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Hit points (HP) represent how much damage a hero or object can take. The current and total hit points of the unit are shown in their health bar, divided into bars each worth 25 HP.

Overview[ | ]

There are 4 main types of hit points in Overwatch 2. From bottom to top these are health, armor, shields, and overhealth. Out of the four, health, armor and shields are recoverable HP, meaning that they can restored by healing, whereas overhealth is non-recoverable HP. When taking damage, hit points will be consumed in order from top to bottom, and when being healed, restored from bottom to top.

Each type of hit points has certain properties, which only apply to that portion of HP. For example, If there is overhealth above armor, and an instance of damage destroys the overhealth and damages the armor, armor will only reduce the damage the armor would take. More concretely, suppose Wrecking Ball has 99 overhealth from Adaptive shield Adaptive Shield and he gets hit by Ability-reinhardt4 Fire Strike (100 damage). After substracting the 99 overhealth, the armor would take 1 damage, so it gets reduced by 30% to 0.7, and Wrecking Ball taking a total of 99.7 damage from the Fire Strike.

A hero's HP is "low" at 50% and "critical" at 25%. Their location will be shown to all friendly supports. If a hero's HP becomes 35% or lower, a gasp sound effect is played and blood appears around the borders of the screen ( no blood in Junkenstein modes and tutorial), with the exception of 150 HP heroes, who get it at 70 HP (currently only Tracer and pilot D.Va).

Health[ | ]

The most basic form of HP is health, which appears on all heroes. It is the bottom-most type of HP, which is depleted when there is no armor or shields to protect it, and is the first to be replenished when being healed. If a hero's health comes to 0, they will die. Heroes in the Tank role have an additional 150 Health in Role Queue game modes. Health is colored white.

Armor[ | ]

Armor is a type of recoverable HP that reduces damage dealt to it by 30%. Armor hit points are applied on top of health and below shields. The following heroes have armor as part of their baseline health pool: D.Va, Mauga, Orisa, Ramattra, Reinhardt, Winston, Wrecking Ball, Bastion, Torbjörn, and Brigitte. Armor can also be obtained through some abilities. Armor is colored orange.

The 30% damage reduction means that it takes 1.43 damage to reduce armor HP by one point. Armor only reduces damage done to the armor portion of HP; If an instance of damage breaks armor, the overflowing damage is without reduction. For example:

  • If Orisa has 140 remaining armor health and she receives 300 damage, her 140 armor health would absorb 200, while the remaining 100 damage would be dealt to her normal health pool, resulting in total of 240 damage dealt and 60 reduced.
  • Brigitte is unable to tank a wall pin from Ability-reinhardt3 Charge, as its 225 damage is only reduced to 203: Her 50 armor health would absorb 72 damage, leaving a remainder of 153 damage, which is higher than her 150 normal health (Unless while in Rally, which gives her an additional 100 armor health.)

Armor stacks additively with other damage taken modifiers, respecting the 50% cap for damage reduction effects.

List of abilities that grant armor
Hero Ability Description Health Healing Duration Details
Icon-brigitte
Brigitte
Rally
Rally
Rally
Gain armor, empower Barrier Shield and provide extra health to nearby allies. 15 overhealth per 0.5 seconds, up to 100 (allies)
100 armor (self)
Rally: 10 seconds
Overhealth: 30 seconds
Icon-ramattra
Ramattra
Nemesis Form
Nemesis Form Icon
Nemesis Form
Transform into Nemesis Form, changing your attacks and gaining bonus armor. +225 armor 8 seconds
  • Ramattra can also gain the benefits of Nemesis Form through his ultimate, Annihilation Icon Annihilation. Does not stack.

Shields[ | ]

Shields are a type of recoverable HP that automatically regenerate while not taking damage. Shield is the topmost form of recoverable hit points, above armor. The following heroes have shields as part of their baseline health pool: Sigma, Wrecking Ball, Zarya, Symmetra, Lifeweaver and Zenyatta. Some objects also have shield HP. Shields are colored light blue.

After not taking damage for 3 seconds, shields start regenerating at a rate of 30 shields per second. This recovery is treated as a form of healing, meaning that it can be amplified by certain effects or blocked by anti-heal.

