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Lúcio
"Come on, let's bring it together!"
Real Name	Lúcio Correia dos Santos
Age	26
Nationality	Brazilian
Occupation	DJ Freedom Fighter
Base	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Affiliation	None
Voice	Jonny Cruz (English) Donald Reignoux (French) Leonhard Mahlich (German) Massimo Triggiani (Italian) Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese) Daniel Muller (Brazilian Portuguese) Eduardo Garza (American Spanish) Ricardo Escobar (European Spanish) Lee Ho-San (Korean)
Cosmetics	Cosmetic page
Quotes	Quotation page
Role	Support
Health	200

Lúcio is a Support hero in Overwatch.

Overview

On the battlefield, Lúcio’s cutting-edge Sonic Amplifier buffets enemies with projectiles and knocks foes back with blasts of sound. His songs can both heal his team or boost their movement speed, and he can switch between tracks on the fly.

Abilities

Wall Ride

Type

Passive Ability

Jump onto a wall to ride along it.

Move. speed:

7.7 meters per second +2.5 meters per second (wall leap)

• Details

Ability details:

• Lúcio can start Wall Riding while moving backwards, but only if one has enabled the option to allow backwards Wall Riding.
• To start a Wall Ride, press against a wall at a slight angle while in midair (such as while jumping or falling) and hold the jump button. Lúcio will Wall Ride as long as the jump button is held.
• After releasing from a wall, Lúcio cannot immediately Wall Ride any wall facing the same direction, including the original. He must land or Wall Ride on a wall facing a different direction to Wall Ride again. Curved surfaces count as facing a different direction.
• Some of the momentum is preserved after jumping off the wall.
• Movement speed bonus does not stack with Crossfade and Amp It Up.
• Lúcio receives a burst of speed when leaping off a wall.

Sonic Amplifier

Type

Weapon (Primary Fire)

Effect Type

Linear projectile

Lúcio can hit his enemies with sonic projectiles.

Damage:

20

Headshot:

✓

Rate of fire:

4 rounds over 0.5 seconds
1 shot every 0.125 seconds
1 burst per second

Ammo per shot:

4 rounds per shot

Ammo:

20

Reload time:

1.5 seconds

Spread angle:

Pinpoint

Projectile speed:

50 meters per second

Example Video

Soundwave

Type

Weapon (Secondary Fire)

Effect Type

Frontal wave

Lúcio can knock his enemies back with a blast of sound.

Damage:

25

Headshot:

✕

Reload time:

1.5 seconds

Max. range:

8 meters

Cooldown:

4 seconds

• Details

Ability details:

• Cannot be deflected by Genji.
• Does not consume ammunition.

Example Video

Crossfade

Type

Ability

Lúcio continuously energizes himself — and nearby teammates — with music. He can switch between two songs: one amplifies movement speed, while the other regenerates health.

Healing:

16.25 health per second on allies
12.1875 health per second on self

Cast time:

0.8 second animation duration

Area of effect:

10 meter radius

Move. speed:

+30%

• Details

Ability details:

• Does not affect allies behind enemy barriers.
• The switch can be done while reloading.

Example Video

Amp It Up

12 seconds

Type

Ability

Lúcio increases the volume on his speakers, boosting the effects of his songs.

Healing:

46.8 health per second on allies
35.1 health per second on self

Duration:

3 seconds

Area of effect:

10 meter radius

Move. speed:

+70%

Example Video

Sound Barrier

Q

2625 points

Type

Ultimate Ability

Protective waves radiate out from Lúcio’s Sonic Amplifier, briefly providing him and nearby allies with personal shields.

Health:

500 barriers

Cast time:

0.8 seconds

Duration:

6 seconds

Area of effect:

20 meter radius

• Details

Ability details:

• Lucio passively generates 1% Ult Charge every 5.00 seconds (slowest of all the heroes).
• Gives Lúcio and all allies in his line of sight within 20 meters a large amount of temporary barriers, which rapidly decay.
• Does not go through Enemy Barriers. (Reinhardt, Zarya, Winston, Orisa, Symmetra, Briggite)
• After fully cast it has a small grace period of ~0.5 seconds where it can still be applied to teammates.

