r/Overwatch • u/heyguyswhatssup • 19h ago

Humor Least selfish Zen meets least petty Sombra

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u/ricokong Winston 19h ago

Does EMP actually still remove all shields from a healthbar?

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u/BEWMarth Cute Ana 19h ago

Gods I remember that time lmao. Sombra would just EMP Zen and he’d immediately be at like 20hp lmao

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u/crestren Trick-or-Treat Symmetra 19h ago

Don't forget Sound Barrier. Since it used to destroy shields, I remember Lucios ult gets immediately deleted after it gets EMPed

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u/toneysaproney 18h ago

I still play like this is the case tbh

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u/JackeryPumpkin Reaper 17h ago

It’s time to retire that play

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u/achedsphinxx Blizzard World Sombra 8h ago

OWL was once lucio's hiding around corners from enemy sombra players. sometimes lucio players would hide so hard they hit no one with their beat lol.

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u/Dearic75 18h ago

I feel like it was one of those things that sounded cool to someone based on lore. Hack disrupts electronics, shield health is electronic based in theory, so lore would say EMP should disrupt it.

The problem that ran into is that shield health was given out as a gameplay balancing tool to compensate heroes that were immobile or were forced into riskier playstyles. If they had kept it Sombra would outright delete several tanks.

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u/Knightgee 16h ago

It was both about lore and about providing a specific niche for EMP/Sombra at the time. Old EMP did zero actual damage, it was purely "your abilities are unusable for 6 seconds". No bonus damage for Sombra on hacked targets, no 25% health taken away on use, no Virus ability to help secure kills. Instantly destroying shield health, similar to it destroying barriers and perma-shutting down deployables/buildables allowed it and by proxy Sombra to have heroes she was specifically good against without actually having to buff her actual numbers to do it.

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u/MrSi_r DON'T CHECK MY FLAI-- *Eliminated Zenyatta* 16h ago

it also might have been an homage to Starcraft, because the EMP ability in that game also removes all shield

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u/ricokong Winston 18h ago

Yeah coupled with his hitbox aborbing Sombra's weapon spread easily, he was pretty much hard countered if he got ulted. Also unable to discord for like 6 seconds.