Steam Every other game has a binding table. Overwatch has a global layer and then lets every hero override it, officially. Players fix one hero, then another, and end up with Left Shift as a dash, a blink and a charge — each with a different urgency. Nobody decides to do that. This page keeps the account so you can.
Add each hero profile you have actually changed. The page does not know what any hero’s abilities are and does not pretend to — you say what the key does, and it keeps count of how many jobs each key has picked up across your pool.
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Heroes with a profile: none yet
This is the shipped global layer, split by which finger reaches each key with a hand on WASD. The result worth acting on is the little finger: it holds Ability 1 and Crouch, and this is a game that asks for both together constantly.
Quick melee · Reload · Interact · Ping · Emote
Crouch · Ability 1 · Ultimate status
Jump · Push to talk
Ability 2 · Communication wheel
Ultimate · Group up
Shading is how many shipped actions a digit carries, and it is not the problem — the left index carries the most and is perfectly comfortable, because reload, interact and melee are never wanted in the same instant. The digit marked in red is the one asked for two things at once: Ability 1 on Left Shift and Crouch on Left Ctrl, both on the left little.
Ability 1 and Crouch both land on the left little finger. Moving one of them — Ability 1 to a mouse side button is the usual answer — is the single cheapest fix available in this game, and it applies to every hero at once.
The first override costs nothing. The fourth one on the same key costs you the first ten seconds after every hero swap, which is where matches are decided. The ledger above is there so you take that on knowingly.
Overrides that use keys the global layer leaves alone divide nothing. Two spare mouse buttons will absorb most of a pool’s worth of hero-specific needs without any key ever picking up a second meaning.
Overwatch fragments controller players too, and arguably worse. What it lets you override per hero on a pad is not what a button means — it is how the aim feels: sensitivity, aim technique, ease in, smoothing, and a second sensitivity that only applies while scoped.
A divided key is at least visible. You can open the settings and see that Shift is a dash on one hero and a blink on another. A divided sensitivity is not: nothing in this game ever puts 42 and 30 next to each other, so a player does not conclude “these are different”, they conclude “I am inconsistent.” Put yours side by side.
Add the heroes whose sensitivity you have actually changed. Two is enough — and two is usually all it takes for the problem to appear.
Nobody plays their whole roster. Pick the two heroes you swap between inside a single match; that pair is where a sensitivity gap is actually paid for.
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| Per-hero aim setting | What it changes |
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| Horizontal / vertical sensitivity | Scales the fastest turn the stick can produce. The one that fragments most, because it is the one people reach for when a hero feels wrong. |
| Aim technique | Dual Zone, Exponential Ramp or Linear Ramp. Changes how stick position becomes turn rate — a different feel, not a different speed. |
| Aim ease in | Softens the very start of a movement. Small values are nearly invisible; large ones make flicks feel delayed. |
| Aim smoothing | Averages your input over time. Steadier tracking, later reactions. |
| Relative aim sensitivity while zoomed | A second sensitivity that only applies while scoped. On the heroes that have a scope this is effectively a second profile inside the profile. |
Aim Smoothing averages your recent stick movement to take the jitter out, and every average costs delay — the output cannot know about a movement until part of it has already happened. The argument about whether to use it is always conducted without the one number that decides it: how much noise is actually riding on your movement. Sweep the stick the way you track a target and the page measures it.
Thin what your stick sent · thick the same movement through a filter this wide
A stick at rest is steady by definition. Sweep it the way you track a moving target and the page reads the noise riding on top of that movement.
The ledger above is about meaning. These are about the hardware sending it.
Yes. Overwatch keeps a global control layer and lets every hero override it with its own profile. It is an official setting, not a workaround, and it is why two players with identical settings screens can still have completely different muscle memory.
They are worth it when a hero genuinely needs a different shape — a key you must hold while moving, an ability you fire far more often than the global layer expects. They cost you when the same key ends up meaning three things across your pool, because every hero swap becomes a small re-learn. The ledger on this page puts a number on that cost so it is a decision rather than a drift.
Because in the shipped defaults both live on the left little finger — Ability 1 on Left Shift, Crouch on Left Ctrl — and Overwatch asks for them together constantly. That collision is in the global layer before any hero touches it, and it is the one thing on this page worth acting on even if you never make a single profile.
Controller players get their own hero-specific layer covering aim behaviour rather than key positions — sensitivity, response curve and aim assist values per hero. It solves a different problem than rebinding does, and it is why controller and mouse players in the same lobby are tuning genuinely different things.
Sensitivity is a separate matter from bindings and is not what this page measures. If you want to move a sensitivity between Overwatch and another game, the converter uses the verified Overwatch yaw and will do it properly.
It is kept in your own browser so the ledger survives a reload, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded and no account is involved; clearing your site data removes it.
I answer from this site only — the 28 browser tests, the controls library for 46 games, the sensitivity converters and the two games. I can tell you which page to open, how a tool works and what its result means.
I will not guess. If something is not on the site, I will say so.
Answers come from this site's pages.