Sombra hacking her teammates

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What would you think about Sombra hacking her teammates for beneficial use, such as extra ult charge/ boost or decreasing ability cooldown time for the hero she hacks, etc… The hero being hacked will last for short x seconds.

Idk just an idea that popped in my head

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I don’t think Sombra needs anything extra to her kit. Maybe a wall she cannot cross in the spawnroom’s door.

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It’s not really an extra tool to her kit, more like an alternative hack choice with the same cooldown time

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The devs were working hard to make every non-support hero really not being supportive (Syymetra, Torbjörn) so this would go against that flow. Other then that it’s an okay idea.

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hello sombra main here <<———— i mean yeah duhhh it would be cool but sooooo unbalanced - the game is having enough problems as it is, you don’t need a previously annoying teammate to boost her own team as well. Also it doesn’t work with her kit, as firstly she is a hero designed to penetrate the enemy teams lines and cause disturbance, rather than staying with her own team, secondly if she was in a situation where herself and another teamate were both fighting (say a Diva), the possibility of hacking her own teammate might interrupt the auto aim to hack the Diva

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I think that would be better to put on a new hero. Like an opposite of Sombra-a white hat hacker who tests and designs new computer security measures for companies like Helix or Vishkar.

I’ve designed an Overwatch OC like this: hacking (or “Optimizing” as I called it) teammates could double the cooldown recharge rate on heroes optimized for 8 seconds, but also put the Optimize on a cooldown 2 seconds longer than Hack (so 10 seconds) to balance it. As a bonus, if Sombra hacks a teammate while they’re Optimized, the teammate does get hacked, but it backfires on Sombra and Hacks her too.

Their ultimate could overcharge the next Optimize, so the hero who gets Optimized next gains increased 50% attack, movement and reload speed in addition to the regular Optimize benefits for the 6 seconds.
Think: give it to Genji and he gets more swings out of Dragonblade. Give it to Soldier and you’ve got a budgeted Nanovisor. Give it to Tracer and watch all hell break loose. Or give it to Ana and she suddenly deals more healing per second than Moira’s ult (provided she can aim).

The Shift and E abilities, I’m still working on.

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What if his/her ult cloned a select teammate for a certain time? Like, your character turns into a second Reinhardt or Soldier.

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Like a digital projection of them?

I don’t think that’d work solely because the AI is awful. The only thing useful about that would be the aimbot. The positioning and focus and everything except the aim would be so off.
If you control the character instead, that means you have to Q the teammate you want to copy while hiding, like Junkrat’s ult but more annoying.

No, the speed increase would be much more beneficial. Besides, as a Rein main, can you deny that getting a 50% swing and movement speed increase would be awesome?

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This is something we could rather get in a next support hero,

“Ally enhancement” type abilities,
x time, half CD, X cd on support itself.

Same with ult charge or increased dmg similar to mercy bluebeam.

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I am nit denying it would be awesome. But I meant you turn yourself into that copy for a certain duration. That’s how I imagined the ult. So you are physically that hero.

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I can’t see any point of that.

For starters, you becoming the copied hero locks you out of playing the white hat hero, who’s abilities might be more needed than whoever you’re copying.

Secondly, unless you copy a healer (who isn’t Ana/Zen) or non-aim hero, how well you use the copy ult is completely dependent on your aim. Me? I’m useless at aiming and I’d just waste the ult.

No, I’m still of the opinion that the speed ult idea is better. Sorry.

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That’s completely fine.

It’s your idea, but I don’t see a speed ultimate happening anytime soon. I said my piece because in theory it gives him a lot of flexibility to pick something the team needs.

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BartFitz I really like all your ideas - but as a sombra main id hate to have a proper counter :joy:

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No.

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Like become the copy, if you die, you die and respawn normally.
If you get your ult it transmorphes you back to normal.

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Sombra is good, doesn’t need to get better, and yes i know this is “alternative” to hacking opp but it still adds to how versatile a hero can be. Best to just make a new hero and give him an ability that will just do that(without it hacking opps ofc).
Just as a heads up shes going to be a little bit better next patch thanks to the little armor nerf that will happen.

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