Overwatch 2’s new tank hero Junker Queen is a bowling ball of carnage
The long-awaited hero sounds like a ruthless tank.
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Overwatch 2’sJunker Queen has a devastating set of abilities as revealed by Blizzard in a recentblog post. The new tank hero will spend a lot of her time racing toward enemies, utilizing life steal and high melee damage to stay in the fray. Many of her abilities resemble damage heroes in original Overwatch, but in Overwatch 2’s5v5 world, tanks can dish out damage too.
You’ve heard her yell at you over the intercom in the Junkertown map for years, but now she’s finally a playable hero. The Junker Queen battled to the top in the pits of the Junkertown arena and claimed the throne, as we saw inthe new cinematic.
She’s a good example of what a tank built within the sequel’s new format looks like. Junker Queen’s usefulness as a tank depends on your wounds uptime. All of her abilities inflict wounds, which deal damage-over-time to enemies and heal her in return. Instead of having a defensive cooldown like other tanks, Junker Queen has to maintain a trickle of healing while fighting within melee range of the enemy team. Ironically, that means she’ll be weak on long-range, open maps like Junkertown and devastating on close-range maps like King’s Row.
Like Doomfist, who swapped to the tank roster in Overwatch 2, Junker Queen is built to weaken opponents so that her team can follow up with lethal damage. And if you let her go unchecked, she will eliminate you herself. Tanks in Overwatch 2 are generally designed around constant engagement in team fights rather than slowly moving through the map behind a shield. Junker Queen’s set of abilities seem especially good against teams that group up so that she can run through them with her ultimate like a bowling ball.
Blizzard gave us a peek at her abilities in theroadmap presentation, but if you want to fully understand them, you’ll need to play her in the game’ssecond beta on June 28.
Junker Queen’s abilities
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Tyler has covered videogames and PC hardware for 15 years. He regularly spends time playing and reporting on games like Diablo 4, Elden Ring, Overwatch 2, and Final Fantasy 14. While his speciality is in action RPGs and MMOs, he’s driven to cover all sorts of games whether they’re broken, beautiful, or bizarre.
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