How to Get the Free Sigma Skin in Overwatch's Taking Reign Event (and Is the Premium Pass Worth It?)

The Reign of Talon story wraps up in Taking Reign, the headline event of Overwatch's Season 5 midseason update. Instead of a simple challenge list, Blizzard has built it around a small 24-tier event pass, and the best free reward on it is an Epic Sigma skin that anyone can earn just by playing. There is also a premium track for 1,000 Overwatch Coins with a Legendary Doomfist skin and a new Vendetta weapon.

This guide covers how to unlock the free Sigma skin before the event ends, what the premium track gives you, and whether it is worth the coins.

Taking Reign at a glance

The story frames the event as the final showdown between Doomfist and Vendetta for control of Talon, which is why most of the cosmetics on the track belong to those two heroes.

How to unlock the free Sigma skin

The Sigma skin sits near the top of the free rewards, so you need to climb almost the entire 24-tier track. Here is the simplest way to get there.

1. Log in and open the event. Taking Reign has its own progress track, separate from the season's Battle Pass. Its rewards and progress appear alongside the other midseason events in the game's menus.
2. Check the weekly event challenges. Event progress comes from playing matches and from completing the event's challenges, which are built around simply playing games. New challenges arrive each week, so check back after the weekly reset.
3. Play whatever you enjoy. The early challenges have been about completing a set number of games rather than playing specific heroes or racking up eliminations, so you don't need to change how you play.
4. Collect tiers as you go. The free tiers along the way are mostly sprays, name cards, player icons and other small cosmetics.
5. Finish before December 7. The free track is tied to the event window, so once Taking Reign ends, the Sigma skin is no longer available to earn.

Because new challenges unlock weekly, the pass is designed to be completed over several weeks rather than in one sitting. If you start late, you'll want to clear the challenges you've missed as soon as possible – leaving everything until the final week of the event is the most common way to miss the skin.

What the 1,000-coin premium track adds

Buying the premium track unlocks the premium rewards that sit between the free tiers. The two that matter most:

• Resurgence Doomfist (Legendary skin) – on the very first tier, so it unlocks as soon as you buy the premium track.
• Anima Fang (Vendetta weapon) – the final premium reward at the end of the track. Blizzard's own wording on its rarity has been inconsistent: the original announcement called it Heroic, but most coverage now lists it as Legendary.

The rest of the premium tiers are filled out with extra Doomfist and Vendetta cosmetics.

Does the premium track have the same deadline?

Reports differ here. Several outlets say that once you've bought the premium track you can keep working through it after the event ends, for the rest of Season 6. At least one says December 7 is the deadline for everything. Until Blizzard clarifies in game, play it safe: if you buy the premium track, aim to finish it before December 7.

Is the premium pass worth it?

It comes down to how much you care about Doomfist and Vendetta.

• Buy it if you main Doomfist or Vendetta. A Legendary skin plus a weapon for 1,000 coins is good value next to what Legendary skins usually cost in the shop, and the Doomfist skin is yours the moment you pay.
• Skip it if you mainly want the Sigma skin. That reward is completely free, and the free track also carries most of the event's sprays and cards.
• Wait if you're unsure. You can play the free track first and decide later – but buying late leaves you less time to reach Anima Fang at the end of the track.

Other free rewards running alongside Taking Reign

Taking Reign isn't the only thing happening this midseason, and a few side activities are worth stacking with it:

• Excavation Initiative (until December 7): a separate login-and-play event that rewards Loot Boxes for completing digs each week.
• Junkrat's Loot Hunt (around November 20–23): a short window where playing games earns extra Loot Boxes, with Double XP active. Those same games also move you along Taking Reign, so it's a good weekend to catch up on tiers.
• Overwatch x EVE Protocol (until November 17): a crossover with Stellar Blade's universe, with skins for Widowmaker, D.Va, Freja, Vendetta and Soldier: 76. These are shop items, not event rewards.
• Necrotic Knight Roadhog: the new Mythic skin, unlocked and upgraded with Mythic Prisms rather than through the event.

Common mistakes

• Confusing the event pass with the Battle Pass. Taking Reign has its own track, so check its progress separately instead of assuming your Battle Pass levels carry over.
• Leaving it too late. The weekly structure means you can't cram the whole track into the last day. Check in at least once a week.
• Buying premium just for Sigma. The Sigma skin is a free-track reward; you don't need to spend anything to get it.

Taking Reign is one of the more generous free events Overwatch has run lately: a full Epic skin for a few weeks of normal play. Log in, keep an eye on the weekly challenges, and you'll have Sigma's new look well before December 7.