Barrier health[ | ]

Barrier health is a type of shield health.[1][2] The main difference between barrier health and regular shields is their regeneration: Barrier health only regenerates while the barrier is inactive, meaning only recallable barriers can regenerate. Furthermore, the delay before regeneration is 2 seconds instead of 3, and the regeneration rate varies between barriers. Barriers are also destroyed by Sombra's Ability Sombra EMP EMP if they are hit while active, unlike shields.

Overhealth[ | ]

Overhealth is a type of non-recoverable HP that represents most temporary forms of HP in Overwatch 2. It is only gained through abilities. Overhealth can decay either over time or immediately at the end of a timer. Enemies receive 50% less ultimate charge from damage dealt to overhealth. Overhealth is represented by a green health bar.

List of abilities that grant overhealth
Hero Ability Description Health Duration Details
Icon-brigitte
Brigitte
Rally
Rally
Rally
Gain armor, empower Barrier Shield and provide extra health to nearby allies. 15 overhealth per 0.5 seconds, up to 100 (allies)
100 armor (self)
Rally: 10 seconds
Overhealth: 30 seconds
Icon-doomfist
Doomfist
The Best Defense...
The best defense
The Best Defense...
Dealing damage with abilities creates temporary overhealth. +35 overhealth per enemy (normal abilities)
+75 overhealth per enemy (Meteor Strike)
  • Overhealth starts decaying after 1 second at 3 hp/s.
Icon-junker queen
Junker Queen
Commanding Shout
Commanding Shout Icon
Commanding Shout
Grants temporary health and movement speed to yourself and allies. 150 overhealth (self)
50 overhealth(ally)
5 seconds (self)
3 seconds (ally)
  • Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.
Icon-lúcio
Lúcio
Sound Barrier
Ability-Lucio4
Sound Barrier
Create temporary extra health for nearby allies. 750 overhealth 6 seconds
  • Immediately starts decaying at a rate of 100 hp/s.
Icon-mauga
Mauga
Berserker
Berserker icon
Berserker
Gain temporary health when dealing critical damage. 50% of critical damage is converted to overhealth. (150 max)
Icon-orisa
Orisa
Fortify
Ability Orisa Fortify
Fortify
Gain temporary health, reducing all damage taken and becoming unstoppable. While active, heat generated by your weapon is reduced. 100 overhealth 4.5 seconds
  • Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.
  • Orisa can also gain the benefits of Fortify through her ultimate Ultimate TerraSurge Terra Surge. Does not stack.
Icon-sigma
Sigma
Kinetic Grasp
Abilities-sigma3
Kinetic Grasp
Absorb projectiles in front of you and convert them into extra health. 60% of damage absorbed, max. +400 overhealth 2 seconds
  • Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.
Icon-torbjörn
Torbjörn
Overload
Ability-torbjorn4
Overload
Gain additional extra health as well as improved attack, movement, and reload speed. +100 overhealth 5 seconds
  • Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.
Icon-wrecking ball
Wrecking Ball
Adaptive Shield
Adaptive shield
Adaptive Shield
Create temporary personal extra health. Amount increases with more enemies nearby. 100 overhealth + 100 additional health per enemy within radius 7 seconds
  • Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.

Temporary Armor & Shields[ | ]

Temporary armor & shields were previously used in Overwatch. They are types of non-recoverable HP similar to Overhealth. Temporary armor (colored dark orange) granted the same effects as regular armor. Temporary shields (colored dark blue) granted no unique effects. Both were removed in Overwatch 2, to help reduce visual noise when multiple types of hit points were applied to a hero, especially in Hero Missions and Story Missions. All abilities that previously granted temporary armor or shields in Overwatch were updated to grant overhealth in Overwatch 2.

Temporary armor & shields can still be accessed through Workshop actions, where they can be applied to a player with the Add Health Pool to Player action. However they don't have graphics, and will appear as transparent portions of the player's health bar. Despite this, they both maintain the same functionality they had in Overwatch.

