Passive ability

Passive abilities are abilities that either activate without the player's interaction; or do not directly affect the game world, but only the movement or state of the hero or their abilities. When passive abilities are controlled, they are usually activated using the Space bar. All hero-specific movement passive abilities are disabled by Sombra's Hack and the Hindered status effect.

In Overwatch 2, every hero receives a role passive, unique to each role. Some of them get unique passive abilities on top of that, which are often core to the play style or capabilities of the hero.

Global passives

Main article: Global Passive Abilities

Global passive abilities are passive abilities that apply to all heroes.

Role and Sub-Role passives

Role	Ability	Description	Healing	Dmg. modification	Hackable	Details
Role: Tank
	Role: Tank Role: Tank	Less ultimate given by healing and damage received. Increases base health in Role Queue game modes.			No	Ultimate charge and perk progress generation from damage and healing dealt to heroes with the Role: Tank passive is reduced by 40%. All tanks have 150 more health in Role Queue. The amount of armor and/or shields remains the same.
	Sub-Role: Bruiser Sub-Role: Bruiser	Reduces critical damage received. While at critical health, gain movement speed		-25% taken	No	Critical Health is considered 50% or below. Weapons with a lower 1.5x headshot modifier ignore this damage reduction completely. The effectiveness on abilities that deal critical damage through other means than headshots is ambiguous: Earthshatter and Overrun are affected by the damage reduction, but Virus and Volatile Chaingun's forced critical hits against burning targets are not. The reduction stacks additively with other modifiers affecting damage taken.
	Sub-Role: Initiator Sub-Role: Initiator	Gain a heal over time after using a specified movement ability.	50		No	Triggers when using certain movement abilities: Winston: Jump Pack D.Va: Boosters Hazard: Violent Leap Wrecking Ball: Grappling Claw (with fireball) Doomfist: Rocket Punch Lasts for 1 second with a 5 second cooldown. This is seperate from the cooldown of the ability. Once triggered, all 50 healing will be granted, even if the hero takes damage mid-heal. The passive doesn't activate if the hero is full health.
	Sub-Role: Stalwart Sub-Role: Stalwart	Reduces knockbacks and slows received.			No	Reduces the speed of knockback and the effectiveness of slowdown effects received by 40%.
Role: Damage
	Sub-Role: Flanker Sub-Role: Flanker	Health packs restore more health	+75 from health packs		No	Small Health packs restore 150 Hit points, up from 75. Large Health packs restore 325 Hit points, up from 250. Only Reaper, Venture (with Explorer's Resolve active) and Vendetta benefit from this increase from large health packs. Anran, Genji, and Tracer additionally have a higher base movement speed of 6.0m/s, rather than the normal 5.5m/s.
	Sub-Role: Recon Sub-Role: Recon	You detect enemies below half health through walls after damaging them.			No	The duration starts from the last instance of damage you dealt to them, so long as they are below half health.
	Sub-Role: Sharpshooter Sub-Role: Sharpshooter	Critical hits reduce your movement ability cooldowns.			No	Critical hits will grant cooldown reduction to Movement Abilities based on 0.75% of damage dealt.
	Sub-Role: Specialist Sub-Role: Specialist	Eliminating an enemy briefly increases your reload speed.			No	Reload speed is 1.5x faster after an elimination. This only lasts for 3 seconds, but is refreshed if another elimination is earned. An indicator is shown to the right of the crosshair to show when the reload increase is active.
Role: Support	Sub-Role: Medic Sub-Role: Medic	Healing allies with your weapon also heals you.	40% of healing dealt		No	Does not generate ultimate charge. Effect stacks when healing multiple allies. Affected by healing modifiers both on the target and the Medic.
	Sub-Role: Survivor Sub-Role: Survivor	Using a movement ability activates passive health regeneration.			No	After using a movement ability, the global passive regeneration immediately triggers The global passive will last for a minimum of 0.25 seconds (assuming you're damaged after using the ability).
	Sub-Role: Tactician Sub-Role: Tactician	You can gain excess ultimate charge, which carries over after using your ultimate ability.			No	Tacticians can charge up to 25% of their next ultimate after reaching 100%. This is visible from an orange bar above the ultimate icon in the bottom-middle of the screen. Past 100%: The additional 25% has a 25% reduced gain rate. You will not passively gain ultimate charge towards the extra 25%.

