Competitive gamers need a lot of things to dominate.
To be the very best, gamers need to have excellent hand-eye coordination, a solid gaming rig, good equipment and accessories, and lots of skill. But it’s essential to have some good keybinds for each specific game, too.
When playing any competitive shooter, it’s obviously important to have keybinds that you’re comfortable with. To excel and play at your best, the keyboard should become an extension of your hands, and button presses should happen without even really thinking about them.
It’s a good thing that, by default, Overwatch’s keybinds are already pretty great. You don’t need to do too much work to them unless you have some extreme preferences, such as loading up your 40-button MMO mouse with abilities and commands.
In Overwatch 2, the addition of an in-game Ping button has changed the game, allowing players to communicate with their teammates and call out things like enemy locations without having to use voice chat.
Here’s the best, basic way to fix up your Overwatch 2 keybinds.
Best Overwatch 2 keybinds and controls
Movement
- Forward: W
- Back: S
- Left: A
- Right: D
- Crouch: Left Alt
- Jump: Space
Weapons and abilities
- Ability 1: Left Shift
- Ability 2: E
- Ultimate/Ability 3: Q
- Primary Fire: Left Mouse
- Secondary Fire: Right Mouse
- Equip Weapon 1: 1
- Equip Weapon 2: 2
- Quick Melee: Mouse 4
- Reload: R
- Next Weapon: Scroll wheel up
- Previous Weapon: Scroll wheel down
Communication
- Communication Menu: C
- Need Healing: X
- Group Up: G
- Ultimate Status: Z
- Acknowledge: Left Ctrl
- Ping – In World: Middle Mouse
Emotes, voice lines, sprays
- Emote Menu: B
- Voice Line Menu: J
- Spray Menu: T
Chat and voice
- Hide Chat: Shift + Ctrl + C
- Open Chat: Enter
- Reply to Whisper: Backspace
- Team Chat: Y
- Voice Chat Push to Talk: V
Published: Jul 11, 2022 12:11 pm