Example Video

Strategy

Lúcio is a versatile Support who requires good situational awareness to master. His aura allow him to contribute damage in fights while passively buffing his allies, and he can protect against enemy ultimates and enable his team to make aggressive pushes using his Sound Barrier. He can escape dangerous situations using his Amped Up speed aura and his Soundwave's knockback effect, giving him a relatively high survivability for a support hero. While his damage output is lower than many other Supports and he doesn't have high single-target healing like Ana or Mercy, his multiple-target healing and speed buffs make him a valuable member of any team.

Weapons & Abilities

• Wall Ride (Passive): Lúcio's passive ability. It allows him to ride along walls without falling off by holding the jump button.

• Sonic Amplifier: Lúcio's primary weapon. Fires a 4-round burst of projectiles.
  • Does not interrupt Crossfade in any way, allowing Lúcio to deal damage while healing allies.
  • Sonic Amplifier deals decent damage, at 20 per projectile, meaning a maximum potential of 160 damage per shot (assuming all four projectiles headshot).
  • The projectiles have perfect accuracy, so it is recommended to fire them off at large targets such as tanks to charge up Sound Barrier quickly. The perfect accuracy can be used to destroy Torbjorn's Turret or harass a Bastion in Sentry mode from a safe distance.

• Soundwave: Lúcio's secondary fire from his primary weapon. It is an AOE that affects an arc in front of Lúcio, dealing minor damage and knocking enemies back.
  • Its main feature is the ability to push enemies away. You can disrupt groups of enemies using it, or knock away enemies trying to harass you.
  • Has great killing potential by pushing enemies into environmental hazards.
  • Can be used to finish off a critically injured enemy easily.
  • Soundwave is especially effective on enemies that need to be up close to deal damage, such as Reaper.
• Crossfade: Lúcio's passive ability is to heal allies or boost their speed. Activating the ability changes the tracks played.
  • Only works if in line of sight to Lúcio, it will however continue to give the effects of the song for a brief moment after breaking line of sight
  • The healing song delivers a constant stream of healing to multiple allies, however it is quite low, so Lucio fares poorly as a solo healer.

• Amp It Up: Use to increase the effectiveness of Lúcio's songs
  • Amp it Up can be used to heal critically injured teammates faster
  • Amp It Up can be used at the start of control point games to allow you and your team to reach the objective faster
  • Amp It Up can be used to carry a team quickly through a choke and allow a good initiation

• Sound Barrier (Ultimate): Lúcio's Ultimate ability. After a short cast time provide a barrier that blocks damage for allies and decays over a short duration.
  • If timed well, it can block damage from some other Ultimates, such as Genji's Dragonblade or Junkrat's Riptire
  • Sound Barrier can be used to help your team push through a choke
  • Sombra's EMP can instantly erase the shields provided by Sound Barrier. When Sombra is in play, make sure she is out of the fight or EMP has already been used. Her normal Hack ability can prevent Lúcio from casting Sound Barrier or even cancel it during the cast animation, but does not affect the shields provided by Sound Barrier once it's completed.

General strategies

• By jumping as soon as he hits the ground, Lúcio can maintain momentum from his speed boost after Crossfading. For example, you can momentarily Crossfade to your speed boost, Amp It Up, and Crossfade back, allowing you to jump to safety while your team heals.
• Try to be within 10 meters of your team and have line of sight on them, so they can benefit from your auras. The reduced radius of Crossfade means you will need more skill in positioning Lúcio for maximum effect.
• Try to stay in the back line behind your teammates. This both gives you protection and allows you to monitor your team's health bars and positions more easily. You can speed boost back to the center for protection if you get flanked.
• Always pay attention to your team's health. Be sure to wait until your teammates have taken damage to Amp Up your healing aura, so you don't waste it.
• By learning routes to Wall Ride on, Lúcio can get to otherwise inaccessible places and take major shortcuts, which can help him maintain line of sight on allies as well as stay above the fight and away from focus.
• Being a "taxi" for your teammates can shave off valuable time and help your team group up. Being a "taxi" refers to using an Amp It Up's speed boost to move specific teammates quickly. Some examples of when to "taxi" teammates:
  • If some members of your team have died and your team doesn't currently need you, return to the spawn room and bring your respawned teammates back to the group.
  • On Defense and Control Point maps, always Amp Up your speed aura when the round starts, so your team can get into position more quickly.
  • On Defense maps, return to the spawn for straggling teammates to help them back before the setup timer runs out.
  • When an ally gets nano-boosted or uses his/her ultimate while pretty close but out of the fight use amped up speed boost to bring them in. Preferably Reinhardt.
  • When you die, press the button that brings up the characters being played. (This is Tab by default.) If another teammate is about to respawn and you aren't urgently needed, wait for them before leaving.

