Overwatch 2 Season 2 Tier List For The AVERAGE Player (Bronze to Plat) 

This is a great tierlist. You actually put it as what the rank is. Telling people that Genji and widow was S tier for a bronze in season 1 was awful to hear

Really feels like bronze->gold is the land of tank burn vs tank burn. People shoot whoever is big and up front and any tank that can dominate the attention economy without dying is good

ive been a tracer main for a long time now, I can definitely say that for the average player she's definitely hard. if you're good at the game, you're going to have a field day with her.

0:43 - Ramattra 2:17 - Hog + Doom 3:35 - Kiriko 4:26 - Reaper + Bastion 5:38 - Rein + Orisa 6:37 - Moira 7:10 - Cass, Junkrat, Sim, Torb 9:07 - Winston, Zarya, Sigma 10:41 - DVA 11:04 - Ana, Lucio, Bap 12:40 - Sojourn, Ashe, Genji, Echo, Pharah, Soldier, Widow, Tracer 15:04 - Mercy + Zen 16:13 - Mei + Sombra 17:27 - Ball + Junker Queen 18:16 - Hanzo 18:45 - Brig

brig packs are such intense healing and she's so good at getting out of trouble. Hard to deal with the fact that nobody can play around her free value in low ranks.

Zenyatta is so underrated he's the only Support I've been able to hit a 65% winrate on because he lets you pick up the slack for your awful DPS / Tank, consistently outperforming the rest of your team in total eliminations. Discord also helps lead your braindead teammates into shooting the correct targets. He's the ultimate bad team compensator. Only drawback is that you can't play him if your other Support isn't healing enough (in which case I go Mercy).

Baptiste is insane for climbing out of low elo. I managed to get from silver to diamond with Baptiste only.

W I reached diamond so this doesn't apply to me B)

this list is definitely reflective of how these heroes feel at an average level, great work as always SVB

Great list. Whenever I play with new/low rank friends, I go bastion to farm the enemy team. Also I think brig is possible, you just have to be very defensive and only play her in certain scenarios. Hopefully small changes coming soon for her.

even though the sym buffs are pretty small, i can already feel her playing a lot smoother and faster. her secondary fire orbs take less time to fully charge now which pairs greatly with how fast they move too. and the fact she can build her primary charge up on barriers is CLUTCH

As a brig and queen main player this saddens me lol. But tbh I think brig is stronger this season due to doomfist and tracer popularity.

Brig is soooo underrated I’m always dominating on Brig lmao and no I’m not Playing in the back line I’m IN THE FRONTLINE GIVE THEM THE BUSINESS WITH MY TANK OR DPS

The sad part is, that this tierlist is accurate. The sad part is that if you don't hit every cooldown perfectly on ana you are thrown into the don't bother category. Hog remains unchanged, Doomfist gets gigabuffed, bastion who was already viable enough to be played in top 500 got a buff to his turret form, tracer gets buffed while genji gets nerfed because of there being not enough cc abilities to stop him. What the hell is wrong with the Devs. If you look at this tierlist does the game look fun? No, not at all. They 'buff' junkerqueen's survivability, a hero supposedly self healing. Hog heals literally 4x as much damage, mitigates damage, has a 1shot ability on cooldown and junkerqueen's hitbox gets bigger. Junkerqueen gets her bleeds up and then it just gets cleansed. They change the trajectory of the tool that's supposed to get bleed damage with the knife making it harder to hit multiple people by pulling the knife back. They 'nerf sojourn' by making her do more damage with primary fire and still giving her the 1shot with damage boost. They buff sym with infinite ammo so now when you play rein you have to swap because you just get melted or give her infinite ammo. They give us a tank that's supposed to pull down airial targets that has basically 0 vertical range. I don't get the balancing team.. do they play the game themselfs? Are they all 1tricks and all play sojourn or roadhog? Do they only look at numbers?

Doomfist is exactly as you described. He can be an absolute metal press because people won’t know fully how to deal with him. He does, however take more skill than the other tanks to get value out of, maybe other than sigma. Especially compared to hog, whose mechanical skill boils down to “hit hook, click the shooty button” and then walking away with breather. Although the skill argument for doom decreases the lower the rank because he has to deal with less coordination which means a lesser threat.

