In this post I will be covering every single ultimate in Overwatch and what sections they belong to, it has 3 main categories:
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Transformation type ultimates: This class of ultimates provides your hero with either an enhanced kit, a passive benefit in addition to what you normally do, or a new kit with which you can work with. They cannot be canceled by the effects of CC only by killing the transformed hero.
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Cast Time type ultimates: This class of ultimates provide a benefit to yourself or your teammates after a short cast time, they can be canceled by the effects of ability interrupting CC and death on the hero but only during the short period in which they are cast, and are independent of their heroes after casting is complete, once they are independent some have Health and can be interrupted by destroying them, and others can be destroyed by certain abilities once they are independent but still in the air.
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Channeled type ultimates: This class of ultimates force your character into a new mode that lock you out of all other abilities and can be cancelled at any point during the ultimate by the effects of ability interrupting CC and death in most cases.
And in addition to these 3 categories there are 3 sub categories they will be organized in
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Confirmed ultimate types: These are ultimates that have been confirmed to be a certain type by the developers.
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Unconfirmed ultimate types: These are ultimates that haven’t been confirmed to be a certain type but have strong reasonings or undeniable reasonings for being in the category they’re in.
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Questionable ultimate types: These are ultimates that have neither been confirmed to be a certain type and also have good reasons for being 2 or more types. These will have their own category at the bottom with their reasonings for being certain types.
Transformation Ultimates
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Confirmed: Bastion’s Configuration: Tank, Genji’s Dragonblade, Mercy’s Valkyrie, Soldier: 76’s Tactical Visor and Widowmaker’s Infra-Sight.
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Unconfirmed: Brigitte’s Rally, Winston’s Primal Rage
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Total Ultimates: 7
Cast Time Ultimates
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Confirmed: Ana’s Nano Boost, D.Va’s Call Mech and Self-Destruct, Hanzo’s Dragonstrike, Junkrat’s Rip-Tire, Lúcio’s Sound Barrier, Mei’s Blizzard, Orisa’s Supercharger, Reinhardt’s Earthshatter, Sombra’s EMP, Tracer’s Pulse Bomb and Zarya’s Graviton Surge.
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Unconfirmed: Ashe’s B.O.B., Baptiste’s Amplification Matrix, Sigma’s Gravitic Flux, Symmetra’s Photon Barrier, Wrecking Ball’s Minefield
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Total Ultimates: 16
Channeled Ultimates
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Confirmed: Doomfist’s Meteor Strike, McCree’s Deadeye, Pharah’s Barrage, Reaper’s Death Blossom, Roadhog’s Whole Hog and Zenyatta’s Transcendence.
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Unconfirmed: Moira’s Coalescence
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Total Ultimates: 7
Questionable
There is only one ultimate in this category being Torbjörn’s Molten Core, it has good reasons to be in the Transformation, Channeled, and Cast Time ultimate section it is by all means an unholy hybrid of all 3
It has reason to be included as a Transformation ultimate as it is only able to be interrupted by death and it wouldn’t be the first Transformation ultimate to lock a character out of their weapon and certain abilities (Genji loses access to his shurikens, Mercy loses access to her Angelic Descent, Bastion loses access to his configuration ability and other configs).
It has reason to be included as a Channeled ultimate as it forces him into a new mode locking out all other abilities and it wouldn’t be the first channeled ultimate to be unable to be interrupted (Doomfist’s Meteor Strike and Zenyatta’s Transcendence)
It has reasons to be included as a Cast Time ultimate as well since once the “cast” is complete the ultimate is completely independent of Torbjörn, it also wouldn’t be the first ultimate where the character is locked out of their kit for an extended period during the “cast” (Junkrat’s Rip-Tire)
Because of its extremely questionable status and having attributes of all 3 ultimate types, I will be labeling Torbjörn’s ultimate as the first Hybrid type ultimate until Developer clarification can be given as to what type it should belong to.
Trivia
Winston is the only Pre Moira release Hero that wasn’t reworked that we don’t have a confirmed ultimate type for simply because they forgot to include him in the patch note putting all the at the time, current ultimates in their respective categories.
End Note
I hope you all learned something from this and maybe it’ll help you out somehow perhaps, after all….
