PRIMARY FIRE
Machine Pistol
Short-range automatic weapon.
damage
Recon
Olivia Colomar
Unknown
Hit Points
225225 Health - 0 Armor
Sombra
One of the world's most notorious hackers, Sombra uses information to manipulate those in power.
damage
Recon
Olivia Colomar
Unknown
Hit Points
225225 Health - 0 Armor
One of the world's most notorious hackers, Sombra uses information to manipulate those in power.
PRIMARY FIRE
Short-range automatic weapon.
PASSIVE
You detect enemies below half health through walls for 3.5 seconds after damaging them.
EXTRA
You detect enemy ultimate abilities on nameplates, and deal 20% more damage to hacked targets.
SECONDARY
Hold to hack. Hacked enemies cannot use abilities for 1 second and are revealed through walls for 8 seconds. Hacked health packs respawn 4x faster for 45 seconds and cannot be used by enemies. 6 second cooldown on heroes, 3 seconds on non-heroes. 15 meter range. Taking damage interrupts the hack.
E
Throw a beacon and teleport to it. Become stealthed for 5 seconds after teleporting with +60% movement speed. 0.4 seconds of invulnerability on teleport. 6 second cooldown starting upon teleporting. 72 m/s projectile speed.
SHIFT
Infect enemies with a projectile that deals 35 impact damage (70 on hacked targets) and 75 DoT over 4 seconds (2 seconds on hacked targets). 51 m/s projectile speed. 6 second cooldown.
ULTIMATE
Deal damage to all nearby enemies equal to 25% of their current health, hacking them for 3 seconds and destroying barriers within 15 meters. 1850 point ultimate cost.
PASSIVE
Dealing damage reduces enemy healing received by 20% for 2 seconds.
PRIMARY
Short-range automatic weapon. 8-2.4 damage with 15-35 meter falloff, 20 shots per second, 60 ammo, 1.2 second reload. Maximum spread of 2.3 degrees reached after 6 shots.
Minor Perks
Encrypted Upload
Hack can be used while invisible. Successful hacks increase the duration of stealth by 3 seconds. Sombra becomes revealed when hacking enemy players but no longer exits stealth.
CTRL ALT ESC
Teleporting with Translocator while below half health initiates passive health regeneration.
Viral Efficacy
Virus cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds when an enemy affected by Virus is eliminated.
Major Perks
High-Speed Bandwidth
Hacked health packs grant allies 25% movement speed and 50 overhealth for 4 seconds.
Viral Replication
Hitting a hacked enemy with Virus spreads Virus to enemies within 8 meters. The spreading Virus only deals the over-time portion of the damage.
Healthy Hacker
Hacked health packs provide up to 50 overhealth to Sombra.
Stack Overflow
Hack silence duration is increased by 100%, but its range is decreased by 30%.
White Hat
Hack can be used on allies to restore 100 health over 2 seconds.
Stealth movement speed bonus reduction while revealed by damage reduced from 50% to 33%.
Stealth movement speed bonus reduced by 50% while revealed by damage. Minor Perk cost reduced by 6%. Major Perk cost reduced by 5%.
No longer detects enemies below half health. Now reveals enemy ultimate abilities on nameplates.
Developer comment: With the introduction of the Recon Sub Role Passive, Sombra's Opportunist has been updated to avoid overlap.
Hacked health packs grant allies 25% movement speed and 50 overhealth for 4 seconds.
Removed.
Stealth duration on successful hack increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
Time before overhealth degeneration increased from 6 to 10 seconds. Overhealth degeneration increased from 10 to 25. Overhealth granted increased from 50 to 75. Packs can now be picked up at full overhealth to reset the degeneration timer.
New Major Perk. Hacked health packs provide up to 50 overhealth to Sombra.
Removed.
Fade in time increased from 0.15 to 0.3 seconds. Stealth reveal duration on taking damage increased from 1 to 1.3 seconds.
Developer comment: Invisibility is a frustrating mechanic to play against for many, so we're increasing the windows for counterplay.
New Major Perk. Hitting a hacked enemy with Virus spreads Virus to enemies within 8 meters.
New Minor Perk. Hack can be used while invisible, successful hacks increase the duration of stealth by 2 seconds.
