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Overwatch 2has a unique and diverse roster of characters spread across three different roles - Tank, DPS, and Support. Each character within these roles has a unique ability kit that defines their playstyle and enables them to synergize with other Heroes to create synergy within a team composition.
The eighteenth addition to theOverwatch 2DPS rosterand the 40th Hero addition overall is a drill-wielding character known asVenture. First being playable as part of a tester weekend between June 30, 2025, and 31 March, 2024, and being fully released at the launch ofOverwatch 2’s season 10, Venture has a very mobile and close-ranged style approach, which makes learning their abilities, synergies, and counterpicks significantly important.
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Overwatch 2 Venture: Playstyle Tips
Due to the nature of Venture’s abilities, they operate effectively in close-range combat. For this reason, you’ll need to be clever about when you choose to engage and keep your surroundings and cooldowns in mind for each team fight to ensure survivability. As Venture isinvulnerable to damagewhenusing theirBurrowability, this is the perfect tool for retreating out of combat once you’ve dealt some damage or achieved a pick, enabling you to reposition.
In addition to this, Venture’sDrill Dashcan be used to achieve vertical mobility, which can enable Venture toreach high ground with ease. Pairing both Burrow and Drill Dash in quick succession not only gives Venture some very strong movement but also enables them to focus fire on targets. As Venture has a kit that enables them to thrive in 1v1 matchups against manyHeroes in theOverwatch 2roster, particularly Supports and low mobility targets, this approach can be highly rewarding as long as you keep an eye on how your team is playing around you and know when to back out.
Drill Dash can be used to push enemies away from one another, off ledges, into walls, or even back into your team forallies to follow up on. This abilityalso damages enemiesas you push them away, which makes it a brilliantfollow-up to Burrow or melee fire. In addition, Venture’s Clobber passive ensures more damage through the use of melee, making it a brilliant tool for securing picks - even more so than the normal melee finisher that every Hero comes equipped with.
However, you’ll need to keep in mind that if you use both Burrow and Drill Dash within a short interval, you will essentially lack strong movement abilities to get yourself out of close-ranged fights and back to safety to reposition and heal. To help remedy this, you will need tomake good use of natural coveraround you and even rotate playing like more of a poke hero while your abilities are on cooldown.
How To Counter Venture In Overwatch 2
As Venture is a Hero who relies heavily on utilizing their movement abilities to get in and out of close-ranged combat with the enemy, their biggest threat is Heroes who have the potential to either shut down these abilities or deal damage from outside of Venture’s range.A fewnotable Heroes that can operate as solid counters to Venture (depending on map and team composition) are as listed below:
