For the past couple of days, the entire gaming community has been anxiously waiting for the Blizzard to officially announce the new Hero 27 for Overwatch. In this time, we have heard a ton of rumors, some even as bizarre as a flying cat. However, with the developers officially unveiling the all-new hero for Overwatch last night, the speculations can finally come to an end.

Overwatch Brigitte Reveal

According to the official announcement, the new hero for Overwatch goes by the name of Brigitte Lindholm, who is the youngest daughter Torbjorn, Overwatch‘s resident engineer and weapon designer. The new hero shares a similar model that of her father with the armor style and all.

However, since she was training under her godfather, Reinhardt, her fighting style is almost the same as the hammer-wielding tank. If you wish to learn more about Brigitte and her past, check out her origin story below.

Though Brigitte possesses similar characteristics as of Reinhardt, she is not a complete tank as she has a few abilities which also make her support. Hence, you can call her a hybrid between both a tank and support.

With her increased melee range and stun capabilities, Brigitte is one of the most diverse characters in the game. Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan goes beyond to call her “Meta-changing.” For more details regarding Hero 27 and her abilities, you can check out the developers’ official update video, featuring all that you need to know about Brigitte.

Though the character has yet to be officially launched for the actual game, you can try her out on Overwatch’s PTR servers. However, since the servers for the game come and go, we would advise you to do so as soon as possible, as you never really know when the servers shut down.

That is it for now. Stay tuned as we will be bringing you more details regarding the all-new character and her official release very soon.