Hit points

Hit points (HP) represent how much damage a hero or object can take. The current and total hit points of the unit are shown in their health bar, divided into bars each worth 25 HP.

Overview

There are 4 main types of hit points in Overwatch. From bottom to top these are health, armor, shields, and overhealth. Out of the four, health, armor and shields are recoverable HP, meaning that they can be restored by healing, whereas overhealth is non-recoverable HP. When taking damage, hit points will be consumed in order from top to bottom, and when being healed, restored from bottom to top.

Each type of hit points has certain properties, which only apply to that portion of HP. For example, if an instance of damage is higher than remaining armor, the damage reduction will only apply in proportion to the amount of damage the armor would take, and shields will only regenerate itself rather than the other types of hit points above or below them.

A hero's HP is "low" at 50% and "critical" at 25%. Their location will be shown to all friendly heroes. If a hero's HP becomes ~25-30% or lower, a gasp sound effect is played and blood appears around the borders of the screen (no blood in Junkenstein modes and tutorial), with the exception of 175 HP heroes, who get it at 70 HP (currently only Tracer and pilot D.Va).

All heroes have an out-of-combat health regeneration passive: they will start to self-heal after not taking damage for 6 seconds, at a rate of 10 health per second + 5% of max health per second. This affects all hit point types equally, and stacks with shield regeneration.

Health

The most basic form of HP is health, which appears on all heroes. It is the bottom-most type of HP, which is depleted when there is no armor or shields to protect it, and is the first to be replenished when being healed. If a hero's health comes to 0, they will die. Heroes in the Tank role have an additional 150 Health in 5v5 Role Queue game modes. Health is colored white.

List of abilities that grant Health

Hero	Ability	Description	Health	Duration	Details
	Role: Tank Role: Tank	Less ultimate given by healing and damage received. Increases base health in Role Queue game modes.	150
Torbjörn	Overloaded Turret Overloaded Turret	Overload upgrades your Turret for 5 seconds, increasing its health and damage.	+150	5 seconds
Winston	Primal Rage Primal Rage	Gain immense health, but you can only leap and punch enemies.	700 max health, fully restore HP	10 seconds (transformation)

Armor

Armor is a type of recoverable HP that reduces damage by 7, up to a maximum of 50%, and reduces beam damage by 30%, to that portion of health. Armor hit points are applied on top of health and below shields. The following heroes have armor as part of their baseline health pool: D.Va, Hazard, Mauga, Orisa, Ramattra, Reinhardt, Winston, Wrecking Ball, Bastion, Torbjörn, Vendetta and Brigitte. Armor can also be obtained through some abilities. Armor is colored orange.

Armor is extremely effective against attacks that consist of multiple smaller instances of damage, like shotguns. For every instance of damage received - that is not from a beam or a damage over time effect - armor reduces the damage received by 7, up to a maximum of 50% of the incoming damage. In other words, any damage instance that is lower than 14, will be halved instead of being reduced by flat 7 damage. Direct hit bonuses from explosive projectiles are dealt in the same instance as the splash damage, meaning that armor reduction only applies once. However, for shotgun and burst weapons, each pellet is a separate damage instance, so armor reduction is applied for each projectile. Armor reduction is always applied in full if the damage instance removes any armored health - either upon transitioning from shields or over health to armor or from armor to base health.

Against beams and damage-over-time effects, armor works differently: armor reduces the damage of beam-type weapons by 30%, regardless of the amount of damage dealt by instance, and damage over time effects are completely exempt from the reduction. Exceptionally, Winston's Tesla Cannon also pierces the damage reduction from armor, causing it to deal the same damage to armor as it would to normal health.

Armor is applied after all other damage modifications, however the combined reduction of armor and other modifications to damage taken may not exceed 50%, unless a single ability increases it past that point. For example, if Bastion were to take 100 damage while transformed, his Ironclad passive (-20% taken) would reduce it to 80, and then armor would further reduce it by 7. This does not hit the 50% reduction limit, so it results in Bastion taking 73 damage. On the other hand, if a fortified Orisa (that has depleted their overhealth) would take 100 damage, Fortify (-45% taken) reduces it to 55, and armor would then reduce it by another 7 points to 48 damage. But because this is equivalent to a 52% total reduction, the reduction is limited to 50% and Orisa takes 50 damage.

