Hero Mastery

Hero Mastery

Hero Mastery is a Overwatch 2 game mode, released in the mid-season patch of Season 6 on September 7, 2023. It can be accessed through the Play menu.

Background

Hero Mastery simulated landscape

The Hero Mastery missions take place via a simulator installed by Winston in Watchpoint: Gibraltar, sometime after the events of Zero Hour. This was done to help Overwatch's new recruits hone their skills, in preparation for their battles against Null Sector.

Overview

Solo courses

Hero Mastery missions consist of courses specifically designed for each select hero, testing the player's skills with their abilities. Enemy bots will likewise differ, and each course can be player on a number of difficulties, with the course's layout shifting accordingly. Hero Mastery is also intended to help players master specific heroes.

Each hero in Hero Mastery will have three courses available to them: Recruit, Agent and Veteran. The harder Agent and Veteran courses start locked and can be unlocked by completing the hero's Recruit course with 3 stars and Agent course with 4 stars, respectively. Stars represent the overall rating of your attempt in the course depending the amount of score earned. Each course has their own score requirements.

Hero Mastery also features global leaderboards to showcase the top-performing hero masters across the world.

Available Heroes

The following heroes are currently available for Hero Mastery:

• Mercy
• Reinhardt
• Tracer
• Sojourn
• Winston
• D.Va
• Echo
• Genji
• Lúcio
• Mei
• Soldier: 76
• Kiriko
• Cassidy
• Brigitte

• Mercy
• Reinhardt
• Tracer
• Sojourn
• Winston
• D.Va
• Echo
• Genji
• Lúcio
• Mei
• Soldier: 76
• Kiriko
• Cassidy
• Brigitte

Rules

• Solo play
• Eliminate, escort and heal training bots to reach the finish line and earn a score.
• Courses may be restarted using the options menu

Scoring

Players earn score by completing the game mode objectives. Leaderboards track highest scores for top 500 players in each region and course.

Timer

• Mastery courses are timed. Complete the course in the shortest time for the best score.
• Times are split into gold, silver and bronze bands with scaling multipliers. The finish line rewards a bonus based on the time band.
  • Players gain a 3x / 2x / 1.5X multiplier to score from eliminations, healed bots and collected mastery emblems, depending the current time band the event happened.
    • For example, if a player eliminates 10 bots during gold time band and 3 during silver time band, they will gain 3x bonus for 10 eliminations and 2x bonus for the remaining 3.
  • Players gain an additional 1500 / 500 / 250 bonus score upon finishing the course within the gold/silver/bronze time band.
    • If the player finishes the course within the gold time band, additional score is rewarded, with every 0.01 seconds to the threshold granting 0.1 points.
  • The multipliers do not affect the finish time bonuses or the statistics bonuses.

Eliminations and heals

• Eliminating an enemy bot or healing an allied bot to full health will increase the score by 50 points each. Courses have varying amounts of bots.
  • Environmental kills, assisting an elimination or resurrecting an allied bot also counts.
  • An enemy self-destructing will progress the objective elimination count, but will not grant any score.

Mastery Emblems

• Mastery Emblems can be collected on courses. Each emblem rewards bonus score.
• Rarely, you will find large Mastery Emblems that reward bonus score.
• Each emblem collected grants 15 points and each large emblem collected grants 75 points. Courses have varying amounts of emblems.

Statistics

• Each hero tracks 3 unique statistics, which each grant up to 200 points depending on how close the player is to the quota at the end of the course to an accuracy of 0.1 points.

