Overwatch 2 Stadium tier list: Best builds, ranked

Seventeen of Overwatch 2’s heroes are available to play in Stadium mode, ensuring you have a lot of wiggle room when it comes to how you build each character. Although not all builds will suit every situation, this guide contains some of the best builds in Overwatch 2 Stadium.

Best builds in Overwatch 2 Stadium, ranked

Of the builds listed below, this is where I’d rank them on a tier list between S and D:

Before you build your hero in Overwatch 2 Stadium

Before jumping into Stadium, it’s important to understand that you can only select four powers and six items during a match. You’ll get access to new powers at the start of the game, in rounds three, five, and seven. Items can be picked at the start of the match, though, so you won’t need to wait around for those unless you want rarer ones.

For items, there are three categories:

• Survivability for more health
• Abilities to enhance your existing kit.
• Weapons to improve your damage output.

You need Stadium Cash to get the better items in the armory, which means you and your team must win rounds.

Best Overwatch Stadium 2 Tank builds

D.Va bruiser build

This Stadium D.Va build is a high-impact bruiser setup that turns Defence Matrix into a weapon and missiles into mini-nukes.

Powers

• Legendary Loadout: Micro Missiles become 6 Heavy Rockets with massive blast radius and triple+ damage.
• Facetanking: Blocking damage with Defense Matrix heals you for 30% of it.
• Countermeasures: Block 150 damage to auto-fire 2 Micro Missiles.
• Tokki Slam: Use crouch during Boosters to slam enemies, dealing 20% of your Armor as damage and knocking them up.

Items

• Mastermind’s Mitigator: Blocking 300 damage with Defense Matrix reduces Missile cooldown by 1s.
• Plot Armor: While Matrix is active, gain 30% beam resistance and 25 Armor.
• Macro Missile: Micro Missiles deal 25% more damage and hit harder with knockback.
• Dae-Hyun’s Detonator: If Self-Destruct goes off mid-air, it does triple the damage and range.
• Chip-damage Diverter: Damaging barriers grants you Shields (up to 200).
• Singijeon’s Pulse Plating: Blocking damage charges your ultimate faster (5% of damage blocked).

Junker Queen brawler build

This Junker Queen Stadium build turns her into a self-sustaining brawler, stacking Overhealth, speeding up attacks, and chaining kills with cooldown resets for relentless frontline pressure.

Powers

• Royal Bullets: Scattergun critical hits within 12m apply a Wound for 30 weapon damage over 3s.
• Let’s Go Win: Eliminations reset the cooldown of Commanding Shout.
• Bloodcrazed: Rampage and Carnage grant Overhealth equal to 15% of your Max Life per hit.
• Blade Parade: Holding Jagged Blade charges it, increasing its damage by up to 35% and causing knockback.

Items

• Shred and Lead: Wounding an enemy grants 10% Attack Speed for 4s, stacking up to 3 times.
• Bloodhound Mask: Gain +5% Weapon Power for each enemy with a Wound within 12m.
• Booming Voice: Commanding Shout affects allies even if they’re out of line of sight.
• Tinker Tracksuit: Rampage and Carnage hits grant +10% Attack Speed for 4s.
• Scav Scraps: Carnage and Jagged Blade impact damage grants Overhealth equal to 40% of the damage dealt.
• Thick Skull: Gain 50% damage reduction while casting Rampage or Carnage.

Reinhardt unstoppable tank build

This Reinhardt Stadium build turns you into a near-unstoppable frontliner, with massive barrier uptime, fast regeneration, and hammer-fueled utility that keeps you brawling and protecting non-stop.

Powers

• Wilhelmwagen: While your Barrier Field is up, you heal for 15% of the damage it blocks and gain 30% Move Speed.
• Blazing Blitz: After using Earthshatter, every Rocket Hammer swing fires a Fire Strike for 4 seconds.
• Shield Stampede: +50% knockback with Charge. Barrier Field auto-deploys during Charge to block and push through.
• Barrier Reconstruction: Rocket Hammer and Fire Strike restore Barrier Health equal to 10% of its max HP.

