The COMPLETE History of April Fools in Overwatch

[@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

[@Gortosan]

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

[@Jam_Axo]

@@TrixterTheFemboy because our torment will outlast the stars

[@m3tro_zx1]

@@Jam_Axoeven while the universe dwindles into dust we will be there, still suffering

[@reveriesyndrome1884]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Lmfao

[@ronanmarston7617]

literally because Northstar from Titanfall 2 lol

[@name-tx5qu]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Agreed

[@BeatboxinCam_YT]

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

[@nissanjuke2013]

@@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]

@@nissanjuke2013 still would be better than current meta

[@MKsukkiiMiso]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Bro was playing Elden ring in overwatch

[@okeirany7652]

The way Ram's April Fools change just makes him a better-designed character-

[@NinjaGamer-hm9iz]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Bro be flying

[@bruh-hr1mt]

The people yearn for a flying Zen

[@brem-]

My favorite April Fools they did was when they anounced that Overwatch 2 would have PvE

[@ItsHealz]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Fr this shit got me so nostalgic

[@jamesbland5207]

I forgot Ashe's Dynamite gave you Covid.

[@mercyI_I]

Lmao

[@gengarette1214]

they always wanted to make zen to fly

[@mercyI_I]

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

[@jacknightfury_6132]

I wish they added a voiceline for the flying Rein of him saying something like "Thruster misaligned, I keep going up! Damn you Torbjorn"

[@craftyplayz8150]

Leaving out the Lucio Ult instakill is truly a travesty.

[@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

[@من_الأرض]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Lmao

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@Tokurinn]

zen's melee knocks back enemy make sense and proves how much force he is applying, he could literally flyyyyy XDDD

[@bricklayer223]

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

[@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🤣

[@ajt263]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Thank you my guy

[@myseglis]

Thank you for including me in this video (at 10:20), I just learned about it! I wish you credited all the streamers in your description though and not only the big streamers that everyone already knows 😕

[@mercyI_I]

My bad bro honestly I go through some many videos for these that I genuinely just forget but your right especially you because your name is literally right there unlike others that just have a clip thank you for letting me know

[@mercyI_I]

@@myseglis your added now 👍

[@myseglis]

​@@mercyI_I Thank you, I appreciate it! I understand it's not always easy to find the source but for future reference I think you should try to credit as many people as you can

[@t.g.v8889]

2:13 Lore accurate Sigma

[@Junetheart]

What I'm saying

[@Nacho-x8l]

Zen flying is just natural HE'S FLOATING ALREADY

[@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

[@SwedishSeacon]

Tbh the ''Upward punch'' for Doomfist should have been a thing from the start than him just rocket punching in one direction.

[@jamesbland5207]

I forgot Ashe gave the enemy team Corona.

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Fr imagine that lmao

[@flairhayden]

14:19 youngbloods will NEVER know the pain of sym doing this with the ancient teleporter

[@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

[@pengoon6553]

AndrewJrt and si not found are so nostalgic for me

[@BiolizardthePrototype]

The Ashe change was actually so broken, they had to disable her in the mode. Because the fire wasn’t working as intended. The afterburn was resetting and stacking off of itself and as well as spreading to teammates. That’s why it was melting people. People lit on fire were guaranteed to die

[@daedricwinters2979]

pretty cool to see the scrapped Hero Tree abilities get some use once a year

[@The_ASMR_Listener]

When they did april fools patches its to temporarily have bad design, Overwatch 2 is the longest running April fool's patch

[@mercyI_I]

@@The_ASMR_Listener lmfao

[@primumcaelus6382]

My favourite change was always being able to stop and start moira balls. Was so fun to just stop it in the middle of their team to disperse them

[@Ag3nt-MC]

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

[@furryboi45]

Some of these look so smooth they look like real changes

[@mercyI_I]

Honestly that’s so facts like well some of them were broken a lot of them were super fun to play

[@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

[@Fikrikool]

Imagine if Symmetra's Wall blocked everything, enemy and ally alike. Movement through it, ranged fire, only sight.

[@erroneousfax9351]

Anyone else feel like the April Fools changes are what Total Mayhem should really be?

[@appledude5561]

LOVE THE MIITOPIA MUSIC

[@artimist0315]

While some of them are obviously silly, I think some changes could legit be great if balanced properly, or at least be used as mechanics for a new hero. I especially liked Doomfist's punch, Zenyata secondary fire fly, Widow having multiple grapples, Moira's reverse healing, reaper's walking TP and Spiderqueen is definitely how translocator should function

[@Lunauwuwastaken]

0:23 Hey I know that guy

[@tarryantidark2165]

aha, found you

[@kenesys8713]

0:34 SI Not Found! I love their videos

[@NickPlazma]

I started 2023 April Fools, I originally thought the Ashe “Bob” voice line was normal and same with rein flying.

