10 Best Overwatch Characters - Ranked

Backstory: Junkrat is one of the more colourful characters in Overwatch when it comes to personality alone, which is fairly ironic with his design palette consisting of washed out browns and greys. He’s an eccentric explosives expert with a penchant for complete mayhem and total destruction. He overacts in every situation, and provides some much needed (albeit dark) comic relief, from time to time. 9/10

Abilities: If it’s not loud and highly dangerous, Junkrat probably isn’t interested. Even the most discrete part of his arsenal is an almost comical bear-trap. He uses what’s effectively a grenade launcher for his standard fire, because of course he does, and can also leave remote mines anywhere he chooses.

More often that not, you’ll find yourself simply throwing one of these at an enemy and setting it off in mid-air. His ult suits his character perfectly, as he takes the gnarly looking tire off his back, and drives it in to a crowd of unsuspecting enemies, laying waste to the lot of them. He’s just an absolute joy to play. 9/10

Design: Junkrat is fairly unpleasant to look at, but for all of the right reasons. He uses a mix of colours that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Dark Souls game, and clothing that looks as if it’s straight out of Fallout. His hair is also on fire, so there’s that too. Whilst not having much in the way of event skins, his standard legendaries fit him well, and have just the right balance of creepy and cool. 8/10

Score: 8.5/10