Overwatch 2 PvP will be 5vs5

Overwatch 2's player vs. player combat will be drastically altered, as Blizzard revealed during today's livestream that PvP will be changed to 5v5 for the new game.

Game director Aaron Keller said. "If you think about it, there is a lot going on in an Overwatch map. It is incredibly fast-paced. We have always tried to make our combat easy to read and very understandable, and even with all of the work that we've put into that, sometimes it's just hard to track what 11 other players are doing on the battlefield. Removing two of those simplifies everything, and it allows players to understand everything that's happening around them, and to be able to make better choices." 

Predictably, the reduction in team size has influenced Blizzard's approach to new map design, but there's an even greater impact on the role of tanks, which will be locked to one per team.  

By going to five players on a team and limiting them to one tank, there's a better chance of individual players being able to carry teams because each player has the opportunity to have a larger individual impact on their own team.