Course details

Hero	Course	Training bots (50 per)		Time band thresholds			Mastery Emblems		Statistics (up to 200 per)	Score requirements (1★/2★/3★/4★/5★/FC)
		Eliminations	Heals	3X / 1500	2X / 500	1.5X / 250	Small (15 per)	Large (75 per)
Mercy	Recruit	650 (x13)	400 (x8)	1:25	2:08	2:46	750 (x50)	-	Damage amplified (x200) Critical hit accuracy (70%) Valkyrie damage done (x300)	1050/2100/3550/5050/6650/7500
	Agent	1300 (x26)	500 (x10)	2:20	3:30	2:46	750 (x50)	-	Damage amplified (x200) Critical hit accuracy (70%) Valkyrie damage done (x300)	1350/2700/4550/6500/8100/9750
	Veteran	650 (x13)	350 (x7)	1:15	1:53	2:27	765 (x51)	-	Damage amplified (x200) Critical hit accuracy (70%) Valkyrie damage done (x300)	1050/2100/3500/4950/6200/7395
Reinhardt	Recruit	850 (x17)	-	1:10	1:45	2:17	750 (x50)	75 (x1)	Fire Strike kills (x5) Damage Mitigated (x300) Charge kills (x3)	1100/2200/3600/5250/6550/7125
	Agent	1700 (x34)	-	1:40	2:30	3:15	720 (x48)	150 (x2)	Fire Strike kills (x6) Damage Mitigated (x500) Charge kills (x5)	1500/3000/5000/7150/8960/9810
	Veteran	1400 (x28)	-	2:00	3:00	3:54	735 (x49)	225 (x3)	Fire Strike kills (x5) Damage Mitigated (x500) Charge kills (x4)	1400/2800/4700/6700/8400/9180
Sojourn	Recruit	1750 (x35)	-	1:25	2:08	2:46	720 (x48)	-	Weapon accuracy (70%) Charged shot critical accuracy (70%) Overclock kills (x6)	1300/2650/4400/6300/7850/9510
	Agent	2350 (x47)	-	2:00	3:00	3:54	780 (x52)	75 (x1)	Weapon accuracy (70%) Charged shot critical accuracy (70%) Overclock kills (x6)	1700/3400/5700/8150/10200/11715
	Veteran	2200 (x44)	-	2:15	3:23	3:15	810 (x54)	150 (x2)	Weapon accuracy (70%) Charged shot critical accuracy (70%) Overclock kills (x6)	1700/3400/5650/8050/10050/11580
Tracer	Recruit	2250 (x45)	-	2:00	3:00	3:54	930 (x62)	-	Weapon accuracy (70%) Pulse Bomb kills (x4) Low health Recalls (x4)	1500/3050/6100/8150/10850/11640
	Agent	2250 (x45)	-	2:00	3:00	3:54	915 (x61)	-	Weapon accuracy (70%) Pulse Bomb kills (x6) Low health Recalls (x4)	1750/3550/5900/8450/10550/11595
	Veteran	2000 (x40)	-	2:15	3:23	3:15	870 (x58)	-	Weapon accuracy (70%) Pulse Bomb kills (x6) Low health Recalls (x4)	1650/3300/5450/7800/8270/10710
Winston	Recruit	1750 (x35)	-	1:50	2:45	3:35	900 (x60)	-	Jump Pack kills (x8) Primal Rage kills (x8) Secondary Fire hits (x20)	1550/3100/5150/7350/9150/10050
	Agent	2000 (x40)	-	1:50	2:45	3:35	900 (x60)	-	Jump Pack kills (x16) Primal Rage kills (x14) Secondary Fire hits (x28)	1650/3300/5500/7850/9850/10800
	Veteran	2800 (x56)	-	2:30	3:45	4:53	900 (x60)	-	Jump Pack kills (x30) Primal Rage kills (x14) Secondary Fire hits (x30)	2000/4050/6700/9600/12000/13200
Lúcio	Recruit	1700 (x34)	600 (x12)	2:10	3:15	4:14	750 (x50)	75 (x1)	Soundwave Kills (x8) Sound Barriers Provided (x8) Weapon Accuracy (50%)	1750/3500/5850/8350/10450/11475
	Agent	1800 (x36)	850 (x17)	2:55	4:23	5:42	750 (x50)	150 (x2)	Soundwave Kills (x14) Sound Barriers Provided (x10) Weapon Accuracy (50%)	1950/3900/6500/9300/11600/12750
	Veteran	1850 (x37)	250 (x5)	3:00	4:30	5:51	750 (x50)	150 (x2)	Soundwave Kills (x18) Sound Barriers Provided (x8) Weapon Accuracy (50%)	1750/3550/5900/8400/10500/11100
Mei	Recruit	1200 (x24)	-	1:00	1:30	1:57	705 (x47)	-	Freeze Spray Damage (x1000) Icicle Critical Hits (x10) Icicle Accuracy (70%)	1200/2350/3950/5600/7000/7815
	Agent	1350 (x27)	-	1:20	2:00	2:36	735 (x49)	-	Freeze Spray Damage (x500) Icicle Critical Hits (x15) Icicle Accuracy (70%)	1300/2550/4300/6100/7650/8355
	Veteran	1450 (x29)	-	1:10	1:45	2:17	855 (x57)	-	Freeze Spray Damage (x500) Icicle Critical Hits (x20) Icicle Accuracy (70%)	1400/2750/4600/6600/8250/9015

Development

Hero Mastery stemmed from discussions among Team 4, how their children had begun playing Overwatch. The developers wanted a safe space for them to learn how to play that wasn't in the live game. Heroes are to be added to the game mode over time. The first lot of courses for a selection of heroes (6) was released in Season 6, with more to come in future seasons.

See also

• Hero Mastery Gauntlet