Fans love the new heroine in Overwatch 2 – “Junker Queen raises the bar for the whole game”
For many players from the second beta of Overwatch 2, there is clearly one highlight: the new tank heroine, Junker Queen. She is the first hero of her role created specifically for the new teams of 5. But how is it received by the fans? MeinMMO gives you the answer.
The second Overwatch beta has been running since June 28 for those who have already been granted access. The highlight for many is clearly Junker Queen. This new, brutal tank heroine aims to cause destruction and chaos in close combat.
What is special: She is the first tank heroine that was specially developed for the new 5-person teams. In contrast to heroes like Orisa or Doomfist, who were redesigned for the new tasks of the tanks, with Junker Queen it was clear from the start that she would be the only tank on the team.
So how does it play and what does its design say about the future of Overwatch 2 and how it differs from the first game? Fans and experts discuss it a lot and have a clear opinion: If Junker Queen embodies the future of Overwatch 2, then it looks rosy.
Who is Junker Queen and what can she do, you ask? This video gives you all the answers:
Junker Queen is a “Reinhardt with skill shots”
What can the new heroine do? Junker Queen is the newest tank in the game, and her playstyle embodies what Overwatch 2 aims to do differently from the first installment. With her shotgun and axe, she goes for full aggression, protecting her team with damage instead of a shield.
These are her skills:
- Her primary weapon is a 6-shot shotgun.
- Right-clicking throws a knife, dealing bleed damage. If the knife gets stuck in an opponent, she can pull the knife back with the opponent. This sounds like roadhog, but works more like a ‘reversed Lucio boop’.
- When she has the knife in hand and makes a melee attack, she deals additional bleed damage. If the knife is currently stuck in an enemy or a wall, it will strike normally.
- Her first ability is a violent swing with an ax that deals a lot of damage and causes enemies to bleed.
- Perhaps her most important ability is a shout, which does 3 things:
- Every player in the area runs 30% faster for a short time.
- She gets 200 HP extra, even over the max.
- Each player in the area immediately gets 100 HP, also beyond the maximum.
- Her ultimate lets her dash forward quickly, dealing bleed damage to any enemy in her path while also preventing healing (like Ana’s grenade).
- With her passive skill, she heals herself for every bit of bleed damage enemies take from her.
So overall, Junker Queen is a full-on aggression tank that tries to cause as much chaos as possible. In our experience, she works extremely well with Lucio, Brigitte, and Mei, since you can almost overrun your opponents that way.
Frito from the YouTube channel “Your Overwatch” describes her as a kind of mixture of Reinhardt and Lucio, or a “Reinhardt with skill shots”.
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“No character in Overwatch history has been more fun”
What are the fans saying? In the same video, Frito shares his general impressions of Junker Queen, gives gameplay tips, and also gives an assessment of the long wait times that tank players are suffering right now:
According to him, “No character in Overwatch history has been more fun” than Junker Queen. She perfectly embodies what makes Overwatch 2 so special as a shooter:
What I like most about Junker Queen is that it feels like the soul of a hero shooter – a combination of smart abilities and unique skill shots that have to hit and are not traditional shooter mechanics,
She would thus “set new standards for what we should expect from the game”. He goes on to say:
I think, if [Blizzard] really thinks through those ideas and cares more about the other roles, the reputation of the game will change. I have a lot of fun with Junker Queen, but I have tons of fun with every role I play. The game just plays better when there are tanks like her that are fun to interact with.
Also on reddit players have a similar opinion. MelodySC2 something like says, “I think removing most of the shields and going to 5v5 is a great thing for the game. Junker Queen was designed specifically for 5v5 and is super fun to play and not incredibly annoying to play against.”
Support players feel overwhelmed and the role is comparatively unpopular
What are the current problems of the game? Despite this praise, the fans see one problem in particular with the new game: the supports. Supports in Overwatch 2 regularly complain that they feel overwhelmed with the new speed of the game and the increased aggression of most characters. Supports are more useful as DPS that heal from time to time, rather than actual supports.
You can also see that in the waiting times: if you only want to play one tank, you often have to wait 10-20 minutes; But supports come immediately into a game. Of course, this is also because Junker Queen is currently new and exciting, which is why everyone wants to play it. But even in the first beta without the post-apocalyptic queen, supports were the least popular class
Not only supports are suffering from the many changes:
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