Sombra is now the only hero in the game who does not gain ult charge from self-healing

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@BigGirlsClub-1420

Why do you people act like things must follow a certain principle? It’s a friggin video game

Video games establish and follow rules… that’s what makes it a game.

@BigGirlsClub-1420

You logically know why they made it like this. They explained it clearly why they needed to disable that function.

You’re right, they did make it clear. To quote the patch notes:

@JoshEngen

Developer Comment: The goal of these changes for Sombra is to remove the necessity for her teammates to take damage and heal themselves with her hacked heath packs to try to get her ultimate charged up quickly.

The goal was to make it so her ult couldn’t be farmed at insane speeds by tanks with large health pools. I can agree that, that needed to go. Giving her ultimate charge gain off of self-healing would still accomplish that goal. Sombra’s 200 hp would act as a “cap” to how much charge could be gained from a single pack – making it still charge EMP slower than it did before, while maintaining some benefit to picking it up.