Overwatch 2: Juno Guide

Overwatch 2 is releasing the latest Support character to hit the roster, Juno, previously referred to as 'Space Ranger' by the community. At first, Juno will have a trial weekend between the dates of July 19, 2024, and July 21, 2024, before releasing permanently at the beginning of Season 12.

If you're looking to pick up Juno as your new main, or even just add her as another character to your hero pool, then learning how her abilities function, and which opponents create the most trouble for her is essential. Players can find all of the information they'll need regarding Juno's abilities, how she plays, and who may counter her, in the guide below.

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Overwatch 2 Juno: Hero Kit & Abilities, Explained

Juno is a Support character with solid mobility and brilliant utility to offer her team. With a weapon that is capable of both healing her allies or dealing damage to enemies all with the same button, Juno should pretty much be shooting non-stop, with smart target priority, and can assist herself or her allies with lock-on burst damage, or healing over time with use of her secondary fire. Lastly, Juno is the second character introduced with a speed-boosting ability, through her Hyper Ring - which means she thrives in dive comps or rush comps with the likes of Lucio, Winston, D.Va, Wrecking Ball, Genji, and Tracer, among other heroes and team compositions.

Here is a complete breakdown of each part of Juno's kit, including her weapon, abilities, and ultimate:

Mediblaster - Primary Fire

Burst fire weapon that heals allies and damages enemies.

Pulsar Torpedoes - Secondary Fire

Press Secondary Fire to lock on, then Primary Fire to fire homing projectiles. Heals allies over time and damages enemies.

Glide Boost

Glide horizontally with increased movement speed.

Hyper Ring

Deploy a ring that increases movement speed of allies who pass through it.

Martian Overboots

While airborne, press jump to double jump, and hold jump to hover.

Orbital Ray - Ultimate Ability

Call down a ray that travels forward, healing allies and increasing their damage.

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Juno Gameplay Tips & Counters In Overwatch 2

As with any other Overwatch character, Juno has several things to keep in mind when choosing to play her, such as which abilities can be countered by the opposition, which allies synergize with her the best, which Heroes which she will generally thrive or suffer against in matchups.

Juno Gameplay Tips

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Unlike other heroes, Juno's weapon can't headshot, so there's no point in aiming for the head - instead farm body shots to deal damage or heal allies.
Juno doesn't need to go through her Hyper Ring to gain a speed boost like her allies do, instead, she receives it immediately upon casting the ability.
Her Ultimate Abilty can pass through walls, rooftops, floor levels, and entire buildings.
Unlike other flying characters, Juno doesn't have vertical mobility in her dash. This means that you need to be clever about when and how you use your double jump and hover, and how you time this with your dash to achieve solid movement or rotations to a high ground.
While she has strong movement, Juno is very weak when isolated, due to a lack of protective ability. Juno is out-damaged even by other supports in a 1v1, due to not being able to headshot and no self-healing or self-saving ability. This means she is vulnerable to characters who can cut her off from the team and catch her in a 1v1 dive, such as Genji, Winston, D.Va, and Tracer, or flankers, such as Cassidy, Reaper, and Sombra.

Best Heroes For Countering Juno

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Tank: Winston or D.Va - As mentioned above, Juno can be very vulnerable to dive heroes, especially Tanks, who she will almost never outdamage in a full 1v1. Winston is one of the Tank Heroes capable of harassing and picking Juno, while D.Va appears to be the strongest option, as in addition to being able to chase her down with her boost, she can also matrix Juno's bullets.
DPS - Sombra / Tracer / Genji: Sombra has the ability to watch while invisible and isolate Juno from her team once movement abilities have been caught up, or when she is caught out of position. With no self heal or save ability, Juno is very easy to pick with hack and virus, especially when isolated. Tracer can simply zip around and harass Juno. With a good aim, Tracer can take down Juno very easily - especially when she is in her horizontal glide. Genji takes the same approach, as he can harrass her with his shiruken damage and dash. Furthermore, his Deflect is capable of deflecting her turrets, though they will not lock on to enemies when deflected. Juno is reliant on her team to peel on her when these Heroes attack her, and if this doesn't happen, then she's a fairly easy target.
DPS - Ashe / Widowmaker / Hanzo: Juno's horizontal mobility is quite easily readable, and a Juno with poor general mobility is also very easy to read. A skilled sniper DPS can take advantage of this with good positioning and maintaining range, as Juno will essentially be completely reliant on her team to take care of the sniper in question.
Support - Ana / Zenyatta: While it's a bit trickier to counter Juno on Support, there are some Heroes that work better than others when it comes to shutting down a strong Juno. Once again, this largely boils down to Juno not having a self-heal, or self-save ability in her kit. This means that if Zen and Ana can target her with sleep, Anti-Nade, and Discord Orb, then there are two likely scenarios that may follow:
- 1: Juno will rely entirely on her other support cleansing or healing her through the de-buff - which applies high pressure to both Support players, especially when other team members are critical.
- 2: Juno may be forced to use her movement abilities to reposition, which gets rid of important cooldowns and gives an opportunity for allies to dive on her.
Support - Lucio: Another approach may be Lucio, if you consider yourself a strong Lucio player who is particularly good at diving on targets. Lucio's Speed Boost is consistent, and significantly more powerful than Juno's. This means that he is one of the only characters capable of consistently chasing her down, even when she uses her Hyper Ring to try engage or disengage. This means Lucio can chase Juno down, harass her with damage to distract her, and boop her out of position or away from her team for yourself or an ally to kill.