Overwatch 2 players get free tier skips ahead of Season 18

If you haven't completed your Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass yet, then Blizzard Entertainment and Twitch are offering some help in the form of free tier skips. Here's our quick guide on how to unlock these and how tier skips work in Overwatch 2.

From now until Aug. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, you can earn up to five free Overwatch 2 Battle Pass tier skips through Twitch Drops. Simply log in to Twitch and your Battle.net account, link these up, and watch some Overwatch 2 gameplay on an eligible Twitch channel. You get one tier skip per hour of watch time.

After collecting these free Overwatch 2 Twitch Drops via your Twitch inventory, launch Overwatch 2 to automatically apply them to the Season 17 Battle Pass.

Do note that these tier skips don't apply to the prestige tiers of the Battle Pass. This means if you've already completed 80 tiers of the Battle Pass, then the tier skips are banked for the Season 18 Battle Pass instead.

Is reaching the prestige tiers in this season's Overwatch 2 Battle Pass worth it? It depends if you're interested in the different player titles on offer. The ones for Season 17 are Retro Gamer, Teacher's Pet, Fragile Flower, Min-Maxer, Bad Apple, Fleeting Beauty, Smarty Pants, and n00b.

Unlike tiers 1 through 80, these prestige tiers require progressing beyond a single tier to earn rewards. Below are all of the Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass prestige tier requirements.

Are you ready for Overwatch 2 Season 18? It kicks off on Aug. 26, giving you about a week to progress through the rest of the Season 17 Battle Pass.

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