Prob didn’t need a full topic for this but, I’m curious if lets say i put on the Irfit skin on zenyatta which increases his head size by 20-40% does that increase his hitbox for heatshots to connect?
When I saw the title of this thread, I was expecting different content…
On topic, I don’t think it does. That would be extremely disadvantageous and nobody would ever wear the skin. When I play Zen I use the Sanzang (lunar festival) skin, which also increases the size of his head, but I don’t feel like I’m being headshot any more than usual.
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No. However, the feather on his head makes you able to see the player’s name tag if it’s visible. A YouTuber naked Blame the Controller made a video on this a while back. I can’t post links here, but if you look up “Overwatch Mythbusting” it should pop up
This is correct…your hit box is the same no matter what you wear…
And also unmentioned is that your hit
Box might be larger than the model depending on what you wear too…I don’t have a specific example though…but it works both ways
Wow, the title really had me there for a second. Probably should’ve titled it “head hitboxes on skins”. 
If they don’t increase the side of the hit box, then that brings up another issue that may or may not being happing. Honestly I’d love to figure out how to test it.
That problem would be if the box size stays the same but the model image increases would that mean shots go threw it? If so wearing a skin would be to a minor advantage, The only other way I could even think about the devs coding it would be it counting as a body shot and landing.
I know I’m prob getting into the the nit picking here on the subject. However I’m sure Pro’s would definatly use this to their advantage or stay away from it if it lead to a minor disadvantage. Like the guy talking about the feather.
though i’d take a feather for the ability to have them miss when they were aiming perfect lol
You’d think so but most pro’s don’t aim for the head anyway, but rather the neck, which doesn’t change.
Found a youtube video the skins don’t however in the case of zen his head hitbox reaches about a foot over his base skin design anyway.