{"id":123169,"date":"2022-03-23T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129203"},"modified":"2022-03-23T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:15:00","slug":"blizzard-confirms-doomfist-will-be-a-tank-hero-in-overwatch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/blizzard-confirms-doomfist-will-be-a-tank-hero-in-overwatch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Confirms Doomfist Will Be A Tank Hero In Overwatch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/113811f83bf63\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/113811f83bf63\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Doomfist\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/113811f83bf63\/doomfist.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/113811f83bf63\/doomfist.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Doomfist\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Blizzard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blizzard will be making some big changes in the upcoming release <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a><\/strong>, and the latest reveal is the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/street_fighter_30th_anniversary_collection\">Street Fighter<\/a><\/strong>-inspired brawler Doomfist will be changed from damage to tank class.<\/p>\n<p>Game director Aaron Keller shared a bit more detail in a livestream last week &#8211; explaining how Doomfist&#8217;s &#8220;leap&#8221; would be similar to Winston. He also mentioned how he would survive longer in battle and was equipped with &#8220;good escape&#8221; capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Doomfist will do a lot <em>less<\/em> damage as a tank, and Keller acknowledged how the hero was also in need of a nerf after the recent Overwatch 2 closed beta test. This latest tank update follows on from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/05\/overwatch_2_is_removing_the_second_tank_slot_from_pvp_teams\">Overwatch announcing it would be dropping the second tank<\/a> and downsizing the team format to 5v5.<\/p>\n<p>So Overwatch players, how do you feel about Doomfist becoming a tank? Will you be giving this game a go when it finally arrives? <em>Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Blizzard Blizzard will be making some big changes in the upcoming release Overwatch 2, and the latest reveal is the Street Fighter-inspired brawler Doomfist will be changed from damage to tank class. Game director Aaron Keller shared a bit more detail in a livestream last week &#8211; explaining how Doomfist&#8217;s &#8220;leap&#8221; would be similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}