Overwatch 2 Moira guide: Abilities, tips & how to unlock
Learn everything you need to know about Moira, a powerful Overwatch 2 support character, including her abilities, and some tips for using them.
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Amongst all the characters, Moira is perhaps one of the strongest support characters in Overwatch 2 and the best of both worlds.
While they may have a bit of a learning curve, once you have everything you know under your belt, you’ll become a force to be reckoned with. Here’s a rundown of her abilities and a few tips to help you master this support character.
Abilities explained
| Name | Type | Effect |
| Biotic Grasp | Primary Fire | Hold to heal all allies in front of you. Consumes biotic energy |
| Biotic Grasp Alt Fire | Secondary Fire | Long range beam weapon. Damage dealt heals you and replenishes your biotic energy |
| Biotic Orb | Ability | Launch a bouncing sphere that either heals nearby allies or damages nearby enemies |
| Fade | Ability | Disappear, move faster, and become invulnerable, but you cannot shoot |
| Coalescence | Ultimate | Fire a beam that heals allies and damages enemies |
| Role: Support | Role Passive | Begin regenerating health more quickly |
Tips for playing Moira
The best advice I can give you for Moira is to stay agile. Her movement allows you to quickly flow around the battlefield and get the upper hand in many situations.
With this being said, you’re going to want to use that to your advantage and avoid getting into any head-on-head collisions with enemy players. Instead, I recommend flanking as best as possible.
If you do find yourself in a tricky situation, use the Fade ability as fast as possible to escape. If you combine this with jumping, you will leap into the air and quickly evade a ton of deadly encounters.
It doesn’t last too long, so quickly plan your escape route before utilizing this ability. Fade is also a great ability to use to escape from many devastating attacks, such as D.Va’s Self-Destruct ability.
With Moira, you can easily rip apart enemy teams with a combination of Biotic Orb and Biotic Grasp. Using the former, you will send enemies into a panic as they try and get away. This is the best time to strike, and use the opportunity of them fleeing to quickly drain the life out of them and replenish your healing bar.
Being a support class, healing is just as vital. Using all the life you’ve drained from foes needs to go somewhere, and supporting your team is crucial to success.
You can do this by using the Biotic Orb to throw it towards your squad if they’re in a dicey situation, or you can one-on-one heal with your Biotic Grasp. If you want to heal a tank character quicker, we recommend combining the two.
Finally, using Moira’s Coalescence ultimate ability is a great way to keep your team’s health up to snuff. It can be used to damage enemies, but it mitigates so slowly it’s perhaps not worth it. Standing back and healing from the trenches is your best port of call once your ultimate is ready to use.
How to unlock Moira in Overwatch 2
Moira is amongst the 15 free characters that everyone gets automatically after booting the game up, so enjoy her!
About The Author
Daniel Hollis
Daniel is a former Guides Writer for GGRecon. Having originally focused on film journalism, he eventually made the jump to writing about games in 2020, writing for sites such as NME. Eurogamer, GamesRadar, Tech Radar, and more. After a short stint in PR, he is back in the world of games media writing about his favourite games, including Bioshock, Fable, or everything Fortnite and Xbox Game Pass related.
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