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Overwatch: Sombra abilities detailed

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Stealth and debilitating attacks make Sombra a powerful infiltrator. Her hacking can disrupt her enemies, ensuring they're easier to take out, while her EMP provides the upper hand against multiple foes at once. Sombra’s ability to Translocate and camouflage herself makes her a hard target to pin down.

MACHINE PISTOL
Sombra’s fully-automatic machine pistol fires in a short-range spread.

HACK
Sombra hacks enemies to temporarily stop them from using their abilities, or hacks first aid kits to make them useless to her opponents.

THERMOPTIC CAMO
Sombra becomes invisible for a short period of time, during which her speed is boosted considerably. Attacking, using offensive abilities, or taking damage disables her camouflage.

TRANSLOCATOR
Sombra tosses out a translocator beacon. She can instantly return to the beacon’s location while it is active (including when it’s in mid-flight).

EMP
Sombra discharges electromagnetic energy in a wide radius, destroying enemy barriers and shields and hacking all opponents caught in the blast.
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As long as they don't kill the game with a TF2 spy character. No masking as the other team please. Invisibility shoould be a super only.
 
Considering all the designs they've ripped from TF2, the lack of spy has always been a huge bummer since it was my most played.

I'm excited to make so many people rage with this character. And for the inevitable 3 Sombra, 2 Widowmaker and one angry support pub teams!
 
FriedConsole said:
As long as they don't kill the game with a TF2 spy character. No masking as the other team please.
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Me thinks you don't keep track of competitive tf2 (which is 6v6), because the spy's disguise ability is useless with smaller player numbers. It's only a decent ability in pubs, and only really useful at avoiding sentry guns against anyone who is competent. Likely a large reason he's been getting buffed repeatedly.
 
She looks really cool and I can't wait to play her. I really can't stand her walking animation though. Its somehow more edgy than Reapers.
 
THAT'S THE UNREAL TOURNAMENT TRANSLOCATOR

CAN SHE TELEFRAG WITH IT

all my hate for the arg is gone now. i'm just happy.

SCREAMS
 
I'm personally struggling to understand how a stealth hacking character could be relevant in a game where everyone fights in a giant cluster around an objective and precious characters slots could be better afforded to healers, tanks, and pure ranged damage heroes.

I guess we'll have to see the character in some gameplay to judge first.
 
Seems like an auto lock pick, lol. Will she cancel out Transcendence?

I love that there's now a hard counter to Reins shield aside from Bastion melting it, lol.
 
Designed to cancel ult fights, perhaps the proper counter to Mei's f*cking blizzard.

Curious to know her DPS output and range, appears similar to Tracer on paper. I also want to know how she appears to the enemy team when camo is enabled.

Finally, f*ck the ARG.
 
Backline harasser. Got it. Invis to sneak behind the enemy -> hack and kill supports -> teleport out when trouble shows up. Occasionally invis into the middle of a group and ult to win a teamfight. Seems basic enough. She'll probably be super squishy though.
 
digitalrelic said:
Her EMP sounds fucking epic. Between that and her speed, she'll be a great counter to Reinhardt.
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She's going to be a counter to tanks in general I feel, especially Zarya. Which is good, she kind of needed one.

The hacking ability alone is probably going to make her the cornerstone of future competitive games. The EMP is probably going to change the meta... a lot.
 
DeadlyParasite said:
I'm personally struggling to understand how a stealth hacking character could be relevant in a game where everyone fights in a giant cluster around an objective and precious characters slots could be better afforded to healers, tanks, and pure ranged damage heroes.

I guess we'll have to see the character in some gameplay to judge first.
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The game already has flanking characters who don't hug the payload the way the Tanks/Supports do.
 
New hero ults are getting too strong between this and nano boost.

Doomfist is going to have a fucking comet that wipes the entire map.
 
Thermoptic Camo sounds like a great ability to offset Symmetra's stupid teleporter. At the very least, Syms might need to babysit the damn thing some more, either themselves or with turrets around probable approach routes.
 
DeadlyParasite said:
I'm personally struggling to understand how a stealth hacking character could be relevant in a game where everyone fights in a giant cluster around an objective and precious characters slots could be better afforded to healers, tanks, and pure ranged damage heroes.

I guess we'll have to see the character in some gameplay to judge first.
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Implying players are near the payload.
 
EMP
Sombra discharges electromagnetic energy in a wide radius, destroying enemy barriers and shields and hacking all opponents caught in the blast.
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Shields as in the blue recharging health that Zarya, Zenyatta, and Symmetra use? Having the ult nuke those three specific heroes and no one else seems odd.
 
 
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