Talents

Talents are a gameplay feature of Overwatch 2. They are special augmentations on the abilities of heroes to be used in the Hero Missions and Story Experience modes of the game. This feature was announced during Blizzcon 2019.

As of BlizzConline, the current Talent system is based on a skill tree. Each hero appears to have three different trees (e.g. Reinhardt's trees are Crusader, Juggernaut, and Guardian), with a number of talents they can spend within said trees.

Development


A hero's level determines which Talents they could potentially take. Each hero appears to have, split amongst 3 tiers. The player began with the first tier unlocked at Level 1, and unlocked the other two tiers at Level 10 and 20, respectively. Each tier contained 2 Talents, and a player could only select 1 Talent from each tier.

At the beginning of a mission, after choosing their hero, a player was able 1 Talent from each tier they have unlocked with that hero's level.

Below is a list of all known talents prior to the revamped system. Talents of unknown level have only been seen in promotional material, and have no indication of their level.