Overwatch's Jetpack Cat has a hidden weakness you can never counter

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Published Mar 5, 2026, 12:20 PM EST

Trains and automobiles

Jetpack Cat's been playable in Overwatch for several weeks now, and folks are starting to familiarize themselves with what she can and can't do well. A good Jetpack Cat player is often annoying, but despite how challenging it is to land a shot on that tiny, fast-moving hitbox, she has a lot of counters. And as I found out, not all of them are other heroes.

A small handful of Overwatch maps include traffic, like Oasis, and one of Busan's three control maps has a train. Normally, the cars and train carriages don't matter. They're mostly out of the way and not terribly dangerous unless you have a very specific accident or encounter a Lúcio who boops you at just the right time. So naturally, I never really considered the threat they pose to domestic animals. Until it was too late.

On Busan's Downtown map, I fired up Jetpack Cat's Catnapper ultimate and was dragging the opposing team's tank off the edge, when boom. Or rather, splat. The train went speeding by and did the other team's job for them. Yes, a cat getting hit by a fast vehicle is categorically unfunny, but a flying feline kidnapper accidentally zooming into a train is like something straight out of Looney Tunes.

I'm not the first to discover Jetpack Cat's allergy to traffic. After it happened, I checked the Overwatch subreddit and found a handful of other, similar instances. Sometimes, it was as much a happy accident for the kidnap-ee as it was in my incident.

Others, it was intentional. Sure, Mauga could've taken out Jetpack Cat with his chain guns pretty easily, but where's the fun in that?

My favorite is this one, though. One Jetpack Cat got so fed up with the other team's Jetpack Cat that they dragged their enemy off the map and into traffic just to teach them a lesson. (And kudos to them for being able to aim Catnapper's initial pounce that well.)

So if you're playing as Jetpack Cat and think you're safe once you leave the edge of the map, just remember: You aren't.

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