[@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

[@destroyer99612]

Bring back directional punch, since they removed uppercut. Doom gotta somehow recover

[@cringe1462]

Jq this years april fools was the most fun ive had in this game since doom was changed, god i hope they'll cook with the creator patch

[@plasmakitten4261]

I loved Mercy being able to GA to enemies. Was just begging you to pull out the glock

[@theweirdmaniac847]

You know the phara started stressing when the queen started flying towards her

[@yukoraii]

excellent clips of sinf and andrewjrt

[@dayme_]

it would be pretty funny to see them give the option to be any character without a limit. so if everyone wanted to be idk doomfist you can 5 stack doomfist

[@HotPinkShade]

2023 Symmetra's turrets activated mid flight and also healed

[@elmoloco6131]

This is basically lore accurate heroes

[@derpyhooves1029]

2024's jq april fools was terrifying

[@yuki-ek5mb]

Mostly april fools changes are like lore accurate XD

[@dyingstar24]

I feel like for April fools, they just implement every mechanic they wanted to put in to make the characters lore accurate (except mei being huge, I think someone had a little too much milk from the fridge that day)

[@jakesin7390]

I miss OW1….

[@doug9243]

2021 pharah has flight core

[@toasticide816]

No way mauga became oddjob 2.0, the world is healing

[@mercyI_I]

Lmfaoooooooo

[@ImTheGibby]

Nobody: 2021 April Fools Day Orisa: HELICOPTER HELICOPTER

[@skseeker7030]

Jay with hair!

[@mercyI_I]

Very rare footage 👀

[@AMagicalTortoise]

They're all funny, but the 2024 ones were certainly the most fun to use in my opinion.

[@mercyI_I]

@@AMagicalTortoise agreed

[@ArlGrmes]

Canonically accurate overwatch

[@Omegasutoraiki]

Lore accurate Sigma is kinda funny ngl.

[@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.

[@liriara7096]

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

[@ClashThenDash]

They need to implement all of these live

[@mercyI_I]

W little prince and yeah that would be insane lol

[@PalpatineGaming]

This is the best gamemode hands down

[@mercyI_I]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@acestar01]

I miss you Rocket Jump Pharah

[@aceoverwatch2]

why tf was upward punch removed..

[@mercyI_I]

Old ow team was dumb lmao

[@Mystery-pd6jc]

2:05 The best version of Sigma ever put in Overwatch bar fucking none. I am beyond baffled that an OW April Fools update could make a more engaging, more fun and better balanced Sig than like 6 years of OW development.

[@timothychinye6008]

This 100% feels like they were just testing features

[@LofiTheNoob]

whats the song for the 2024 changes intro

[@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

[@derdaph2726]

Bastions grenade launcher is almost his old ult

[@mercyI_I]

Fr lmao

[@johnharrison6370]

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

[@mercyI_I]

Yeah it was wdym?

[@7sson-hasson-310]

Seems like they were developin in an Airport

[@kapipei8028]

smoluga was definitely the highlight of this year's april fools, and by god was he fun; Like so fun that i wish he was like that in the main game cause he didnt feel shit to play against and was fun as hell to play. they unintentionally fixed the hero in a shitpost gamemode lol.

[@loganbowyer1733]

2023 zen was an angry wasp

[@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

[@kairitorellik9565]

I missed Zens flying kick. Also, I called small Mauga Smalga

[@rny.918]

The pharah mooving ult needs to be added at the game

[@PerfectedVenus_Monsoon]

Honestly, the directional punch for Doom wouldn't be that bad for him. Just limit how high/low you can punch forward and it would be solid.

[@mercyI_I]

@@PerfectedVenus_Monsoon yeah they def could make it work

[@plushiexd]

knowing my teammates theyd still mess up the soldier ult

[@montynoir6694]

Wait until you see Zen in the community crafted mode

[@YeshuaEnjeru]

Reaper teleport walk and fly should be a thing

[@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.

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

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

[@saucysponge3660]

stop breathing by playboi carti

[@MOTII1620]

I respected the Tetris theme

[@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.

[@BasiliskX]

Some of these should be legit in game.

[@Monkey832]

They need to make the 2021 changes to Soldier's ult now, Visor feels so shit as a Soldier main especially in Season 11

[@GreenGuyGeno]

Mini Mauga is funny as hell.

[@trash0175]

April fools patch is always so fun. Im hoping 2025 would be more creative

[@marnieuwu4472]

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