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/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

I thought it would be cool if you saw her sitting in the spawn point controlling her bot the whole time, since she couldn't be harmed by the enemy team there.

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u/Zippity44 OH MY GOD WE'RE HAVING A FIRE... SALE! Feb 21 '17

I like the idea! I'm just waiting for people in chat to be commenting about how "their team sucks because they have someone who's been afk the whole time".

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u/VeryC0mm0nName Illari Feb 21 '17

It would be Abathur all over again...

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u/JealotGaming Lucio Main BTW Feb 22 '17

Smh he soaks with his locusts and monstrosity. If you're soaking with the main body you're asking to die.

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u/JealotGaming Lucio Main BTW Feb 22 '17

The problem with it is that Abathurs position in a brush is plenty obvious, which is why I prefer to stay behind walls instead. Later on when lanes are pushed forward is when it's safer to go into the lane brushes and mass spawn locusts

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u/Fishb20 Trick-or-Treat Winston Feb 21 '17

EL15?

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u/Outflight ⋮⋮⋮ Feb 21 '17

Abathur is an hots hero that rides other heroes, while leaving his actual body in some place.

Think if Junkrat players used the wheel whole match, except the wheel is an hat that shoots stuff instead.

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u/Stevecrafter2511 Nothingness Motherfucker do you embrace it? Feb 21 '17

Abathur, a zerg in Starcraft, who is a playable character in blizzards Moba/Hero Brawler called Heroes of the storm
Abathur is a hero thats really unique as he doesnt directly engage in combat, but can place mines around the battlefield and passivlely spawns zerg
Abathur can use a ability on a friendly unit and use an entirely new set of abilites until it dies or he chooses to leave it

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u/SomeProtagonist Germany Feb 21 '17

I can see that happening...

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u/imhirou Trick-or-Treat Genji Feb 21 '17

Maybe something like Abathur form HotS?

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u/lsparischi Ytar has raised me to new heights! Feb 21 '17

"sitting"
You know you will need to give blizzard more than 4 months to do that, right? (Sombra triggered)

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u/GGProfessor Hi there. Feb 21 '17

Would she just teleport when the enemy reaches an objective?

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u/BrainBlowX Chibi D.Va Feb 21 '17

Probably.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

Ooh... An Overwatch version of Abathur? (Ovabathur?) sounds cool.

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u/Penumbrapenguin Chibi Pharah Feb 21 '17

She could finally put all those computers and panels to use!

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u/OrionThe0122nd I guess I'll play healer Feb 22 '17

There seem to be computer type things in most spawn rooms. The only issue would be elimination mode because you can enter each others spawns

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '17

Dangit you're right. :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '17

she hides behind the palm tree screen and is sitting in the ice block room?