Blizzard has revealed the promised redesign for Overwatch character Anran, after gamers and her voice actor mentioned she didn’t look proper.
In February, Blizzard introduced a significant content material replace for Overwatch 2, which included the dropping of the ‘2’ from its identify and the addition of 10 new heroes.
Considered one of these, a injury character known as Anran, beforehand appeared in an animated trailer in August 2025 introducing her youthful brother Wuyang. When she was confirmed as playable within the recreation, nevertheless, gamers complained that her design had been fully modified, making her look youthful and an excessive amount of like a number of the different feminine Overwatch heroes.
Issues reached a head when streamer Fareeha, who voices Anran within the recreation, took to X to say she didn’t like the brand new design, and that she “acquired to mourn Anran between the design I had hoped for and the design we ended up with”.
Overwatch recreation director Aaron Keller promised that Anran can be redesigned and now, in a brand new video on the official Overwatch YouTube channel and X account, that redesign was revealed.
“We wish our heroes to really feel distinctive, however we additionally need their visuals to match their character, and we really feel like we didn’t fairly land that when Anran first launched,” Keller mentioned within the new video.
“We expect she may come throughout older, and that her unique model was too harmless and playful. Anran is assured, decided, fierce and a pure born chief, and we would like her visuals in-game to convey that character, so we made some changes to her face.”
Keller defined that Anran’s eyebrows, eyes and mouth had been tweaked to “transfer away from that child face, look and expression to one thing extra honest and extra mature”.
“We’re actually proud of the best way these adjustments turned out, and likewise that she has a more in-depth resemblance to her brother Wuyang,” Keller added.
Participant response on social media has been blended, with some proud of the adjustments, others believing the adjustments don’t go far sufficient, and others believing Blizzard shouldn’t have needed to make any adjustments within the first place.
One particular person proud of the change, nevertheless, is Anran’s voice actor Fareeha, who wrote on X: “So grateful for this replace, she seems to be far more just like the robust older sibling we knew her to be. Thanks [Blizzard] Group 4 and thanks Overwatch neighborhood.”
