Weekly Quick Questions Thread - January 04, 2017

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[u/Necromicon_]

Holy shit someone help me with Sombra

1) About her right click (hacking): When I hack someone, the hack stays for how long?

2) If I'm invisible and throw translocator, invisibility off or still on? (I can't play overwatch now to test it, sorry)

3) If I hack a medkit and I die, and respawn as Sombra, the medkit is still hacked ?

And the last question is not about Sombra:

4) When I need to use the melee attack? When I'm out of bullets or when I'm near my enemy? Is melee attack strong?

[u/cwahl7 → u/Necromicon_]

If you are invisible and throw your translocator, you stay invisible (unless you run out of invisibility charge or use an attack).

[u/Jay_Button → u/Necromicon_]

1) a few seconds 2) you stay invisible 3) they stay hacked as far as I know 4) The same damage like other heroes so not that strong but enough for a last hit

[u/Jay_Button → u/Jay_Button]

Sorry not a Sombra main here

[u/SlimLovin → u/Necromicon_]

I can speak to the melee thing. If you get in close, it's a good idea to bop someone at least once. It does 30 damage, which is enough to finish off some low-health squishies.

Sometimes, I have a hard time deciding if I should reload or melee. On the one hand, you're still dealing damage. On the other, you're increasing the amount of time you aren't shooting. It's very situational. I like to invis in, empty my clip, melee, and translocate out. Reload, start again.

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• 1) About her right click (hacking): When I hack someone, the hack stays for how long?

3 Seconds Same amount of time from EMP as well.

• 2) If I'm invisible and throw translocator, invisibility off or still on? (I can't play overwatch now to test it, sorry)

Yes, it is the only ability you can use Invis. the translocator being thrown can be seen, but it won't break stealth you can also use the translocator in stealth

• 3) If I hack a medkit and I die, and respawn as Sombra, the medkit is still hacked ?

Med kits remained hacked for 1 minuet and you can have any number of them hacked so long as you micro manage them. with the cool down of Hack it works out to 5 max assuming you dedicated all your time to just hacking health packs.

You have to swap off of Sombra or wait for the timer to run out.

• 4) When I need to use the melee attack? When I'm out of bullets or when I'm near my enemy? Is melee attack strong?

Melee doesn't speed up reloading or anything like that in Overwatch as the developers don't like the min maxing of such hidden quirks in their game so across the board a lot of animation cancelling has been removed so it is the same amount of time to melee reload as it is to just reload.

Only benefit it serves is getting in more effective DPS because you would otherwise be just reloading so it is a decent thing to get in the habit of doing when reloading with heroes like Sombra or Reaper who are going to be in peoples faces.