The COMPLETE History of April Fools in Overwatch

Thank you all for watching April fools is truly one of the best gamemodes in overwatch and I can't wait to see what next year has in store. Let me know what other kind of videos ideas you wanna and see and subscribe if you at least kind of liked it lmao.
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Thank you to Flats, Jay3, Broyouwack (sorry about the diss love you bro), Karq, Zbra and anyone else whos clips were used to make this yall are the reason this was possible
Intro: 0:00
2021 Changes: 0:10
2023 Changes: 4:27
2024 Changes: 10:18
Outro: 19:52
Business: [e-mail]
#overwatch #overwatch2

[@mercyI_I]

Let me know what yall wanna see next and sorry this took and awhile and if it was a little long lmao lot to cover

[@OctoCorn]

i've been wanting to see content like this for a while and you delivered perfectly. Bro this channel is SEVERELY underrated. Maybe next do the history of experimental modes in OW1!

[@fracturedzone7225]

thanks dude ur chill keep posting OR Else ty

[@OctoCorn]

i remember the first round of experimental changes where they did 1 tank, 3 dps and 2 supps. They also did some "over-the-top" balance changes and my favorite of them was when they brough back MASS REZ. healing sym was fun too

[@mercyI_I]

@@fracturedzone7225 lmao noted

[@calebhigham7750]

One April fools thing they did that barely anyone noticed was in the first one they did allowed Sombra to contest point with infinite invisibility which was very funny to me

[@BlazekonHD]

I love how Ramattra kept yapping during his ult

[@mercyI_I]

Bro was suffering fr fr

[@roadkilled_possum]

@@mercyI_I nah bro made us suffer fr

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

@@roadkilled_possum as he, Ramattra, has suffered

[@reveriesyndrome1884]

I love how most of these are: “They fly now.” and Pharah’s is “She moves now, while flying ofc.”

[@mercyI_I]

Lmfao

[@name-tx5qu]

Can we all agree that the April fools patches were absolutely incredible

[@mercyI_I]

Agreed

[@TheUnknownGamer-wv7jk]

11:44 My favorite part. The giant brig.. the mommy-calling baby mauga.. chef's kiss.

[@mercyI_I]

Lmao

[@otsu3011]

that doom punch is quite fun to use tbh

[@johnnyawsm8942]

Fun ya. Would be too op, also ya..

[@mercyI_I]

Yeah it was pretty op but super fun

[@whrench2676]

I think it would be brilliant, it would be a much better meta than hog orisa mauga

[@KiaSoulEV-rt4sg]

@@whrench2676 everyone thinks doom meta would be better until it’s a doom meta and support queues are 4s while everyone else waits 15m.

[@whrench2676]

@@KiaSoulEV-rt4sg still would be better than current meta

[@from-earth41]

You forgot the sleep that makes you fly, it was very funny 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mercyI_I]

Lmao

[@MK-xj5by]

2023 Cassidy has stamina while rolling is ridiculous af. He has become a souls player.

[@mercyI_I]

Bro was playing Elden ring in overwatch

[@jamesbland5207]

I forgot Ashe's Dynamite gave you Covid.

[@mercyI_I]

Lmao

[@Exetior3]

Great video, i never got to play the april fools events aside from 2024 this was a fun watch. Also... Hearing the wii photo channel music was so nostalgic for me omg

[@mercyI_I]

Thank you my guy also glad you liked the music

[@YesMyNameIsBasedOffRefraction]

I was laughing so hard at the sigma dogfight lol

[@mercyI_I]

That shit was a Star Wars battle as flats would say lmao

[@bricklayer223]

Imagine a competitive april fools. Or a collection of all the april fools where you can play each one

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodjinx]

Ping pong ball will remain my favorite change ever

[@mercyI_I]

That shit was actual peak gameplay

[@Lucas19Santana98]

Lil Mauga (aka Mwauga :3) was the most fun I've ever had in this game. It was so stupid looking and his high pitched voice was so funny

[@mercyI_I]

Fr lol

[@ItsHealz]

Bro has unlocked CORE memories These patcjes where fun, chaotic and my favorite.

[@mercyI_I]

Fr this shit got me so nostalgic

[@NinjaGamer-hm9iz]

I love how Zen's changes made him able to fly in 2021, 2023, AND in 2024.

[@mercyI_I]

Bro be flying

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

Imagine thinking you could exist on Soldiers screen when on April 1st 2021.

[@mercyI_I]

Fr imagine that lmao

[@Tony2z2]

as someone who recently started playing, i wish the video told us what specifically they changed

[@mercyI_I]

Yeah I guess that’s fair tho I feel like that would’ve taken a lot longer and some of the stuff I feel like you can look at and see what’s different but if you want me to explain anything I gotcha

[@arctic4725]

I’m sure the patch notes are somewhere online

[@gengarette1214]

they always wanted to make zen to fly

[@mercyI_I]

I never realized it but yeah they always make my boy fky

[@decimation9780]

I was able to play the 2024 April Fool’s event, and Spider Queen was quite fun to play.

