❓ Are you brave enough to list your old battletags?

You can give details for some, like the reason why you changed the battletag, or why you picked it, or what the name means. As with nearly all my discussion topics, I’ll go first!

This is in order of first battletag ever to my current one

1. Mei-
I fell in love with Mei when I first bought the game, she was my first Mein. Something about her sweet caring demeanor just got to me. This was absolute peak season for hating on her though.

Every single game I was getting called satan and pure evil and heartless. It was really getting to me. People would blame me if we lost the game. I would get literally yelled at in mic if I made 1 mistake with my wall and blocked a team mate off on accident. I started to dread playing the game, but I loved the game so I was so conflicted.

I eventually wrote a support ticket to Blizzard explaining it all and, bless them, they gave me a free battletag change :heart:


2. Starfire-
I chose this because I just really admire Starfire from Teen Titans. Plus 8 letter double-word names are really balanced and nice to me.


3. Delphi-
This is when I bought a 2nd account to do a pure literal Mercy only pacifist account (I unbound swap weapon and melee). I was going to challenge someone else for the world record in Mercy-only playtime.

I lost interest when masteroverwatch’s servers shut down, plus when the top 5 heroes chart was removed, the thing that showed everyone your highest playtimes on your mains for each match. I still play on here during the occasional blue moon but not as much as before


4. Athena-
For a very long time I have admired and revered the Greek Gods as a Pagan. Athena is my Matron (A matron is basically your primary goddess that you worship over all others in your life) (you might have seen patron/matron before or patron/patroness, this is the same thing, it means your primary god/goddess if you are in a polytheistic religion.

Of course nobody picked up on that and the people that commented on my name during this time simply talked to me like I was Winston’s AI haha


5. MeisThighs-
Not even gonna lie, I named myself this for a couple of months. I just wanted everyone to know I love Mei’s thighs. lol.


6. Taiga-
I swapped my name to Taiga after I watched Toradora last year and it became my number 1 anime and Taiga (the main girl love interest of the show) became best girl to me. Even if people don’t know about the show, it still sounds cool. At least 1 person has thought I meant Tyga the rapper though

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Awww, my sister’s gamertag is Palmtop Tiger. :joy: She’s a big fan of that anime too. Think she’s on the forums as well, but goes by a different name here.


On Xbox we have to pay to change our tags, but they give you a random one when you first create an account which you can change for free the first time. Lots of people keep their original ones but mine was something super silly so I chose to swap it. It was CrookedElf26. :laughing:

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Mine was Nightshade. God i hate that, yuk.

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90% sure thats a pokemon move which makes it one the best names in existence. How can you hate anything pokemon related

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I have never changed my battletag. When the battle net system was being implemented, I chose this name after my hunter in WoW. I’ve been using the name well before the battle tag system for a total of nearly 15 years now.

Incidentally, there is a youtuber by the same name who became popular a few years ago. So it is fairly common for people to think I’m him and I have to politely explain that I am not.

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1. Malware-
I’m toxic and infectious.
(I will never change it.)

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“Jack” cuz well i like the name. + all the name puns that come with.

WildRage

And im thinking about changing this one too.

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The Palmtop Tiger of Happiness will bring you good fortune! Yeah it’s the same on PC, 10$ to change it

My mind went blank when I was creating a battletag.

Now I’m stuck with this.

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thats fine, its beautiful

Rapunzel
Everyone thought i am a girl, but i didn’t choose this battletag, my friend don’t know how to name present account…

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If you are a support main people will think you’re a girl anyway. It’s funny how many people refer to me as a she during topics on here when they see I’m a support main.

It doesn’t bother me though because to be honest I wouldn’t mind being a female at all so sometimes I just roll with it :x

https://pics.me.me/was-that-sarcasm-33337809.png

Actually it is kinda catchy and short. It’s a similar energy to the famous legendary gamer names from movies and stuff…TheLegend27, Noobmaster69, etc

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Hey, it kinda does actually.

I haven’t changed it. Didn’t really even choose mine, per se, as the game was a gift to me and I thought that’d be the username rather than the battletag.

I’m not even sure if the 1 free name-change per account still applies.

Geez, and here I am still on my first one lol

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:3c /pet dis Taiga-Tiger, again!

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Mine was first DantehCreeper(i was a huge fan of danteh’s minecraft skill at that time, and at that time Danteh hadn’t even started playing overwatch for a team yet.)

Then Tyneside as I used that in my old minecraft account.