Removed.
Removed.
Range penalty reduced from 30% to 15%.
Hack is now uninterruptible from damage when healing allies.
Teleporting with Translocator while at critical health initiates passive health regeneration.
Hack's silence duration is increased by 100%, but its range is decreased by 30%.
Virus' cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds when an enemy affected by Virus is eliminated.
Hack can be used on allies to restore 100 health over 2 seconds.
Now exits stealth when hacking an enemy target.
Ultimate cost reduced by 10%.
Delay before entering stealth reduced from 0.5 to 0.33 seconds. Fade in time reduced from 0.3 to 0.15 seconds.
Cooldown reduced from 7 to 6 seconds.
No longer ends Stealth but does reveal Sombra. Hacked ability lockout duration reduced from 1.5 to 1.0 seconds (EMP unchanged). BOB hacked stun duration reduced from 10 to 3 seconds.
Developer comment: This is a significant change to Sombra's playstyle in the hopes of making her more interactive for the opposing team and shifting some of her power from the utility of Stealth and Hack into increased lethality.
Ultimate cost increased 12%.
Added back. Increases Sombra's weapon damage vs hacked targets by 20%. See critically injured enemies through walls.
Cooldown increased from 5 to 7 seconds.
Stealth no longer passive — now activates by using Translocator. Now has a 5 second duration. Added stealth timer around the reticle. Taking damage now reveals Sombra for 1 second instead of ending stealth.
Damage over time reduced from 90 to 75.
Impact damage increased from 25 to 35.
Base health reduced from 250 to 225.
Developer comment: The increased movement speed while in stealth will better enable Sombra to get into advantageous positions or be slightly more evasive with the new lower health.
Stealth bonus movement speed increased from 45 to 60%.
Total damage over time decreased from 100 to 90.
Previous reduction to ultimate cost has been reverted.
Ultimate cost reduced by 8%.
Impact damage increased from 10 to 25.
Developer comment: Virus deals critical impact damage when it hits Hacked targets, and this change makes using it as a follow-up more compelling.
Destroys breakables while in flight.
Health increased from 200 to 250.
Stealth grace period where it can be cancelled immediately increased from 0.5 to 0.75 seconds. Cooldown now pauses at 1 second while capturing or contesting objectives. Cooldown on respawning decreased from 1.5 to 1 second.
Ability lockout duration increased from 1.5 to 3 seconds. Damage reduced from 30 to 25% of current health.
Ultimate cost decreased 10%.
Cast time reduced from 0.75 to 0.65 seconds. Now cancels Stealth when hacking an enemy hero. Cooldown increased from 4 to 6 seconds. Reduced cooldown of 3 seconds if interrupted or non-hero target hacked. Hacked warning text only appears while silenced.
Ultimate charge cost increased by 15%. Health percent damage decreased from 40% to 30%.
New ability. Fire a projectile that damages an enemy over time. Damage is dealt faster on Hacked enemies. Impact damage: 10 (20 on hacked target). Damage over time: 100 over 4 seconds (100 over 2 seconds on hacked target).
Removed.
Can no longer be manually activated. Automatically teleports after 0.25 seconds or when impacting environment. Reduces Stealth passive cooldown after teleporting. Projectile speed increased from 25 to 72. Cooldown reduced from 6 to 5 seconds. Initial vertical offset removed.
Damage increased from 7.5 to 8. Minimum spread reduced from 0.5 to 0. Number of shots until max spread increased from 3 to 6. Reload time reduced from 1.4 to 1.2 seconds.
Stealth reworked to be passive. Automatically becomes invisible after 3.5 seconds while not shooting, using a damaging ability, or receiving damage. Movement speed bonus reduced from 60% to 45%. Fade out duration reduced from 0.375 to 0.25 seconds. Fade in duration reduced from 0.5 to 0.375 seconds.
Ultimate cost increased 15%. No longer destroys Lifeweaver's Tree of Life.
Can now disable Blizzard.
Health pack hacked duration increased from 30 to 45 seconds.
Damage per projectile increased from 7 to 7.5.
Developer comment: Sombra is underperforming after her last round of changes. While we make progress on a small rework, this damage increase will help strengthen Sombra even against targets not affected by Hack.