[@mercyI_I]

I love spider queen probably in my top 5 changes of all time from this event

[@ajt263]

Been waiting for this one for a while and it did not disappoint

[@mercyI_I]

Thank you my guy

[@t.g.v8889]

2:13 Lore accurate Sigma

[@Junetheart]

What I'm saying

[@craftyplayz8150]

Leaving out the Lucio Ult instakill is truly a travesty.

[@Ag3nt-MC]

That up and down doom punch looks like so much fun!

[@yukoraii]

excellent clips of sinf and andrewjrt

[@Luci_Lapras]

6:47 I'm the kiri in that potg lmaooo. I remember how busted ashe was, because of that glitch, they straight up disabled her in the april fools gamemode. I posted a video of this exact potg on my twitter complaining about it.

[@Ctz24]

*echo starts flying* orisa: ok *becomes a flipping helicopter*

[@megaceratops6694]

Honestly now that doom punch doesnt 1 shot, they should change the punch to go wherever u are aiming at. Not just horizontal movement

[@mercyI_I]

Lowkey I feel like it would be cool it would let me save my slam more when I’m trying to go up

[@SpiritedFalcon]

Nah, that would kill the fun of diags.

[@megaceratops6694]

@SpiritedFalcon honestly it'd make doom on console way easier idc if it lowers his skill cieling🤣

[@Slafii]

the fact that lucios 2024 boop passive is missing hurts my Lucio heart :P

[@mercyI_I]

My bad there was a lot and I didn’t want to make super crazy but I’m ngl I completely forgot about it but it would have def got a segment with all the eskay and frogger clips that shit was so fun I loved that

[@andyygiusz_]

the biggest april fools update is releasing overwatch 2.

[@SilverBlade-wn6ot]

Great video!

[@mercyI_I]

Thank you my guy

[@solidagold115]

Reaper teleport walk, Mei as tank and Dooms punch should have been implemented in current game. Change my mind.

[@mercyI_I]

Reaper tp yeah, mei as a tank she would need a large rework like new abilities type shit like you could make it work but it’s really not as simple as what they did in the patch and than doom punch yeah I mean it would have to have an animation change cause it looks normal for the doom player but looks so unnatural for the others like

[@doug9243]

2021 pharah has flight core

[@7sson-hasson-310]

Well done brao

[@craftyplayz8150]

Moving during Pharah Ult should be something you should already be able to do imo. Town down the Ult damage though with the change maybe.

[@aceoverwatch2]

why tf was upward punch removed..

[@mercyI_I]

Old ow team was dumb lmao

[@7sson-hasson-310]

Seems like they were developin in an Airport

[@SK8Wizard735HK]

4:40 Helicopter Helicopter 😂😂😂😂

[@MOTII1620]

I respected the Tetris theme

[@johnharrison6370]

... nobody gonna point out that doom upward punch isnt a April fools thing

[@mercyI_I]

Yeah it was wdym?

[@yann_rny]

The pharah mooving ult needs to be added at the game

[@timothychinye6008]

This 100% feels like they were just testing features

[@liriara7096]

Tbh this was the only time i truly had fun when playing Overwatch

[@LucasSQM]

Lore accurate doom again

[@jahkareramkissoon419]

Zen jump kick was the best

[@marnieuwu4472]

There was that time where mei one shot when landing ice block on an enemy and lucio one shot with beat

[@PalpatineGaming]

This is the best gamemode hands down

[@mercyI_I]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@ClashThenDash]

They need to implement all of these live

[@mercyI_I]

W little prince and yeah that would be insane lol

[@toasticide816]

No way mauga became oddjob 2.0, the world is healing

[@mercyI_I]

Lmfaoooooooo

[@derdaph2726]

Bastions grenade launcher is almost his old ult

[@mercyI_I]

Fr lmao

[@malachiOW]

genji bugs next pls :)

[@mercyI_I]

Genji ball and doom could have bug videos that are like feature length films lmao

[@ToastyOW]

I really liked the super mei wall they should implement that

[@mercyI_I]

Lowkey it would be cool to be able to control it to like diff designs but honestly her wall is already really good so buffing it would be make it super busted tho it would be fun and maybe it would work idk

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

Say what was the first music? It was a banger and I need to know 😂

[@saucysponge3660]

stop breathing by playboi carti

[@Ow-jl1rg]

Seeing all the OW1 maps made me so sad ☹️

[@mercyI_I]

To be fair there all in overwatch 2 but I see what you mean

[@Ow-jl1rg]

@@mercyI_I wait are HLC and Hanamura still in game???

[@jonnyguz7945]

@@Ow-jl1rg yes their in arcade assault mode

[@thaddcorbett2148]

The zen kick... oh damn i miss this. I would be fine with nerfing his primary fire damage in return for giving him this movement ability once every 10 seconds.

