counterpickSeason 1 (2022)
4 October 2022 – 5 December 2022
- Start
- 4 Oct 2022
- End
- 5 Dec 2022
- Weeks
- 9
- Patches
- 4
- Changes
- 14 to 6 heroes
- Direction
- 1 better, 12 worse, 1 unclear
- New heroes
- Kiriko, Junker Queen, Sojourn
- New maps
- 6
Source of the start date · green helps, red hurts the hero, +number without a clear direction
New this season names from the headings and lists of the patch notes
New heroes
Kirikofirst in the notes: 13 Oct 2022
Junker Queenfirst in the notes: 25 Oct 2022
Sojournfirst in the notes: 17 Nov 2022
Maps
- New Queen Streetnew map4 Oct 2022
- Circuit Royalnew map4 Oct 2022
- Midtownnew map4 Oct 2022
- Colosseonew map4 Oct 2022
- Esperançanew map4 Oct 2022
- Paraísonew map4 Oct 2022
Modes and events
- Halloween Terror 2022event25 Oct 2022
Competitive map pool
Entries on the map pool
- 13 Oct 2022Necropolis, Numbaniin the pool
Balance changes by role changed hero values, one row per role
| Role | Total | Heroes | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tank | 7 | 2 | 1 better, 6 worse, 0 unclear |
| Damage | 6 | 3 | 0 better, 5 worse, 1 unclear |
| Support | 1 | 1 | 0 better, 1 worse, 0 unclear |
| Total | 14 | 6 | 1 better, 12 worse, 1 unclear |
Most changed heroes
Patches by week one column per week, each patch with its number of changes
- Week 14 Oct – 10 Oct
- 4 Octno value changes
- Week 211 Oct – 17 Oct
- 13 Octno value changes
- Week 318 Oct – 24 Octno patch
- Week 425 Oct – 31 Oct
- 25 Octno value changes
- Week 51 Nov – 7 Novno patch
- Week 68 Nov – 14 Novno patch
- Week 715 Nov – 21 Nov
- 17 Nov14 changes
- Week 822 Nov – 28 Novno patch
- Week 929 Nov – 5 Decno patch
Changes per hero counted by changed values; click a column head to sort
Patches of the season newest first
- 17 Nov 202214 changes to 6 heroes1 better, 12 worse, 1 unclear
- 25 Oct 2022No value changes to heroes
- 13 Oct 2022No value changes to heroes
- 4 Oct 2022No value changes to heroes
Sources
- Names, pictures and icons
- Blizzard Entertainment, loaded from Blizzard's servers
- Season dates
- start from Blizzard , length counted up to the next start
- Changes
- Blizzard patch notes , as values, not as text; field names from the notes or from Counterpick
- New heroes, maps, modes, events, map pool
- names from the headings and lists of Blizzard patch notes ; a hero counts as new in the season of its first entry in the Overwatch 2 notes, hero trials and heroes with Overwatch 1 changes left out
- Better or worse
- Counterpick, by field and direction; fields without a clear direction stay grey