Every Lore Accurate Skin in Overwatch

[@KendelR]

What skins did I miss? I'll try and keep this comment updated for a week or two after the video release! *Also, KZbin doesn't track replies very well so making a new comment rather than replying to this one is actually easier for me to read* Missed Skins: 1. OR-Unit Orisa (another Null Sector skin I just straight up missed) 2. Côte d'Azur Widowmaker is probably lore accurate since her sunglasses from that skin are on Ilios Lighthouse on a table/cushion. Also, there is apparently a laptop that mentions the skin 3. Cozy Sojourn and Polar Cassidy were added AFTER this video was made. Sorry for not waiting five days to post xD 4. Wadjet/Wasteland Ana may be canon since, through an interaction with Queen and Ana, Ana has been to Junker Town and the skins would make sense for her to wear 5. Medic Brigitte is probably a reference to a Medic from Starcraft 6. I don't have good info on this, but Questwatch and all the skins might be canon. It really just depends on if someone in lore mentions it. I sadly don't have time rn to research it but going to add it for if someone finds it! 7. If we are wanting to assume that Baptiste has a canon Junkenstein skin, it would actually be his Pirate (or buccaneer) skin due to how he his described, and not vampire UNLESS he gets turned into a Vampire by Comtesse (or Huntress) Widowmaker. This part is coming from a commenter so I don't know how perfectly accurate it is, but it is an awesome theory or lore bit anyways. 8. Karate Doomfist is probably canon due to Doomfist doing Martial Arts extensively. I want to say it was referenced somewhere, but I posted the video 10 days ago and have forgotten. 9. At this point, I'm fine with Talon Sigma and Widowmaker being canon in my head. If Karate Doomfist is implied, so are these two. Wish I would've changed that.

[@tntmannen200]

In The Short stories about the Bastet skin there is an image with the head part from ana's Sniper skin also seen at 6:33

[@NoticeZen]

OR-14 Orisa made it's appearance in Rein's cinematic, and by the way the in-game version of Witch Mercy was on a photograph in one of the cinematics.

[@charliecorrigan2464]

did you count the mauga skin thats in his backstory thing

[@LizzieTheRose]

Hasn't it been said the crossover skins are the characters cosplaying these characters? So it'd technically be lore accurate since you counted the Halloween costumes which are basically the same as cosplaying.

[@Fungias]

You forgot the Overwatch cookbook..... also all cosplay skins are canon.

[@Menhir34]

The formal doomfist skin is 100% canon because we saw it at the end of the cutscene for the Storm Raising event.

[@KendelR]

Oh yeah. I just already mentioned the skin so didn’t mention it again

[@mrmintymayhem]

Bastion is in fact, painted that color. You see when you leave something in the sun for years on end something happens called sun bleaching which makes colors fade.

[@doomguy_2005]

the number is diff tho

[@Entertainment-gc2oi]

Sojourn is getting the skin from her cinematic in the next season.

[@JoseHernandez-xv2bt]

Still odd that skin was released over a year after her cinematic

[@Entertainment-gc2oi]

@@JoseHernandez-xv2bt Similar thing happened with the Pajamei skin for Mei

[@KendelR]

I was really worried I was going to miss a skin that was going to come out next season (since I avoid spoilers) and thought about waiting to release the video, but decided not to wait. I’ll try and update the comment if I remember once I see it

[@Димитър-н6в]

​@@JoseHernandez-xv2btthey need around one year to make a skin. That's why there are so many recolours

[@journeylmao]

overwatch wouldn’t be canon in overwatch since overwatch takes place in the 2080s and overwatch will have shut down by then because of lack of players

[@IllegalPizza777]

TRUE

[@sentko8926]

Well no, those are just the last players, those who can't give up on it !

[@shanemont3611]

meanwhile, the playercount is around 23000000 as of Nov 2024 by Active Player.

[@IllegalPizza777]

@ where are you getting this information 😂

[@crosialer]

Not to be that guy but overwatch is actually set in the mid 2070’s, though I’m pretty sure 2077 specifically. Dont hate please

[@Tatsu4242]

Ronin Genji from 2017 Junkenstein comic is 7 years overdue to be made.

