>_ DRY RUN
A safe dry-run of every kit. Pick an operator, cast its abilities, and watch the real outcomes resolve on the 4-second scheduler — learn the heroes before you queue.
Mariam is sixty-one and has no chrome. Not one gram — no optics, no link, no deck. She sits on the same roof she has sat on for twenty-two years with a folding chair, a thermos, and a pair of pre-war binoculars, and she has called every raid on her block a full minute before it landed. The corps have no file on her worth reading, because there is nothing in it. Younger runners assume she is a liability and then discover that the reason they are alive is that a woman with no augments told them which stairwell to take. She does not chase. She does not leave the roof.
why the handle: Someone posted to watch. Not a sensor package — a woman on a roof with glass. Exact.
HOW THE KIT READS
Overwatch's adjacent-zone vision is a woman on a roof with glass, not a sensor package. The +5 defence aura to allies in her zone is not a field — it is the measurable fact that people take fewer stupid risks when someone competent is watching. Mend and Barrier are a first-aid kit and thirty years of knowing exactly when to use it. Scan Pulse is her shouting. Fortify is the block closing ranks. HARDLINE because her entire value is being in a known place, permanently.
Shield before the damage lands — Barrier absorbs it, Mend only heals what's left — and stand in your carry's zone so the passive's +5 plate reaches them.
Grants vision of adjacent zones. Allied heroes in the same zone gain 5 bonus plate.
Click a slot or press Q / W / E / R to cast — or C for the opening combo.
TALENTS
Each tier is one permanent choice. Pick a side with talent <tier> <left|right> and the other side is gone for the rest of the match — there is no respec.
+250 INTEG — survive while peeling for the team
+15 Iceance
Mend Protocol (Q) heal cooldown reduced — top allies up more often
Refunds 35% of Barrier (W) BW — sustain more shields
Scan Pulse (E) cooldown reduced — more reveals + slows
+300 Max BW — a deeper pool for sustained support
Fortify (R) team-shield ultimate cooldown reduced
+10 Plate — reinforces the Overwatch plate aura
Each cycle refills BW so the sandbox can't lock up. Heroes have no innate regen in a real match — your anchor, items and the regen cache are the only recovery. See Sustain.
Impact shows each ability's rank-1 base values — no armor, ice or amp, and no per-rank scaling. A feel for each kit, not a combat sim.
>_ Sentry at level 1 — click an ability or press Q/W/E/R to cast.