In the advanced information panel, armor are marked with the following keyword and description:

armor

Health that reduces damage by 7 if greater than equal to 14. Reduces damage below 14 by 50%. Reduces Beam damage by 30%.

List of abilities that grant armor

Hero	Ability	Description	Armor	Duration	Details
Brigitte	Rally Rally	Gain armor, empower Barrier Shield and provide extra health to nearby allies.	100 (self)	10 seconds (Rally) 30 seconds (overhealth) 0.75 seconds (Shield Bash stun)
Ramattra	Nemesis Form Nemesis Form	Transform into Nemesis Form, changing your attacks and gaining bonus armor.	275	8 seconds	Ramattra can also gain the benefits of Nemesis Form through his ultimate, Annihilation. Does not stack.

Shields

Shields are a type of recoverable HP that automatically regenerate while not taking damage. Shield is the topmost form of recoverable hit points, above armor. The following heroes have shields as part of their baseline health pool: Domina, Sigma, Wrecking Ball, Zarya, Symmetra, Juno, Echo, Lifeweaver and Zenyatta. D.Va and Pharah also convert some of their normal health into shields through certain perks. Some objects also have shield HP. Shields are colored light blue.

After not taking damage for 3 seconds, shields start regenerating at a rate of 30 shields per second. This recovery is treated as a form of healing, meaning that it can be amplified by certain effects or blocked by anti-heal. The shield regeneration works additively to the passive regen all heroes have, allowing a hero to heal up to 40 + 5% of their max HP per second without assistance, given they have shield health to regen.

In the advanced information panel, shield are marked with the following keyword and description:

shield

Health that regenerates 30 per second after not taking damage for 3 seconds.

List of abilities that grant shield health

Hero	Ability	Description	Shields	Duration	Details
Jetpack Cat	Transport Shielding Transport Shielding	Gain up to 75 shield health while carrying another hero.	75 (max)
Venture	Explorer's Resolve Explorer's Resolve	Using abilities grants temporary shields.	25 (normal abilities) 75 (Tectonic Shock)	3 seconds	Shield health gained is capped at 75. Decays at a rate of 30 shield health per second after the duration.
	Covered in Dirt Covered in Dirt	Dealing damage with Clobber grants up to 30 Explorer's Resolve shields.	5 (per hit) 30 (max per use)

Barrier health

Barrier health is a type of shield health. The main difference between barrier health and regular shields is their regeneration: Barrier health only regenerates while the barrier is inactive, meaning only recallable barriers can regenerate. Furthermore, the delay before regeneration is 2 seconds instead of 3, and the regeneration rate varies between barriers. Barriers are also destroyed by Sombra's EMP if they are hit while active, unlike shields.

In the advanced information panel, barrier are marked with the following keyword and description:

barrier

A physical construct with health that absorbs most ranged attacks and abilities but does not block hero movement. Pierced by Melee.

Overhealth

Overhealth is a type of non-recoverable HP that represents most temporary forms of HP in Overwatch 2. It is only gained through abilities. Overhealth can decay either over time or immediately at the end of a timer. Enemies receive 50% less ultimate charge and perk progress from damage dealt to overhealth. Overhealth is represented by a green health bar.

In the advanced information panel, overhealth are marked with the following keyword and description:

overhealth

This ability gives additional health that cannot be healed and gives enemies 50% less ultimate change when damaged.