[@DucksAreCool08]

15:31 I love how he says every other skin in an exciting tone and then for kiriko it's just "witch kiriko 😐"

[@goose4349]

Reminds me of the smash announcer with “Ganondorf”

[@ReadilyAvailibleChomper]

“Gweeshin” “Ziglef” “DAY-KOOP PEAR” “PORT DE PAX” It’s not your fault but..ow my ears

[@revan3270]

It is bro, he just needed to do some research😭

[@ShouldOfStudiedForTheTest]

Eidgenossin got butchered so much it's on LifeLeak. 💀

[@snorlav]

i love the silly little memes which have no correlation with the video whatsoever but are still there

[@ILovePotatoes420]

Widow’s Cotê D’Azure skin could be canon because in the map, Chateau Guillard, there is a laptop with an email written in french. If you translate that email, Cotê D’Azure is mentioned

[@KendelR]

I’ll adjust the pinned comment. I also heard here sunglasses are there

[@ponticrook8208]

A bunch of people have already commented this, but Bastion probably did have the orange colour scheme during the omnic crisis. That said, Omnic Crisis Bastion is still a different omnic to Bastion itself, you just cited the wrong reason - The ACTUAL reason you can tell Omnic Crisis Bastion is a different Bastion unit is that the unit code on its chest reads 'B-73', whereas we know our Bastion's unit code is 'E-54'.

[@itsendy-g2p]

A-7000 Wargod is real, it was in a PvE mission that released in OW2 Not sure about the others but they should count anyway tbh

[@laughingfox1606]

Junker ana is also canon. As she mentions in dialogue with Queen that she passed through junker town once or twice. The dnd skins are also vaguely canon. As its framed as a ingame campaign the characters were play with Emily and the skins represent their campaign characters

[@tau-5794]

Isn't the outline of her weapon on the HUD also from one of her junker skins?

[@pin-x3s]

Incredible video, praying for your mental health after all this time researching overwatch and its lore

[@RebellionEliteClan]

Love the video, Indoor chain link fence is dope. 3:29

[@ovenram]

Doomfist's Painted and Formal skins appear in the Hero of Numbani novel

[@KendelR]

Good thing I added them anyways. I didn’t know about novels beforehand

[@anonymoose9836]

Jeff kaplin got the 'ol yeller treatment

[@dingusgoober]

Overwatch team: “oh yeah we had lore”

[@Majimba_Enjoyer]

"there are over 4 thousands skins currently" yeah and about 100 per character are just the colours of some esports team for home/away so if you take all of these out you get left with like idk 1000 or something. just wanted to clear up that this total skin number is definetly bloated

[@awarepillow1180]

With just the OW2 OWL skins alone you have around 1500 skins

[@nxcious]

A skin is any customization that changes the basic appearance of a character. It doesn't matter if it's a recolor, a skin is a skin.

[@KendelR]

It is bloated. With the consideration of Overwatch potentially being canon due to blizzard world, Overwatch League skins are still relevant though. I hate having to clickbait thumbnail/intros but it’s sadly how the game is played

[@Scar3crowss]

Bastion's Omnic crisis skin is canon. He *was* painted that colour, like all the other E54s, but it faded away over time.

[@plumdowner1941]

Bastion is the only E-54.

[@spamloos4292]

the le sserafim could be canon

[@KendelR]

I thought about that, but unless if all cosplays are true, I think it’s like Yeti Hunt where characters are acting out of character since Sombra would *probably* not hang out with Overwatch members and instead would’ve just murdered them

[@Pachacutec101]

@@KendelR In my opinion Sombra would, she's like more for herself and still loyal to blackwatch. And in some voice line at start of the game she says to Ana to go vacations together and she would "pay". So if she liked the music totally would hang out with overwatch just to go to concert.