"YOUR NOT GONNA SEE TOO MUCH OF THAT IN THE METAL RANKS"(HOG,DOOM AND ANA) lmao almost everygame its either my team or the enemy or both got doom as the 1st choice/tank whole game lols

I’m sorry, but you have a really poor understanding of the metal ranks. People are way better there than you give them credit for. You absolutely have godlike hitscans and genjis that shred through your team. Most people have at least decent mechanical skill, just not the game sense to not go 1v5 constantly

Nerf hog to nothing and nerf discord. Hog is broken and boring, and discord carries lower ranks. Just put it on the tank for 10+ minutes and win because no one knows how to kill a zennie. Isn't this the reason we got rid of cc?

nice glasses

Unfortunately there are actually plenty of Pharahs in gold my good sir >:(

As someone whose mains are Mercy, Ana and Zen, I just wanna say: fk my life.

I think Hog and Doomfist are massively overrated in low ranks. One thing that's so easy to exploit with those is that they go off on weird angles that supports can't cover so if you make them overextend, you can punish that. Extra points if you get them to tilt on their own team.

It really is interesting looking at your list and comparing it to what I’ve seen in those ranks. As you said, Brigitte just doesn’t work out. Even with a team that should stick together, they all just end up running away. The inside circular Busan map is one of the few where I can get her to work really well. Mercy is soooo dependent on my team. If I have a decent team, my Mercy play increases by a ton. I can move around, fly between my teammates, damage boost a lot of the time, etc. If my team is bad, I barely do much of anything and either have to constantly heal my tank or even shoot people down myself. It’s exhausting. :/ Very much feel that with Zenyatta. Hard to use with a team that doesn’t protect me. Moira just feels good to play. If I want to carry my team, I always know that I can swap to her. I’m just now realizing how good Reaper and Bastion are in this current meta. I’ve been trying to use them recently, and it’s been so much easier to win games with them than without. Loads of damage pretty easily. Same goes for Roadhog. Easy kills all-around. Yeah, they might have over-buffed Doomfist. He’s quite strong now.😅

I think Hanzo is still powerful if you’re good

I actually agree with all of not most of this list. I'm a plat tank( though this stupid rank system has me between G2-P4). I usually hate when I get a brig on my team especially on defense. I feel most don't know how to play her, and the healing input would be lower because of that.

Solid list, king

Can you do another tier list for diamond to gm.

I think you should check out Holyshiftkid’s video on brigs state currently, if you know how to use her she can be pretty good, just hard to get value if you don’t know what you’re doing

"We don't see many echo's or pharahs in the metal ranks." Which metal ranks have you been playing? Because in the metal ranks I've been playing, there's almost always one or both.

Thank you for this tier list. I'm sick of lists only catering to high levels

Doomfist is annoying the hell out of me currently. Every dps I want to play becomes unplayable because he just jumps on me with a pocket..

brig is easily A tier ppl just suck

I was playing Brigitte and noticed that Ram in Nemsis form ignores her shield. Sad to say this reinforces your "Don't Bother" pick.

I'm seeing a lot of tanks not know what to do against hog, and desperately pick Orisa. Sombra works really well to say screw the hog, at least in my experience. A sorta tag team experience if your tank isnt making space.

Svb is great but I don’t think he understands bronze-gold as well as he thinks he does

Great vid :)

Mercy feels weird in bronze-plat. Most of the time they just heal bot so the value the mercy could be getting is mitigated by not using damage boost.

Bruh what rock are you living under, I see a zen in every match I play lmaoooo

is this viable for noobs too? I''m league of legends semi pro but dunno about ranks in overwatch, just playing casually normals with my girlfriend and looking for good compositions for duo.

Great job and thank you for doing a list for the average player, it's nice to see!

It’s so hard being a hanzo main with the nerf to his storm arrow in open que everyone just stacks tanks he is so bad right now…

No pharahs or echos in metal ranks? You're so wrong. So so wrong

I’m a sliver Brig main, I win most of my matches, I just needs a decent team. Always killing Mays, and reapers trying kill the other support.

they really should rename Brig's bash to "dodge". I feel like when I play brig now, all she really does is heal bot and avoid damage. and sometimes whack a genji

in bronze with ana i love sleeping the enemy team who is ulting and my brain dead team mates wake them up

Also, I think Ramattra is gonna need to have his slow reach much higher, or it be able to impact walls and ceilings for activation... I also think his barrier should deal damage, debuff, or a repulsion effect by passing through it (repulsion on contact with the outside facing part of the barrier, and on contact with the inside of the barrier (ramattra facing side) just forces them through to the other side which would then repulse them. Especially since his barrier is different then the rest, it should act that way too. Image a discord debuff on pass through XD busted haha

Bastion W

WDYM Moira is very "reliable" when u are killing enemy backline : >

Yessss the tier list...teh algorithm must feed

as a gold support player, please stop telling people to pick roadhog 😭🥴

Me, a Ball and Mei main watching this video:

Hanzo worst DPS sadge :< nice to hear your opinions on the state of each hero

This game is so bad right now but I still love the content.

