Sombra by Challenge

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Sombra

By: Challenge
Last Updated: Jun 24, 2019
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Sombra

Infamous Hacker

Sombra is a Ranged Overwatch Assassin, a Hacker who disables enemies


Difficulty: Hard

Sombra is designed to be exactly like how she is in overwatch. Shes an auto attack based assasin who can assist in sieging like Sylvannas but also has strong lockdown. Hack is a new and creative way of crowd control and benefits with its short cooldown. Because she can hack healing globes, shes an excellent solo laner through pure attrition but she lacks any ability damage or AoE capabilities at a baseline level.

The only major change I made was her trait. As you may or may not understand, not all direct ports work. And one of those is her trait. Her trait works in overwatch because there are multi level dimensions, line of sight, and no towers/structures to hide behind.
This wouldnt translate to this game as well because under the stipulation that enemies must be low HP and it requires you to be in a position to capitalize on it , itll almost never get real tangible value




STRENGTHS
Mobility
Crowd Control
Laning

WEAKNESS
AoE
Burst
Fragile

STATISTICS
1387 Health
5 attacks per second
19 Damage

For comparison TRACER has...
1255 Health
8 attacks per second
28 Damage



Additional Notes:
-Sombra can attack while moving and locks onto targets, similiar to Tracer, Lucio, and D.Va

Combat Trait

1
Opportunist

Passive


Basic Attacks deal additional damage to lower health targets, up to 100%


-For every 1% HP the target is missing, your basic attack damage against that target is increased 1%

Primary Abilities

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Hack

7 second cooldown
Point and Click


After a 1 second channel, Sombra hacks the target. Taking damage will interrupt the Hack

-Enemy Heroes are silenced for 2.25 seconds

-Structures and Non-Heroic targets are stunned 7 seconds

-Health globes will persist for 42 seconds and can be reused every 7 seconds. Only one health globe can be hacked at a time.


-Does not affect bosses
-Can be used while moving
-Hacked health globes are separate and do not count toward health globe quest

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Translocator

5 Second Cooldown
Cooldown starts upon returning or expiring
Last for 8 Seconds


Sombra tosses out a translocator beacon. She can reactivate this ability to instantly return to the beacon’s location while it is active or mid flight. Can be used while Stealthed.


-Can be seen by enemies
-Short toss range, unlimited port range

3
THERMOPTIC CAMO

10 Second Cooldown
Cooldown starts upon exiting stealth


After a 1 second delay, gain stealth and 30% movement speed for 5 Seconds. Taking damage during the delay or during stealth will remove the effect.


-Not good as an escape like Samuros Windwalk because of the delay, but a better initiator

Heroic Abilities

1
EMP

50 Second Cooldown


In a wide radius around Sombra, apply a non talented Hack to all enemies and destroy all shields


-Will apply to non heroic units and structures
-About the size of Thrall's Earthquake


Storm Talent- EMP also makes enemies vulnerable for the duration and the cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds for every enemy or structure affected.

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Virus

50 second Cooldown


After a 1 second channel, Sombra applies a Virus to the Enemy Hero. The virus will stun the target for 0.25 seconds every 1 second for 6 seconds. Taking damage will interrupt the cast


-Applied exactly like Hack is


Storm Talent-If the target dies with Virus, a new Virus is applied to another nearby enemy hero

Pairs well with



They make an impresive lane duo, Sombra providing health and mana sustain with health globes while also disabling structures for Zagara to siege



They work well in tandem. She provides them with extra lane sustain with health and Zarya provides team fighting sustain with shields

Strong Against


Hacking Genji prevents him from Double Jumping, Deflecting, or Swift Striking, which are all pivotal to his survivability.


Hacking her means she cant use her healing beam and both heroics work insanely well vs her even in the late game

Struggles Against


Her constant poison ticks will make it very hard to get a hack off with the continuous damage


He can jump her from stealth before she can apply hacks and can easily stick on her even after she translocates

Talents

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yoru | August 28, 2018 4:10pm
I love your "Boop" talent idea XD
Best Sombra concept, would like to see this in Hots!
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Batlox | November 5, 2017 4:28am
Slightly op, but really clear talents and skills, the Regen globe talent is impossible... have you ever colloected 60 Regen globes in 1 game?
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Leidiriv (14) | November 5, 2017 8:03pm
with regards to the quest, the regen globes respawn every 7 seconds. That means you can get an average of 4-5 quest ticks from just one globe. Easy quest, strong reward
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Neptune45 (1) | June 26, 2017 7:55pm
I really like your concept, lots of creativity given to an already created skillset.

Some small points if you were looking to refine the concept.

* Cooldowns - They are all at 7 seconds. Leading to being able to really do things only every 7 seconds. You made her cooldown dependent with no mana but I can't see a reason she wouldn't use mana. Her utility is too high to not to limited in some other way.

