How to tell how charged up a Zarya is

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How can I tell how charged up a friendly or enemy Zarya is? Obviously, if I'm the one who is Zarya, I can just look at my charge level, but for other Zaryas I seem to have to go by how much they're glowing or how wide their beam is.

What are the thresholds where the visual effects for this change?

Best Answer

According to this (message 4),

when Zarya is on the enemy team. She is lightly glowing red when at 50 charge. Heavily glowing at 100, also meaning you typically want to get rid of her quickly before she melts your team.

Zarya begins to glow red as her gun charges