Mei
Mei is a scientist who has taken the fight to preserve the environment into her own hands.
Location
Xi’an, China (formerly)
Age
33
Birthday
Sep 5
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Endothermic Blaster
Short-range spray weapon that slows enemies. Long-range icicle launcher.
Minor Perk — Choose 1
Skating Rink
Allies within Blizzard gain 25% increased movement speed and heal for 50 health per second.
Glacial Propulsion
Double jumping creates a small ice pillar that launches Mei into the air.
Major Perk — Choose 1
Deep Freeze
Continuously hitting enemies with primary fire freezes them for a short time.
Cryo-Storm
Cryo-Freeze slows and deals 70 damage per second to nearby enemies.
Permafrost
For every 1% of your Ability Power, gain 0.5 increased Max Life.
Slowball
After using an ability or Gadget, your next 2 Icicle shots fire a snowball with 200% projectile speed that applies 30% slow on hit.
Extendothermics
Endothermic Blaster's primary fire range is increased by 6m.
Frost Armor
Gain Armor equal to 3% of the damage you deal with Endothermic Blaster's primary fire, up to 100, until the end of the round.
Snowball Flight
Ability: Jumping while mid-air creates a large Ice Wall pillar under you. (12s Cooldown).
Twice As Ice
When you use Cryo-Freeze, reset the next cooldown of Ice Wall.
Iceberg
Ice Wall spawns a mini Blizzard that slows enemies.
Cryclone
Cryo-Freeze spawns a mini Blizzard that slows enemies.
Coulder
Cryo-Freeze now encases you in a rolling iceball that can knock back enemies and deal 20 damage.
Frost Nova
When Cryo-Freeze ends, knock back nearby enemies, dealing 60 damage.
Frosting
Allies within Blizzard heal for 8% of your Max Life every 1s.
Deep Chills
Continuously hitting an enemy with Endothermic Blaster's primary fire will Freeze them for 0.65s.
As a peerless climatologist stationed in Ecopoint: Antarctica, Mei-Ling Zhou’s team was forced into cryostasis during a turbulent storm. Sadly, the cryostasis lasted far longer than intended, and Mei awoke nine years later as the only survivor in a damaged station. With the help of her robot companion, Snowball, Mei invented new technology to escape Antarctica and join up with the new Overwatch.
Overwatch
With escalating climate phenomena ravaging environments around the globe, Overwatch established a series of ecopoints at remote, critical locations worldwide. Their mission was to study ecological challenges and provide solutions for stabilizing or reversing its most pressing issues. Mei-Ling Zhou was a member of this multiyear initiative. A peerless climatologist, she had introduced cutting-edge innovations in the field of climate manipulation that protected at-risk areas in Asia and beyond. She was assigned to the program's monitoring station at Ecopoint: Antarctica when disaster struck: a sudden, catastrophic polar storm battered the installation and cut it off from the outside world, leaving the facility damaged and the scientists stranded. As their supplies dwindled, they entered cryostasis to survive until supply lines could be re-established or a rescue attempt could be made. But that rescue never came. It was years later when the team's cryogenics chamber finally opened; Mei was the team’s only survivor. The world Mei awoke to had gone through considerable changes: Overwatch was no more, the serious climate issues had worsened, and none of the ecopoints were in operation. Any clues their research had uncovered were lost.
Recall
But there was hope: upon reconnecting to the outside world, Mei received Winston’s Overwatch Recall missive. She joined up with Winston and Tracer at Watchpoint: Gibraltar and decided to continue her climatology work, penning a public journal that detailed her experience. Equipped with a portable version of her climate-manipulation technology, she traveled the world hoping to re-establish Overwatch’s ecological research network and track down the causes of the threats to the planet's ecosystem. Mei put her personal mission on hold to support the re-formed Overwatch team in halting the devastating attack by Null Sector on the city of Paris. With her incredible technology and her sharp mind, Mei strives to build a future that protects both the planet and the people who call it home.