counterpickVendetta
Season 20 (2025) · 9 December 2025 – 9 February 2026
- Start
- 9 Dec 2025
- End
- 9 Feb 2026
- Weeks
- 9
- Patches
- 6
- Changes
- 227 to 29 heroes
- Direction
- 47 better, 45 worse, 135 unclear
- New heroes
- Vendetta
- 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
Vendettafirst in the notes: 9 Dec 2025
Maps
- Antarctic Peninsulaswitched off9 Dec 2025
Modes and events
- Winter Wonderlandevent9 Dec 2025
- Showdown Shuffleevent8 Jan 2026
- Quick Play HackedeventreturningAssault8 Jan 2026
- Junkrat's Loot Huntevent8 Jan 2026
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 | 8 | 70 | 78 | 9 | 14 better, 21 worse, 43 unclear |
| Damage | 32 | 43 | 75 | 10 | 24 better, 19 worse, 32 unclear |
| Support | 9 | 65 | 74 | 10 | 9 better, 5 worse, 60 unclear |
| Total | 49 | 178 | 227 | 29 | 47 better, 45 worse, 135 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 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wuyang |
Support | 60 | 0 | 1 | 59 | 1 | 59 | 1 |
 Doomfist |
Tank | 48 | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 48 | 2 |
 Cassidy |
Damage | 26 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
 Genji |
Damage | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 2 |
| Vendetta |
Damage | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 |
 Hazard |
Tank | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
 Winston |
Tank | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
 Freja |
Damage | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
 Sigma |
Tank | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
 Ana |
Support | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
 Illari |
Support | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
 Ashe |
Damage | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Bastion |
Damage | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Junkrat |
Damage | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Juno |
Support | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
 Symmetra |
Damage | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
 Venture |
Damage | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Baptiste |
Support | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Brigitte |
Support | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 D.Va |
Tank | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Junker Queen |
Tank | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Kiriko |
Support | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Lúcio |
Support | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Moira |
Support | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Orisa |
Tank | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Reaper |
Damage | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Reinhardt |
Tank | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Roadhog |
Tank | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Zenyatta |
Support | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Patches of the season newest first
- 20 Jan 2026No value changes to heroes
- 8 Jan 202619 changes to 13 heroes · 4 general changesEvent8 better, 10 worse, 1 unclear
- 18 Dec 202525 changes to 6 heroes · 1 general changeStadium10 better, 12 worse, 3 unclear
- 12 Dec 20251 change to 1 hero0 better, 1 worse, 0 unclear
- 11 Dec 20254 changes to 1 hero4 better, 0 worse, 0 unclear
- 9 Dec 2025178 changes to 20 heroes · 17 general changesStadium25 better, 22 worse, 131 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