[@6clopp]

For the Junkenstein's Baptiste Skin it could be argued that his Pirate skin could be in the list rather than Vampire, considering there is a spray you could unlock with junkenstein challenges back then and that they used the skin in trailers for the added characters in Halloween 2019 or 2020 iirc

[@Flyway999]

23:53 the quote actually makes sense even tho it’s not canon. Torb was very omnic racist in ow1

[@KendelR]

Yep

[@NolansGoons]

1: I gotta say I love this video. It may be a bit weird, but the "lore-accuracy" is one of the main drivers behind what makes me like certain skins the most, so seeing someone deep-dive into all the skins to discern which adhere to the lore makes me feel seen. 2: Considering you counted Horizon Wreckingball and Nano Dva, despite 90% of both skins (the mechs) being nonexistent in their respective source materials, I think it'd be fair to count Dr. de Kuiper Sigma since it's a fair stand-in as a "young" or "pre-experiment" skin, even if it's not 1-to-1 with his origin story animatic.

[@DubbyXV]

My brain is fried. Why did I laugh at indoor chain-link fence?

[@KendelR]

I did too

[@m.m.mefuyayuki1550]

Hey so just letting you know since i saw in other comments but Côte D'azur is an actual place in France. The email in chateau Guillard is about a reservation for Amelie about a car that will come and take her to the Nice Côte D'Azur aeroport. La Côte D'Azur is a vacation site which is why her skin is called like that but it has nothing to do with the skin itself.

[@aitipsea3909]

The skin for Bap in Junkenstein is Pirate since in the tale of Junkenstein he embodies the Renegade which is described as a sailor who used to be a guard for the Countess (Widowmaker) before deserting his post once he realized she was a vampire

[@KendelR]

That’s awesome. I’ll add it to the pinned comment

[@mrkisawesome7669]

If you are counting blizzard skins as canon, I think then medic brig would also count since it is referencing the medic unit from starcraft?

[@KendelR]

I’ll add it to the pinned comment just in case

[@Blu_Bear]

Actually, Bastion was previously painted that orange camo pattern I believe during the close up shots of his boot up sequence you can actually still make out the pattern, just incredibly faded

[@MrHat.]

Well the skin in game doesn't have 'E54' painted on it, so it's different robot

[@Blu_Bear]

does that impact what I said at all

[@didiercoin7787]

Doomfist's formal skin can be seen in Storm rising ending cinematic.

[@Pekara121]

Doomfists Karate skin is probably canon since he is a martial artist and he'd have to wear the gi.

[@KendelR]

I actually think I was going to add that then forgot. I’ll add it to pinned comment

[@txt5220]

Damn, I must be in an alternate mirrorwatch universe, because I actually agreed with all your choices on what to counts as canon

[@SpiderG1296]

23:49 cybjorn's quote is partial from a quote he had when spawning into nepal. "This place is like a terrible cumulation of a thousand of my worst nightmares! Are you kidding me!?" He also had a quote for kings row, but it was removed. Sombras Azucar skin is pronounced, a - su - kahr Which translates to sugar.

[@KendelR]

I knew the quote was from somewhere but couldn’t find where. Also, I had a white Spanish teacher that has permanently injured my Spanish 😢

[@zawarudo6777]

Sombra's "Folklórica" and Symetra's "Holi" skin are most likely lore accurate as they are based on native holidays that they would absolutely celebrate. This would also include Mardi Gras Ashe and Lunar New Year Mei

[@KendelR]

I thought about mentioning them but the video was nearly 30 minutes long and thought that having a section with skins that were super likely would’ve extended a tad too long for casual viewing

[@patty9308]

In ilios you can see widowmakers summer skin weapon also adding that to the list

[@KendelR]

According to my research, it’s the sunglasses, but that’s so obscure I’ll add it to the comments

[@multimc2]

21:55 WHAT WHAT WHAT? Selekeio

[@KendelR]

I did not read the words on the screen.

[@leonardoalmeidx]

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[@jakobiepuff3240]

I am eating this up I love this

[@anglerhs]

You missed the venture skin. The one they wear in the comic. They got that skin on the battle pass of season .

[@owleee]

no way i love that skin

[@haron521]

Yeah, season was my favourite

[@firstnamelastname9237]

I really liked the of the skin

[@blizzardgaming7070]

Awe thats the invisible skin they showcased in the new season trailer. I didn't know that one was out yet.

