Blizzard revealed the next Overwatch 2 hero, an Omnic tank named Ramattra, who will join the free-to-play game in season 2 which launches Dec. 6. The new tank hero was revealed during the Overwatch League’s Grand Finals.
The next hero coming to Overwatch 2 isn’t exactly new. Players got a glimpse of him, an Omnic activist known as Ramattra, more than three years ago, at the conclusion of an Overwatch Archives event called Storm Rising. That event’s cliffhanger reveal of a menacing Omnic teaming up the villain Doomfist finally paid off on Friday at the Overwatch League Grand Finals, when Blizzard Entertainment revealed the new tank-class character coming to Overwatch 2 next month.
Ramattra will join the Overwatch 2 roster on Dec. 6, debuting alongside the game’s second season. He’ll be the game’s 11th tank character, and will bring a unique mechanic to the tank group: Ramattra has two forms, a standard Omnic form and a hulking second form, called Nemesis.
In his standard Omnic form, Ramattra battles using a staff that fires projectiles and can create a barrier to protect his team. But when Ramattra hulks out, using an ability on a cooldown, he becomes a gigantic brawler capable of powerful melee attacks that will strike fear into “squishies” on the opposing team.
