Overwatch 2’s new hero Mauga leaks ahead of BlizzCon 2023 reveal

New heroes are coming! Overwatch 2Next month. Mauga, the game’s next tank-class hero, will join the Overwatch roster with season 8 and will be the game’s 39th playable character, according to a post on the Nintendo Switch eShop news channel.

Blizzard to reveal official plans for the next Overwatch 2Mauga will be a hero of BlizzCon 20, which begins on Friday. But he has already been given a sneak peek at his skills.

Overwatch 2 players can get their hands on Mauga earlier than December, however — this weekend, in fact, thanks to a free trial weekend for Blizzard’s game. Mauga can be played from Friday, November 3, through Sunday, November 5, as part of an exclusive sneak preview for season 8 of Overwatch 2.

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Blizzard describes Mauga as a “powerful brawling Tank Hero who will tear through the competition with his incendiary and volatile chainguns.” Maugau’s kit is designed “to bash through the front lines and brawl his opponents in close-quarter combat, by wielding two powerful chainguns that can either be fire individually or in unison,” Blizzard says.

One of Mauga’s chainguns is nicknamed “Gunny” and can burn his opponents with incendiary charges when they take enough damage. The other gun is known as “Cha-Cha,” which can deal critical hits. Mauga’s Berserker passive ability, Blizzard says, will grant him temporary health whenever he deals critical damage.

Mauga’s front line-breaking power is called Overrun, “a charging ability that cannot be stopped by any crowd control abilities,” Blizzard says, meaning counters like Ana’s Sleep Dart or Sigma’s Accretion. Overrun “stomps into opponents, dealing a powerful knockback.” Another ability, Cardiac Overdrive, creates an aura that reduces incoming damage, “allowing allies to heal themselves while dealing damage.”

Mauga’s ultimate ability, Cage Fight, “traps nearby opponents in a cylindrical fighting ring” with a barrier that “blocks enemy incoming damage or healing from the outside.”

Blizzard has announced that Mauga, the next season of Blizzard’s popular game series, will officially be released on December 5, 2018. Overwatch 2 goes live.

Overwatch 2’s 39th playable hero shouldn’t be a surprise to players who have been paying close attention to the game for the past few years. Mauga appeared as a special guest in the Overwatch 2019 comic You Left BehindMauga is from Samoa, a location that Blizzard recently mined for a new Control map in Overwatch. Mauga comes from Samoa. Blizzard has recently used this area to mine a Control map. Overwatch 2. This map hinted that Mauga’s colorful shirt hanging in one room would appear soon in the game.