Ability lockout duration reduced from 1.75 to 1.5 seconds. Hacked enemies are no longer valid targets for hacking for 8 seconds. Hacked enemy damage multiplier reduced from 40% to 25%.
Ability lockout duration increased from 1 to 1.75 seconds.
(Beta) Stealth movement speed reduced from 65 to 50%.
(Beta) Cooldown reduced from 8 to 4 seconds. No longer reduced when hacking health packs. Cast time increased from 0.65 to 0.85 seconds. Health pack hack duration reduced from 60 to 30 seconds. Ability lock duration reduced from 5 to 1 second. Reveals hacked enemies through walls to team for 8 seconds. Interrupting Hack incurs full cooldown. Stun duration on BOB reduced from 5 to 2 seconds. Now destroys Immortality Field when hacked.
(Beta) Now deals 40% of current health as damage to enemies. No longer deals additional damage to base shield health pools (still deals massive damage to barriers).
(Beta) Damage dealt to hacked targets is now increased by 40%.
(Beta) Damage reduced from 8 to 7. Spread reduced by 10%.
(Beta) Stealth fade-in time reduced by 50%. Enemy detection radius increased from 2 to 4 meters. Can now use Hack during Stealth without ending Stealth, but is revealed to enemies while hacking and for 0.75 seconds after.
Stealth movement speed bonus increased from 50 to 65%.
Developer comment: Speeding up her movement in Stealth should help get her back into the action more quickly.
Improved smoothness of first person camera when translocating short distances.
Spread decreased by 10%.
Cooldown increased from 4 to 6 seconds. Cooldown now begins immediately upon deploying the beacon or if it is killed by an enemy.
Developer comment: Having the Translocator cooldown begin right when it is thrown allows Sombra more flexibility in how she can use it.
Duration on enemy players reduced from 6 to 5 seconds.
Developer comment: Hack is a potent disabling ability with a long duration. Reducing the duration slightly will make it feel less oppressive.
Activation time increased from 0.2 to 0.35 seconds.
Cooldown is reduced by half when hacking a health pack. Changed visual appearance to more clearly indicate hacked targets.
Developer comment: The cooldown on Hack often made it feel less effective to target health packs instead of players.
Reduced the size of Sombra's head hit volume.
Developer comment: The head changes are mostly a bug fix, as her head hit volume was abnormally large, especially from behind.
Now lasts indefinitely. Can now be destroyed with 5 health. Radius reduced.
Stealth now lasts indefinitely. No longer can contest objectives while invisible. Movement speed buff decreased from +70% to +50%.
Developer comment: These changes allow Sombra to more easily play as an infiltrator and scout for her team, as well as give her time to pick and choose when to reveal herself to ambush her enemies.
Now goes on a 2-second cooldown when interrupted by damage. More consistently interrupted when targets break line of sight.
No longer gains ultimate charge from health pack healing. Cast time reduced from 0.8 to 0.65 seconds. Now disables Genji Cyber-agility, Hanzo Wall Climb, Pharah Hover Jets, Lucio songs and Wall Ride, Mercy Angelic Descent.
No longer blocked by small objects (e.g. sign posts).
Developer comment: The goal of these changes for Sombra is to remove the necessity for her teammates to take damage and heal themselves with her hacked health packs to try to get her ultimate charged up quickly.
Enemy health bars now visible when health drops below 100% (formerly 50%). Wall detection at 50% or less unchanged.
Duration increased from 15 to 20 seconds.
Spread reduced from 3 to 2.7.
Now interrupts multiple ultimate abilities during their cast time (Nano Boost, Supercharger, Blizzard, Earthshatter, Call Mech).
Teammates can now see hacked health packs through walls.
Developer comment: Sombra can be devastating in the right hands, but infiltrating and harassing enemies could often feel difficult. These changes should increase her effectiveness and teamplay.
Cooldown reduced from 6 to 4 seconds.
Stealth sound effects and VO distance reduced to 15 meters when entering or exiting Stealth.
Cooldown reduced from 12 to 8 seconds. Cast time decreased from 1 to 0.8 seconds.
Developer comment: Sombra often had difficulty hacking enemies, even when she surprised the target. This change should help her execute hacks more easily.
New Hero added to the Damage roster (Offense).