Blizzard admits Overwatch Mythic skin favoritism is a problem and promises to fix it

Blizzard art director Dion Rogers has acknowledged that Overwatch fans are fed up with the same heroes hoarding Mythic skins, and says fixing the distribution is now the team's top priority.

Mythic skins are Overwatch's most premium cosmetics — fully customizable with ability visual effect changes — and cost around $70 or 80 Mythic Prisms each. Only two drop per season, which makes every choice feel high-stakes. The frustration boiled over recently when Widowmaker received her second Mythic, Void Dancer, in the same season Genji got his second as well. Heroes like Kiriko and Genji keep stacking Mythics while dozens of others still have none, and the community backlash to the Void Dancer reveal was overwhelmingly negative. Rogers told PC Gamer the team doesn't deliberately sideline certain heroes — it comes down to what the team is excited about or what ideas are already on the table, and some heroes are simply easier to design for than others.

Overwatch 2 launched its Mythic skin system as one of the flagship features of its battle pass model, but with over 40 heroes in the roster, the math has always been brutal. At two Mythics per season, it would take years to give every hero even one — so repeat recipients feel especially wasteful to fans who've been waiting since the system launched. Rogers confirmed the team has already run a broad brainstorming session — described as a "big blue-sky sketch" — specifically aimed at hitting as many underserved heroes as possible and seeing what concepts emerge.

Rogers called it "the number one thing" the team will start conceptualizing next, which is encouraging, though Mythic skins take significant time to develop. Realistically, a more diverse lineup is still several months away at minimum. Whether the community's patience holds that long is another question entirely.