Suggested cooldowns

Hack - 5 seconds, its really her bread and butter. With it shorter and easy to use I would make the effects less powerful with shorter duration.
Translocator - 10-12 seconds, then allow flexibility in when to use it and how by starting the cooldown when placed.
Thermo - 7 seconds, lessen the movement speed as this is her second escape/engage and she shouldn't be uncatchable.

* Opportunist - Make the cap an actual one at 50%. As it is imagine a tassadar that kills you faster the lower your health gets. She would delete people.

* Hack - the persistence of hacked globes is very very long. You can get up to 5 other hacks before needing to hack another one, and the globe can be used up to 6 times. This makes globes collecting quests on other heroes very powerful and could be completed way before they are meant to. I would decrease this to 24 seconds. That gives Sombra three hacks before needing to globe hack again and the globes can be used up to three times. Making globes hacking a meaningful choice not something mindlessly done. Decrease this more if hack becomes 5 seconds.


* Talents - There might be too many that buff her trait (its passive) to op levels. I would love to see more talents that give you choice into how you are going to use Hack. You can use it three different ways and you have to actively choose how to and when. Her talents could reflect and strengthen that choice.

For instance "Countermeasures Disabled" could be a hack talent instead of a trait one. It even seems like one to me.


* Virus - Very interesting but seems frustrating to play against.

Quick idea of my own as a replacement, While under the effect of virus they take 40% increased damage from all sources. This damage is applied over 4 seconds. Cooldown 40 seconds.
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Challenge (8) | June 27, 2017 4:31am
*Yeah in OW her cds are 8 4 and 6 respectively, so i can change that. if anything id up the cd on hack, any shorter duration would make the hack not feel like a hack. 2.25 seconds atm is as long as a disssonce level 7 alarak discord strike, without the benefit of doing damage or hitting multple targets or usable while under fire. In ow the hack last for 6 seconds which would obviously be broken here but i still wanted it to be long. If anything translocator would be a lowest CD than all the basic abilities, as its only a 4 second cd in OW.

With a 1 second delay on her E that basically makes it unusuable while under fire as any basic attack or ability would prevent the stealth from even happening but the movement speed can be lowered i think since windwalk is only 25% at baseline

*Her damage at high health is rather low. at level 1 at a full health target her DPS is 108 compared to tracer with 224 (6x18 vs 8x28). At 50% her basic attack damage is bumped to 27 from 18 and 162 DPS(6x27=162) at 25% health its bumped to 32 and 192 DPS (6x31=192).

Now tracers DPS is technically slightly lower because she has to reload due to her trait, but at a baseline level sombra will never do the same amount of DPS as tracer except at veyr low health levels, i gotta disagree

*the simple way to fix that is just to say hacked health globes do not count as normal health globes, so they do not benefit from health talents (her talent also specifically says only hacked health globes count for her. in OW hacked health packs last for 1 minute and you can get off exactly 5 hacks in between health packs. The entire playstyle revolves around managing hacks on different targets, just as in OW its between hacking health packs vs hacking heroes

*ya i agree on hack talents, can shuffle or add some stuff, i suck at making talents

*Its a 2.5 second stun over 5 seconds comparable to murkys octo grab which is a 3 second stun with the caveat that dying removes the octo (where the caveat is taking damage prevents the virus from being applied). I could space the duration the stuns come in so its still the same but less frequent though, but no ability in the current game has a 40% vulnerability (iirc the caps are at 25% bonus damage and 75% reduced damge currently).
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Challenge (8) | June 21, 2017 5:38am
After tinkering a while, ive finally found a format to make talents with that i am happy with. So now ill apply it to my other concepts which i think looks a look cleaner than the sites default one. Please let me know what you think.


Name credit to cpt.haxray
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Leidiriv (14) | July 1, 2017 8:30am
The format for the talent tree is just gorgeous, I have to say. Love how it all came together in the end. As a fellow concept creator, would you be willing to share how you got that organized table look? If you'd like, I could give one of my little secrets in return, I just want to know how to make thetapent section look so clean. Kudos to you for having the best Sombra concept around!
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Challenge (8) | July 2, 2017 2:09am
ya ill dm you
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cpt.haxray (1) | June 18, 2017 10:47pm
Some additional talent ideas:

Level 1:
Do I win a prize?: Every enemy hero takedown inceases the duration of hack's silence by 0.25 seconds, up to 2 seconds. Lost on death.

Glitch In the system: Hacked buildings lose 1 ammo every 2 seconds for the duration of the hack.

Level 4:
Scouting Drone

Yours is mine: Sombra can now hack enemy team's regen orbs.

Level 7:
Just Disappear: When cloaked, your translocator is invisible.

Level 16:
El Muerto: If revealed during cloak, Sombra gains 20% movement speed for the remainder of the duration.

