Elimination Feed

The Elimination Feed is a gameplay element in Overwatch and Overwatch 2. It shows players who has been eliminated by who, as well as the destruction of certain objects via different icons.

Gameplay

The Elimination Feed shows which players eliminate who, showing the Hero they are playing, the method of elimination, and the victim of elimination alongside their name and hero. If the player is eliminated with an ability, it will show that ability's icon and if they are eliminated with a critical hit, it will show that alongside it.

Icon Types

• Players eliminated with a weapon will show as only an arrow on the feed.
  • Alternate fire such as aiming in with Widowmaker or Ashe, or using Peacekeeper's or Tesla Cannon's alt fire will not show a unique icon.
• Players eliminated with a regular Quick Melee will show a fist icon on the feed.
  • Heroes, like Venture, Junker Queen and Zenyatta, who have an ability that modifies their quick melee attack will display the ability icon instead.
• Players eliminated by themselves or an Environmental Hazard (with no input from another player) will show as only an arrow on the feed, with only them present.
• Players eliminated with a critical hit will show a small red target alongside the method of elimination.
• Players eliminated with an ability will show the ability followed by an arrow.
• Players eliminated with an ultimate ability will show the ultimate ability followed by an arrow. The ultimate ability icon will be animated similar to the one shown when it is fully charged.
• Players eliminated with Forge Hammer will show the weapon followed by an arrow.

Other Feed mentions

Normal Size

• Players resurrected by Mercy will show in the feed, with the icon for the ability inbetween.
• B.O.B. will be shown in the same format as a normal hero elimination.

Smaller Size

• RIP-Tire will be displayed if destroyed.
• Immortality Field will be displayed if destroyed.
• Bola Shot, Dragonstrike, Captive Sun, Blizzard, Pulse Bomb or Graviton Surge will be displayed if absorbed by Defense Matrix, Javelin Spin, Kinetic Grasp or Power Block with Power Matrix perk.
• Torbjörn's turret will be displayed if destroyed.
• Cage Fight will be displayed if destroyed
• D.Va's mech will be displayed if her mech is destroyed.
• Tree of Life will be displayed if destroyed.
• Healing Pylon will be displayed if destroyed.
• Duplicate will be displayed if Echo's duplication is eliminated.

Genji and Echo can show other heroes ability icons in the feed, as both of these heroes can use other's abilities to gain eliminations. Any attack which stuns an opponent or knocks them back will be shown when a player is eliminated by an environmental hazard because of it.

Assists

The Elimination Feed also shows assists, with smaller icons of heroes who aided an elimination alongside the player who obtained the final blow. Icons will only be present if a hero used an ability which debuffs an enemy in any form, such as a Stun or an ability that directly aids the attacker, such as a damage boost. Heroes who simply do damage are not shown alongside.

Heroes that can Assist

• Echo via a multitude of Duplicated abilities.
• Mercy via Damage Boost.
• Ana via Sleep Dart, Biotic Grenade (anti-heal), or Nano Boost.
• Roadhog via Chain Hook, Pig Pen or Whole Hog.
• Sigma via Accretion, Hyper Strike or Gravitic Flux.
• Mei via her Endothermic Blaster (primary fire) or Blizzard.
• Sombra via Hack, Virus or EMP.
• Zenyatta via Orb of Discord or Snap Kick.
• Orisa via Energy Javelin, Javelin Spin or Terra Surge.
• Symmetra via her Sentry Turrets.
• Reinhardt via Earthshatter, Charge or Shield Slam.
• Kiriko via Kitsune Rush or Protection Suzu.
• Doomfist via Rocket Punch, Seismic Slam, Meteor Strike.
• Brigitte via Shield Bash, Whip Shot or Rally.
• Baptiste via Amplification Matrix.
• Lucio via Soundwave or Crossfade with speed boost.
• Junkrat via Steel Trap or Concussion Mine.
• Zarya via Graviton Surge.
• Genji via reflecting any of the mentioned abilities.
• Wrecking Ball via Grappling Claw or Piledriver.
• Illari via Outburst or Captive Sun. Sometime Captive Sun will display other heroes when they trigger sunstruck.
• Mauga via Cage Fight, Cardiac Overdrive, Incendiary Chaingun or Overrun.
• Hanzo via Sonic Arrow.
• Torbjörn via Molten Core or Deploy Turret.
• Widowmaker via Infra-Sight or Venom Mine
• Bastion via A-36 Tactical Grenade.
• Ashe via Dynamite, Coach Gun or B.O.B.
• Pharah via Concussive Blast.
• Junker Queen via Commanding Shout, Jagged Blade or Rampage.
• Juno via Hyper Ring or Orbital Ray.
• Winston via Jump Pack or Primal Rage
• Freja via Bola Shot
• D.Va via Defense Matrix or Boosters
• Hazard via Violent Leap, Jagged Wall or Downpour
• Venture via Drill Dash, Burrow or Tectonic Shock
• Sojourn via Disruptor Shot
• Ramattra via Ravenous Vortex
• Cassidy via Flashbang

Players can have all team members aid in one elimination of the enemy is debuffed correctly and the team member is boosted in some way.

Strategy

• Players should keep a very close eye on the feed as knowing who is alive and which enemies are dead can turn the tide of the fight.
• Players can identify which hero attacked Genji allowing him to deflect his attack back at a team member.
  • It is advised not to dwell on this, but it can be used to identify which heroes Genji is countering.

Trivia

• Some icons are possible, albeit uncommon to see in the Elimination Feed.
  • EMP and Hack can eliminate players via Environmental Hazards.
    • When a player is eliminated through EMP, the feed entry will show Hack's icon instead.
  • Sleep Dart deals 5 damage and can eliminate players via Environmental Hazards.
  • Forge Hammer deals 55 damage per hit but is difficult to use to deal damage. It has its own icon in the feed if used to deal a final blow.
  • Genji can Deflect abilities like Total Mayhem or Sleep Dart to eliminate opponents.
    • Echo can use any of the above to get a final blow. Although she can go one step further and Duplicate a Genji who deflects one of these abilities, it will not show as anything other than Echo eliminating an enemy with said ability.
  • In addition to Jump Pack dealing 50 damage on landing, it deals 1 damage on collision. The icon is the same however.
• In Overwatch, the feed displayed players eliminated by an environmental hazard, shown with a falling person icon.
  • It is unknown why these were removed, as it can make identifying why someone was eliminated more difficult.
• In Overwatch 2, on launch, the Quick Melee icon in the kill feed was not present. By week 3 it had returned.
• In earlier Overwatch patches, Resurrection used the same format as it does now, but with Ultimate icons instead of its normal ability icon.
• In one brief Overwatch patch, Ashe's Viper showed an icon for getting an elimination with it, despite it being a regular weapon.
• In Overwatch during an Experimental patch, players could uniquely see Sound Barrier's icon in the feed as the patch allowed it to deal damage.
  • The same was also possible with Cryo-Freeze during another patch. A later update in Overwatch 2 added a perk that reintroduced this.
• In Overwatch, Supercharger was shown with a smaller icon in the feed if destroyed.
• In Overwatch, the Elimination Feed showed the arrow and icons in red if they were obtained via a critical hit, including Ultimate Abilities. It was not uncommon to see red Whole Hogs or Dragonstrikes.
• In early Overwatch patches, the Elimination Feed did not display information other than eliminations, with no icons to show which ability caused the final blow.
• The Elimination Feed is present in Junkenstein's Revenge, but not Uprising, Retribution or Storm Rising.
  • The Zomnics even have unique icons for the event, including the Rip-tires.