• The Sonic Amplifier's four projectiles are slow, so predict where your target will be and lead your shots.
• Take advantage of areas where you can push enemies off the map using Soundwave, such as on Ilios or near the side doors on Lijiang Tower: Market.
• Whenever your team's health is topped off, switch to your speed aura to allow your teammates to dodge, retreat, and pursue their opponents more easily.
• When the enemy team uses crowd control ultimate like Blizzard, Deadeye, or Self-Destruct, switch to your speed aura and Amp It Up to help you and your team escape behind cover.
• Use an Amp It Up's speed aura to carry your team through choke points and overwhelm the enemy. If you have it, using Sound Barrier is also good.
• Sound Barrier is only activated when Lúcio hits the ground. Using your speed aura will make you land more quickly, as will hitting your head in a doorway.

Story

Come on, Let's bring it together!

Lúcio is an international celebrity who inspires social change through his music and actions. He has a positive, up-beat attitude, and is always looking towards the future.

Lúcio wears hard-light skates that project hard-light "blades," allowing him to traverse any surface.

Background

Lúcio with children

Lúcio Correia dos Santos grew up in Rio de Janeiro, in a poor and crowded favela that was hit hard by the financial upheaval following the Omnic Crisis. During his youth, Lúcio's first love was hockey, but he also found time to play football with the other kids in Rio. As Brazil began the long process of recovery, Lúcio wanted to find a way to lift the spirits of those around him. He found his answer in music and its power to bring people together and even help them forget their troubles, if only for a short time. He performed on street corners, in block parties, and as he got older, at a string of legendary underground shows.

But Lúcio's close-knit community was thrown into chaos when the multinational Vishkar Corporation secured a contract to redevelop large tracts of the city. Lúcio and his neighbors had been told that the development would improve their lives. However, that promise never became a reality. Vishkar imposed controls on the residents in the name of building a more orderly society: enforcing curfews, cracking down on what the company perceived as lawless behavior, and exploiting the populace as a cheap labor force.

Lúcio wouldn't stand for it. He stole Vishkar sonic technology that had been used to suppress the people (initially invented by Lucio's father, although it was owned and patented by Vishkar), and he converted it into a tool to rally them to action. In a popular uprising, they drove Vishkar out of their neighborhoods. Lúcio's leadership made him a star overnight and a symbol for positive social change. His music skyrocketed in popularity. Whereas he had once performed locally, he was now filling arenas across the world. He built up a career doing live shows, and became something of a national icon in Brazil.

With his newfound fame, Lúcio realized that he had an opportunity to make a difference and change the world for the better.

Synaesthesia

“	My heart beats for Brazil. I get inspired by the people here. Their struggles. Their triumphs. I want to share that energy—the energy of their lives—with the rest of the world.	„
	~ Lúcio

Lúcio at a concert

Lúcio embarked on a world tour to promote his debut album, Synaesthesia Auditiva, which he spent two years working on. He released two tracks beforehand, and was delighted with the positive reception.

Numbani

Lúcio was set to give a live concert in Numbani.

New Year's Eve

Adverts in King's Row during the winter holiday season indicated that Lúcio was to give a New Year's Eve concert.

Achievements

Name	Icon	Description	Reward
The Floor Is Lava		Get 3 killing blows while Wall Riding as Lúcio without dying in Quick or Competitive play.	Pixel
Supersonic		Block 1000 damage with a single use of Lúcio's Sound Barrier in Quick or Competitive play.	Cute

Trivia

Early Lúcio concept art

• Lúcio is intended to be an embodiment of the Overwatch setting as a whole. He is said to be the response to Tracer's declaration that "the world could always use more heroes."

• Lucio's kit may have been partially inspired by Iris, a hero created for the original Prometheus pitch meeting.

• Lúcio apparently knows enough of the pro-gaming scene to be a fan of D.Va. She in turn is a fan of his music, and has apparently bought his album.

