Overwatch‘s newest hero Baptiste will be launching on the live servers on March 19. The announcement was made on the Overwatch Twitter account Wednesday.

Baptiste is filling out the support roster for the FPS/MMO hybrid game. He can also be expected to launch in competitive game mode a week after his initial launch.

Baptiste introduced new mechanics to Overwatch with his release. His special abilities include an immortality field, regenerative burst, exo boots, and his ultimate the amplification matrix. You can find a full breakdown of his abilities here.

Baptiste is still playable on the Public Test Realm by any player who downloads this Overwatch test server before heā€™s released in live.

Overwatch is now available for PS4, PC, and Xbox One.

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Katie has been playing video games since she was about ten, starting out destroying her older brother at Jet Moto on the original PlayStation. Now she evolved to to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Katie is a student at Boise State University and a digital news producer for a local company. In her free time, you can find Katie inhaling coffee by the pot and playing Overwatch.