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Someone figured out the drop rates for Overwatch loot

If you have been wondering how lucky you need to be to grab a legendary skin from a loot box in Overwatch then now you can see the drop rate percentages as someone went through the trouble of working it all out.

Reddit user, Ourobouros went through several videos that racked up around 1000 loot box openings. From there, he did the maths, working out the percentage of common, rare, epic and legendary drops.

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In short, a common will drop 97.08 percent of the time, a rare will drop 78.22 percent of the time, an epic will drop 25.91 percent of the time and a legendary will drop 9.38 percent of the time. This is ‘on average' so it isn't a guarantee but still, it is nice to have some numbers to show how likely you are to get each level of item.

KitGuru Says: Loot boxes have been fairly kind to me in Overwatch while I've played. Have you been opening up your loot boxes? Did you get anything good? 

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12 comments

  1. Brayden Merrill

    I haven’t even bothered to pick up Overwatch yet. I get the sinking feeling that it’ll go the way of every other over-hyped battle arena game over the past few years. I’ll give it 3 months, and if it’s still alive and well, then I’ll probably get it. Been burned by these kinds of games too many times.

  2. I agree it’s short on content and that could burn people out if Blizzard doesn’t add more maps/modes/heroes. Personally the game has already taken 50 hours away from me, so it’s already reached the $1/hour I like to value my game purchases at.

  3. Andreas Nordeng

    Funhaus refrence?

  4. Funhaus? Never heard of it.

  5. Sooooo. Drop rates are. C:95%. R:75% E:25% and L:10%

  6. what is possibility to get 2 legendaries? because I got two 😀

  7. what is possibility to get 2 legendaries in a same loot box? because I got two in one loot box 😀

  8. i got 3 Legendary in a box and an epic 😀

  9. how about me i got 4? ;D

  10. Too busy with The Division at present, but I’ll def be looking at this when I get bored of it 🙂 250hrs and feel I’ve got my moneys worth out of it!!! 😀

  11. agreed. i am about “ROI” on overwatch, and that more than i can say about other games i bought i barely play (Plants VS zombies GW, rust, ) BLIZZ GAMES never DIE once they are out, so its will only get better imo

  12. lol :’D