Overwatch 2 is on a hot streak for Season 16, adding a new Stadium game mode, a hero damage hero called Freja, and a collab with the classic mecha anime Gundam Wing.
However, Blizzard has decided to make dreams come true for Overwatch and fighting game fans alike as it has announced that Overwatch 2’s next collab will be Street Fighter 6, the latest entry in Capcom‘s Street Fighter franchise.
According to the announcement trailer, the collab event will begin on May 20, 2025. The event will include Street Fighter-themed costumes for several Overwatch 2 heroes and emotes inspired by special moves characters use in Street Fighter.
The characters to receive Street Fighter costumes in the Street Fighter 6 collab event, as confirmed in the trailer so far, include:
- Juno as Chun-Li
- Hanzo as Ryu
- Widowmaker as Cammy
- Kiriko as Juri
- Soldier 76 as Guile
- Zenyatta as Dhalsim
- Winston as Blanka
- Sigma as M. Bison
The Overwatch x Street Fighter dream crossover has finally come true
Back when I played the original Overwatch in the late 2010s, I often thought that Overwatch was the Street Fighter of PvP shooters due to its anime-esque, over-the-top character designs and how the gameplay revolves around using “special moves” to beat your opponents.
I would have never thought in a million years that Overwatch would get an actual crossover event with Street Fighter, but then again, I never expected Diablo 4 to get a crossover with Berserk, so anything’s possible these days.
Either way, I’m glad this Collab is happening as both Overwatch and Street Fighter are awesome, and I can’t wait to see how the rest of the Street Fighter 6 skins will look in-game as Hanzo’s Ryu skin already looks amazing.
On a side note, when the crossover goes live on May 20, 2025, I hope there will be a special arcade mode where we get to beat up cars like in Street Fighter’s mini-games that happen in between fights!
Overwatch 2’s Stadium Mode is available now on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC.
