According to a leak on 4Chan, Overwatch will receive a fresh batch of new characters in the coming months including Doomfist, Bria, and Ivon.
The poster claimed to be a member of the Q&A team at Blizzard Austin, and revealed some extensive details on the abilities of each of the new character, which are scheduled to roll out beginning in the second quarter of 2017. Note that anyone can post on 4chan, so treat this as a rumor for the time being.
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Overwatch Doomfist
Second quarter’s hero. He’s ready to launch and will be going to the test servers very shortly (days, not months.) He’s a Reinhart & Ulted Lucio/Road counter with a rapid charge and grapple ability. His Ult is a AOE effect with 100% damage on any target in the center and 5 second knockdown on anyone within 5 meters of the impact zone.
Overwatch Bria
Third quarter 2017. Concept but entering initial testing soon. Area denial Hero, think a Mei with rapid wall ability. Designed to lock off certain areas of the map to assist her team, can’t lock off [sic] multible routes at once. Ult electrifies anything between two of her Wall bars.
Overwatch Ivon
Fourth quarter 2017. Early concept. Currently planned to be a Russian Defence hero, effectively a Torbjorn-Sym hybrid capable of producing weak swarmbots and controlling their direction and tactics with his abilities. Like a Mini-RTS. His Ult doubles his current number of Swarmers. (Also there’s planned to be a delay before each swarmer is complete, if that makes sense: you can’t spawn all swarmers on the first point, you need resources to do it: think Torbjorn’s armor).
Stay tuned for more details on the new Overwatch characters and update as we get them.