Season 5 of Overwatch is live, and the cosmetics lineup is one of the more memorable ones the game has put together in a while. There's a dragon-riding mythic, a weapon skin with a literal tiny frog inside it, and B.O.B. doing what B.O.B. does best: wearing something absurd and looking incredible.
Wuyang gets the mythic hero skin this season
The Season 5 mythic hero skin goes to Wuyang, who receives a dragon-themed look complete with a dragon companion. It's a strong pick for the mythic slot, leaning into the kind of fantasy that makes mythic skins worth grinding for. The dragon companion detail in particular gives it a visual flair that should stand out in-game, not just in the collection menu.
Here's the thing though: Lucio fans were probably expecting a full mythic hero skin at some point, and Season 5 is not that season. What they're getting instead is a mythic weapon skin called Treblemaker, which includes a tiny, headphones-wearing dancing frog living inside the gun. Whether that's a consolation prize or an upgrade is genuinely up for debate, but the frog has already become the most-talked-about cosmetic detail of the season.
The battle pass skin everyone's actually excited about
B.O.B. keeps his undefeated record intact. Ashe's new battle pass skin is Ghostly Belle, a Halloween-adjacent look that transforms her Omnic butler into a blobby little robo-ghost. It sounds like it shouldn't work, and yet here we are. B.O.B. has now cycled through tiny hats, inflatable flamingos, robot tiger variants, and gingerbread man forms, and every single time the result lands.
Ghostly Belle itself looks solid on Ashe, but let's be real: the reason anyone unlocks Ashe skins is to see what happens to B.O.B.
What's in the shop this season
Beyond the battle pass, the Season 5 shop is running a tech witches line. The standout there is Jetpack Cat in a witch hat, which is exactly the kind of unhinged cosmetic decision that keeps Overwatch's art team in a class of their own. D.Mon is also getting bat wings on her mech, Beast, which is a small detail that hits harder than it has any right to.
Dokiwatch is also returning this season for players who missed it the first time around.
How Season 5 skins compare to recent seasons
For context on how Season 5 stacks up cosmetically, the Overwatch Season 4 hero skins covered everything from Genji's mythic to Sojourn's weapon skin. Season 5 follows a similar structure with a hero mythic for Wuyang and a weapon mythic for Lucio, giving two different hero fanbases something to chase this season.
The tech witches shop line also signals that Blizzard is leaning harder into thematic bundles for the shop rather than scattering individual skins, which is a trend worth watching as the year wraps up.
What this means for players heading into Season 5
If you're primarily a battle pass player, Ghostly Belle is the clear target this season. If you're a Lucio main, Treblemaker is the weapon skin to grind toward, frog and all. Wuyang's mythic is the premium cosmetic anchor, and the shop bundles give returning players a reason to check back in even if they skipped last season.
For a full breakdown of how Overwatch handles skin unlocks across battle pass tiers and shop bundles each season, the Overwatch guides collection has everything you need to plan your progression before the season moves on.