List of abilities that grant overhealth

Hero	Ability	Description	Overhealth	Duration	Details
Anran	Heat Shield Heat Shield	Gain 50 overhealth when you use your Ultimate and for each enemy ignited by it.	50 plus 50 per enemy Ignited.
Bastion	Armored Artillery Armored Artillery	Configuration: Artillery grants 300 temporary overhealth.	300		Overhealth starts to decay 3 seconds after the ultimate ends at a rate of 50 hp/s.
Brigitte	Rally Rally	Gain armor, empower Barrier Shield and provide extra health to nearby allies.	15 per 0.5 seconds, up to 100 (allies)	10 seconds (Rally) 30 seconds (overhealth) 0.75 seconds (Shield Bash stun)	Overhealth lasts up to 30 seconds, then quickly decays.
D.Va	Bunny Power Bunny Power	Eject grants 75 temporary overhealth and Call Mech's damage radius is increased by 50%.	75	10 seconds	Overhealth decays at a rate of 25 hp/s once the duration ends.
Doomfist	The Best Defense... The Best Defense...	Dealing damage with abilities creates temporary overhealth.	40 per enemy (normal abilities) 75 per enemy (Meteor Strike) 200 (max total)	3 seconds	Overhealth maxes out at 200. Overhealth decay rate is 3 hp/s. Dealing ability damage resets the duration.
	Survival of the Fittest Survival of the Fittest	The Best Defense grants 25 overhealth from eliminations and its max overhealth is increased by 50.	25
Junker Queen	Commanding Shout Commanding Shout	Grants temporary health and movement speed to yourself and allies.	200 (self) 75 (allies)	4 seconds	Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.
Lifeweaver	Sow the Seed Sow the Seed	Quick Melee with Healing Blossom equipped tosses a seed forward. Allies who pick up a seed gain 75 overhealth and 25% movement speed for 5 seconds.	75	5 seconds
	Tree of Life Tree of Life	Place a tree that instantly heals allies upon sprouting and continues healing periodically as it lives.	100% of overhealing (max. 100)'"`UNIQ--ref-0000001E-QINU`"'	15 seconds (tree) 6 seconds (overhealth)	Overhealth will last for 6 seconds once leaving the AoE healing radius of the tree, or once the duration ends.
Lúcio	Sound Barrier Sound Barrier	Create temporary extra health for nearby allies.	625	5 seconds	Overhealth immediately starts decaying at a rate of 125 hp/s.
Mauga	Berserker Berserker	Gain temporary health when dealing critical damage.	50% of critical damage dealt (150 max)	2 seconds	Overhealth decay rate is 5 hp/s. Dealing critical damage through any means will reset the duration.
	Pyromaniac Pyromaniac	Igniting enemies with Incendiary Chaingun grants 50 overhealth.	50		Overhealth gained is shared with that of the Berserker passive ability, and maxes out at 150.
	Combat Fuel Combat Fuel	Critical hits grant Mauga 3 temporary overhealth on Cardiac Overdrive's next use, up to 150 overhealth.	3 per critical hit 150 (max)
Mercy	Angelic Resurrection Angelic Resurrection	Mercy gains 100 overhealth after casting Resurrect.	100	2 seconds	Overhealth is gained immediately upon button press, regardless of if the cast is interrupted or not. Overhealth decay rate is 5 hp/s.
Orisa	Fortify Fortify	Gain temporary health, reducing all damage taken and becoming unstoppable.	100	4 seconds	Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends. Orisa can also gain the benefits of Fortify through her ultimate, Terra Surge. Does not stack.
Roadhog	Pulled Pork Pulled Pork	Gain overhealth based on how far you pull enemies with Chain Hook, up to 300.	50 (base) 16 (distance min) 300 (max total)	2 seconds	Grants 50 overhealth immediately on hit, and up to 200 additional overhealth based on pull distance. Overhealth decay rate is 50 hp/s.
Sigma	Kinetic Grasp Kinetic Grasp	Absorb projectiles in front of you and convert them into extra health.	60% of damage absorbed (400 max)	2 seconds	Overhealth slowly decays after a few seconds.
Sombra	High-Speed Bandwidth High-Speed Bandwidth	Hacked health packs grant allies 25% movement speed and 50 overhealth for 4 seconds.	50	4 seconds
Torbjörn	Overload Overload	Gain additional extra health as well as improved attack, movement, and reload speed.	100	6 seconds	Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends. Torbjörn can also gain the benefits of Overload through his ultimate, Molten Core with Pre-Heated perks. Does not stack.
Tracer	Quantum Entanglement Quantum Entanglement	Recall grants 50 overhealth and 20 ammo that decays over time.	50	6 seconds
Wrecking Ball	Adaptive Shield Adaptive Shield	Create temporary extra health that increase with more nearby enemies. Some of the health can be transferred to allies.	100 base + 100 per enemy (self) -50 per ally (max transfer, self) +75 (max transfer, allies)	7 seconds (self) 4 seconds (allies)	Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.
Wuyang	Tidal Blast Tidal Blast	Protect an ally or yourself with water that detonates after a short duration. The explosion knocks down enemies and massively heals the host target.	400	3.5 seconds (explosion delay) 1.5 seconds (knockdown)	Overhealth is lost immediately when duration ends.

