Blizzard almost put Devil May Cry's style rank into Overwatch for its newest combo-heavy hero Shion

**TL;DR:** Blizzard almost put Devil May Cry's style rank into Overwatch for its newest combo-heavy hero Shion

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Overwatch's next hero might carry twin pistols and has a quick dash, but she's no Tracer. Tomorrow, when Shion makes her debut, Overwatch will have a hero who fights like a Devil May Cry character. In fact, the character action game series was so much of an inspiration that Blizzard originally gave Shion a Devil May Cry-esque style rank meter to measure your moves. "We did have a style meter," lead hero producer Kenny Hudson said in a recent group interview with PC Gamer.

" Hudson said it "would've been cool," but it was too stressful to manage in combat. The team also had troubles figuring out how to reward you for earning an S rank. "At one point we had it so she has super speed or she has double the run speed of other heroes in the game," Hudson explained. " Even without the style ranks, Shion still has some Devil May Cry DNA in her kit. The motorcycle he mentioned isn't just for racing around the map.

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Source: PC Gamer

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