Stick to the Plan: Sombra no longer exits cloak when damaged, but taking damage reduces the remaining duration by 1 second.
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cpt.haxray (1) | June 18, 2017 10:15pm
I've thought of some names for your talents(Amazing sombra concept, btw. The virus ult fits her perfectly, while you don't got all of the talents what you got there are very cool and well though out, and she reeks of fitting the 'dream' of sombra. The sneaky aggressive 'support' who makes the enemy team REALLY want her dead, but making it as difficult as possible to do so. Same idea as tracer's harrass, but done via debuffs instead of direct damage).

Level 1:

Upload: Her regen orb talent.

Knowledge is Power: Her bribe talent.

Level 4:
Vulnerable Systems: Her reveal at low health.

level7:
Telefrag: damage talent
Skycode: Distance increase talent.

Level 13:
Thermoptic Plating: Her armor after exiting cloak talent

Data Drain: Heal off of hacked targets talent

Countermeasures Disabled: Her reduced damage talent.

Level 16: Been here All along: More damage after uncloaking.

Level 20:

Lights Out: Emp talent.

Digital Pandemic: Virus talent

Hack the Planet: Hack talent.

Boop: Slow talent.
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Challenge (8) | June 19, 2017 2:09am
Thanks for this, am probally gonna work on an image for talents since its a lot cleaner, compact and takes up less space, will prob get around to that tomorrow but i will use your names and other suggestions
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Leidiriv (14) | June 19, 2017 12:04pm
Let me just say, I love the concept, it fits the fantasy of Sombra perfectly and I like her trait here more than the one she has in Overwatch (would love to see her bullets deal 1 more damage for every 15 or so health they're missing back in OW, but that's for another discussion). As for the talent icons, might I recommend making it [ img width=40 ]? It's the size I use for pretty much all my concepts, and it aligns nicely with the default text size. Overall, you did a fantastic job with this concept. Kudos!
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OverlordPej (1) | June 14, 2017 1:02am
Here's some ideas for some talents

Level 4 - Quest: Each takedown reduces the cooldown of hack by 0.75 seconds. After 10 takedowns, hack has a 0.5 second channel before activating

All level 7 talents should be translocator
Level 7 - After returning to your translocator, gain unrevealable and 100% movement speed for 1 second
Level 7 - Translocator can now be thrown at any unit. If it hits a unit, it sticks to them for the duration
Level 7 - Increases translocator throw range and becomes invisible to enemies, but can be revealed

Level 20 - Translocator and Hack no longer break stealth, instead resetting it's timer to full (so if you use the ability with 3 seconds of stealth left, it resets to 5 seconds)
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Challenge (8) | June 14, 2017 2:33am
Thanks man, talents are the part of each concept i hate to do the most, so this helps a ton :)
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spyro2002 (6) | June 10, 2017 8:58am
a great talent idea would be like a sombra specific bribe that basically lets her use hack on mercineries.I think it would be balanced since she would have to wait for the hack to get of cooldown before bribing another mercinery.
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TurntBoast (1) | June 10, 2017 4:28am
This feels like a very solid interpretation of Sombra's Overwatch kit. The ability to hack regen globes I found particularly cute. My immediate thoughts are that hack's silence could last 3 or 4 seconds without being too overpowered, but EMP would probably need an increased cooldown in turn.

If you're open to suggestions for talents, being able to throw the translocator over terrain, and moving while channeling hack would both be great talents that help bring over aspects of her playstyle in Overwatch nicely.
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Challenge (8) | June 10, 2017 5:28am
Yeah im about to go to sleep now but tomorrow ill add in the talents and the strong vs/pairs well with/struggles against chart

Some ideas for talents i have in my head include granting her vision to low hp targets (her actual ow trait), letting her do a small aoe damage burst upon teleporting to her translocator (think calamity in a way), increasing damage done coming out of stealth, and at level 20 the ability to hack a boss in some fashion that isnt broken, still powerful, and still can get some value even on non boss maps.

But yeah im open to talent ideas when i wake up ill add those in.

Also for the hack duration Ill probally leave that up to talents, 3 seconds as a baseline silence seems a bit too strong, right now its at the same duration of Alaraks dissonance Discord strike at level 7 but it cant be used while taking damage, does no damage, and can only effect 1 target per cast so it evens out
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DoctorFoxman (1) | June 9, 2017 7:22am
She seems pretty close to herself in Overwatch, yet still good to heroes. Have you been working to talents? I can imagine bonuses to the Trait like maybe 1.5% damage per 1% Health or maybe added CC on top of hack.
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mgicalbunny44 | June 9, 2017 5:50am
really cool concept liked the virus heroic
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Challenge (8) | June 9, 2017 4:04am
My favorite hero in overwatch. Heavy WIP, any feed back so far is appreciated
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