[@polar6066]

i love how you didnt include symms healing turrets, because they sucked so much. kinda crazy support mains still say they arent listened by the devs when they gave them illari,and the exact same issues everyone predicted happened with her. and thats considering illari has long range and crits, imagine if she was a short range hero like symmetra lol

[@mercyI_I]

Lmao she did have multiple turrets and the cooldown was way lower than sym’s but yeah I see why you mean also yeah I couldn’t find a lot of footage for it which is why it wasn’t in it (I can’t tell if your saying that illari pylon sucks which I don’t think it’s bad it just got hard nerfed by the dps passive but I think have more than one turret can either only be annoying or there either bad kind of like lifeweaver who will only either be bad/very niche or annoying and toxic for the game and this is coming from someone that plays Ana and Illari lmao sorry if that was a lot)

[@polar6066]

​​@@mercyI_Ii got it a bit twisted. essentially some time ago symmetra had a experimental patch made by creators, but it was hilariously bad and it was because they treated it as a april fools patch. THATS where symmetra was given healing turrets and the concensus was tht they were ass since they were well... healing turrets. but some support players insisted on wanting symmetra having healing turrets so they made illari, trying to keep in mind all the feedback they had on that one experimental/creators april fools. except it still sucked and the issues people predicted happened

[@youtubefan1735]

2024 junker queen was so fun

[@mercyI_I]

Facts I loved spider queen

[@skseeker7030]

Jay with hair!

[@mercyI_I]

Very rare footage 👀

[@AloneInTheDork]

Maybe it's just watching on the TV but the music is too loud vs voices. Also I had no idea what some of them were doing. Soldier visor what? Edit: ok they got better and I figured out the Crit on soldier lol.

[@darrenyu7961]

Why did you not include the big skull from KarQ

[@mercyI_I]

Dude ok I literally had that in the original video but I decided not to include it because it was a custom game which is why it bugged it but that’s so funny that someone brought that up lmfaoooo

[@jack459]

I miss the dps doom, they honestly should bring it back for next april fools update

[@verguco6051]

the april fool patches are a lot funnier and more balanced than regular 5vs5 ow2, developers put more effort on a joke patch than the whole fucking game

[@mercyI_I]

Idk about balanced lmao but yeah it feels like they put in way more effort into a joke than the real game

[@verguco6051]

@@mercyI_I when they stop thinking on how to balance the game based on what happens in the league and let her mind get crazy they nail the game, maybe more balanced is not the right word, but sure is more fun and a lot less frustrating, so is balanced in terms of fun, which is what should matter

[@mercyI_I]

@@verguco6051 honestly yeah flats said it best the game doesn’t need to be perfectly balanced it’s just that things need to be changed up and adding fun new things are more enjoyable than playing the same shit lol

[@verguco6051]

@@mercyI_I who? what we need is 6vs6, nerf tanks and gg

[@mercyI_I]

@@verguco6051 I feel like it’s not that simple cause ow1 was not a perfect game either will it fix a lot of the problems w 5v5 yes but it will also bring its own changes honestly im not opposed to 6v6 honestly think it was better but there needs to also be some changes to the game that honestly I don’t know tho wdym by nerf tanks?

[@Cryptic3000]

This years was way less fun then previous one's

[@mercyI_I]

Honestly I disagree I feel like personally 2024 was the best one with 2023 coming like a close second

[@deus2243]

watching old doom makes me depressed.. I loved dps doom so much, tank doom is just no that fun

[@enesutku34]

He was unfun to play against

[@mercyI_I]

Yeah back in ow1 everyone that played against doom hated him honestly well dps doom was fun I still have a lot of fun on tank doom and I feel like it’s better for the game tbh

[@TheOriginalStarwalker64]

Bro didnt even mention Junkrat, that's how bad his April Fools changes were 😔

[@mercyI_I]

I couldn’t find many clips of of the bomb dropping and him being able to control when they explode but I think I put it in the mentions at the end but yeah that’s my b

[@mercyI_I]

They were pretty boring tho

[@TheOriginalStarwalker64]

@@mercyI_I that's even worse. I really hope they come up with more inventive concepts for Junkrat in the April Fools patches, he gets the most boring treatment

[@TheOriginalStarwalker64]

@@mercyI_I nah, I don't blame you. At least he showed up in the mentions

[@luminous5439]

Whats the song at 17:10?

[@mercyI_I]

Let’s dance boys bayonetta

[@Richard300]

Junker queen the fourth hokage

[@Nexo699]

Why there is not an April Fools event for 2022 ?

[@mercyI_I]

I think it’s because of the transition from ow1-ow2

[@ReaperHC]

2:13 Dragon Ball:

[@mercyI_I]

Shit was like goku lmao

[@Needformadness2]

What is special about dynamite?

[@mercyI_I]

It would spread from person to person but it was bugged so it would pretty much just kill everyone if it spread just once

[@thebluecomet3974]

Ashe**

[@mercyI_I]

My bad idk why I put ash lmao

[@SigurdThePink]

Can't watch this with dat loud annoying aaah music.

[@mercyI_I]

Lmao my bad ig