Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass skins: 8-bit Genji, Reinhardt, and more!

Amy Chen

Amy Chen

Overwatch 2 Season 17, also known as Powered Up, launches on June 24. Here’s what you can expect in terms of the new Battle Pass skins and items!

Blizzard Entertainment just revealed a bunch of Overwatch 2 Season 17 skins! These include 8-bit Genji, Reinhardt, and so much more. Read on for all of the Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass skins plus what else you can expect starting June 24.

Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass skins (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)
Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass skins (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass skins feature 8-bit Genji

If you're a Genji fan, then you're in luck. Overwatch 2 Season 17, which launches on June 24, features a brand-new Battle Pass that includes the 8-bit Genji, 8-bit Reinhardt, and 8-bit Sombra skins. There's also Delinquent Cassidy and Professor Fawkes Junkrat as part of an academy universe.

Overwatch 2 Season 17 skins

The upcoming season also features the Sakura Ana skin alongside two legendary loot boxes, 500 Overwatch Credits, plus a slew of emotes, voice lines, weapon charms, souvenirs, name cards, and so on. Like with every season, the paid Overwatch 2 Season 17 Battle Pass lets you earn up to 80 Mythic Prisms as well.

For those who wish to progress through the free Battle Pass, they can look forward to getting a legendary loot box, 600 Overwatch Coins, 1,500 Overwatch Credits, and the 8-bit Zenyatta and 8-bit Orisa skins of the epic rarity.

Overwatch 2 Season 17's shop skins (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)
Overwatch 2 Season 17's shop skins (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Overwatch 2 Season 17 mythic skins

Speaking of Mythic Prisms, these refer to the in-game currency required to unlock mythic skins in Overwatch 2. New for Season 17 are the mythic Horang D.Va hero skin and the Steel Death Reaper weapon skin.

Overwatch 2 Season 17 mythic skin (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)
Overwatch 2 Season 17's mythic weapon skin featuring Reaper (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

In terms of what else to expect in Overwatch 2 Season 17, there's the Hacks & Hijinx event running from July 15 to July 28. This is a six-versus-six (6v6) game mode with rotating modifiers such as low gravity.

The Aatlis map in Overwatch 2 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)
The Aatlis map in Overwatch 2 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

Don't forget about Aatlis as a new Flashpoint map, an updated Stadium map pool featuring Esperança and  Samoa, plus the Overwatch 2 map voting system.

Map voting in Overwatch 2 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)
Map voting in Overwatch 2 (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

That's all for now. Are you excited about Overwatch 2 Season 17? Stick around on esports.gg for more news and updates!