Hero passives

Hero	Ability	Description	Healing	Move speed	M. speed buff	Hackable	Details
Anran	Ignition Ignition	Hit enemies with fire attacks to burn them.				No
Baptiste	Exo Boots Exo Boots	Hold crouch to jump higher.		17.44 m/s (full charge)		Yes
Bastion	Ironclad Ironclad	Reduces damage taken while transformed.				No
Brigitte	Inspire Inspire	Dealing damage to enemies heals nearby allies.	15 per second			No
D.Va	Eject! Eject!	Eject out of your mech when it's destroyed.				No
Domina	Reconstruction Reconstruction	Dealing damage from abilities restores shields.	75% of ability damage dealt			No
Doomfist	The Best Defense... The Best Defense...	Dealing damage with abilities creates temporary overhealth.				No	Not disabled by hack, however, new overhealth cannot be created due to not being able to use abilities.
Echo	Glide Glide	Hold jump to glide while falling.		4 m/s (down)	+50% (horizontal)	Yes
Emre	Altered Vitals Altered Vitals	Passive health regeneration activates sooner and instantly restores 30 health when activated.	30			No
Freja	Bounty Hunting Bounty Hunting	Every 3 Final Blows, gain bonus ultimate charge.				No
Genji	Cyber-Agility Cyber-Agility	Climb on walls and double jump.		7.8 m/s (wall climb) +1.3 m/s (double jump)		Yes
Hanzo	Wall Climb Wall Climb	Jump at walls to climb up them.		7.15 m/s (vertical)		Yes
Hazard	Vault Vault	Scale short walls and grab ledges.		6.33 m/s (vertical)		Yes
Jetpack Cat	Jetpack Jetpack	Permanent flight.				No
Junker Queen	Adrenaline Rush Adrenaline Rush	Heal from all damage over time dealt by wounds.	250% of wound damage dealt			No
Junkrat	Total Mayhem Total Mayhem	Deals no damage to self with explosives. Drop bombs on death.				No
Juno	Martian Overboots Martian Overboots	While airborne, press Jump to double jump and hold Jump to hover.		3 m/s (falling) 10.8 m/s (double jump)		Yes
Kiriko	Wall Climb (Kiriko) Wall Climb (Kiriko)	Jump at walls to climb up them.		8.25 m/s		Yes
Lúcio	Wall Ride Wall Ride	Jump onto a wall to ride along it.		2.5 m/s (wall leap)	+30%	Yes
Mauga	Berserker Berserker	Gain temporary health when dealing critical damage.				No
Mercy	Swift Recovery Swift Recovery	Begin regenerating health more quickly.				No
	Angelic Descent Angelic Descent	Fall very slowly.		2 m/s (down)		Yes
Mizuki	Remedy Aura Remedy Aura	Heal nearby allies. Healing scales with resource generated by dealing damage and healing.	14 - 3.5 per second (self) 20 - 5 per second (allies)			No
Pharah	Hover Jets Hover Jets	Hold to hover.		4.66 m/s (vertical) 8 m/s (slow fall speed)	+30% (horizontal)	Yes
Reaper	The Reaping The Reaping	Dealing damage heals you.	25% of damage dealt			No
Sombra	Opportunist Opportunist	You detect enemy ultimate abilities on nameplates, and deal more damage to hacked enemies.				No	Was removed in Season 7, re-added in Season 13.
Vendetta	Onslaught Onslaught	Strike enemies to increase movement and attack speed.			+2% (per stack)	No
Venture	Explorer's Resolve Explorer's Resolve	Using abilities grants temporary shields.				No	Not disabled by hack, however, new shields cannot be created due to not being able to use abilities.
	Clobber Clobber	Quick melee deals more damage.				No
Zarya	Energy Energy	Damage blocked by barriers increases Particle Cannon damage.				No
Zenyatta	Snap Kick Snap Kick	Quick melee damage increased by 50%, and its knockback is significantly increased.				No

Removed passive abilities

Hero	Ability	Description	Healing	Move speed	M. speed buff	Hackable	Details
Lifeweaver	Parting Gift Parting Gift	On death, drop a gift that heals the first enemy, or ally, to pick it up.	Ally: 250 Enemy: 75			No	Removed 2 weeks after release.
Mei	Deep Chill Deep Chill	Deal continuous damage with primary fire to significantly slow an enemy. Secondary fire deals additional damage to affected enemies.		-75% slow		No	Removed in season 7 of Overwatch 2.
Mercy	Regeneration Regeneration	Mercy automatically heals over time.	22.5 health per second after not taking damage for 1.5 second			No	Replaced by Sympathetic Recovery in season 3 of Overwatch 2.
	Sympathetic Recovery Sympathetic Recovery	Healing allies with Caduceus Staff heals you.	40% of healing dealt			No	Replaced by Sub-Role: Medic and Swift Recovery in Reign of Talon Season 1.
Reinhardt	Steadfast Steadfast	Resistant to knock back effects.				No	Removed in the April 29, 2022 Overwatch 2 Beta, and replaced by the Tank role passive unless in 6v6 mode.
Sombra	Stealth Stealth	When out of combat, become invisible and move faster.			+60%	Yes	Replaced by Opportunist in season 13 of Overwatch 2. Stealth itself is part of the Translocator's ability.
Torbjörn	Scrap Collector Scrap Collector	Collect scrap to gain resources.				No	Removed with Torbjörn's rework in the October 9, 2018 patch in Overwatch.

Role	Ability	Healing	Dmg. modification	Hackable	Details
Role: Damage Role: Damage	Damaging an enemy temporarily reduces their healing received.		-30% received (non-tanks) -15% received (tanks)	No	Removed in Reign of Talon Season 1 This is now a global passive for all heroes. Does not stack with itself or the passive from another damage role hero. Stacks multiplicatively with other modifiers that affect healing received. Objects that deal damage, such as turrets, may also apply the effect. Self-damage does not apply the effect.
Role: Support Role: Support	Begin regenerating health more quickly.			No	Removed in Reign of Talon Season 1 Reduces the time before passive health regeneration starts from 6 to 3 seconds after taking damage.

Trivia

• Although not officially listed as passive abilities, Anran, Genji, and Tracer have a higher base movement speed of 6.0m/s, rather than the 5.5m/s that other heroes have under normal circumstances, making them move approximately 9.1% faster than the other heroes. This is not negated by Hack.
• Lúcio's Crossfade acts similarly to a passive ability, as at least one of his songs will be active at all times unless he is Hacked.