*Junkrat
*Zarya
*Torbjorn
*Hanzo

Hard difficulty
Requirements
- extensive experience with the FPS genre and gaming in general.
- twitch reflexes.
- willingness to help your team while knowing you will probably not kill anything by yourself.

*Reinhardt
*Winston
*D.va
*Tracer
*Widowmaker
*Mei (currently underpowered and barely viable)
*Genji
*Symmetra
*Lucio
*Mercy
*Zenyatta

Edit. Yeah, messed up the release date. Fixed.

[Jester Joe]

I think they did just change heroes to have a difficulty rating when you hold F1 after selecting them.

I agree with your list for the most part, the hard difficulty is only where I have a few issues personally.

Tracer can easily kill things by herself, and get away at the same time, so I'm assuming that your requirements list is really just a 2/3 at least then? Also Winston I'd put as easier than Roadhog personally, since Winston has
-A getaway/gap close
-Large barrier shield
-Ultimate that gives you double health and heals you to max when using
-A gun that doesn't require accuracy, just range and vision.

Meanwhile, Roadhog has
-A gap closer, no escape, and it's a skillshot basically that can require "twitch reflexes".
-no barrier to protect the rest of your team, but a decent heal for about 325 hp that leaves you open to be ripped apart though during (Usually the heal is negated during the time if you have to use it in the open unless your team supports you)
-An ultimate that requires you to be in the middle of everyone pretty much

Roadhog is a selfish tank basically. (And I love him but that's besides the point)

[Deleted]

Open beta is 3rd of may. Not 24th of march. I don't know where you got this information. I also almost completely disagree with your list, but i cba to correct it

[Jester Joe]

Open beta is 3rd of may. Not 24th of march. I don't know where you got this information. I also almost completely disagree with your list, but i cba to correct it

I'm not sure how I missed that, but yeah, this is also true.

It's mostly what's considered "hard" I think is where the issue comes in. Personally, the only characters I'd consider hard are like, Mercy, Genji, and Lucio I guess. Bastion I'd definitely move down to easy also, turret mode and self healing makes him pretty forgiving.

[Gib Lover]

Roadhog is a selfish tank basically. (And I love him but that's besides the point)

Roadhog is bae and I will always play him more than anyone. Except 76 when I want to just hatefuck the enemy team even more than I do with Roadhog.

Also yeah this list is meh

[DeadmanWalking]

Is this suppose to be the Newb's GUIDE to chosing a hero? Can we change the title so it doesn't hurt my brains? or is guy the new 1337 speak for guide?

[Jester Joe]

Roadhog is bae and I will always play him more than anyone. Except 76 when I want to just hatefuck the enemy team even more than I do with Roadhog.

Also yeah this list is meh

Roadhog and 76 are like, my two favorite, so I know what you mean.

[Dug]

I wouldn't put McCree in the easy field. Sure you can probably 100-0 someone with a fan the hammer attack but good McCrees who utilize mid range-long range snipes aren't that common. If anything Reaper is far more simpler than McCree.

But to me it seems like your list is more about the role they play in the team and their usefulness and not really their technical difficulty. Cause at that point really only Genji/Tracer and maybe... Zenyatta are what I consider "difficult"

[Deleted]

I wanted to be constructive but.. when I started to write a post I realized it would be much, much more longer than yours and mostly focusing on how bad grasp of the game you have. Not to mention I don't like to tutor for free. Especially when you put Reinhardt under difficult. My conclusion: troll post.

[chrisisvacant]

Please make the shitposting stop.

[zito]

*Reinhardt
*Winston
*D.va
*Lucio

I don't think these 4 are even remotely difficult. Reinhardt and Winston don't require any aim what so ever and drop shields which are quite passive. Dva has a ton of health and a second life, her mech requires no reload and has a wide spread (it just does more damage the closer you are) there isn't anything complicated to her. Lucio is the most passive piece of crap I've ever played, you just need to be near the action and lololololol the best heals in the game for your team like wut

[Mormolyce]

Reinhardt is pretty challenging if your right mouse button breaks, otherwise not really :P

For me, I'd probably only put snipers and Tracer in the "hard" category. Maybe Mei too.

Who is not underpowered, incidentally. Got my clock cleaned by one the other day. Repeatedly.

[Jester Joe]

Who is not underpowered, incidentally. Got my clock cleaned by one the other day. Repeatedly.

She shuts down big characters really fast, but I could see where she would struggle against someone like Tracer who can just dart away from her freeze, and then make it hard to hit with an icicle.

[Vanyali]

I'm not sure how I missed that, but yeah, this is also true.

It's mostly what's considered "hard" I think is where the issue comes in. Personally, the only characters I'd consider hard are like, Mercy, Genji, and Lucio I guess. Bastion I'd definitely move down to easy also, turret mode and self healing makes him pretty forgiving.

How is Lucio hard D;

[Jester Joe]

How is Lucio hard D;

I did say I guess! But I mean in terms of staying alive and knowing when to use speed boosts or heal boosts, and so on and so forth.

At least, he's harder than Zenyatta (I'd put Zenyatta as the easiest healer since he doesn't need to stay near the person to heal them, and Symmetra isn't really a healer)

[Vanyali]

I did say I guess! But I mean in terms of staying alive and knowing when to use speed boosts or heal boosts, and so on and so forth.

At least, he's harder than Zenyatta (I'd put Zenyatta as the easiest healer since he doesn't need to stay near the person to heal them, and Symmetra isn't really a healer)

wat.

No, no joe D;

Zenyatta is harder because you have to actually aim and coordinate, imo. Orb call-outs... huge.

Lucio, just follow people, use line of sight, and if there's shooting almost never switch from healing song, boost if someone is sub-50%

[Jester Joe]

wat.

No, no joe D;

Zenyatta is harder because you have to actually aim and coordinate, imo. Orb call-outs... huge.

Lucio, just follow people, use line of sight, and if there's shooting almost never switch from healing song, boost if someone is sub-50%

Aim. As in, "They're in that general direction, throw orb at them, and hope everyone targets them".

You'd have to call out when you're ulting with Lucio, but that's actually more important. With orb, you can just easily throw it at the most important target and there ya go.

[Vanyali]

Aim. As in, "They're in that general direction, throw orb at them, and hope everyone targets them".

You'd have to call out when you're ulting with Lucio, but that's actually more important. With orb, you can just easily throw it at the most important target and there ya go.

Nah man. Nah.

We gotta do some yata roadhog play some time.

When you one-shot people with your hook consistently.. it's so good. it's SO good.


for lucio's ult, just use it when you need to push a point or when they assault a point. ez.

[Jester Joe]

Nah man. Nah.

We gotta do some yata roadhog play some time.

When you one-shot people with your hook consistently.. it's so good. it's SO good.


for lucio's ult, just use it when you need to push a point or when they assault a point. ez.

Roadhog hook+shot combo already basically one shots anyone important though.

[Vanyali]

Roadhog hook+shot combo already basically one shots anyone important though.

This will kill anyone.

And I only said roadhog because i know you love him. it's especially good with a pharah... rockets = 1 hit doom.