[@Meeekeee]

this gonna be a banger video 🔥🔥🔥

[@SoupsSB]

Shrike Ana was also seen in a picture in the Temple of Anubis spawn before she released

[@KendelR]

Ooh I didn’t know that one

[@SpyWah1987]

Oh my god I was just thinking about this with Junkrat’s Skins

[@KendelR]

Hope I got you your answers lmao

[@santinocermelo7330]

You should make a video like this but the opposite. Mentioning every character's canon looks that arent skins yet.

[@KendelR]

That is a great idea. I’m not sure if I feel like going through all the lore and skins again yet but definitely another one I could do

[@scrimblocoded]

the kiriko feet skin is canon in my house

[@KendelR]

🦫

[@Fyre19]

bastions skin might be canon he was just resting in a forest right, so he must have derusted all that paint off and such

[@DeClayz]

personally with the whole junkenstein thing, i would count the skins the characters had in the party but not the gamemodes, since those gamemodes are only the story reinhardt tells.... they're just stories, those characters you play or see ingame COULD canonically have those "costumes" but we have no way of knowing unless they were worn in the universe not just a story. unless his stories are mentioned in any other way i would just say the entire cast of playable characters and versusable characters wearing the skins in the gamemodes are all just reinhardts imagination as he tells a simple fun ghost story drawing inspiration from friends and enemies to make characters in his head. also, i have not checked so i could be wrong but afaik ana's mythic only mentions her own nullsector skin, none of the other nullsector skins has lore implications. also ana's skin is seen in game alongside orisa's "or-unit" skin at the end of the pve mission underworld. im unsure if underworld is canon, but it feels like it was supposed to be one of what could have been potentially many "this is a side mission the heroes did once" type of mission, which could mean it is in the lore and thus really ties in both or-unit and wargod ana.

[@KendelR]

There was another wiki page with them on it

[@Fishalien4]

I would say talon window and sigma are cannon window has to have been at that point cause she wasn’t always blue and with sigma there’s a bunch of talon members that talk about his feet but his talon suit has shoes which shows talon forced him to wear shoes

[@ScarlettCaelin]

I still love that security Pharah is Canon despite being an obvious tribute to Bungie

[@JosiahJohnson-p1q]

If I’m not mistaken junkenstein’s revenge is also a movie mentioned at the Hollywood map.

[@jinkyc4t413]

talon widowmaker is canon because of the little story description that shows up on the side when you pick the skin! they directly tell u how its in the lore!

[@KendelR]

There is no description on the skin. You may have the skin selected and are reading the description about Widowmaker and not the skin

[@manicstatic370]

Bleached and rusted might be canon if they’re effects from the environment

[@KendelR]

That’d be cool. Just a tad too assumptious for me to add but cool theory

[@wunderbar5702]

18:35 finally somebody pointed this out What do you think is deadlier? A swing from a 500 pound rocket hammer or a chick with butterknives?

[@grif1102]

that one starcraft brig skin

[@KendelR]

Just figured out about that one

[@Alex_Asp]

Im going to help you cheat, the widow skin in masquerade is white just reflecting all the red light next to her 😉

[@KendelR]

Yeah, we’ll just say that

[@vimies5746]

You forgot anubis reaper, as anubis is canon and seen on the throne of anubis map. He's even the oen to start the omnic crisis.

[@KendelR]

I don’t think they are the same since Anubis looks MUCH different, BUUUUT that would’ve been an amazing thing to mention; especially just in case the Reaper skin is a reference to Anubis

[@lzzyb0ssa]

8:37 he forgot the symmetra one from the short story

[@Tapood74]

Watch 10 more seconds

[@KendelR]

Yeah I missed it until I found it. I couldn’t redo the voice overs at the time so had to just add text about it

[@arbi018]

well we could argue on which ow2 default skins are canon

[@munchlax6577]

Yeah, some characters don’t really have a reason to have new outfits. Like when did Lucio upgrade his tech, how? It would make sense if he got that outfit after he joined ow and they gave him some upgrades, but in pve he already had it before they showed up.