List of hero hit points[ | ]

Hero Role Health Armor Shields Total
Icon-ana
Ana
New Support Icon Support 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-ashe
Ashe
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-baptiste
Baptiste
New Support Icon Support 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-bastion
Bastion
New Damage Icon Damage 250 100
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
350
Icon-brigitte
Brigitte
New Support Icon Support 200 50
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-cassidy
Cassidy
New Damage Icon Damage 275
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
275
Icon-d.va
D.Va
New Tank Icon Tank 200 375
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
575
350TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
725TankIcon
175Passive-D.Va
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
175Passive-D.Va
Icon-doomfist
Doomfist
New Tank Icon Tank 375
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
375
525TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
525TankIcon
Icon-echo
Echo
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-genji
Genji
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-hanzo
Hanzo
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-illari
Illari
New Support Icon Support 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-junker queen
Junker Queen
New Tank Icon Tank 375
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
375
525TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
525TankIcon
Icon-junkrat
Junkrat
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-kiriko
Kiriko
New Support Icon Support 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-lifeweaver
Lifeweaver
New Support Icon Support 225 50
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
275
Icon-lúcio
Lúcio
New Support Icon Support 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-mauga
Mauga
New Tank Icon Tank 375 200
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
575
525TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
725TankIcon
Icon-mei
Mei
New Damage Icon Damage 300
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
300
Icon-mercy
Mercy
New Support Icon Support 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-moira
Moira
New Support Icon Support 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-orisa
Orisa
New Tank Icon Tank 125 350
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
475
275TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
625TankIcon
Icon-pharah
Pharah
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-ramattra
Ramattra
New Tank Icon Tank 275 100
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
375
425TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
525TankIcon
Icon-reaper
Reaper
New Damage Icon Damage 300
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
300
Icon-reinhardt
Reinhardt
New Tank Icon Tank 250 300
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
550
400TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
700TankIcon
Icon-roadhog
Roadhog
New Tank Icon Tank 650
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
650
800TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
800TankIcon
Icon-sigma
Sigma
New Tank Icon Tank 200 275
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
475
350TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
625TankIcon
Icon-sojourn
Sojourn
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-soldier: 76
Soldier: 76
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-sombra
Sombra
New Damage Icon Damage 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-symmetra
Symmetra
New Damage Icon Damage 100 150
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250
Icon-torbjörn
Torbjörn
New Damage Icon Damage 250 50
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
300
Icon-tracer
Tracer
New Damage Icon Damage 175
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
175
Icon-widowmaker
Widowmaker
New Damage Icon Damage 200
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
200
Icon-winston
Winston
New Tank Icon Tank 225 250
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
475
375TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
625TankIcon
Icon-wrecking ball
Wrecking Ball
New Tank Icon Tank 300 175 150
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
625
450TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
775TankIcon
Icon-zarya
Zarya
New Tank Icon Tank 175 225
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
400
325TankIcon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
550TankIcon
Icon-zenyatta
Zenyatta
New Support Icon Support 75 175
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
250

List of non-hero HP[ | ]

Hero Ability Health Armor Shields Total Notes
Icon-Ashe
Ashe
Ability-ashe4
B.O.B.
1000 1000

  • Can be healed
  • Can receive temporary HP

Icon-Baptiste
Baptiste
Baptiste-ability3
Immortality Field
125 125

Icon-Brigitte
Brigitte
Barrier Shield
Barrier Shield
250 250

  • 85/s shield regeneration
  • 700 during Rally Rally

Icon-Illari
Illari
Healing pylon icon
Healing Pylon
50 50 100

  • 30/s shield regeneration

Icon-Junkrat
Junkrat
Ability-Junkrat2
Concussion Mine
25 25

Ability-Junkrat3
Steel Trap
100 100

Ability-Junkrat5
RIP-Tire
100 100

Icon-Lifeweaver
Lifeweaver
Petal Platform Icon
Petal Platform
400 400

Tree of Life Icon
Tree of Life
1200 1200

Icon-Mauga
Mauga
Cage Fight icon
Cage Fight
1500 1500

Icon-Mei
Mei
Ability-mei3
Ice Wall
250 250

  • 5 pillars

Icon-Ramattra
Ramattra
Void Barrier Icon

Void Barrier

1000 1000
Icon-Reinhardt
Reinhardt
Ability-reinhardt2
Barrier Field
1400 1400

  • 144/s shield regeneration
Icon-Roadhog
Roadhog
Ability-Roadhog5
Pig Pen
100 100
Icon-Sigma
Sigma
Abilities-sigma2
Experimental Barrier
700 700

