OverwatchOverwatch Ramattra Guide and Overview

Having two separate ability kits in one hero enables Ramattra to be highly adaptable and perform well against almost any team composition. In Omnic Form, Ram can outrange most Tanks, and with Void Accelerator (Omnic Form), his ranged damage poses a significant threat to enemy backlines.

The core of his power lies in Nemesis Form, where he gains bonus armor and access to Pummel (Nemesis Form) — a hard-hitting melee projectile that pierces barriers. His playstyle revolves around chipping down enemy health and resources in Omnic Form, then transforming into Nemesis to rush down the enemy when they are most vulnerable. If the enemy team lacks stuns or knockback, Annihilation is often a fight-winning ultimate.

TLDR

Play As

• Nemesis Form is the core of your power. It enables aggression and survivability. Only activate it when enemies are already within Pummel (Nemesis Form) range.
• Save Ravenous Vortex for Nemesis Form to slow enemies and prevent escape.
• Activate Annihilation immediately after Nemesis ends to maximize survivability and Nemesis uptime.

Play Against

• Ramattra is less tanky and less lethal in Omnic Form. After Nemesis ends, that is your window to go on the offensive.
• Break line of sight (LoS) on his ultimate to end it quickly. Cutting off Annihilation's AoE for a total of 3 seconds will immediately cancel it.
• If Ram is walking toward you, expect a Vortex. Use mobility or cover before he throws it.

Strengths

High survivability

Ramattra gains 300 bonus armor whenever he activates Nemesis Form, including during his ultimate. He can block for the entire Nemesis duration and deploy a high-health barrier in Omnic Form. Combined, this gives him exceptional durability and strong stalling potential.

Good at rushing down

Nemesis Form grants bonus movement speed, and Ravenous Vortex applies a slow, allowing Ram to effectively rush down targets. Pummel’s barrier-piercing damage secures kills once he closes the gap.

Versatile hybrid kit

Ramattra can function in brawl, rush, and poke compositions. Omnic Form pressures high ground and backlines with ranged damage, while Nemesis Form enables frontline brawling.

Weaknesses

Obvious cooldown rotation

Ram’s use of Nemesis Form can feel very predictable and easy to play around. When the enemy has the mobility to kite Nemesis, Ram struggles to generate value for his team.

Countered by crowd control

Anytime Ram pops Nemesis, it's like he puts on a huge, “stun me” sign. He has no way of stopping stuns like Sleep Dart or Shatter. Also, because of the short range of Pummel (Nemesis Form), knockback abilities shut down Nemesis just as effectively.

Giant Hurtbox with minimal shielding

Although Ram has high survivability thanks to his Block and armor, he’s also easy to turn into an ult battery. His large body allows heroes like Freja and Sojourn to use Ram to farm ammo for their guns. Everyone else can use him to farm ult. During Nemesis, it's open season for long-range heroes, and Omnic Form is easy for close-range heroes to aggro on.

Primary Fire: Void Accelerator

Tips for Void Accelerator (Omnic Form)

• Poke pressure
• • Before you get into Pummel (Nemesis Form) range, you should always be poking with primary fire as much as possible.
  • Void Accelerator (Omnic Form) is also good for contesting high ground since you don’t have any vertical mobility. 
• Bait
• • Use Omnic form as a way bait the enemy while saving Nemesis Form. Once they’re approaching you, if they are investing a lot of resources like using their ults, use Vortex and shield to keep yourself protected, then use Nemesis after. 

Secondary Fire: Void Barrier

Tips for Void Barrier (Omnic Form)

• Enable team poke
• • Don’t just use Barrier selfishly; look for moments where you can create opportunities for your allies to peek and go for picks behind the protection of your Barrier.
• Cut off the enemy Tank
• • Anytime an enemy Tank is out in front of their team, deploy your Barrier behind them. They’ll be cut off from healing, and won’t have their team's damage to help pressure your team.

[SHIFT]: Nemesis Form

Tips for Nemesis Form

• Respond to the enemy's offensive plays
• • You can’t survive aggressive enemy attacks and dives unless you have Nemesis Form available. When you read the enemy is trying to quickly advance on you, save Nemesis Form until they have committed their cooldowns to the fight.
• Enable your aggression

Nemesis Form transforms Ram into a massive walking threat. You can alternate between Pummel (Nemesis Form) and Block to tank damage while using the increased walk speed to take space and attack the enemy's backline. 

(During Nemesis Form) Primary Fire: Pummel

Tips for Pummel (Nemesis Form)

• Counter damage mitigation
• • Pummel (Nemesis Form) pierces barriers and damage-absorbing abilities like Defense Matrix and Kinetic Grasp.
  • Against Tanks who use these abilities to survive, wait until they have taken a bit of damage already, then use Nemesis Pummel (Nemesis Form) to keep the pressure on while they’re trying to protect themselves.
• Brawl
• • Whether you are dueling a Tank, DPS or Support, Pummel (Nemesis Form) is how you want to brawl your targets. The repeated bursts of damage from each strike will eliminate most enemies well before they can chip away at your massive health pool.

(During Nemesis Form) Secondary fire: Block

Tips for Block (Nemesis Form)

• Stall
• • Use your armor and damage reduction to Tank enemy damage and stall objectives. In overtime, you can buy your team time to return from spawn. In the middle of fights, you can take up enemy damage and prolong fights. 
• Time with enemy attacks
• • Ram can weave in Block between Pummels against enemies with slow attack speeds like Sigma and Reinhardt. Block every primary fire, then Pummel (Nemesis Form) once or twice to minimize damage taken while still getting in damage of your own.  
• Body Block
• • Because you only have a single use of Barrier, the other way Ram can protect his team is by standing in front of them while holding block.
  • Protect DPS during their ults, or Supports when they're being focused. 

