Soon, the collaboration betweenOverwatch 2andOne Punch Manwill arrive in Blizzard’s free-to-play team shooter. On March 2, Blizzard revealed that Kiriko would be receiving a new Legendary skin as part of the collaboration coming soon toOverwatch 2, and shared some details about how the new skin was made.According to Blizzard, theOverwatch 2xOne Punch Mancollaboration runs from March 7 through April 6. Fittingly enough, the event has been highlighted by Doomfist appropriately receiving a Legendary skin based on Saitama, the eponymous One Punch Man. Whilethe series has been considered a one-hit wonderfollowing its first two seasons,One Punch Manwill receive a third anime season in the future. While ONE’s work is a pastiche of the superhero genre by design, only time will tell which studio has the unenviable task of turning the series around following its critically-panned second season.RELATED:Overwatch 2 Fan Makes Adorable Custom Emote for KirikoAs forOverwatch 2, Kiriko’s Legendary skin for theOne Punch Mancollaboration is based on Tatsumaki, the Terrible Tornado. Though she is a bratty and arrogant girl,Tatsumaki possesses potent telekinetic abilities, which allowed her to take down some ofOne Punch Man’s most notorious monsters. While this seems like a strange choice at first glance, considering that Kiriko is a Support hero, the powers that both Tatsumaki and Kiriko possess are as swift as the wind.
However, according toOverwatch 2art director Dion Rogers, one of the reasons that Kiriko will receive a Tatsumaki skin for the event was due to how the character’s base silhouette felt natural for making a cosplay-like skin for the event. Rogers stated that while giving Kiriko just the hairstyle would have been a simple solution, he and the art design team chose Kiriko’s clothing as the main focal point for making the Terrible Tornado skin. In addition to the skin, Kiriko herself will receive a thematic name card and the “Terribly Impressive” victory pose. Plus, Kiriko’s fox spirit, kunai, and talisman will also receive Tatsumaki’s green tint in matches. Whether the Terrible Tornado skin will work flawlessly on launch, or sufferissues like Ashe’s Raijin skin, remains to be seen.
In the meantime,Overwatch 2Season 3 started on February 7, though not without issues and complaints from players. Fromcompetitive matchmaking imbalance issuesto ongoing complaints about Blizzard’s monetization practices with the battle pass, fate has not been kind to the game as of late. Only time will tell if theOne Punch Mancollaboration will quell some of these issues, or if they will persist into Season 4 next month.
Overwatch 2is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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