[@stardustcrusaderKakyoin]

next video: every lore accurate prep phase interaction between characters

[@KendelR]

That would be really hard for me to decipher

[@wooben6110]

7:37 I swear in the Uprising event or any of the uprising challenge events, multiple Talon Widowmakers would show up as enemies, and I remember noting it was weird that "Widowmaker" showed up but was used as a stand in for generic snipers. The wiki says otherwise though, so I guess I'm just mis-remembering things

[@Cherryboi79]

I think you might've forgotten the Omnic Crisis Orisa skin, which I don't actually know if it is a skin that exists in-gamr but most likely existed in the Overwatch lore

[@KendelR]

I forgot the OR-Unit skin yes (it’s in pinned comment now)

[@brandonperry2253]

The final clip😂😂

[@samuelpaiva5632]

not to belittle your work with this video, but the canon ow skins have descriptions when you go to see them in the hero gallery.

[@KendelR]

At 18:57 I go over them. I could’ve obviously done this for every skin beforehand, but that would’ve made the video boring

[@Pekara121]

22:15 BAHAHAHAHA i didn't look at the spelling the first time and was like wtf? Then i read it and laughed my ass off 😂. Its the German word "Eidgenossin" i dont know the English equivalent rn and im too lazy to look it up. The male version of the word is Eidgenosse. 22:59 as a german born citizen this is horrendous to listen to 😂

[@romanrulez2898]

Loving the vids

[@Velksa]

the collab skins could be canon as the devs stated the skins are supposed to be the heroes cosplaying as the collab characters. Idk if this would count with the transformers one for example but i could see the one punch man ones being canon

[@KendelR]

I haven’t found the clip, but if that’s true then sure

[@sodie.]

hahah you totally butchered sigma's last name, dont feel bad tho lol its all banter, anyhow: great video! it was an entertaining watch and following along was easy. i commend you for the time it must've taken to make this video :) keep it up

[@Aphrodite-Asui]

Next video: every lore accurate spray

[@KendelR]

*that would be so hard*

[@nugo344]

10:20 bro why does winton look like Flats 💀

[@helmih5434]

You forgot the Cozy Sojourn skin from the animated short "calling".

[@rvzorblvde]

Dave Blunts Roadhog skin when ???

[@jasondumdie5459]

Pharah beat Anubis and stole it's head

[@KendelR]

Bro really collecting the heads for the wither

[@billbob9692]

Don't think the Junkerstein should count because it was just a fictional story in universe. Would a tooth fairy torb skin be lore accurate becaues the tooth fairy exists? It also led to a chain reaction of a ton of random skins being classified as canon.

[@KendelR]

Something I didn’t mention was the movie poster for Junkenstein. The reason i didn’t add it was because i THINK the poster is on Halloween Hollywood and I don’t know if it’s canon. With that being said, I’m still happy adding any skin that is referenced in the Overwatch lore (like junkenstein). Junkenstein’s lab I would’ve been happy leaving off tho

[@flielalielie]

bro not dave bluntzz😭😭

[@KendelR]

I had to

[@bmxboyzac]

Have you ever done a really rare skins list for overwatch I’m really curious like which skins are like the rarest for each character and like which ones you think would never come back

[@KendelR]

A video like that is a bit more subjective than I would like, but I’ve thought about it. I just don’t know how I’d figure it out

[@MOONHOZE]

When you said you'd butcher the skin names I was like "ok overwatch has at least 20 different languages" but oh my God... It was... Sad.

[@Velksa]

yo forgot orisas "OR-UNIT" skin, which is a modern null sector version of her null sector skin

[@KendelR]

Ye I sadly did

[@manicstatic370]

4:38 that one looks way better

[@KendelR]

It’d be cool if we had both

[@BaraIsrael]

The americanism in the pronounciation of the names is insane

[@enderpumpkin13]

Oh God... the way he said 'Bundeswehr' he probably massacred other pronunciations too but as a german... I feel personally insulted.

[@crunch5]

Isn’t Talon Widowmaker in the Ana Origin video right when Ana gets shot? You can see her shoulder has the same Talon logo her Talon skin has

[@KendelR]

It’s way too different for me to count, but I just added talon widow to the pinned comment anyways

[@Our_Remedy]

I know you said you'd butcher the names but how did you get "Dr, Deku-pair" from Dr, De Kuiper

[@Eevee20065]

Bro really hates Kiriko...

