Blizzard shows off Persona 5 skins ahead of Overwatch 2 crossover event

In the lead-up to Season 18 of Overwatch 2, the team at Blizzard officially teased the next major collaboration coming to the live-service Hero Shooter – revealing that SEGA/ATLUS’ highly-popular JRPG sub-series Persona 5 would be crossing over into Overwatch 2. With the event set to go live later today, the full suite of collaborative items/skins have been revealed.

Ahead of the crossover going live later today, the official Overwatch Twitter page offered a first proper look at all the upcoming Persona 5 skins – with 5 in total:

• Wuyang as Joker (The Protagonist)
• Mercy as Panther (Ann Takamaki)
• Lifeweaver as Fox (Yusuke Kitagawa)
• D.Va as Queen (Makoto Niijima)
• Genji as Skull (Ryuji Sakamoto)

Based on previous crossovers, expect each of these skins to set you back around 2500 Overwatch Coins, while including a couple extra items such as a unique pose, intro or name card.

Overwatch 2 is in a bit of an interesting spot. While the game was having its lunch eaten by Marvel Rivals following its launch late last year, the team at Blizzard have been making quite a few notable and welcome changes as a result of the added competition.

Even so, crossover skins are still crossover skins, and so expect to be coughing up quite a bit of change for the privilege of obtaining these time-limited items.

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