Best team comps and builds – Hybrid – August 2016 – Overwatch

How to set up a deadly starting team to dominate Hollywood, King's Row and Numbani

While things are looking fairly vanilla at the moment in terms of team builds, we’re expecting a lot of clever compositions to be cooked up in the many months of metagaming ahead of us in Overwatch. Some of these will no doubt prove to be instant classics, while others will be exposed as rather gimmicky and get quickly countered, before fading off into the background as quickly as they appeared. Such is the nature of an ever-evolving game like Overwatch.

Thanks to the early competitive scene that took place during Overwatch’s beta period, we do actually have an idea of what the best team builds you can field in the game might look like. As we’ve said already they’re pretty plain-looking right now, but as the overall skill level of the playerbase goes up, we expect some very clever tricks to be discovered – they’ll spread like wildfire when they’re found.

In the next installment of our guide to all of the best team compositions currently available in Overwatch, we’re taking a closer look at how to build a better team on the Hybrid maps Hollywood, King’s Row and Numani. As those more outlandish team builds we’re hoping to see are created, we’ll add them here so that you and your friends always have something fun to mess around with. If you discover any fun strategies, please share them in the comments!

A final note before we start. In putting these builds together, we’ve been very mindful of the fact that there should be some degree of flexibility in actually picking your team of six. Most people aren’t, after all, pros and so we’ve tried to give you at least a couple of choices for each role – they’re all pretty interchangeable. It’s also important to remember that these make good starting teams, but you must adapt your Hero selections to counter your opposite numbers!

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Overwatch: Best team comps and builds – Hybrid – June 2016

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Overwatch: Best team comps and builds – Assault

Overwatch: Best team comps and builds – Control

Overwatch: Best team comps and builds – Escort

Hybrid map team comps and builds

Here’s a run through all of the teams you might want to think about forming for the three Hybrid maps in Overwatch.

As always, we’ve provided multiple options from the strongest pool of possible Heroes – you must, as always, adapt from your starting choices to deal with the evolving threat in front of you.

Hollywood team comps and builds – June 2016

Attacking

Hero	Role	Guide
D.Va	Tank	D.Va guide
Reinhardt	Tank	Reinhardt guide
Lucio	Support	Lucio guide
Mercy	Support	Mercy guide
Genji	Offense	Genji guide
Pharah	Offense	Pharah guide
Tracer	Offense	Tracer guide

Defending

Hero	Role	Guide
D.Va	Tank	D.Va guide
Reinhardt	Tank	Reinhardt guide
Winston	Tank	Winston guide
Lucio	Support	Lucio guide
Mercy	Support	Mercy guide
Hanzo	Defense	Hanzo guide
Widowmaker	Defense	Widowmaker guide
McCree	Offense	McCree guide
Pharah	Offense	Pharah guide
Tracer	Offense	Tracer guide

Alternative defense: 5 Torbjorns and 1 Lucio can make capturing the Payload extremely difficult. Spread the turrets out, be prepared to move them if necessary, and stay mobile as Torbjorn taking pot-shots whenever the opportunity presents itself.

– Hollywood guide

King’s Row team comps and builds – June 2016

Attacking

Hero	Role	Guide
D.Va	Tank	D.Va guide
Reinhardt	Tank	Reinhardt guide
Lucio	Support	Lucio guide
Mercy	Support	Mercy guide
Genji	Offense	Genji guide
Pharah	Offense	Pharah guide
Reaper	Offense	Reaper guide
Tracer	Offense	Tracer guide

Defending

Hero	Role	Guide
D.Va	Tank	D.Va guide
Reinhardt	Tank	Reinhardt guide
Lucio	Support	Lucio guide
Mercy	Support	Mercy guide
Hanzo	Defense	Hanzo guide
Mei	Defense	Mei guide
Symmetra	Defense	Symmetra guide
Widowmaker	Defense	Widowmaker guide

– King’s Row guide

Numbani team comps and builds – June 2016

Attacking

Hero	Role	Guide
D.Va	Tank	D.Va guide
Reinhardt	Tank	Reinhardt guide
Winston	Tank	Winston guide
Lucio	Support	Lucio guide
Mercy	Support	Mercy guide
Genji	Offense	Genji guide
Pharah	Offense	Pharah guide
Tracer	Offense	Tracer guide

Defending

Hero	Role	Guide
D.Va	Tank	D.Va guide
Reinhardt	Tank	Reinhardt guide
Lucio	Support	Lucio guide
Mercy	Support	Mercy guide
Hanzo	Defense	Hanzo guide
Mei	Defense	Mei guide
Junkrat	Defense	Junkrat guide
Widowmaker	Defense	Widowmaker guide

– Numbani guide