damage
Recon
Fareeha Amari
Unknown
Hit Points
225225 Health - 0 Armor
Fareeha Amari's commitment to duty runs in her blood. She comes from a long line of highly decorated soldiers and burns with the desire to serve with honor.
PRIMARY FIRE
Fire long-range explosive rockets. Deals 40 damage on direct hit and 80-24.6 splash damage. Fires 1.25 shots/s, 6 ammo, 1.5s reload. 40 m/s projectile speed. 150 DPS while firing (114 overall). Splash damage and knockback decrease with distance.
PASSIVE
You detect enemies below half health through walls for 3.5 seconds after damaging them. Duration refreshes with each instance of damage while they remain below half health.
SECONDARY
Boost horizontally in your movement direction at 20.6 m/s for 0.85 seconds. Provides a quick burst of speed for repositioning or evasion. 9 second cooldown.
SHIFT
Fly rapidly upwards, launching 8.4 meters vertically. Restores 50% of Hover Jets fuel over 0.9 seconds and can temporarily overfill maximum fuel. Cannot be interrupted by stuns after activation. 14 second cooldown.
E
Launch an explosive blast that knocks back enemies. Deals 30 damage on direct hit. 8 meter splash radius with strong knockback (31.1 m/s direct, 20.6 m/s splash). Also knocks back Pharah without self-damage. 7 second cooldown.
ULTIMATE
Hover in place and launch a continuous volley of 30 mini-rockets per second for 2.5 seconds. Each rocket deals 10 direct + 25-7.5 splash damage (1050 DPS total). Channeled — stuns or hacks cancel it. Refills Hover Jets fuel and Rocket Launcher ammo on activation. 2200 point cost.
EXTRA
Hold jump while airborne to hover. Consumes fuel at 50% per second with up to 2 seconds of continuous flight. Regenerates 45% fuel per second after 0.3 second delay on the ground. Provides 4.66 m/s vertical speed and 30% horizontal movement speed.
PASSIVE
Eliminations briefly increase reload speed and movement speed.
PRIMARY
A long-range rocket launcher dealing explosive splash damage. 40 damage on direct hit, 80-24.6 splash (enemies), 20-6.15 splash (self). Fires 1.25 shots/s, 6 rockets per magazine, 1.5s reload. 40 m/s projectile speed.
Minor Perks
Concussive Force
Concussive Blast deals up to 30 splash damage to enemies (in addition to the direct hit damage).
Drift Thrusters
Pharah can move while Barrage is active.
Helix Shields
Convert 125 health to shields. Direct hits with the Rocket Launcher trigger passive shield regeneration.
Major Perks
Concussive Implosion
Concussive Blast's knockback is inverted to a pull in.
Fuel Stores
Jet Dash grants 50% Hover Jets fuel. Maximum overfuel is increased by 100%.
Sky Spy
Concussive Blast reveals targets to Pharah for 3 seconds. During this, the next direct Rocket Launcher hit per target deals 30% extra damage.
Rocket Salvo
After using a movement ability, the next primary fire shoots two spiraling mini-rockets each dealing 30 damage (up to 180 if all hit).
Damage reduced from 50 to 30.
Developer comment: Pharah's recent damage-focused perks have improved her kill potential, but their combined consistency has pushed her burst damage too high and are being reduced.
Damage reduced per rocket from 40 to 30.
Bonus movement speed reduced from 40% to 30%.
Pharah can now move while using Barrage. Explosion damage reduced from 30 to 25.
Developer comment: Drift Thrusters' functionality has been added to Pharah's Barrage, allowing limited movement during the ultimate to reduce friction when using it. Barrage damage has been slightly reduced to offset the added flexibility.
Added. Concussive Blast deals up to 50 explosion damage.
Removed.
After using a movement ability, the next primary fire shoots two spiraling mini-rockets, each dealing 40 damage.
Removed.
Removed.
New Major Perk. Concussive Blast reveals targets to Pharah for 3 seconds. During this, the next direct Rocket Launcher hit per target deals 30% extra damage.
Shield health regeneration triggers when landing direct hits with rockets.
Movement speed while using Barrage reduced by 20%.
Developer comment: Drift Thrusters and Concussive Implosion have been too consistent at securing kills. These adjustments will give better opportunities for counterplay when fighting against these perks.
Distance pulled reduced by 50%.
Converted Shields increased from 75 to 125.
Developer comment: We are increasing the amount of converted shields to enhance Pharah's self-sufficiency when Helix Shields is selected.
Jet Dash grants 50% fuel. Maximum overfuel is increased by 100%.
Convert 75 health to shields.
Pharah can move while Barrage is active.
Concussive Blast's knockback is inverted to a pull in.
Cooldown increased from 8 to 9 seconds.
Developer comment: Pharah is a difficult hero to deal with for many due to her high flying mobility and burst damage. We're reducing how often her horizontal movement cooldown is available to make it slightly more of a positioning commitment when used.
Base health reduced from 250 to 225.
Explosion damage reduced from 30 to 0. Explosion knockback radius increased from 6 to 8 meters. Knockback increased by 11%.
Developer comment: This is a reversion back to Pharah's Concussive Blast from before her recent rework. Dealing even a small amount of damage with this ability increases her lethality significantly and made it too reliable in finishing off low health targets, due to its wide area and fast projectile speed, without waiting the full recovery to fire another rocket.
New Secondary Fire Ability. Provides a quick horizontal boost in the direction Pharah is moving. 8-second cooldown. Added a setting to activate Jet Dash on Double Jump instead.
Now restores 50% of Hover Jets fuel and can briefly overfill the maximum fuel amount. Vertical boost height reduced by 20%. Cooldown increased from 10 to 14 seconds.
Speed boost increased from 20% to 40%. Now requires landing to recharge fuel. Can now be activated without fuel to slow your descent.
Cooldown decreased from 9 to 7 seconds. Explosion now deals 30 damage to enemy targets. Explosion radius reduced from 8 to 6 meters. Knockback reduced by 10%.
Now instantly refills Hover Jets fuel.
Recovery reduced from 0.85 to 0.80 seconds. Projectile speed increased from 35 to 40 meters per second. Explosion self-damage reduced from 50% to 25%.
Health increased from 200 to 250.
Developer comment: Pharah has a significant update that empowers more individual plays and shifting her movement capabilities from high up in the air to more horizontal movement that can cover distance quickly.
Jump Jet movement is now influenced by directional inputs.
Developer comment: In addition to rapidly launching her upwards, Jump Jet used to always move Pharah forward a small amount which made the ability feel less responsive when trying to move to the side or backwards. This change now enables a small amount of horizontal momentum in any direction.
Ultimate cost reduced 5%.
Now deals 30 damage and deals additional knockback on direct hits.
Reload starts 0.25 seconds sooner when out of ammo.