• An early concept of Lúcio featured turntables on his hips and equalizer parts that would light up when he played music. The developers toned down parts of his outfit in later versions because they felt the visuals would be too distracting during gameplay.
  • A skin called "Equalizer" inspired on this concept art was added to the Archives Event in 2018

• Blizzard has officially published the two music tracks passively played with Lúcio's Crossfade ability. "We Move Together As One" is the track played for speed boosts, and "Rejuvenescência" plays when Lúcio switches to his healing aura.
• Lúcio was announced as the third Overwatch character to be added to the Heroes of the Storm roster. "Sonhos Ômnicos (Extended Mix)" was published to Twitter on February 16, 2017 to celebrate his introduction to Heroes of the Storm. "Nexus Remixes" of "Rejuvenescência" and "We Move Together As One" appeared in Heroes of the Storm as login screen music during Lucio's release window, and were also uploaded to the official Heroes of the Storm YouTube channel.

• A Lúcio-themed hoodie is available from JINX.

Patch Notes History

For more information, see Patch Notes

April 11, 2017

Hero Balance Changes

• Sonic Amplifier
  • Damage increased by 25%
  • Projectile speed increased from 40 to 50
  • Alternate fire now considers vertical orientation when knocking targets back
• Crossfade
  • Area of effect radius has been decreased from 30 meters to 10 meters
  • Healsong
    • Healing-per-second has been increased by 30% (also applies to Lúcio's Amp It Up ability)
    • Self-healing has been reduced by 25%
• Wall Ride
  • Movement speed increased by 20% when wall riding
  • Lúcio now receives a burst of speed when leaping off a wall

Developer Comments

Lúcio has often felt like a must-pick due to his raw healing output and the versatility of providing a speed bonus to your entire team. The goal of these changes is to keep those elements feeling strong, but making them harder to apply to everyone on your team at all times. The end result is that he should feel stronger with teams that he can stay close to but not as strong when on teams with heroes that are often spread out (such as Pharah, Widow, Genji, etc). Much of Lúcio’s character power was tied up in his large passive auras, which caused other elements of his kit to be weakened over time in an attempt to balance him. Now that his auras are more focused it will allow them to be much stronger and allow Lúcio to be more active in his role.

November 15th, 2016

Hero Balance Change

• Ultimate costs have been increased by 25% for all heroes

Developer Comment

Game-changing ultimate abilities were coming up a bit too frequently. This change helps keep them in check while still allowing them to be powerful.

• Amp It Up
  • Healing per second has been decreased by 10%

Developer Comment

Lúcio’s overall healing output has always been on par with (or even higher) than Overwatch’s other healers, and his other benefits made him an almost mandatory pick.

September 1st, 2016

General Updates

General

• When activating the "Needs healing" communication while targeting a teammate, Ana, Lúcio, Mercy, and Zenyatta will now tell allies to group up to receive healing. A marker will also appear above the player's head, allowing teammates to locate the healer more quickly.

Hero Balance Update

• Ultimates that consume the ultimate meter when activated will now drain the meter more quickly (.25 second instead of 1 second)
• Reverted a recent change that reduced the size of heroes' projectiles
• Most hero abilities will no longer interrupt quick melee attacks
• Ultimate abilities will now interrupt quick melee attacks

Developer Comments

Altering the size of projectiles in flight had too many unintended side effects to keep in the game, at least in its current form. We will continue watching this and make additional changes if necessary. We’re also making quick melee more consistent when interacting with enemy abilities.

• Amp It Up
  • The boosting of movement speed has been decreased by 30% (from a 100% increase to a 70% increase)

Developer Comments

Thanks to Lúcio's speed increase, he was almost a must pick in every lineup.

August 2, 2016

General Updates

Miscellaneous

• Added Lúcio as an AI hero in Practice vs. AI, Play vs. AI, and Custom Game modes

July 19, 2016

General

• Self-healing abilities now charge ultimate abilities. As a result, some heroes’ ultimate costs have been adjusted (see below).

Hero Balance Change

• Sound Barrier
  • Ultimate cost increased by 10%

June 21, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause projectiles to hit Reinhardt instead of his Barrier Field in "High Bandwidth" Custom Games

External links

• Official Site - Lúcio
• Lúcio Guide on Icy Veins