Temporary Armor & Shields

Temporary armor & shields were a prominent feature used in Overwatch. They are types of non-recoverable HP similar to Overhealth. Temporary armor (colored dark orange) granted the same effects as regular armor. Temporary shields (colored dark blue) granted no unique effects. In Overwatch 2, all abilities at the time that provided temporary armor & shields were removed to help reduce visual noise when multiple types of hit points were applied to a hero, especially in Hero Missions and Story Missions. All abilities that previously granted temporary armor or shields in Overwatch were updated to grant overhealth in Overwatch 2.

Temporary armor & shields can still be accessed through Workshop actions, where they can be applied to a player with the Add Health Pool to Player action. While temporary armor is still dark orange, temporary shields are now yellow instead of the dark blue in Overwatch. Despite this, they both maintain the same functionality they had in Overwatch.

In Overwatch 2, they reintroduced aspects of temporary armor with the release of Ramattra. His Nemesis Form grants him additional armor health, which while healable in Nemesis Form, will disappear once the cooldown ends. As for temporary shields, aspects of this was reintroduced with Venture's kit, with their passive Explorer's Resolve, which provided them with temporary shield health that regenerates (like regular shield health) but decay after a short while. Unlike Overwatch, both temporary armor and shields have the same color as regular armor and shields, being treated the same. Additionally, all abilities that grant temporary shields and armor in Overwatch 2 only grant them to the user, not allies.

List of hero hit points

Health pools in 5v5 modes

Hero	Role	Health	Armor	Shields	Total
Ana	Support	250	-	-	250
Anran	Damage	250	-	-	250
Ashe	Damage	250	-	-	250
Baptiste	Support	250	-	-	250
Bastion	Damage	250	100	-	350
Brigitte	Support	200	50	-	250
Cassidy	Damage	250	-	-	250
D.Va	Tank	175 / 325	325	-	500 / 650
		175	-	-	175
Domina	Tank	100 / 250	-	400	500 / 650
Doomfist	Tank	375 / 525	-	-	375 / 525
Echo	Damage	150	-	75	225
Emre	Damage	250	-	-	250
Freja	Damage	225	-	-	225
Genji	Damage	250	-	-	250
Hanzo	Damage	250	-	-	250
Hazard	Tank	275 / 425	225	-	500 / 650
Illari	Support	250	-	-	250
Jetpack Cat	Support	225	-	-	225
Junker Queen	Tank	375 / 525	-	-	375 / 525
Junkrat	Damage	250	-	-	250
Juno	Support	75	-	150	225
Kiriko	Support	225	-	-	225
Lifeweaver	Support	200	-	50	250
Lúcio	Support	225	-	-	225
Mauga	Tank	425 / 575	150	-	575 / 725
Mei	Damage	300	-	-	300
Mercy	Support	225	-	-	225
Mizuki	Support	250	-	-	250
Moira	Support	225	-	-	225
Orisa	Tank	150 / 300	300	-	450 / 600
Pharah	Damage	225	-	-	225
Ramattra	Tank	275 / 425	100	-	375 / 525
Reaper	Damage	300	-	-	300
Reinhardt	Tank	250 / 400	300	-	550 / 700
Roadhog	Tank	600 / 750	-	-	600 / 750
Sierra	Damage	250	-	-	250
Sigma	Tank	200 / 350	-	275	475 / 625
Sojourn	Damage	225	-	-	225
Soldier: 76	Damage	250	-	-	250
Sombra	Damage	225	-	-	225
Symmetra	Damage	125	-	150	275
Torbjörn	Damage	225	75	-	300
Tracer	Damage	175	-	-	175
Vendetta	Damage	200	75	-	275
Venture	Damage	250	-	-	250
Widowmaker	Damage	225	-	-	225
Winston	Tank	275 / 425	200	-	475 / 625
Wrecking Ball	Tank	300 / 450	125	150	575 / 725
Wuyang	Support	225	-	-	225
Zarya	Tank	175 / 325	-	225	400 / 550
Zenyatta	Support	75	-	175	250

