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Abilities all values

  • 5v5Standard (5v5): the values below
  • 6v6Base health 450 per patch of 14 Apr 2026 · Base armor 150 per patch of 17 Dec 2024 · Armor health 100 per patch of 22 Apr 2025
  • Stadiumown values not collected yet

Quad CannonsHitscanHeadshots

Four-barrel hitscan guns, 80 rounds, 125 damage per second, weaker past 15 m.

Damage per second
125
Ammo
80
Reload
1.6 s
Fire rate
25 shots/s
Falloff
15–25 m

Last changed on 16 September 2025: Maximum ammoChange

Grappling ClawMelee · Movement

Latch on up to 22.2 m and swing, ramming enemies at speed for damage and knockback.

Damage
60 (fireball collision)
Duration
8 s (max grapple time after fireball)
Range
22.2 m (max)

Last changed on 28 October 2024: DurationChange

RollMovement

Switch to ball form with a higher top speed.

Cooldown
0.4 s

PiledriverArea · Movement

Drop straight down: 100 to 20 damage within 8 m and enemies tossed into the air.

Damage
100–20
Cooldown
8 s
Duration
0.8 s (windup delay) · 0.75 s (enemy air lock)
Radius
1.5–8 m

Last changed on 17 December 2024: CooldownChange

Adaptive ShieldArea

7 s overhealth, more per enemy within 13 m, and allies can get up to 75.

Cooldown
15 s
Duration
7 s (self) · 4 s (allies)
Radius
13 m
Overhealth
+75 (max transfer, allies)

Last changed on 6 November 2025: Overhealth gained per targetChange

MinefieldArcing projectileUltimate

Ultimate: scatters mines that sit for 16 s and explode near enemies for 165 each.

Damage
165
Duration
16 s (on ground) · 1.25 s (arming time)
Projectile speed
12 m/s
Health
60
Ultimate cost
1850 points

Last changed on 16 September 2025: Mine durationChange

Perks one of two per level

Minor perks

Steamroller

Collisions from Roll hurt tanks twice as much.

or
Multi-Ball

Pressing the ultimate key again within 5 s of Minefield adds 7 more mines.

Major perks

Hang Time

Piledriver hangs in the air longer, lets you steer, and hits up to 50% harder.

or
Adaptive Barrierchanged 8 Sept 2026

Activating Adaptive Shield also raises a barrier for 1 s.

Stadium powers 0 to choose from

not collected yet

Statistics Europe · PC · Ranked · All ranks · all maps · change

50.3%Win rate
Place 7 of 15 (Tank)
Win rateall 53 heroes
44.1%55.9%
Pick rate3.2% Place 14 of 15 (Tank)
1.9%31.9%
Ban rate11.3% Place 6 of 15 (Tank)
0.1%49.2%

Dots: 53 heroes, white: Wrecking Ball. Blizzard , as of 25 Sept 2026

Counters by abilities, not by win rates

Goes well with Wrecking Ball

none known

Changes 21 patches · 41 changes since 7 Feb 2023 · green helps Wrecking Ball, red hurts, grey is unclear

Season 4 (2026) · Heroes of Busan

1 patch · 1 change

Season 2 (2026) · Summit

2 patches · 3 changes

Season 1 (2026) · Conquest

1 patch · 1 change

Season 19 (2025) · Haunted Masquerade

1 patch · 3 changes

Base values

  • Base armor175125 (worse)
  • Base health500475 (worse)6v6

Adaptive Shield

  • Overhealth gained per target7550 (worse)6v6

Season 18 (2025) · Stadium Quick Play

1 patch · 2 changes

Season 16 (2025) · Stadium

1 patch · 1 change

Season 15 (2025) · Honor And Glory

3 patches · 4 changes

Season 14 (2024) · Hazard

1 patch · 5 changes

Base values

  • Base health300500 (better)6v6
  • Base armor175150 (worse)6v6

Adaptive Shield

  • Radius138m (worse)6v6
  • Overhealth gained per target10075 (worse)6v6

Piledriver

  • Cooldown810s (worse)6v6

Season 13 (2024) · Season of Spellbinders

1 patch · 2 changes

Season 11 (2024) · Super Mega Ultrawatch

1 patch · 2 changes

Quad Cannons

  • Automatic reload time while transformed21.6s (better)

Adaptive Shield

  • Allied overhealth transfer ratio+50% (better)

Season 10 (2024)

2 patches · 6 changes

Grappling Claw

  • Impact damage5060 (better)

Piledriver

  • Movement lockout duration for enemies0.50.75s (better)

Minefield

  • Damage130165 (better)
  • Explosion knockback510

Season 9 (2024) · Champions

1 patch · 1 change

Season 7 (2023)

1 patch · 1 change

Season 5 (2023)

1 patch · 1 change

Season 4 (2023)

1 patch · 1 change

Season 3 (2023)

2 patches · 7 changes

Base values

  • Base health in role queue modes600450 (worse)
  • Base health in non-role queue modes600300 (worse)
  • Shield health0150 (better)

Piledriver

  • Cooldown108s (better)

Minefield

  • Ultimate cost+9% (worse)
  • Arming time1.51s

Overwatch 1

27 patches changed Wrecking Ball; the details are in Blizzard's notes

Sources

Names, pictures and icons
Blizzard Entertainment, loaded from Blizzard's servers
Base, birthday and age
Blizzard hero page , read on 23 Sept 2026
Ability values
Overwatch fan wiki , CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 , as of 24 Sept 2026
Short descriptions
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Changes
Blizzard patch notes , as values, not as text; field names from the notes or from Counterpick
Rates
Blizzard hero statistics , collected every night
Counters and reasons
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