[@crisisinperil]

Shrike as a skin existed in an ingame newpaper, no?

[@KendelR]

I’m not sure. I hope so since it would make my life easier lmao

[@mr_diangelpt]

Idk if people know, but equalizer lucio is supposed to be him before, and also is the old design of lucio. If im wrong someone correct me pls :)

[@KendelR]

You’re right, but I can’t count it as canon sadly

[@jcgames7675]

Question: Do the season five skins of the role heroes count because it's similar to the Halloween event in which they are playing role heroes that are world versions of DnD or Dungeons and Dragons, which would include Knight Genji, Rouge Kiriko, Slime Queen Echo, adventurer Tracer and her three variants of level 1-4, griffin Orisa, honeycomb wrecking ball, Royal Astronomer Zenyatta, Alchemist Mei, Polar ana, and demon lord Reinhardt and the ones from the shop as well that i am missing or am i worng in this asumotion

[@KendelR]

I don’t know if they should count honestly. Prob not unless they were playing dnd in lore

[@aitipsea3909]

You actually forgot Formal Doomfist from Storm Rising

[@KendelR]

I mentioned it in the Masquerade comic so didn’t bother mentioning it again

[@nicstich]

I think reinhradt was telling a made up story for junkerstein, so none of those skins were canon

[@awarepillow1180]

But he still told the story, and the story was a cannon event

[@NotJustABadDream]

But Nomad was shown once

[@KendelR]

I don’t know where but I mentioned it so we good

[@NotJustABadDream]

@KendelR OW1 when overwatch got shut down and genji first found zen

[@SCP--gw1jk]

I dont know if I dozed off or if you missed it, but where is the agent morrison skin for soldier 76?

[@KendelR]

That was the very first skin I mentioned

[@SCP--gw1jk]

@@KendelR I just missed it then, sorry :P

[@ryuhanja3415]

So if the Ana Omnic skin is lore accurate wouldn’t that mean the mythic skin is also lore accurate because it implies the same thing?

[@KendelR]

The Ana Omnic skin is the mythic skin

[@ryuhanja3415]

@ there is two Ana omnic skins you only showed the Null sector looking one, not the mythic

[@mcmeme7989]

THE WAY YOU BUTCHERED "EIDGENOSSIN" T-T pls, go to google translate - german to english and listen how "Eidgenossin" is pronounced. I started laughing SO hard it was so funny

[@Crown_Kid]

9:45 Laul

[@comaloma]

Medic Brigitte skin is a starcraft skin

[@KendelR]

Ye

[@PiratePete1]

what about the LE SSERAFIM skins? Are they not just the outfits that they wear to the concert in the music video?

[@KendelR]

The concert music video I don’t count as canon since Sombra (most likely) would’ve just murdered the Overwatch members if given the chance. It’s hard to know if it’s canon

[@PiratePete1]

@@KendelR united by music?

[@Trident_Gaming03]

Venture doesn't exist in the canon lmao Edit: Mfw I make a joke

[@LQbros725]

How?

[@snorlav]

they litteraly do but ok

[@AdhvaithSane]

Nice bait, better luck next time.

[@Trident_Gaming03]

@@LQbros725 The joke was that, because Venture isn't mentioned in this video, she isn't a part of the canon at all (she is, because she exists in the game).

[@LQbros725]

@ oh that funny

[@emeraldsky2823]

Bastet Ana skin is also canon

[@KendelR]

6:52

[@Димитър-н6в]

Soooo... How many actually are the lore accurate skins?

[@KendelR]

You see, I was gonna put a number on screen, but then I knew it’d be wrong since I knew I’d miss at least one skin. Uhh, it’s more than 2

[@TristynPollock]

wasnt therte a comic or short that showed dva in junkertown

[@KendelR]

If there is, I unfortunately missed it. Luckily I did at least mention the skin so maybe someone will find it

[@mr.tweaty]

I’m sorry there’s HOW many skins?

[@KendelR]

Including OW League skins (which I have to consider since OW could’ve been canon to OW cause of blizzard world), it adds up to over 4,000

[@Kenobiwan1]

4:45 huh lmao

[@KendelR]

Hello There

[@Salt_beads]

Ok