How to Unlock Baptiste: Changes, Skins, and Redesign

Baptiste is a Support hero in Overwatch 2. Read on to learn more about Baptiste, their weapons and abilities, their patch notes history, their backstory, and more!

Baptiste Latest Buffs and Nerfs

September 21, 2022 Dev Blog #5 Patch Notes

Baptiste Changes

Baptiste Patch Notes (May 12, 2022)
Biotic Launcher	・Damage has been increased from 24 to 25. ・Minimum fall-off range has been increased from 20 metres to 25 metres.

Baptiste Hero Profile

Baptiste Basic Information

Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste Augustin)
	Role	Support
	Ranking
	Total HP	・ 200 ・ 200 (Base Health)
	Voice Actor	Benz Antoine
	Nationality	Haitian
Affiliations	Caribbean Coalition (formerly), Talon (formerly), Overwatch

How to Unlock

Character Redesign

Overwatch 1	Overwatch 2

Baptiste's redesign for Overwatch 2 ditches the orange scarf for a sleeker white chestpiece. His redesign also dons a new afro-mohawk with a new yellow-orange eyepiece. His redesign also shifts his color accents to lighter more saturated hue.

Baptiste Weapons and Abilities

Baptiste Main Weapon

Biotic Launcher	Primary Fire
	Damage: 25
	Description: Three-round burst gun.
	Secondary Fire
	Heal/Boost: 70
	Description: Lob a healing projectile that heals all allies near the impact.

Baptiste Abilities

Regenerative Burst	Type: Ability Cooldown: 15 secs Duration: 5 secs Heal: 75
Effect: Activate to heal yourself and nearby allies over time.
Immortality Field	Type: Ability Cooldown: 25 secs Duration: 5 secs
Effect: Toss a device that prevents allies from dying. The device can be destroyed.
Exo Boost	Type: Passive
Effect: Hold crouch to jump higher.
Amplification Matrix	Type: Ultimate Duration: 10 secs
Effect: Project a matrix that doubles the damage and healing effects of allied projectiles.
Role: Support	Type: Passive
Effect: Automatically heal over time.

Tips and How to Play

Baptiste Can't Heal Himself with Biotic Launcher

Note Biotic Launcher's secondary fire can't heal Baptiste. This means that you have to rely on fellow Supports, Health Packs, and your Regenerative Burst to heal yourself.

Alternate Between Shooting and Healing with Biotic Launcher

To get the most out of Baptiste's Biotic Launcher, practice alternating between shooting foes and healing allies. Doing this allows you to maximize both the healing and damage output of Baptiste's primary weapon.

Use Exo Boots to Reach High Ground

Take advantage of Baptiste's Exo Boots to reach high buildings and ledges. Having the high ground as Baptiste allows him to have an easier time landing his secondary fire on allies and even lets him potentially flank the enemy team.

Immortality Field Can Mitigate Lethal Ultimates

While Immortality Field works well for keeping low-health allies alive, you can also use it to save you and your team from potentially lethal enemy ultimates. Use Immortality Field to prevent your teammates from dying to high-damage ultimates like D.Va's Self Destruct and Junkrat's Rip-Tire.

Save Regenerative Burst for Low-Health Allies

Regenerative Burst's instant heal is twice as effective on allies below half-health. Try to save it for these situations to maximize the ability's effectiveness, especially since it has a long 15-second cooldown.

Baptiste Can Rotate Amplification Matrix

Note that Baptiste can rotate his Amplification Matrix by 90 degrees if you press the Ultimate button for a second time before deploying it. Take advantage of this feature to have an easier time covering irregular angles with Baptiste's ultimate.

How to Counter

Separate from Teammates

Dealing with Baptiste can be done in multiple ways. The easiest way is to cut him off from his allies so that it'll be hard for him to heal. Tracer, Genji, and Reaper can be good at this.

Baptiste Hero Counters

Baptiste Skins

Base Game Skins

Hero Skins
Desert Ops (Legendary)	Spec Ops (Legendary)	Buccanneer (Legendary)
Pirate (Legendary)	Camouflage (Epic)	Wasteland (Epic)
Ble (Rare)	Vyolet (Rare)	Vet (Rare)
Wouj (Rare)

League Skins

Hero Skins
Atlanta Reign (Epic)	Boston Uprising (Epic)	Chengdu Hunters (Epic)
Dallas Fuel (Epic)	Florida Mayhem (Epic)	Guangzhou Charge (Epic)
Hangzhou Spark (Epic)	Houston Outlaws (Epic)	London Spitfire (Epic)
Los Angeles Gladiators (Epic)	Los Angeles Valiant (Epic)	New York Excelsior (Epic)
Paris Eternal (Epic)	Philadelphia Fusion (Epic)	San Francisco Shock (Epic)
Seoul Dynasty (Epic)	Shanghai Dragons (Epic)	Toronto Defiant (Epic)
Vancouver Titans (Epic)	Washington Justice (Epic)

Event Skins

Hero Skins
Talon (Legendary)	Tropical (Legendary)	Snowboarder (Legendary)
Funky (Legendary)	Artic Ops (Legendary)

Baptiste Cosmetics

Victory Poses

Heroic (Common) Base Game	On Alert (Rare) Base Game	Peace Out (Rare) Base Game
Say Cheese (Rare) Base Game	Pumpkin (Rare) Halloween Terror Event	Hot Soup (Rare) Lunar New Year Event
Ta-Da! (Rare) Archives Event

Voice Lines

Emotes

Baptiste Story

Caribbean Coalition

As a child orphaned in the Omnic Crisis, Baptiste dedicated his life to helping others, becoming an elite combat medic that worked with the Caribbean military.

Part of Talon

Later on, he brought his skills to the Talon mercenary group. While he was earning enough to support a clinic in his hometown, he realized that the violence of Talon was just like the violence that tore his life apart.

Running from Talon

He lived on the run for a time, helping others while avoiding Talon, but now he works to help set the world right. After finding out about Talon's intent to go after Mercy, Baptsite tries to warn her.

Joining Overwatch

Though he could not find Mercy, he was able to track down Ana, Pharah, and Cassidy, who decimated the attacking agents.

Baptiste decided to follow Cassidy to Eastern Europe. After fending off more Talon agents and trying to convince Cassidy that he himself wasn't part of Talon, it is pressumed that an invitation to Overwatch was offered to Baptiste.

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