Items

• Dampener Grip: Rocket Hammer hits reduce ability cooldowns by 1s.
• Rocket Strike: +50% Fire Strike speed and +20% Ability Power.
• Gryphon Glider: Charge lets you fly, making it easier to reposition, flank, or avoid terrain issues.
• Overclocked Barrier: +20% Barrier Field Size and Health.
• Phoenix Protocol: Barrier Field regenerates 50% faster and starts regenerating 50% sooner.
• Infusion Generator: Your Barrier Health is boosted by 100% of your max Life.

Best Overwatch Stadium 2 DPS builds

Genji survival build

This Genji Stadium build amps up your speed, lifesteal, and armor to keep you slicing through enemies nonstop, with Swift Strike and Deflect fuelling both offence and survival.

Powers

• Cybernetic Speed: Shuriken hits boost your Attack Speed by 2% for 3s, stacking up to 15 times.
• Hanamura Healing: Crits and Swift Strikes grant Overhealth equal to 25% of damage dealt for 5s.
• Laceration: Swift Strike applies a bleed effect, dealing +25% of its damage over 3 seconds.
• Forged Under Fire: Heal for 60% of the damage blocked while Deflect is active.

Items

• Swift-loader: Swift Strike restores 20% of your ammo and adds to your attack speed.
• Enduring Edge: Adds 10% to your Weapon Power and extends the duration of Dragonblade.
• Clean Sweep: A well-rounded ability that adds to your Ability Power, Ability Lifesteal, and widens your Swift Strike width by 50%.
• Deflecting Dash: While Swift Striking, deflect incoming projectiles toward your aim.
• Slicy Coolant: Enhances Defect and gives Genji +50 Armor, +5% Cooldown Reduction, +1s Deflect Duration.
• Transference Delta: Converts 100 HP into Armor and allows Dragonblade to fully restore your Armor.

Mei disruption build

This Mei Stadium build turns her into the ultimate disruptor with brutal zone control and plenty of battlefield manipulation. She slows, splits, stalls, and slaps, using her Ice Wall to fragment enemy teams and Cryo-Freeze to either escape, punish, or start a party with mini-blizzards.

Powers

• Iceberg: Ice Wall now spawns a mini Blizzard on cast, letting you split up teams and zone them with slow effects.
• Twice As Ice: Cryo-Freeze resets the cooldown of Ice Wall, making Mei even more oppressive in choke control and escapes.
• Cryclone: When Cryo-Freeze ends, it spawns a mini Blizzard, punishing anyone waiting to dive her.
• Avalanche: Blizzard now slows all visible enemies within 20m by 25%, making team fights more chaotic and easier to control.

Items

• Ice Sheet: Ice Wall gets a +1s duration and double health, which is great for lasting team cover or clean splits.
• Ecopoint Cryobed: On near-death, Mei automatically enters Cryo-Freeze and gains +15% Ultimate Charge. This is perfect for surviving clutch moments.
• Icy Veins: Doubles Blizzard’s base damage and boosts Ability Power by 10%, turning her ult into a kill zone.
• Snowboot: Standing on frozen ground gives Mei +35% Move Speed and +15% Attack Speed, letting her dance circles around the slows she caused.
• Himalayan Hat: While in Blizzard, Mei gains +10% Attack Speed, stacking nicely with Snowboot and Avalanche value.
• Sturdy Snowfort: Gain +5% Ability Power per Ice Pillar active, rewarding frequent Wall placement and multiplying Blizzard/Cryo-Freeze effects.

Reaper assassin build

This Reaper Stadium build turns you into a high-speed, soul-farming machine—resetting cooldowns with kills, vanishing in and out with Wraith Form, and dropping deadly Death Blossoms that get even stronger in crowds.

