Blizzard lastly unveiled the five Persona 5 collaboration skins it’s bringing to Overwatch 2 yesterday, and as Overwatch followers are likely to do, they’d a reasonably extensive unfold of reactions. When you’ve 44 heroes, it’s unattainable to unfold love throughout them equally, and it may well get fairly irritating in case your favourite by no means appears to get any love within the type of skins and different cosmetics. It’s particularly grating when Overwatch 2 appears to favor a selected handful of characters with every occasion or collaboration. Whereas assist hero Kiriko, the face of this issue, wasn’t included within the Persona 5 skins, the collaboration nonetheless hasn’t gone over effectively with some followers who really feel that heroes like Genji and Mercy are getting preferential remedy, or are disillusioned that some seemingly apparent crossovers didn’t manifest.
drew junkrat cranium and dva oracle earlier trigger I am hyped for the collab hehe ⚡#OverwatchFanart #Persona5 #Overwatch2 pic.twitter.com/6XOAOfgPgl
— Souda (@lemonsoudaa) September 15, 2025
Surprisingly, essentially the most contentious pores and skin within the Persona 5 occasion appears to be Genji as Ryuji. Genji makes a number of sense for the collaboration, provided that he’s one in all Overwatch 2’s Japanese heroes, and his katana would make him a reasonably pure match for somebody like Yusuke, who additionally makes use of a sword within the RPGs. Ryuji, nonetheless, is a little bit of an odd decide. The monitor star is the tank of Persona 5’s group, and makes use of blunt melee weapons in fights, similar to bats and pipes. When Genji wears the pores and skin primarily based on the Phantom Thief, his katana is changed by Ryuji’s base lead pipe, which, yeah, I imply, that’s a melee weapon, I suppose, however you don’t slash folks with a pipe the identical method Genji does when he makes use of his katana in his final assault.
The selection is much more questionable contemplating that some followers really feel Junkrat, the grenade-launching DPS hero and infrequently forgotten member of the unique roster, would have made a greater match, and had been speculating and hoping that he would get the Ryuji remedy. He has Ryuji’s blonde hair, the 2 have each suffered leg accidents that go away them with a definite limp, and Ryuji is usually a goofy comedian aid character whose mannerisms would have labored effectively in a Junkrat spotlight intro.
Seeing this. How did Junkrat not get that pores and skin… https://t.co/iCDO1bOQ8f
— Sammie ✨️ (@SamTheLucioFan) September 16, 2025
junkrats too ugly for collabs apparently regardless that this is able to be a literal 1-1 good match for him. Lol. Lmfao. https://t.co/ARJAi03ghh
— jamie 🪼 | COMMS CLOSED (@VentureFootJob) September 15, 2025
GENJI YOU GREEDY FUCK (love u overwatch cavalry not directed at you) YOU TAKE ALL THE GOOD SKINS AWAY FROM DESERVING PEOPLE IM SO MAD JUNKRAT RYUJI WAS RIGHT THERE BUT NO GIVE IT TO THE CYBORG NINJA DUDE https://t.co/Fv2B9g3FGf
— Nyx (Ramattra’s Model) (@GoddessNyxie_) September 15, 2025
Ryuji Genji whereas Junkrat is true there https://t.co/WQlWrguzY2 pic.twitter.com/liX21TefVc
— Acid Queen 🇵🇸💗 (@SleepyAcidQueen) September 15, 2025
each have leg accidents
each blonde
each often get made enjoyable of by different characters
each energetic
each have matching spotlight intros
each have yellow as their most important colour pic.twitter.com/pIA57DyBeS— charlie ☂︎ (@Neqtuen) September 15, 2025
Whereas Junkrat isn’t included within the collaboration, one other alternative that has some Overwatch 2 followers up in arms is one for a hero who was featured, however was given what some deem an odd match. D.Va, the mech-piloting tank, received a pores and skin primarily based on the coed council president Makoto. It has some cool particulars, like her mech being primarily based on Johanna, Makoto’s motorcycle-shaped Persona, however Persona 5 additionally has a personality who would have match D.Va’s gamer theme: Futaba. The assist character in Persona 5 is a little bit of a recluse. She’s extraordinarily on-line and must be dragged out of her bed room to be social half the time, however she is all the time dropping gamer jokes and memes into informal dialog. D.Va pilots a mech as a result of she was a professional gamer who makes use of her transferable abilities to defend South Korea, so the comparisons are fairly obvious, particularly as a result of Futaba additionally pilots her personal Persona like a mech. Nonetheless, some followers argue that adapting Johanna’s design for D.Va’s mech was an fascinating artistic alternative.
yeah makoto! you keep in mind the character in persona 5 who spoke in gamer lingo and spent most of her time in mementos in a mech like persona and had heavy ties to expertise in a lot of the phantom thieves? proper? https://t.co/tPb2pIZfgF
— * (@star_piIot) September 15, 2025
blizzard in the event that they used greater than 5 % of their mind and really performed persona 5 https://t.co/En7AyTA9bL pic.twitter.com/2OJdKvSzKy
— Jonathan (@JonathanFess) September 16, 2025
this can be a sensible choice while you take a look at the mecha
yall simply dont have creativeness https://t.co/HUExUNV2yz
— AUZZIE ✈️ NYCC (@auzziejlee) September 15, 2025
The blizzard dev scrolling previous your submit https://t.co/NwVHVKmuAK pic.twitter.com/kzjiCO716i
— Frankiep423 (@frankiep423) September 16, 2025
When you go searching, you’ll discover a number of concepts followers had for the collaboration earlier than Blizzard revealed the skins. Ashe may have leaned into the rose theme of the Ann skin, or Juno may have dressed up as Haru as a reference to their shared voice actor. In the end, when Blizzard teases one thing weeks earlier than revealing it, followers simply have extra time to think about the proper collaboration of their heads and be disillusioned in no matter follows, and that disappointment is simply exacerbated when there are already perceptions of favoritism. R.I.P. Ryuji Junkrat, although. An actual missed alternative, that one.