How to play brig in metal ranks 1. Whip shot on cd to maximize passive healing 2. Throw armor packs at your dps players so they don't cry. 3. Stay next to your healer so you can protect them 4. Spam group up until at least 3 people r with u then ult. 5. Shield bash away from tanks so u don't die. 6. Lose Sr anyways because support impact means nothing unless ur dps flank Moira which only works until plat.

My boy is throwing mad shade at me... but it's true.

Yo... so my experience always seems to be contrary to what people say (my Boi Carlos who swore solo Q is easy "just play tracer" "dude, ill get you to masters/GM in a day or two" proceeds to rage quit after 3 matches and throw my controller... top 500 on tracer until he stopped playing. He could of done it but said im on hard mode, make a new account. You're shit's cursed). I ran you through an example so you know what I meant by contrary. I've had NOTHING but Pharah, Echo, Hog, Ana, and now bastion since hes been added... like, as you went down the list of "you should be good" I was like NOOOOO WAY, I had to stop playing Doom at gold 4 Cause the sleeps. They started at silver 2. Fuck, if I had a PC or laptop to record the bullshit I endure... I got a capture device (Carlos gave it to me lol) and my laptop broke, and haven't been able to afford a decent laptop (let alone a pc) for years! Dark times in the kingdom lol.

finally a tier list that group heroes by role

I don't know if I would place Reaper as an S-Tier in damage. I main him when running DPS but anytime I see him on the other team he's among the easiest to counter. There's plenty of options for insta-killing him that are made easier since his kit requires him to be in your face. Roadhog hook, Sigma rock, Ana sleep + anti-heal, Orisa javelin, or a hidden Torbjorn turret in the backline. Even easier if you know how to bait out his wraith form so that he doesn't have an escape.

Keiriko should be in difficult category

*bold of you to assume* i am close to plat

I would drop Bastion a tier or two because metal ranks don’t know how to play around cover and you need to if you’re gonna play a tank sized dps.

Out of position? 3/4 of the time Im hooked I was standing in the backline and he wasn't even aiming for me. 🙃 Starting to get REALLY annoying.

Out of every content creator you have the best understanding the of the experience of metal rank players. This tier list is so extremely accurate. I get so board of seeing most of the S Tier and A tier characters in all my games. I do think Tracer should be higher. Even though she takes a little more skill she has dominated many of my games this season. The single most impactful pick if played well. Brig is also totally useless at metal ranks and probably always will be. Her positioning is just too teamwork dependent.

…welp I just learned Brig doesn’t have her shield bash stun xD Clearly. I belong in my ranks xD

i hope they buff Brig. She's really hard to love right now :(

Next Great Debate: why sneaky rank shit is actually great and blizzard is still a real triple A game studio.

It's me, I'm the flashy doomfist that goes for pharah any chance I get

I’m a lowly gold dva so I’m probably missing something but I feel like Mei being re-enabled was a huge issue for dva and led to a very similar issue as the Winston Reaper one where every time I pick her they inevitably swap to Mei and just make their mission to stick to the supports and trap me and force a swap. I figure I must be missing something since I haven’t seen it mentioned on any tier lists made post mid-season patch but it really feels like once she starts to slow you, you have no way of escaping and end up hard forced into a swap and that gutted dva’s versatility

Thank you for the love given to the metal rank. ❤️

“You don’t see many Pharahs in the metal ranks”… what?

Junkrat

I'm kind of curious how come this isn't from bronze to diamond? I thought that diamond was apart of the metal ranks? ( Forgive my ignorance for asking this question). Also where is a good place to see the data of where most players are in ranked? Finally great work SVB on this video! I love videos like these. Very informative.

SVB, I’ve been watching you for years (2+ I think) and I always find your content helpful. I’m a plat Moira main and I’m so glad they buffed Doomfist. His state in Season 1 was just sad. He presented little threat and he couldn’t really do anything other than stun me out of my ult. Big Ups! I wish you the best.

You overextended tf out of this. Great list just way too much unnecessary yappin' 😭

Never played comp before but I play sojourn and do really well in unranked que by role with my friend who plays junker queen I really am excited to see where I place