Overwatch 2 Season 15 tier list: “Major Mauga nerfs across the board.”

Amy Chen

Amy Chen

If you’re wondering who you should play in Overwatch 2 Season 15, then here’s a quick guide with tier list tips, patch notes, and insights from emongg and KarQ.

If you're trying to figure out which Overwatch 2 heroes to play in Season 15, then here's our quick resource guide to help you out. This article also goes over how to make your own tier list, the latest patch notes, plus some thoughts shared by Overwatch 2 content creators such as Jeff "emongg" Anderson and  Nathan "KarQ" Chan.

Overwatch 2 Season 15 tier list

You can create your own Overwatch 2 Season 15 tier list thanks to the tiermaker platform. There are different ways to organize your list as well. For example, you can sort them by hero roles or create a list with all 42 playable heroes in it. There's even an option to include Freja, who is slated for Season 16.

Emongg's Overwatch 2 Season 15 tier list (Image via emongg)
Emongg's Overwatch 2 Season 15 tier list (Image via emongg)

Overwatch 2 heroes tier list

In a YouTube video on his second channel, emongg shared his thoughts about Overwatch 2 Season 15. He put Wrecking Ball, Sojourn, Tracer, Torbjorn, Ana, Kiriko, and Lucio in S-tier. Meanwhile, A-tier consisted of Winston, Zarya, D.Va, Sigma, Ramattra, Doomfist, Junker Queen, Hazard, Echo, Pharah, Bastion, Symmetra, Ashe, Widowmaker, Genji, Mei, Brigitte, Juno, Zenyatta, and Baptiste.

In B-tier, he included Reinhardt, Mauga, Orisa, Venture, Reaper, Junkrat, Cassidy, Soldier: 76, Sombra, Moira, and Mercy. As for C-tier, Roadhog, Hanzo, and Lifeweaver were in it.

Emongg also said that he didn't put any heroes in D-tier because the new Perks system brought them up a bit. He then emphasized that tier lists are just for fun and everyone's tier list is likely different.

Overwatch 2 Season 15 patch notes

It's also worth mentioning that the latest Overwatch 2 patch notes nerfed Mauga quite heavily, for example. His Cardiac Overdrive no longer provides teammates with damage reduction. Next, his Cage Fight ultimate now costs more and has less barrier health. As for Mauga's Berserker passive, the overhealth conversion rate is now 40%. Therefore, given this update, Mauga is likely getting knocked down from the higher tiers in different lists.

Mauga's kit in Overwatch 2 (Screenshot via esports.gg)
Mauga's kit in Overwatch 2 (Screenshot via esports.gg)

In addition to Mauga, tank heroes Roadhog, Winston, and Zarya received updates as well. Below are all of their latest patch notes from the March 25 update, including balance changes for Overwatch 2's damage and support heroes.

Overwatch 2 Season 15 hotfix

KarQ went into detail about these updates in one of his recent YouTube videos as well. "So major Mauga nerfs across the board," he said, describing the latest update to this particular tank hero. KarQ also went over the effect of some changes on certain hero Perks. For example, since Cassidy's secondary fire got buffed in terms of damage, it can now play better with the Quick Draw Perk.

This Perk makes Cassidy's secondary fire shoot individual bullets instead of shooting all of them with one right-click. This Perk can also make Fan the Hammer shots deal 50% more critical damage.

Cassidy's kit in Overwatch 2 (Screenshot via esports.gg)
Cassidy's kit in Overwatch 2 (Screenshot via esports.gg)

That's all for now. Stick around on esports.gg for more Overwatch 2 news and updates.