Moira has long occupied a unique, sometimes controversial, niche in the Overwatch Support roster. Her high resource efficiency and self-sustain made her a powerful flanking threat, often frustrating teams with her ability to secure easy eliminations. However, this often led to players neglecting their primary role—healing the Tank and DPS lines.

Blizzard has introduced a comprehensive rebalance aimed at solidifying Moira’s identity as a high-throughput, dedicated healer, making her a more reliable asset for sustaining team fights.

The Rebalance: Healing Over Harassment

The core changes target the output ratio of her Biotic abilities, pushing her away from aggressive damage output:

  • Biotic Orb Rework: The damage potential of Moira’s Biotic Orb has been notably reduced. Simultaneously, the healing throughput of the Healing Orb has been increased. This makes the decision to launch a Healing Orb far more impactful for team sustainability and punishes the common tendency to use the Damage Orb for easy ultimate charge.
  • Increased Biotic Grasp Healing: The healing rate of Moira’s primary Biotic Grasp (right-click) has been slightly boosted. This makes her burst healing immediately more effective for saving critical teammates, especially Tanks, under heavy fire.
  • Resource Management Focus: These changes emphasize the importance of managing her Biotic Energy resource. Players are now heavily incentivized to drain their resource via healing, as the damage orb provides less comparative value to refill it.

The intent is to ensure that a skilled Moira player is focused on enabling their team, not hunting low-health targets.

Tactical and Meta Consequences

This rebalance immediately affects Moira’s role and her pairing with other Supports:

  1. Shift from Flanking: The reduced damage potential makes the aggressive, flanking “DPS Moira” playstyle significantly less rewarding. Players who prioritize damage over healing will find themselves failing to secure kills and depleting their healing resource faster.
  2. Reliable Main Healer: Moira is now cemented as a powerful, high-throughput main healer. She excels at sustaining teams clustered together and is an excellent counter to area-of-effect damage, making her a strong pairing with aggressive Brawl compositions.
  3. Synergy with Utility Supports: The change opens up new pairing opportunities. Moira’s increased healing reliability means she can be paired effectively with more utility-focused Supports (like Lúcio or Zenyatta), allowing the secondary Support to focus on speed or defensive buffs.

The Moira rebalance successfully enforces her role as a dedicated healer, ensuring her unique abilities contribute primarily to team longevity rather than individual fragging success.