Overwatch 2 Zarya Player Wins Match With Perfectly-Timed Ult

An Overwatch 2 Zarya player recently won a match for their team with an expertly-timed Graviton Surge that pulled the entire team off of the point in overtime. This Overwatch 2 clip is a powerful reminder that Ultimate abilities don’t need to deal damage directly to turn the tide of a battle.

Zarya is one of the original tank heroes introduced when Overwatch first launched. Characterized by her Particle Cannon, which grows more powerful if her Particle Barriers take damage, as well as her Graviton Surge ultimate that summons a black hole to lock down enemies, Zarya is one of the more versatile and persistent tanks in Overwatch 2.

Recently, a new Zarya gameplay clip showed that the hero is just as disruptive in Overwatch 2 as she was in its predecessor. Overwatch 2 player PincheFlakco, who shared the gameplay footage on Reddit, was playing Zarya on the defense team on Blizzard World. As the match went into overtime on the capture point, the Ashe on their Overwatch 2 team summoned B.O.B. to put pressure on them. Most of the team pushed in on Ashe and B.O.B. to get them away from the objective, giving PincheFlakco the perfect shot to trap all of them in a Graviton Surge off the point. After quickly dispatching the enemy Kiriko, who evaded the ultimate, their team claimed victory in the Overwatch 2 match.

Clutch Graviton Surge Zarya Play in Overwatch 2

If this clip was not amazing enough on its own, the victory screen then proceeded to glitch out, showing PincheFlakco and their Overwatch 2 team A-posing, rather than using their respective victory poses. Unfortunately, PincheFlakco didn’t manage to get the Play of the Game with this use of Graviton Surge, despite it winning the game for their team.

Needless to say, with over 1,000 upvotes and nearly 100 comments within the first day of posting the clip, PincheFlakco’s fellow Overwatch 2 players got a kick out of their incredible ultimate. Many applauded them for saving Graviton Surge for the perfect moment, or laughed at Overwatch 2‘s angelic Mercy dual-wielding Caduceus Staves on the glitched-out victory screen. Others criticized the enemy team, as the majority of them pushed off the point at the end of the map, giving Zarya the chance to lock them down and win the match.

A new Overwatch 2 quality-of-life improvement makes it so that wounded enemies now always display their health bars. While this change is hugely popular among fans, it does make chasing down low-health heroes a huge temptation rather than staying on the point – much like the enemy team did in this clip. It will be up to players to remember to keep an eye on their objective, lest they fall prey to a well-timed Zarya ultimate in their own games.

Overwatch 2

Overwatch 2 is Blizzard’s free-to-play team-based first-person shooter. The title features some new heroes like Junker Queen and Sojourn, as well as returning favorites.

Franchise

Overwatch

Released

October 4, 2022

Genre(s)

Shooter

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