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Nov 04, 2016  Swift Strike: Lunge forward, drawing your blade as you go. Anyone caught in your path takes damage. If you kill someone with the lunge, the cooldown is reset, allowing you to. Overwatch shooting is exactly like normal shooting except you can't cause morale/pinning checks and all shots are 'Snapshots'. The only restriction on snapshots are that template, blast, and ordnance weapons can't fire.

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This guide will cover how headshots work in Overwatch along with a chart showing you which hero abilities do headshots or not.

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Hero Introductions
Game Mechanics
Headshots Guide
Game Modes
Hitpoint Basics
Terms & Definitions

Headshots

Overwatch has headshots. Headshots do twice the damage as a normal shot. While playing you can tell if you did a headshot if your crosshair has red flairs coming from it, as shown below:

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Headshots will also make a slightly different sound feedback than a regular shot, it will have a slight 'ting' to it as well.

The following lists all the heroes and their abilities and whether or not they headshot:

Offensive Hero Ability Headshots

Attack HeroesAbilityHeadshots?Notes
Genji

Shuriken

YES
Fan of BladesYES
Swift Strikeno
DeflectYESProjectiles deflected can headshot.
Dragonblade (Ult)
no
McCree

Peacekeeper

YES
Peacekeeper (Fan-fire)no
Flashbangno
Deadeye
no
Pharah

Rocket Launcher

no
Concussive Blastno
Barrage
no
Reaper

Hellfire Shotguns

YES
Death Blossom
no
Soldier 76

Heavy Pulse Rifle

YES
Helix Rocketsno
Tactical Visor
no
Sombra

Machine Pistol

YES
Tracer

Pulse Pistols

YES
Pulse Bomb
no
When Tracer sticks a Pulse Bomb on an enemy it will do an immediate 5 damage (before the explosion). This initial 'stick' can do critical damage of 10 instead of 5 if stuck to the head area. The actual explosion cannot crit.


Defensive Hero Ability Headshots

Defense HeroesAbilityHeadshots?Notes
Bastion

Recon

YES
Sentryno
Tank (Ult)
no
Hanzo

Storm Bow

YES
Sonic ArrowYES
Scatter ArrownoInitial arrow can headshot, but the Scatter Arrows won't.
Dragonstrike
no
Initial arrow can headshot, but the Dragon won't.
Junkrat

Frag Launcher

no
Concussion Mineno
Steel Trapno
Rip-Tire
no
Mei

Endothermic Blaster

no
IcicleYES
Blizzard
no
Torbjorn

Rivet Gun

YES
Rivet Gun (Alt-Fire)YES
Forge Hammerno
Turret
no
Widowmaker

Widow's Kiss: Assault

YES
Widow's Kiss: SniperYES Sniper shots do x2.5 damage to headshots.
Venom Mine
no

Tank Hero Ability Headshots

Tank HeroesAbilityHeadshots?
D.Va

Mech: Fusion Cannons

YES
Mech: Self-Destructno
Pilot: Light Gun
YES
Reinhardt

Rocket Hammer

no
Chargeno
Fire Strikeno
Earth Shatter
no
Roadhog

Scrap Gun

YES
Scrap Gun (Alt-fire)YES
Chain Hookno
Whole Hog
YES
Winston

Tesla Cannon

no
Primal Rage
no
Zarya

Partical Cannon

no
Partical Cannon (Alt-Fire)no
Graviton Surge
no

Support Hero Ability Headshots

Support HeroesAbilityHeadshots?
Ana
Biotic Rifleno
Sleep Dartno
Biotic Grenadeno
Lucio

Sonic Amplifier

YES
Soundwave
no
Mercy

Caduseaus Blaster

YES
Symmetra

Proton Projector

no
Proton Projector (Orbs)no
Sentry Turret
no
Zenyatta

Orb of Destruction

YES
Orb of Destruction (Alt-Fire)
YES

Most of the headshot areas in the game are very obvious, the only ones a bit less obvious are D.va and a Bastion Sentry.

D.va's Headshot Area:

Bastion Sentry's Headshot Area:

Please note that Bastion's Tank Form (ultimate) does not have a headshot area.

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