Overwatch 2 Stadium Boost

Why Stadium Plays Differently

Games are decided by builds as much as by aim. Which Powers you take, what you buy each round and when you adapt to the other team's build win and lose rounds that mechanics alone would not. That is why strong competitive players can still stall in Stadium.

What You Choose

• Your platform - PC, PlayStation, Xbox or Switch
• Role Queue or Open Queue, and your role
• Your current and desired Stadium rank - the ranks between them set the price
• Any options you add, such as Priority Order or Streaming

Order Options

• Priority Order - top of the queue, completed at double the standard speed
• Play with Booster - play every match yourself, with the booster on your team
• Streaming - a private stream link to watch the games
• Appear Offline - included free and on by default

The Stadium Ladder

Stadium has seven ranks with five divisions each. As in competitive play, division 5 is the bottom of a rank and division 1 the top, so the ladder runs in 35 steps from Rookie 5 to Legend 1. The calculator prices every step between your current and target rank.

Stadium Boost or Competitive Rank Boost?

If both matter to you, they have to be ordered separately - see the Overwatch 2 rank boost for the role queue ladder.

Heroes and Builds

Stadium only offers part of the hero roster, and each hero has its own Powers and Items, so a strong build on one hero says little about another. If you want the climb done on particular heroes - the ones you will keep playing afterwards - name them in the order chat.

With Play with Booster on, you can also ask the booster to talk through what they are buying each round. That is often the fastest way to see why a build that works in one game falls apart in the next.

Powers, Items and Stadium Cash

Every Stadium match is played in rounds. Players earn Stadium Cash during each round from eliminations, assists, damage, healing and objective play, then spend it between rounds. Items cost cash and raise stats or add effects; Powers are chosen at set rounds and change how one of a hero's abilities works.

The result is that two players on the same hero can play very differently by the late rounds. A good build answers the other team - more survivability against burst damage, more sustain in long fights - which is the part of the mode that wins or loses the climb as often as aim does.

Planning a Long Stadium Climb

A climb across several ranks covers many divisions, and Stadium matches run over several rounds, so large orders are worked across a number of sessions. Priority Order moves the order to the top of the queue and completes it at double the standard speed. If you want to keep playing Stadium yourself in between, tell the booster when in the order chat.