Health pools in 6v6 modes

Hero	Role	Health	Armor	Shields	Total
Ana	Support	250	-	-	250
Anran	Damage	250	-	-	250
Ashe	Damage	250	-	-	250
Baptiste	Support	250	-	-	250
Bastion	Damage	250	100	-	350
Brigitte	Support	200	50	-	250
Cassidy	Damage	250	-	-	250
D.Va	Tank	250	300	-	550
		175	-	-	175
Domina	Tank	100	-	375	475
Doomfist	Tank	425	-	-	425
Echo	Damage	150	-	75	225
Emre	Damage	250	-	-	250
Freja	Damage	225	-	-	225
Genji	Damage	250	-	-	250
Hanzo	Damage	250	-	-	250
Hazard	Tank	275	225	-	500
Illari	Support	250	-	-	250
Jetpack Cat	Support	225	-	-	225
Junker Queen	Tank	450	-	-	450
Junkrat	Damage	250	-	-	250
Juno	Support	75	-	150	225
Kiriko	Support	225	-	-	225
Lifeweaver	Support	200	-	50	250
Lúcio	Support	225	-	-	225
Mauga	Tank	450	100	-	550
Mei	Damage	300	-	-	300
Mercy	Support	225	-	-	225
Mizuki	Support	250	-	-	250
Moira	Support	225	-	-	225
Orisa	Tank	250	250	-	500
Pharah	Damage	225	-	-	225
Ramattra	Tank	350	100	-	450
Reaper	Damage	300	-	-	300
Reinhardt	Tank	325	225	-	550
Roadhog	Tank	650	-	-	650
Sierra	Damage	250	-	-	250
Sigma	Tank	200	-	250	450
Sojourn	Damage	225	-	-	225
Soldier: 76	Damage	250	-	-	250
Sombra	Damage	225	-	-	225
Symmetra	Damage	125	-	150	275
Torbjörn	Damage	225	75	-	300
Tracer	Damage	175	-	-	175
Vendetta	Damage	200	75	-	275
Venture	Damage	250	-	-	250
Widowmaker	Damage	225	-	-	225
Winston	Tank	325	200	-	525
Wrecking Ball	Tank	450	100	0	550
Wuyang	Support	225	-	-	225
Zarya	Tank	225	-	225	450
Zenyatta	Support	75	-	175	250

