Watch the Overwatch Sombra & Roadhog Rework Details Full Presentation Panel from BlizzCon 2026, featuring Blizzard developers breaking down the major gameplay changes coming to Sombra and Roadhog and how their redesigned kits will affect their roles on the battlefield.
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This Full Presentation Panel takes a closer look at the Sombra and Roadhog reworks, covering changes to their abilities, combat flow, utility, survivability, and overall playstyles. The presentation explores Blizzard’s approach to modernizing both heroes while maintaining the distinct identities that have defined Sombra and Roadhog throughout Overwatch.
Overwatch continues to evolve with new heroes, maps, seasonal content, balance updates, story developments, and significant changes to existing members of its roster. These Sombra and Roadhog reworks are part of Blizzard’s latest plans for the game revealed during BlizzCon 2026.
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RIP Sombra, she was already on life support, and they finally killed her.
My Sombra is now gone!
Wtf were they smoking?
you just killed Sombra who made me play the game from the day she came out, this shit is so sad
Sombra is NOT a SUPPORT!!!!!
Holy shit sombra is the ultimate dive enabler dude…you dont understand that healing on tracers, genji, hazard, winston etc. 12 damn seconds..
Roadhog Rework Moment: We’ll destroy the hook mechanic because it works.
Roadhog mainers (and me): 😐.
Now I can reach masters with sombra as support (DPS)
I get that some people hate Roadhogs and think he's OP. But that's the WHOLE POINT of Roadhog and his identity. By giving up team protection, he got crazy combos and massive damage despite being a tank. A generic high-risk, high-reward. And blizzard's new rewark completely destroyed his identity by listening to players whining for him being powerful instead of brining up counters or thinking of a way to beat Roadhog
BBIG SWINGSS!!!
Hate the animation choice on trash compactor. So his gun is a vacuum? Lazy imo.
Next rework – take jetpack from Phara while keeping her identity intact.
Can’t wait for Hog to be the least played tank now.
Oh..Damn it FuxK
I’ll tell you fuxkin bastards by twisting famous line in Iron Man, Obadiah Stane's line
"You said- So Roadhog isn't so one-note in a fight, always looking for a pick?"
"MAKO RUTLEDGE WAS ABLE TO DESTROY HIS ENEMIES ON THE FIELDS!!! WITH A PILE OF SCRAPS!!"
I called 2 years ago sombra would work better as support and here we are
What about sombra hacking allies and decreasing cooldowns or helping stack ultimates?
I want a new assassin style hero.
4:28 and THIS was why zen and wuyand werre nerfed
leave hog alone, widow and hanzo hasbeen one shotting people since 2016 …. u have reworked him before and reverse cuz u know its wasnt a good idea
Sombra no longer hacking enemies. 😂😂😂
Best sombra change ever
Absolute half-ass of reworks.
Absolutely atrocious, both of these.
Their design was flawed, but this is just SHIT. Characters are no longer themselves. Support sombra who can't hack enemies? It was HER ENTIRE THING. Fk off, Blizzard. Might as well just actually remove doomfist's fist while we're at it.
Also they had the audacity to call that atrocity of an ability "cyberspace"… Lmao
3:15 oh, is that so? Cuz it looks to me like you took her PRIMARY FUNCTION, HACKING ENEMIES and ripped it to shreds. But no, go on and tell us how you've "kept the core parts of her abilities intact."
FIX SOMBRA BLIZZARD
That Sombra rework is going to be awesome! Can't wait to play her as a support 🥰 she was always getting banned in comp anyway.
I love Sombra. I have mixed feelings, I think she would have been a marvellous DPS with the appropriate rework. But I also like her as a support, is like… What it could have been, and what it will never be. But what it's gonna be is also cool! This is so strange omg! O.O
At 1:14 when he is done speaking. You faintly hear a "boo" in the audience.
Sombra in her Swiftmend era now
I've only noticed 1 in 100 games of competitive where hog is being banned, dont understand the need to rework. Its hard to land a 1 shot combo mind u… I guess blizzard loves to pamper crybabies? Hog is trash now.
What is sombra's role now?
A dive support? With a 50%(!!) damage and healing reduction ability, she's best as a kiriko type that just holds ability until she needs it and shoots tank for ult charge, no? Whats the point of playing risky if all your value is in ult and your shut down ability?
trash compactor is very cool, double shot shotgun completely takes away roadhog's identity and ruins the character for me.
I want a hero with a powerful single shotgun, either you hit big or you hit nothing
I wish blizzard cares less about balance and more about identity.
Who cares if roadhog is "balanced", its not roadhog anymore.
make the game unbalanced and fun rather than balanced and boring
Heres an idea, parry option for roadhog hook so if you quick melee perfectly, you can block it
something like that.
Dont take away his identity, just give it counterplay
They should have kept Sombra as is. She had a unique fun play style. They changed her so much they should just make a new support hero instead.
nooooo im so sad. I luv sombra DPS 😭😭
This will be the worse fucking update ever
amazimg how stupid to change sombra as a support. you really think assasin player wanna change their role to support ??
you guys just deleted one hero because of bronze player.
i don't even think it does fit for her identity. the most stupid dev team ive ever seen.
If that's the only healing options that Sombra has, she's going to be an absolute shit healer. I love the rework, don't get me wrong. I'm excited to see how she functions in play.
"By moving her over to support we can keep some of the most enjoyable parts of her kit intact."
You literally removed everything about her that players enjoyed.
TEAM SOMBRA
As a Sombra hater without real bias…this virus version could still be used to make strong ass plays… imagine sneaking up and flanking a Cass that has to hit like 4 headshots instead of the 2 that kills everyone else. That's 8 body shots. That's also 8-9 (?) maybe more fan the hammer shots without flash. Idk how long cyberspace lasts though. I feel for Sombra players but if u still wanna be aggressive it seems like she kinda can ..if you think about it, this window lets you be annoying in a harassing kinda way because you take 50% less damage from EVERYONE in zone and they do half to ur team. You're stopping alot and living In their backline longer. Hack should do something a little different. Maybe hack could do the same to enemies…even as a ball player I don't see why hack couldn't do something like lower our damage by 50 or something too.. maybe hack makes u do team damage or attack teammates…turrets could too..like hack on enemies has a lotta potential
I think both reworks are going to feel strange at first but I hope it won't be unplayable. I will miss hog combo anyways, this 2 shot left click feels a bit weird
I wanna see my doomfist rework 🥺
Sombra is one of my most played DPS heroes and i liked what i've seen so far, especially her Hotfix ability, the other AoE ability seems a bit too generic for me, wish it was something else
If they destroy sombra. May aswell do the same to widowmaker like rivals did. I much rather get hacked by sombra than getting sniped every damn second
I love how they gave roadhog his old primary and secondary fire with terms and conditions while throwing sombras identity out the window because people can't group tf up lol