An Ode to Zenyatta, the Actual Best Character InOverwatch

Certain esteemed video secret plan - related websites might tell you that the likes ofTracerorD.Vaare the honorable characters in Overwatch , Blizzard ’s softheaded - fun hitman about wacky submarine and quasi - superheroic deviltry . I am using the chance ofGawker Media ’s Senior Weekto tell you that they are haywire .

I have been angling to bother my delightful editor in chief Rob Bricken with hot Overwatch takes pretty much since the game came out and dominate my circumscribe free meter over the past few months . While thanks to our splendid world in which everything is a transmedia franchise titan I ’ve deal to sneaksomepostsunder the radar , our celebratory Senior Week — and it ’s surprisingly petrifying editorial freedom — now gives me loose reign to cultivate you on why the Overwatch champion I play the most is the best , and your favorite sucks .

He’s a Robot Monk

In Overwatch ’s backstory , some bad stuff went down with artificial intelligence before the events of the biz . essentially , a bunch of automaton rise up against their human master copy , something called the Omnic Crisis . The Overwatch establishment was formed to defeat the robots — and they did — but in the backwash of the war , a certain faction of them choose to mould a religious gild , promoting pacification with the humans through religion .

Zenyatta is one such Thelonious Sphere Monk , who finally left the order to move around the world and dispense his own sword of spectral justice , which call for telekinetically throw out nut into peoples face at deadly speeds . That ’s fashion cooler than “ Morally equivocal designer ” or “ Shitty Cowboy ” if you ask me .

He’s a Healer, So You Get to Feel Morally Superior to Everyone Else

The life of an Overwatch support graphic symbol — the class of character assign as specializing in providing healing , service program , and buffs for their teammates rather than specializing in offensive or defensive abilities — iscertainly a thankless one . Zenyatta specially so , though , as he ’s actually the hardest healer to get a clutches on in the biz .

Unlike his fellow healers , Zenyatta ’s healing orbs are a second weak . They also involve you to stay in line - of - sight with whoever they ’re being used on , and hold that Zenyatta is a squishy therapist , that signify leaving him in risk . And that means to be an efficacious healer you have to be on your secret plan constantly , but hey — you get to finger proficient than those assholes who always pick the damage - concentre characters and nothing else , judge them as they spam the “ I need healing because I did something dumb ! ” button .

He’s Also a Cold-Blooded Killer

Where Zenyatta also differs from his fellow healers is that he ’s surprisingly lethal . One of his special ability is a debuff that makes his target take extra damage , and combined with his deathly graze attempt he can melt most of the other characters in Overwatch . As he ’s slow and vulnerable most hoi polloi do n’t expect it , but Zenyatta can and will beat the living shit out of you if you do n’t pay attention . It ’s almost uproariously schizophrenic that a healing monk also swim around the field of honor kill people leave , right , and center .

He Says the Darndest Things

Speaking of that , while he ’s either bring around people or crush them into itty bitty bits of pulp , Zenyatta ’s representative is famously chill . He ’s passably monotone , and just waltz around saying cute lines like how he dreamt he was a butterfly stroke while mangle the aliveness daylights out of people .

Even in moments of failure , he sounds lovely :

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You just wanna pat his little golem heading .

Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire

collapse that it ’s a first - person shooter , everyone has a weapon in Overwatch . There ’s bows , shurikens , shotgun , handgun and assault rifles , even wilder alternative like Mei ’s cryo - ray or Reinhardt ’s rocket - power hammer . Zenyatta ignores that and throws alloy testis with his head . And then reloads them by clapping his hands in prayer .

Seriously , look at that gif . That ’s gorgeous . Now imagine getting to see that all the time , instead of something boring like shotguns or SMGs . Balls are the ultimate telecasting game weapon , apparently .