[E]: Ravenous Vortex

Tips for Ravenous Vortex

• Slow ‘em down
• • When the enemy is trying to push up on you, slow their advance with Vortex. Buy yourself time to wait out their duration-based abilities like channeled ultimates. 
• Rush down
• • Use Nemesis’ movement buff to chase down your targets.
  • Save Vortex for Nemesis because most heroes can’t dash out of Vortex, fliers get pulled down, and the slow effect keeps them in your Pummels.

Ultimate: Annihilation

Tips for Annihilation

• Watch out for stuns
• • During Annihilation, the enemy knows Ram can’t use Barrier and can easily be CC’d. If you get knocked away or stunned for too long, your ult will quickly end.
  • If there is one enemy ability like Sleep Dart that will shut down your ult, first use Nemesis Form to get that ability out. Then use ult right after.
• Extending the duration
• • As long as at least one enemy is in the AoE of Annihilation, the ult will not end (up to 20 seconds max). Focus on staying alive with Block, and keeping the enemy in range.
  • You can also activate ult in between the enemy team to force them to split up as they run away in multiple directions. Then, focus on the one closest to your team for a quick kill. 

Minor Perks

Void Surge

• Strengthen Ram’s weakness
• • The extra burst damage has more impact than it seems on paper. Also, compared to Prolonged Barrier, Void Barrier (Omnic Form) never breaks, and an extra second will rarely make a game-changing difference.
  • Better damage in Omnic Form allows Ram to be more of a threat while waiting for Nemesis Form.

Relentless Form

• Most of Ram's value is generated while in Nemesis Form. Being able to extend the duration is really good. You won't always be able to get an elimination, but when you do, this is a very impactful buff.

Major Perks

Nanite Repair

• Bit of extra sustain
• • When inside Vortex for the full duration, Ram will heal for 150 health.
  • Helpful when brawling because you can throw Vortex at your feet, and stay inside while Pummeling the enemy Tank.

Vengeful Vortex

• Better for poke
• • Being able to detonate Vortex in the air makes it easy to catch distant enemies without needing to hit a perfect placement. The 50 detonation damage also helps increase your poke lethality. 
• Better rush downs
• • When chasing down an enemy, shoot Vortex in front of them and detonate to force them to walk through. This makes rushing down targets notably easier.

Maps that favor close-range engagements, have smaller objective areas, and little to no high ground are best for Ram. He wants enemies to be close enough to rush them with Nemesis Form at any moment. Also, because he has good horizontal move speed but no vertical mobility, flat ground areas enable Ram’s play style best. Maps with wide open space and long sight lines are situationally difficult for Ram, depending on the matchup.

If the enemy is running more short-range heroes and Tank, then he has the advantage, but if the enemy runs long-range or high-mobility heroes, he’s at a disadvantage. He doesn’t want to waste time trying to approach, and high ground gives the enemy an easy escape from Nemesis and his ult.

Best maps

• Lijiang Tower
• Nepal
• Rialto

Worst Maps

• Watchpoint: Gibraltar
• Numbani
• Junkertown

Team comps built around Ramattra can follow and assist him when he goes all in during and . Because Ram gains a move speed buff and immediately becomes the focus of the enemy team, he’ll be taking a huge amount of the enemy team's damage and cooldowns.

His armor and Block help him to survive the attacks, but if he wants to get max value, he needs his team’s assistance with healing himself so he can Pummel (Nemesis Form) and damage the enemy, so he can get the kills. His Barrier can give short windows of protection to snipers and ranged allies, but is can’t be depended on due to its long cooldown.

Anyone who can give him additional speed boosts greatly helps him in bypassing the frontline and quickly killing the squishies.

Example of a team comp built around Ramattra:

Ramattra, Hazard, Soldier: 76, Tracer, Juno, Kiriko

Individual synergies with other heroes

Tracer

• Tracer's objective when teamed up with Ram is to take care of his strongest counter, Ana. Tracer ruins Ana's day because her only hope of dealing with Tracer is landing a difficult Sleep Dart. If she does, then that’s Ram’s go signal for Nemesis and Annihilation because he knows he can hold W without fear of being slept. Most of the time, Tracer will be able to harass Ana enough that she won’t be a problem for Ram. When they are in sync, Ram’s Vortex makes landing one-clips and Pulse Bombs way easier for Tracer.

Juno

• Hyper Ring is the main reason Ram wants Juno on his team. Ram doesn’t constant speed boost, he just needs the extra speed at the exact moment he’s trying to rush in. Juno can just save Hyper Ring for everytime Ram runs in, and he’ll run over everyone. Compared to Lucio, she also has a much easier time healing and keeping Ram alive.

Kiriko

• Ram is susceptible to debuff effects, knockback, and stuns. Suzu can counter all of these and enable Ram to play into his counters with great success. Nemesis inside of Kitsune Rush also feels like having a 2nd ult for Ram. Faster walking and attacking speed means the enemy is forced to try and escape, so it's a deadly combination when both teams need to contest the objective area.

General Mentality Against Ramattra

• Track Nemesis timing and punish him during his less threatening Omnic Form.
• Save mobility for dodging Vortex. If you are already in Vortex, don't use your mobility abilities until you've escaped.
• Break LoS during Annihilation. If you can't escape, barriers also count as breaking LoS so hold the barrier until the duration expires.

Counter Picks

Tank: Orisa, Mauga
DPS: Sojourn, Echo
Support: Ana, Lúcio