3/25/2025
Primal Rage
- Ultimate cost increased 10%.
3/18/2025
Developer Comments: Short Circuit is being adjusted to improve its effectiveness in specific matchups against deployables such as barriers or turrets.
Short Circuit
- Damage versus deployable objects increased from 30% to 50%
2/18/2025
Short Circuit
- Tesla Cannon deals 30% more damage to deployable objects.
Heavy Landing
- During Primal Rage, Jump Pack's damage and area increase by up to 75% while airborne.
Chain Lightning
- Fully charged Secondary Fire hits bounce to up to 2 additional targets.
Revitalizing Barrier
- Barrier Projector heals allies within it for 30 health per second.
1/21/2025
Developer Comment: Winston's dive potential has been impacted by the increased health pools of enemies. By boosting the damage of the Tesla Cannon's secondary fire and providing more ammo, this will allow Winston to follow up and finish off enemies without needing to reload as often.
Tesla Cannon
- Ammo increased from 100 to 120
- Secondary fire max charge damage increased from 50 to 60
Primal Rage
- Ultimate ability cost increased by 12%
12/17/2024
- Base health increased from 225 to 350.
- Base armor reduced from 250 to 200.
Tesla Cannon
- No longer ignores armor damage reduction.
- Secondary fire charge time increased from 0.85 to 1.1 sec.
- Secondary fire ammo cost increased from 12 to 25.
Jump Pack
- Cooldown increased from 5 to 6 seconds.
Barrier Projector
- Cooldown increased from 12 to 13 seconds.
Primal Rage
- Maximum health gain reduced from 700 to 500.
12/10/2024
Developer Comment: Winston's leap now has a higher maximum damage to better reward accuracy when landing directly next to a target, though it still has damage falloff when landing further away.
Jump Pack
- Damage increased from 50 to 60.
9/3/2024
Tesla Cannon
- Damage per second reduced from 75 to 70.
7/5/2024
Developer Comments: Winston is one of the top performing tanks at the moment, though when considering how satisfying the individual abilities within his kit are, the Tesla Cannon secondary fire felt underwhelming for how long it took to charge, so it'll now be a bit more fluid. We also still want Primal Rage mode Winston to be killable, but adding some health to it will help avoid some of the extreme situations where it could happen too quickly.
Tesla Cannon
- Secondary fire charge time reduced from 1 second to 0.85 seconds.
Primal Rage
- Maximum health gained increased from 500 to 700.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Empowering the “no aim” playstyle.
Tesla Cannon
- Secondary Fire now chains between enemies.
Primal Rage
- Punches also cause lightning to chain between enemies.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 200 to 225.
- Armor increased from 200 to 250.
Tesla Cannon
- Primary Fire damage increased from 60 to 75 damage per second.
Primal Rage
- Punch damage increased from 40 to 50.
12/5/2023
Tesla Cannon
- Now ignores armor damage reduction.
10/31/2023
Developer comments: Increasing the range of the alternate fire will give Winston some more flexibility in positioning while dealing damage from range.
Tesla Cannon
- Secondary fire range increased from 30 to 40 meters.
10/10/2023
Primal Rage
- Primal Rage melee attacks can now be fired with Secondary Fire and Quick Melee along with Primary Fire.
Added the hero-specific options:
- Relative Aim Sensitivity During Primal Rage - 100% by default.
- Relative Gyro Aim Sensitivity During Primal Rage - 100% by default (Only available on gyro-supported platforms).
8/10/2023
Tesla Cannon
- Secondary fire now chains up to 4 additional nearby enemies, dealing depreciating damage each chain.
Jump Pack
- Landing damage now increases while in the air, up to 250% more damage over 2.5 seconds.
5/9/2023
Added the Hero-Specific Option:
- Toggle Secondary Fire - Off by default
2/7/2023
- Base health in Role Queue modes remains the same at 350
- Base health in non-Role Queue modes reduced from 350 to 200
Barrior Projector
- Health reduced from 700 to 650