Summary
Overwatch 2fans might have spotted a teaser for hero 45 in the recent Spotlight event in the form of a cartoonish, sword-wielding knight in the background. While this could ultimately amount to nothing, someOverwatch 2players wonder if the third hero of 2025 will be a sword-wielding melee character – and possibly even one of the gladiators of Colosseo.
During the recent Spotlight event,Blizzard revealed the next two heroes coming toOverwatch 2: Freya, a complex damage hero from Season 16, and a support character codenamed Aqua scheduled for Season 18. Unfortunately, nothing was revealed for the 45th hero expected in Season 20 near the end of 2025.
However, some keen-eyedOverwatch 2fans may have spotted a teaser for this hero hiding in plain sight during the Spotlight. While senior narrative designer Jude Stacey was introducing Freya, a doodle of a character in theexaggerated style used byOverwatch 2for placeholder artcan be seen on one of the viewscreens in the background. The character appears to be an angry knight with spiked armor, a massive ponytail, and a comically oversized sword.
Sword-Wielding Knight in Overwatch 2 Spotlight
In his talks with content creator Frogger during the Spotlight event,Overwatch 2game director Aaron Keller confirmedthat melee heroes are something the developers were “definitely looking at.” The first-person nature ofOverwatch 2makes melee heroes hard to design, but Keller said “we’ve got a route” around that particular dilemma – potentially by using the third-person viewpoint being tested in Stadium, or some similar technology.
It is important to note that nothing official has been confirmed about hero 45 yet, andprevious potentialOverwatch 2character teasers, like that of Maximilien as hero 43, have been proven false. Even so, this Easter egg is bound to cause all kinds of speculation until the identity of hero 45 is officially revealed later this year.
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