Overwatch: 10 Things We Already Know About Sombra

9. Connection To Reaper And Widowmaker

Overwatch Sombra
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Don’t you just love it when games try to make you laugh?

The forced jokes, the PG punchlines, the comic timing of a hedgehog walking onto a bonfire, it can all be overwhelmingly cringey. So whilst they’ve given Sombra a serious edge to her youth and skill set, she can still be seen playing with the least joyous champion of the game, Reaper.

Whilst you could say that the animated short bears no resemblance to gameplay (since Reaper can ghost through six inch cracks in doors now), it does pose the question as to why Reaper and Widowmaker were seen to be the characters that help Sombra on her debut.

Potentially opening up a new Brawl mode with those characters storming Volskaya does seem tempting - until you remember right at the end, where she may have met her match...

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