  • 100/s shield regeneration
Icon-Symmetra
Symmetra
Ability-symmetra2
Sentry Turret
30 30

  • Up to 3 turrets

Ability-symmetra4
Teleporter
50 150 200

  • 2 pads
  • Destruction destroys both
  • 30/s shield regeneration

Photon Barrier
Photon Barrier
4000 4000

Icon-Torbjörn
Torbjörn
Ability-torbjorn3
Deploy Turret
225 225

Icon-Widowmaker
Widowmaker
Ability-widowmaker3
Venom Mine
1 1

Icon-Winston
Winston
Ability-winston3
Barrier Projector
650 650

Icon-Wrecking Ball
Wrecking Ball
Minefield
Minefield
50 50

  • 15 mines

Icon-Zarya
Zarya
Ability-zarya2
Particle Barrier
200 200

Ability-zarya3
Projected Barrier
200 200

Trivia[ | ]

  • If armor is hit, a metallic sound effect is played.
  • If a hero's shields are destroyed, the screen becomes cracked.
  • The bleed effect originally occurred when a hero's HP became 75 or lower. Since this was highly inefficient for Tanks, it was replaced with a more relativistic system.
  • Hit points received an overhaul in Overwatch 2:
    • There used to be three types of non-recoverable HP: health, armor, and shields, which always goes on top of their respective recoverable counterparts.
    • Armor used to reduced incoming damage by a flat amount of 5 points per instance.
      • Armor originally treated the "ticks" of beams and damage-over-time effects as instances of damage. In general, beams and DoT tick once every 0.192 seconds (e.g. 50 DPS = 9.6 damage per 0.192 seconds). This means that most beams and DoT effects were reduced by ~26 DPS, and beams/DoT effects that did less than ~52 DPS were halved by armor.
      • With the change to 30% reduction for beams, beams that did less than ~87 DPS were buffed against armor while beams that did more were nerfed.
      • Ana's Biotic Rifle inflicts a short DoT effect for its 75 damage, but the damage is unevenly split (2.24 + 6.72 + 26.88 + 26.88 + 7.28 + 5). As a result, it used to do 51.88 damage against armor.
    • Prior to being reworked in Overwatch 2, Sombra's Ability Sombra EMP EMP used to do massive bonus damage to shields, effectively destroying them upon hit.
  • The priority order for damage was originally shields (non-recoverable, then recoverable), then armor (non-recoverable, then recoverable), and then health. This meant that the armor provided by Rally would go underneath the shields of heroes such as Zenyatta.
    • The Patch Notes for Patch 1.33.0.1, which issued this change, mentions "non-recoverable health" when listing the new priority order.[3] Currently, non-recoverable health is only accessible through Workshop scripts, and is therefore inaccessible in standard play.
  • Symmetra originally had an ability called Photon Shield which allowed her to create 25 recoverable shields for her teammates. When Symmetra got her first rework, Photon Shield was removed and Shield Generator was added, which gave all surrounding teammates 75 recoverable shields. This too was removed upon Symmetra's second rework. Photon Shield and Shield Generator were the only ways heroes could have recoverable HP that were not found on their base HP.
  • B.O.B. is treated as an additional teammate, so he is affected by abilities that grant non-recoverable HP to allies, such as Sound Barrier and Rally. B.O.B. is the only non-hero that can have additional HP.
  • The term "shields" is often informally used to refer to barriers. Since barriers have shields for their HP, anything that exclusively damages shields also damages barriers. Currently, the only ability that does that is EMP; however, in the beta, Pharah's Concussive Blast used to be able to do 700 damage to shields and barriers.

References[ | ]

  1. Overwatch Beta Patch Notes – March 1, 2016 — The health on Winston's barrier is specifically called "Shield health"
  2. OVERWATCH PTR PATCH NOTES – SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 — The health on Brigitte's barrier is specifically called "Shield health"
  3. Overwatch Patch Notes – FEBRUARY 19, 2019
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