List of non-hero HP

Non-hero health pools

Hero	Ability	Health	Armor	Shields	Total	Notes
Ashe	B.O.B.	1000 1150			1000 1150	Can be healed Can gain overhealth
Baptiste	Immortality Field	125			125
Brigitte	Barrier Shield			300	300	85/s shield regeneration 750 during Rally
Domina	Barrier Array			225	225	27 barriers
	Panopticon			450	450
Hazard	Jagged Wall	400			400
Illari	Healing Pylon	75		50	125	30/s shield regeneration
Junkrat	Concussion Mine	25			25
	Steel Trap	100			100
	RIP-Tire	100			100
Lifeweaver	Petal Platform	300			300
	Tree of Life	1200			1200
Mauga	Cage Fight			1200	1200
Mei	Ice Wall	250			250	5 pillars
Orisa	Protective Barrier			600	600
Ramattra	Void Barrier			1000	1000
Reinhardt	Barrier Field			1500	1500	160/s shield regeneration 1800 health in 6v6
Sierra	Anchor Drone	80			80
Sigma	Experimental Barrier			650	650	85/s shield regeneration 600 health in 6v6
Symmetra	Sentry Turret	40			40	Up to 3 turrets 4 turrets with Sentry Capacity perk.
	Teleporter	100		250	350	2 pads Destruction destroys both 30/s shield regeneration
	Hovering Barrier			600	600
	Photon Barrier			4000	4000
Torbjörn	Deploy Turret	225			225	Can be repaired Increase 150 health with using Overload with Overloaded Turret perk.
Widowmaker	Venom Mine	1			1
Winston	Barrier Projector			650	650
Wrecking Ball	Adaptive Barrier			150	150
	Minefield	60			60	15 mines Additional 7 mines with Multi-Ball perks
Zarya	Particle Barrier			225	225	200 health in 6v6
	Projected Barrier			225	225	200 health in 6v6

Trivia

• If armor is hit, a metallic sound effect is played.
• If a hero's shields are destroyed, the screen becomes cracked.
• The bleed effect originally occurred when a hero's HP became 75 or lower. Since this was highly inefficient for Tanks, it was replaced with a more relativistic system.
• Hit points received an overhaul in Overwatch 2:
  • There used to be three types of non-recoverable HP: health, armor, and shields, which always goes on top of their respective recoverable counterparts.
  • Armor was changed to reduce all damage by 30%. This was reverted in Mid-Season 10.
    • Effectively, this meant that any attack that dealt more than ~16.67 damage were reduced more than before.
  • Prior to being reworked in Overwatch 2, Sombra's EMP used to do massive bonus damage to shields, effectively destroying them upon hit.
• Armor originally treated the "ticks" of beams and damage-over-time effects as instances of damage. In general, beams and DoT tick once every 0.192 seconds (e.g. 50 DPS = 9.6 damage per 0.192 seconds). This means that most beams and DoT effects were reduced by ~26 DPS, and beams/DoT effects that did less than ~52 DPS were halved by armor. This was changed so that beams would always receive a 20% reduction against armor (later increased to 30%) and damage over time effects became unaffected by armor.
  • With the change to 30% reduction for beams, beams that did less than ~87 DPS were buffed against armor while beams that did more were nerfed.
  • Ana's Biotic Rifle inflicts a short DoT effect for its 70 damage, but the damage is unevenly split (2.24 + 6.72 + 26.88 + 26.88 + 7.28). As a result, it used to do 51.88 damage against armor (~30% reduction) before the changes.
• The priority order for damage was originally shields (non-recoverable, then recoverable), then armor (non-recoverable, then recoverable), and then health. This meant that the armor provided by Rally would go underneath the shields of heroes such as Zenyatta.
  • The Patch Notes for Patch 1.33.0.1, which issued this change, mentions "non-recoverable health" when listing the new priority order. Currently, non-recoverable health is only accessible through Workshop scripts, and is therefore inaccessible in standard play.
• Symmetra originally had an ability called Photon Shield which allowed her to create 25 recoverable shields for her teammates. When Symmetra got her first rework, Photon Shield was removed and Shield Generator was added, which gave all surrounding teammates 75 recoverable shields. This too was removed upon Symmetra's second rework. Photon Shield and Shield Generator were the only ways heroes could have recoverable HP that were not found on their base HP.
• B.O.B. is treated as an additional teammate, so he is affected by abilities that grant non-recoverable HP to allies, such as Sound Barrier and Rally. B.O.B. is the only non-hero that can have additional HP.
• The term "shields" is often informally used to refer to barriers. Since barriers have shields for their HP, anything that exclusively damages shields also damages barriers. Currently, the only ability that does that is EMP; however, in the beta, Pharah's Concussive Blast used to be able to do 700 damage to shields and barriers.
• Vendetta's Sundering Blade will remove overhealth and ignore armor reduction.