Powers

• Backstabber: After using an ability, your next shot deals +50% damage to enemies hit from behind for 3 seconds.
• Harvest Fest: Hellfire Shotgun hits have a 10% chance to spawn a Soul Globe. Picking one up restores 25% Life, 25% Ammo, and grants +25% Move Speed for 3s.
• Revolving Ruin: Hitting enemies within 7m grants +5% Attack Speed for 1s (stacks up to 8 times).
• Spirited to Slay: Eliminations reset your ability cooldowns.

Items

• Spectral Slugs: Using Shadow Step reloads your ammo.
• Devestation: Each Death Blossom kill increases your health.
• Wreath of Ruin: +20% Ability Power, +25% Death Blossom Radius, +20% Move Speed during Death Blossom.
• Crowd Control: Death Blossom gains +5% Ability Power per enemy within its radius.
• Dauntless Draught: +50 Health, +15% Move Speed during Wraith Form, and +33% Wraith Form duration.
• Wretched Wings: Gain flight and +20% Move Speed while using Wraith Form.

If you want a DPS build for Soldier: 76, check out our Overwatch 2 Stadium: Best Soldier 76 build guide.

Best Overwatch Stadium 2 Support builds

Ana team-booster build

This Ana Stadium build maximizes healing, Overhealth, and utility—turning Biotic Grenade into a team-wide shield, Nano Boost into a full-kit enhancer, and Sleep Dart into a rapid-fire heal or massive disable.

Powers

• Pinpoint Prescription: Biotic Rifle can now critically hit both allies and enemies.
• Dreamy: Sleep Dart can hit allies, healing them for 100% of their max Life over 4 seconds instead of sleeping them.
• Home Remedy: Biotic Grenade now grants Overhealth equal to 100% of the healing it applies.
• Your Full Potential: Nano Boost also grants the target +20% Ultimate Charge and 200 Overhealth.

Items

• Cluster Core: Biotic Grenade cooldown is reduced by 1s for each target it hits and grants +25% Ability Lifesteal.
• Grenadius Pin: +30% Biotic Grenade radius and +20% Ability Power.
• Double Dosage: Landing a Sleep Dart on a target affected by Biotic Grenade reduces Sleep Dart cooldown by 25%.
• Tranquilizer: Sleep Dart gains +500% collision size, +100% projectile speed, and +20% sleep duration.
• I.V. Drip: +25 Health. While affected by your own Biotic Grenade, Ana gains 100 Overhealth.
• Eye of Horus: Nano Boost can target allies through walls and has its range increased to 60m. Also grants +50 Shields.

Juno AoE healing build

This Juno Stadium build maximizes her healing, zone sustainability, and support uptime. Amplifying her skills this way will make Juno a mobile healing turret who can control space, shield allies, and reset cooldowns when it matters most.

Powers

Hyper Healer: Allies affected by Hyper Ring gain 50 (AP) Overhealth, turning every cast into a mini-Lúcio amp with bonus shields.

Medicinal Missiles: Pulsar Torpedoes heal an extra 30 (AP) and grant allies +50% received healing for three seconds.

Rally Ring: Each ally who passes through Hyper Ring reduces its cooldown by 1s, rewarding team coordination and keeping the healing loop going.

Stellar Focus: Orbital Ray now follows Juno, and its duration is increased by 35%, making it a long-lasting, mobile healing field.

Items

• Solar Shielding: Allies in Hyper Ring restore 25 Shields per second for constant AoE sustain and barrier uptime in tight fights.
• Sunburst Serum: +25% healing to Orbital Ray helps make it a team-saving ult, especially in overtime or choke defense.
• Lux Loop: +15% Hyper Ring duration and +10% Ability Power to ensure your healing zone lasts longer and hits harder.
• Red Promise Regulator: Using Orbital Ray resets all cooldowns.
• Long Range Blaster: +15% healing to distant allies means you don’t need to be mid-fight to make a big impact.
• Forti-glide: +10% Damage Reduction during Glide Boost makes you harder to pick off while repositioning or rotating between allies.

Looking for the best Stadium build for Mercy? Read Overwatch 2 Stadium: Best Mercy build. We also have the best Juno build guide.