Passive ability

Passive abilities are abilities that either activate without the player's interaction; or do not directly affect the game world, but only the movement or state of the hero or their abilities. When passive abilities are controlled, they are usually activated using the Space bar. Passive abilities that require a button to press are negated by Hack.

In Overwatch 2, every hero receives a role passive, unique to each role. Some of them get unique passive abilities on top of that, which are often core to the play style or capabilities of the hero.

List of abilities

Role passives

Ability	Description	Dmg. modification	Healing modification	Hackable	Details
Role: Tank Role: Tank	Reduces knockbacks and critical damage received. Less ultimate generated by healing and damage received. Increases base health in Role Queue game modes.	-25% taken		No	Reduces the speed of knockbacks received by 25% Ultimate generation is reduced by 40%. Reduces the total damage received from critical hits, such as headshots, by 25%. Weapons with a lower 1.5x headshot modifier ignore this damage reduction completely. The effectiveness on abilities that deal critical damage through other means than headshots is ambiguous: Earthshatter and Overrun are affected by the damage reduction, but Virus and Volatile Chaingun's forced critical hits against burning targets are not. The reduction stacks additively with other modifiers affecting damage taken. All tanks have 150 more health in Role Queue. The amount of armor and/or shields remains the same.
Role: Damage Role: Damage	Damaging an enemy temporarily reduces their healing received.		-20% received (non-tanks) -10% received (tanks)	No	Does not stack with itself or the passive from another damage role hero. Stacks multiplicatively with other modifiers that affect healing received. Objects that deal damage, such as turrets, may also apply the effect. Self-damage does not apply the effect.
Role: Support Role: Support	Begin regenerating health more quickly.			No	Reduces the time before passive health regeneration starts from 5 to 2.5 seconds after taking damage.

Hero passives

Hero	Ability	Description	Healing	Move speed	M. speed buff	Hackable	Details
Baptiste	Exo Boots Exo Boots	Hold crouch to jump higher.		17.44 m/s (full charge)		Yes
Bastion	Ironclad Ironclad	Reduces damage taken while transformed.				No
Brigitte	Inspire Inspire	Dealing damage to enemies heals nearby allies.	15 per second			No
D.Va	Eject! Eject!	Eject out of your mech when it's destroyed.				No
Doomfist	The Best Defense... The Best Defense...	Dealing damage with abilities creates temporary overhealth.				No	Not disabled by hack, however, new overhealth cannot be created due to not being able to use abilities.
Echo	Glide Glide	Hold jump to glide while falling.		4 m/s (down)	+50% (horizontal)	Yes
Genji	Cyber-agility Cyber-agility	Climb on walls and double jump.		7.8 meters per second (vertical)		Yes
Hanzo	Wall Climb Wall Climb	Jump at walls to climb up them.		7.15 m/s (vertical)		Yes
Junker Queen	Adrenaline Rush Adrenaline Rush	Heal from all damage over time dealt by wounds.	250% of wound damage dealt			No
Junkrat	Total Mayhem Total Mayhem	Deals no damage to self with explosives. Drop bombs on death.				No
Juno	Martian Overboots Martian Overboots	While airborne, press Jump to double jump and hold Jump to hover.		3 m/s (falling) 10.8 m/s (double jump)		Yes
Kiriko	Wall Climb (Kiriko) Wall Climb (Kiriko)	Jump at walls to climb up them.		8.25 m/s		Yes
Lúcio	Wall Ride Wall Ride	Jump onto a wall to ride along it.		2.5 m/s (wall leap)	+30%	Yes
Mauga	Berserker Berserker	Gain temporary health when dealing critical damage.				No
Mercy	Sympathetic Recovery Sympathetic Recovery	Healing allies with Caduceus Staff heals you.	40% of healing dealt			No
	Angelic Descent Angelic Descent	Fall very slowly.		2 m/s (down)		Yes
Pharah	Hover Jets Hover Jets	Hold to hover.		4.66 m/s (vertical)	+40% (horizontal)	Yes
Reaper	The Reaping The Reaping	Dealing damage heals you.	35% of damage dealt			No
Sombra	Stealth Stealth	When out of combat, become invisible and move faster.			+60%	Yes
Venture	Explorer's Resolve Explorer's Resolve	Using abilities grants temporary shields.				No	Not disabled by hack, however, new shields cannot be created due to not being able to use abilities.
	Clobber Clobber	Quick melee deals more damage.				No
Zarya	Energy Energy	Damage blocked by barriers increases Particle Cannon damage.				No
Zenyatta	Snap Kick Snap Kick	Quick melee damage increased by 50%, and its knockback is significantly increased.				No

Trivia

• Although not officially listed as passive abilities, Genji and Tracer have the higher base movement speed of 6.0m/s, rather than the 5.5m/s that other heroes have under normal circumstances. This is not negated by Hack.
• Despite not documented, Symmetra regenerates her Shield health and ammo while dealing damage with primary fire to enemy shield health or barriers.

Removed Hero passives

Hero	Ability	Description	Healing	Move speed	M. speed buff	Hackable	Details
Lifeweaver	Parting Gift Parting Gift	On death, drop a gift that heals the first enemy, or ally, to pick it up.	Ally: 250 Enemy: 75			No	Removed 2 weeks after release.
Mercy	Regeneration Regeneration	Mercy automatically heals over time.	22.5 health per second after not taking damage for 1.5 second			No	Replaced by Sympathetic Recovery in season 3 of Overwatch 2.
Mei	Deep Chill Deep Chill	Deal continuous damage with primary fire to significantly slow an enemy. Secondary fire deals additional damage to affected enemies.		-75% slow		No	Removed in season 7 of Overwatch 2.
Reinhardt	Steadfast Steadfast	Resistant to knock back effects.				No	Removed in the April 29, 2022 Overwatch 2 Beta, and replaced by the Tank role passive.
Sombra	Opportunist Opportunist	You detect critically injured enemies through walls, and deal more damage to hacked enemies.				No	Replaced by Stealth in season 7 of Overwatch 2.
Torbjörn	Scrap Collector Scrap Collector	Collect scrap to gain resources.				No	Removed with Torbjörn's rework in the October 9, 2018 patch in Overwatch.