Overwatch 2 Season 12 hero Juno: Release date, abilities, & more
BlizzardJuno, codenamed “Space Ranger” before her reveal, is Overwatch 2 Season 12’s newest Martian hero. Here’s everything we know about the hero, including release date, abilities, and more.
Overwatch 2’s developers have been busy in the past year. Season 9 saw a massive overhaul to competitive, and Venture’s Season 10 arrival was well-received from a gameplay standpoint. While Season 11 was quiet, it was rolling out the carpet for Season 12‘s Space Ranger.
Now that the season is nearly here, the game’s devs have offered a look into what we can expect from her. Here’s everything we know so far about Overwatch 2’s first Martian hero, Space Ranger.
Does Juno have an Overwatch 2 release date?
Juno is set to release in Season 12, which will be arriving on August 20, 2024, as confirmed in Juno’s reveal trailer.
Just like the past few heroes, Juno was be available to test out for a limited time before her full release in Season 12, though she’s now unavailable until the Season officially launches.
You’ll be able to try Juno out in the new Clash mode that’s coming to the game, a mode that revives beloved Overwatch 1 maps with a twist.
Additionally, all new Overwatch 2 heroes are free from here on out, meaning you’ll get to play Space Ranger the day she arrives in-game.
Overwatch 2 Juno trailer
Juno received a character trailer during Xbox’s Day 2 event at Gamescom 2024, which can be seen on the official Overwatch YouTube channel. The vid shows Juno struggling on a space mission, before arriving on Earth and communicating with the members of Overwatch.
Overwatch 2’s Juno abilities, role, & more
As was already teased in BlizzCon 2023, Juno will be Overwatch 2’s newest Support hero.
Juno’s Primary Fire, Mediblaster, is a burst fire weapon that both heals allies and damages enemies. You can think of it as a hybrid of Baptiste’s burst fire and Ana’s biotic rifle.
Her Secondary Fire, Pulsar Torpedoes, will shoot homing projectiles that will lock onto your target. It will either heal allies over time or damage enemies.
Glide Boost, which is her mobility skill, can be used for Juno to glide horizontally with increased movement speed. She also has a passive, Martian Overboots, which allows her to double jump and hold jump to hover.
Hyper Ring lets Juno put down a big ring that allies can pass through to gain an increase in movement speed. Her ultimate, Orbital Ray, is a massive ray that moves forward while healing allies and increasing their damage.
As for Juno’a backstory, all we know based on the in-game teasers is that she went to grad school with Mei, and crashlanded into Earth in a pod.