counterpickStadium Quick Play
Season 18 (2025) · 26 August 2025 – 13 October 2025
- Start
- 26 Aug 2025
- End
- 13 Oct 2025
- Weeks
- 7
- Patches
- 8
- Changes
- 325 to 32 heroes
- Direction
- 47 better, 44 worse, 234 unclear
- New heroes
- Wuyang
- New maps
- 1
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
Wuyangfirst in the notes: 26 Aug 2025
Maps
- Thames Districtnew map26 Aug 2025
- Aatlisswitched on again1 Oct 2025
Modes and events
- Summer Games 2025event26 Aug 2025
- Junkrat's Loot Huntevent26 Aug 2025
- Stadium Quick Playmode26 Aug 2025
- Payload Racemode26 Aug 2025
- Overwatch 2 Anniversary 2025event16 Sept 2025
Competitive map pool
the notes of this season list no map pool
Balance changes by role changed hero values, one row per role
| Role | Standard 5v5 | Stadium | Total | Heroes | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tank | 19 | 82 | 101 | 9 | 19 better, 14 worse, 68 unclear |
| Damage | 17 | 103 | 120 | 13 | 18 better, 11 worse, 91 unclear |
| Support | 18 | 86 | 104 | 10 | 10 better, 19 worse, 75 unclear |
| Total | 54 | 271 | 325 | 32 | 47 better, 44 worse, 234 unclear |
Most changed heroes
Patches by week one column per week, each patch with its number of changes
Changes per hero counted by changed values; click a column head to sort
| Role | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Winston |
Tank | 57 | 4 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 57 | 1 |
 Brigitte |
Support | 54 | 6 | 1 | 47 | 2 | 52 | 4 |
 Pharah |
Damage | 46 | 0 | 2 | 44 | 0 | 46 | 2 |
 Tracer |
Damage | 43 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 2 | 41 | 3 |
 Mercy |
Support | 23 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
 Junker Queen |
Tank | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
 Roadhog |
Tank | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
 Sigma |
Tank | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| Wuyang |
Support | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
 Cassidy |
Damage | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
 Freja |
Damage | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
 Hazard |
Tank | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
 Kiriko |
Support | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
 Ana |
Support | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
 D.Va |
Tank | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
 Juno |
Support | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
 Orisa |
Tank | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
 Ashe |
Damage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
 Ramattra |
Tank | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
 Sojourn |
Damage | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
 Echo |
Damage | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Lifeweaver |
Support | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Lúcio |
Support | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Mei |
Damage | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Soldier: 76 |
Damage | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Torbjörn |
Damage | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Widowmaker |
Damage | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Wrecking Ball |
Tank | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Genji |
Damage | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Moira |
Support | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Reaper |
Damage | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Zenyatta |
Support | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Patches of the season newest first
- 1 Oct 202512 changes to 3 heroes · 1 general changeStadium6 better, 5 worse, 1 unclear
- 16 Sept 202568 changes to 16 heroes · 7 general changesStadium11 better, 14 worse, 43 unclear
- 8 Sept 2025No value changes to heroes
- 4 Sept 20259 changes to 5 heroesStadium2 better, 5 worse, 2 unclear
- 29 Aug 20253 changes to 1 hero3 better, 0 worse, 0 unclear
- 28 Aug 2025No value changes to heroes
- 27 Aug 2025No value changes to heroes
- 26 Aug 2025233 changes to 27 heroes · 40 general changesStadium25 better, 20 worse, 188 unclear
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