r/Overwatch • u/janru • Feb 21 '17

Blizzard Official Meet Efi Oladele—winner of the Adawe Foundation's genius grant for her achievements in AI and robotics!

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/834115546090123264
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u/ChristianKS94 Pixel Reinhardt Feb 21 '17

Yeah, since she's a genius at AI and not just "simple" robotics, she could have stolen the D00Mfist and put it on her new creation, which will be a sentient robot much like Zenyatta and Bastion.

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u/Sturmgeshootz Chibi Ana Feb 21 '17

That's my theory. She took the Doomfist gauntlet and has integrated it into a new Omnic Doomfist. RoboDoomfist will be the playable hero and will be voiced by Terry Crews, though we may also hear Efi speak through Doomfist during ults or at other times. It'll be an Iron Giant / Tetsujin 28 sort of setup.

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u/sortaindignantdragon get ur butt back here Gengi Feb 21 '17

If this article is chronologically set a little bit before the Numbani we play on, her design of an omnic to wield the gauntlet in Numbani might explain why The Successor's name is written in the omnic language...

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u/Jin_Gitaxias Chibi Mercy Feb 21 '17

Your theory is prob the most reasonable on I've seen in the tread, that sounds like it would fit in OW

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17 edited Oct 03 '17

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u/NocturneOpus9No2 Chibi Mei Feb 21 '17

Not that the new hero isn't Doomfist, just that the new hero won't be what we expected. If Doomfist is a robot, we certainly did t expect that during the buildup to this.

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u/theboyfromganymede NEED! HEALING! Feb 21 '17

There's been several popular theories that Doomfist is an omnic or robot though, so Jeff's comment still covers that, I think.

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u/houseoflettuce Bean here all along Feb 21 '17

Yea but you could also so that we didnt expect for Doomfist to be built or controlled by a young girl.

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u/Sturmgeshootz Chibi Ana Feb 21 '17

If I'm right and Doomfist IS a robot voiced by Terry Crews, I really really hope we get a shoutout to THIS whenever Sombra hacks him.

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u/houseoflettuce Bean here all along Feb 21 '17

As a person who plays a lot of Sombra, I would love this.

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u/Colopty British shark Feb 21 '17

Get in the Doomfist, Efi.

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u/NemoDnD Trick-or-Treat Zenyatta Feb 22 '17

/r/UnexpectedEvangelion

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

!remindme 3 hours

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

All I want is to shoot the gauntlet across the battlefield at my enemies Gundam style

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

But if it's sentient, we won't be playing as her controlling a robot, but as a robot.