Best Overwatch Stadium Hero to Main · Season 2

Each hero is scored on a composite Maintainability Score designed for players who want to main a hero across many games. The score combines five signals, each normalised to a 0–100 scale and weighted as follows:

• Win rate (30%).The hero's Bayesian-shrunk win rate, normalised against the site's tier thresholds. Shrinkage pulls low-sample heroes toward 50% so noisy data can't inflate the score.
• Consistency (20%). One minus the max-min per-map win rate spread. A hero that wins 52% everywhere beats one that wins 60% on two maps and 42% on the rest.
• Vs meta (20%).The hero's average win rate specifically against the top-quartile heroes by win rate. Captures matchup resilience against the heroes you'll actually face on ladder, which is orthogonal to map win rate.
• Synergy breadth (15%). The average shrunk synergy win rate across every ally, weighted by how often each ally is played. Penalises heroes that only work with one specific teammate.
• Confidence (15%). A logistic function of total tracked matches. A hero with 50k matches saturates near the top; one with 1k gets heavily discounted. Keeps small-sample outliers from leading a role.

We apply a hard eligibility floor before scoring: a hero needs at least 5,000 tracked matches (1,000 for Stadium, given the smaller pool) and a shrunk win rate of 49% or better.

Honourable mentionssurface heroes that don't win the top spot but shine in a specific situation: dominating a particular division, only struggling when you drop one map from the rotation, or hard-countering the current meta hero. We never repeat heroes across categories, and fall back to the next-highest overall score when a situational pick isn't available.

Composition fit(poke, rush, or dive) is a qualitative input rather than a scoring axis here. A one trick who fits multiple archetypes is more maintainable across meta shifts than a one-archetype specialist, because team comps cycle even when the tier list doesn't. Each hero's archetype scores are visible on the hero detail page and in the team builder.

Data is pulled from thousands of tracked community matches and refreshed daily around 07:00 UTC. Last updated: May 17, 2026.