How to get your 'Overwatch' Genji skin in 'Heroes of the Storm'

You can't have your pudding if you don't eat your meat.
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Kellen Beck
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Sometimes you need to work extra hard to get the best things in life.

Starting Tuesday, Overwatch players can get an Oni Genji skin, portrait and spray by playing 15 Heroes of the Storm matches. That doesn't sound too bad for non-Heroes players, except you need to play all 15 matches in a party with at least one friend.

That may sound like a lot to ask, but just look at that awesome demon skin.


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Players have until Jan. 4 to complete this task, which should be pretty easy for regular Heroes, especially considering you don't even need to win a single one of these matches.

For Overwatch players that just want the skin, portrait and spray, your fastest route to loot is setting aside a couple hours with a friend (or four) and grinding through 15 matches in Co-op Versus A.I. mode, where you can change the AI difficulty to Beginner and breeze through the enemy team.

You can also finish the required 15 matches through Quick Match, Unranked and Ranked modes. It doesn't matter if you win or lose in any of those matches.

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If you become a fan of the game or already are one, you also unlock the hero Zarya in Heroes with the Genji skin.

After you play 30 matches with a friend, you get four more heroes -- Auriel, Greymane, Kerrigan and Li-Ming -- plus an Orochi Hovercycle mount and a 30-day Stimpack (for bonus experience or gold).

The Oni Genji skin (and how to get it) was revealed at BlizzCon in early November.

Topics Esports Gaming

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Kellen Beck

Kellen is a science reporter at Mashable, covering space, environmentalism, sustainability, and future tech. Previously, Kellen has covered entertainment, gaming, esports, and consumer tech at Mashable. Follow him on Twitter @Kellenbeck

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