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Haunted Masquerade

Season 19 (2025) · 14 October 2025 – 8 December 2025

Start: 14 Oct 2025
End: 8 Dec 2025
Weeks: 8
Patches: 7
Changes: 315 to 34 heroes
Direction: 70 better, 34 worse, 211 unclear
New heroes: 0
New maps: 0

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

no new hero in the notes

Maps

the notes name no map as new, reworked, switched off or on again

Modes and events

Haunted Masquerademode14 Oct 2025
Halloween Terroreventreturning14 Oct 2025
Junkrat's Loot Huntevent6 Nov 2025

Competitive map pool

the notes of this season list no map pool

Balance changes by role changed hero values, one row per role

Balance changes by role
Role	Standard 5v5	6v6	Stadium	Total	Heroes	Direction
Tank	13	11	77	101	12	21 better, 11 worse, 69 unclear
Damage	17	0	128	145	12	30 better, 9 worse, 106 unclear
Support	21	0	48	69	10	19 better, 14 worse, 36 unclear
Total	51	11	253	315	34	70 better, 34 worse, 211 unclear

Most changed heroes

Standard modes and 6v6

Wuyang6 changes
Doomfist5 changes
Lifeweaver5 changes
Mauga4 changes
Sombra4 changes

Stadium

Hazard61 changes
Torbjörn51 changes
Sojourn47 changes
Ana25 changes
Junkrat18 changes

Patches by week one column per week, each patch with its number of changes

Week 114 Oct – 20 Oct
- 14 Oct228 changes
- 17 Octno value changes
Week 221 Oct – 27 Oct
- 22 Oct7 changes
Week 328 Oct – 3 Nov
- 28 Octno value changes
- 30 Octno value changes
Week 44 Nov – 10 Nov
- 6 Nov80 changes
Week 511 Nov – 17 Novno patch
Week 618 Nov – 24 Novno patch
Week 725 Nov – 1 Dec
- 25 Novno value changes
Week 82 Dec – 8 Decno patch

Changes per hero counted by changed values; click a column head to sort

Changes per hero
	Role
Hazard	Tank	64	4	2	58	3	61	2
Torbjörn	Damage	51	1	0	50	0	51	1
Sojourn	Damage	50	10	2	38	3	47	2
Ana	Support	26	1	3	22	1	25	1
Junkrat	Damage	18	10	0	8	0	18	2
Freja	Damage	11	2	0	9	1	10	2
Lúcio	Support	9	0	2	7	0	9	1
Sigma	Tank	8	3	2	3	0	8	2
Brigitte	Support	7	4	0	3	1	6	2
Juno	Support	7	6	0	1	2	5	3
Orisa	Tank	7	2	0	5	0	7	2
Wuyang	Support	6	2	4	0	6	0	1
Doomfist	Tank	5	3	2	0	5	0	2
Lifeweaver	Support	5	4	0	1	5	0	2
Mauga	Tank	4	4	0	0	4	0	2
Sombra	Damage	4	2	2	0	4	0	1
Kiriko	Support	3	1	2	0	3	0	2
Reaper	Damage	3	0	3	0	1	2	1
Reinhardt	Tank	3	2	0	1	2	1	2
Wrecking Ball	Tank	3	0	3	0	3	0	1
Zenyatta	Support	3	0	2	1	0	3	2
Cassidy	Damage	2	2	0	0	2	0	2
D.Va	Tank	2	0	1	1	2	0	1
Illari	Support	2	1	0	1	2	0	1
Junker Queen	Tank	2	2	0	0	2	0	1
Mei	Damage	2	1	1	0	2	0	2
Ashe	Damage	1	0	0	1	1	0	1
Baptiste	Support	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
Echo	Damage	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Genji	Damage	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
Ramattra	Tank	1	0	0	1	1	0	1
Widowmaker	Damage	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Winston	Tank	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Zarya	Tank	1	0	1	0	1	0	1

Patches of the season newest first

25 Nov 2025No value changes to heroes
6 Nov 202580 changes to 24 heroesStadium6v637 better, 14 worse, 29 unclear
30 Oct 2025No value changes to heroes · 5 general changesStadium
28 Oct 2025No value changes to heroes
22 Oct 20257 changes to 3 heroes · 14 general changesStadium4 better, 3 worse, 0 unclear
17 Oct 2025No value changes to heroes · 4 general changesStadium
14 Oct 2025228 changes to 24 heroes · 90 general changesStadiumEvent29 better, 17 worse, 182 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