Added to the roster asOverwatch 2’s40th hero, Venture is an archaeologist who traverses the battlefield underground, and uses their drill to deal massive amounts of damage. Venture is classified as a DPS, meaning that they specialize in dealing damage and picking off important targets.

Unlike other DPS characters that focus on defeating their enemies with ranged weaponry, Venture gets up close and personal, and can quickly weave in and out of melee range safely. If you need tips on how to bury your enemies with this new Overwatch character, then check out the tips below to achieve victory.

An image from Overwatch 2 of Venture’s Drill Dash Ability. This allows you to move forward and deal damage to any enemies in your path.

Move underground and become invulnerable. Emerge to deal damage.

Dash forward, pushing enemies back and dealing damage.

An image from Overwatch 2 of Venture’s Burrow Ability, which allows them to burst out of the ground to deal damage in an AOE.

Send out damaging shockwaves.

Venture has 250 base health, but you can reachup to 325 overall health with your shielding passive.Since Venture is classified as a DPS, they also benefit from the class-specific DPS passive.

Whenever Venture deals any amount of damage, they will applya 20 percent anti-heal onto enemies for two seconds.While the DPS passive does not stack, it can seriously help to reduce the enemy team’s healing.

Tips And Tricks For Venture

Venture’s Role As A DPS

While every DPS character in the game specializes in dealing damage, Venture thrives the most inclose-range combat against squishy targets.Venture is also a hero thatrelies heavily on their abilities to deal damage,so the Smart Excavator’s primary fire only serves to supplement their damage while these abilities are on cooldown.

Venture plays similarly to other assassin DPS characters in the game,capable of moving around the map quickly and dispatching targets with their ability combos.While Venture’s abilities can help you close the distance between you and your enemies,they can also offer a free escapeif you bite off more than you can chew.

Keep in mind that although Venture does excel at picking off weaker characters,they are not stealthy whatsoever,so don’t expect to get the drop on someone from the underground.

Overall,Venture struggles the most against characters that can deal damage from a safe distance,such as Widowmaker, Hanzo, Ashe, Solider: 76, and Sojourn. Since Venture is only capable of dealing damage at close or medium range,they will need to use their abilities to close the distanceagainst these enemies, or risk getting picked off.

Negate Heavy Damage By Becoming Invulnerable

Every eight seconds, Venture can use their Burrow ability to travel under the ground for four seconds, making themcompletely invulnerable from damage and clearing many negative status effects.Although this ability makes up a massive amount of Venture’s damage output, you can alwaysuse it to avoid dangerous situations,such as escaping from a D.Va ultimate or protecting yourself after getting hit by Ana’s Biotic Grenade.

Burrow cleanses many of the negative status effects in the game,such as Zenyatta’s Discord Orb.Furthermore,successfully burrowing under the groundwill cause sticky grenades, such as Tracer’s Pulse Bomb or Cassidy’s Magnetic Grenadeto fall off Venture and deal no damage.

Combining both of Venture’s abilities can also help you escape dangerous situations, such asusing Drill Dash under the ground to move even further. You can also use Drill Dash to launch yourself into the air, then immediately fly back towards the ground by activating Burrow.

Practice Your Spacing

Venture is one of the few DPS characters thatcan not deal any damage from a long distance,so it is incredibly important to learn how to space yourself correctly. In Overwatch 2, spacing refers to your character’s placement in any given fight, such as playing with your tank or flanking around the enemy to pick off weaker targets.

Venture’s primary fire is most similar to Sigma’s Hypersphere’s, meaning thateach shot will explode after traveling a certain distance.This means that you will have to space yourself closer to enemies than other long-range DPS characters typically would, all toensure that your Primary Fire can deal damage.

If you run out of ammo in the middle of a fight, remember thatVenture’s Burrow ability will completely reload their Primary Fire.

Venture’s Ultimate Can Be Blocked

Since Venture sends out four shockwaves with their Ultimate Ability, these damaging waves can be completely negated by traveling to higher ground or deploying shields. Specifically,Venture’s Ultimate shockwaves can travel up ramps or stairs, but will be blocked by taller structures, such as a Mei Wall.

Venture’s Ultimate Ability isbest utilized when enemies are clumped togetherand have little protection from barriers, such as when they are grouped byOrisa’s Terra Surge or Zarya’s Graviton Surge.

Furthermore, enemies that have flying abilities, namely Pharah and Echo,can easily escape this ultimate with just a click of a button,rendering the shockwaves completely useless against them. When activating this ability, werecommend picking an immobile targetthat you want to take out of combat, such as an Ana or Roadhog.