her full name is Aleksandra Zaryanova.

Mother russia

This such a great lore chunk. Thanks!

Let Zarya eat them pierogis

She also has one of the best voicelines, "In russia, game plays you."

Oh we see. thank you so much for that piece of lore :)

AND she farts like a buffalo!

@@johnroberts7018 wtf is wrong with you

I think both are really good

@@thefiesta2334 keep the order. Story line they'd follow better.

Other story about Sombra

Rise and shine makes me cry every time

What’s so good about rise and shine I think it’s so boring

@Deylano Van der Vegte same

that's one of my favourites

@Deylano Van der Vegte same, for The Netherlands!

Definitely one of my favorite backstory videos

When overwatch became a horror movie

Thank you for the explanation!:)

@@GMineo :D

Bravo. That was quite on point

The Siberian Omnium was never destroyed, unlike the Detroit, Numbani, and Outback Omniums. It just went dormant after they realized the First War was lost.

It’s only Korea and Russia that have current omnic uprisings right?

@@ryan5494 Yep! I believe Busan's omnium is underwater, which is why they can't get to it?

They are all stupid to the lore

@@yorukage5926 Doesn't help that they talk over a bunch of the dialog that would help explain where they are in the timeline, heh.

Yet Reaper and Widow know she's not to be trusted. Sombra may think she's clever, but a former blackwatch member and assassin should easily see through her

Oooh okay that makes sense! Thanks for clarifying:)

Don’t forget Baptiste, well he wasn’t a part of Blackwatch he was a part of Talon

@@GMineo yea there are comics that showed Reaper talking about how he knows Sombra is playing but he's letting it go for now because Talon has much grander plans to think of.

They said though that she helped Bap at finding Mercy ( Not sure if it's true ) . So I guess they're friends? And that OWL spray makes me think she's friends with Mccree, Zarya, and Hanzo. ( I think she's the one who told Mccree about Echo's been in that train. So he took that chip and retrieved her ( He was Mina's bodyguard so he was so close to her so maybe that's why he has the chip ) )

So she missed? Wasn’t the point to kill her not scare her

@@noranow9531 You can't miss what you can't hit. Katya's head was behind the door, so Widow hit the tiny little speck that was available

@@PuppetPumm3l technically with katyas movement, if widowmaker had waited a second longer she would be in her sight and could kill her, its just the point for the cinematic that she misses and then sombra has to take over.

Idk all the boosted plat players in my lobby’s miss shots as widow so I do think she can miss

So in her head hit box this game is broken that’s a headshot lmaooooo 💀

the name of the woman is katya volskaya btw and thx for the info ^w^

@@ekcirsuany5807 ah thx, it's been a while since I looked at Overwatch lore

So I guess widowmaker didn't miss

I love these tiny details

@@famidkwhatmylastnamewouldb4242 maybe she really wants that earring

Er... ok before I say this just know that as far as time played... I am a Sombra Main (At 27 hours played with the second being D.Va / Mercy at 16 Hours each) Sombra is actually the WEAKEST character in the game. HOWEVER, she is also the most useful. Her abilities ALL OF THEM deal 0 damage to enemies... and offer no shut down type abilities such as Ana's Sleep Dart, Lucio's er... boop(?), or anything along those lines. Her hacking abilities are where she shines and helps her team win... though don't mistake this for being OP. IMO, Sigma or Echo would be the most OP character in the game currently. Sombar would be at the very bottom of that list. For me as a Logician she presents an option for picking a more tactical type character... though she falls into what I call the Finesse Character Type. Meaning she takes a VERY HIGH SKILL level to play and play well. This is a character type I usually stay away from. But in Sombra's case... it presented an interesting challenge to me. Ok why do I think she is the weakest? First off her main and only weapon is actually the weakest damage per shot in the game. D.Va's pistol is actually stronger... The only saving grace here is the clip size is huge compared to all other glass cannons, also her reload is by far the most insane of all characters, I think only Mcree, Junkrat, Symmetra and Soldier: 76 have faster reloads. Her Hacking skill while it does have a short CD, is way too short ranged and interrupted by ANY Damage taken. It only last 4 seconds as well, when used on enemies. But it does keep enemies form using anything other than their main weapon for those 4 seconds. Also it makes Ults either not charge or unuseable for the time. Makes it easy to get say a Bastion out of turret mode or shut down a Torbjorn turret. Sadly though both of these can gun her down before she get's it off if they start attacking her. Her Ultimate while being one of the shorter ults to charge does the exact same thing as her hacking ability only in an AOE centered on her... basically to be effective she has to survive long enough in the danger zone to have it cast... like any other character if she dies mid animation of their ult it's gone and has no effect. Rare to happen but it can. Her ult is also the only ult in the game that can remove a Symmetra Ult. It will also stop other ults....... the same as just killing the character out right. Her teleportation is a lot better know then when she was first released... it use to have a 5 second timer. Meaning if the timer ended before you used it, it would disappear. But it still has a limited range... though I'm not sure how far that range is. It's also destroyable just like any other character ability that places an item. Though it's far worse if someone finds it... and doesn't destroy it. They can easily ambush you getting a free kill. I've been camped a few times by this tactic. Basically it's a flee mechanic, allows her to get in poke some damage or use her ultimate and get out. Her cloak... oh boy is this uselessly useful. Pretty much the only time I even use this is to navigate the map faster. It has a short timer on it meaning you can try to get from cover to cover without being noticed... or hope they don't notice you because you do have a slight shimmer to you as you run around. It does increase your speed and make you harder to spot... but nothing more. You can still just as easily die to a Widowmaker snipe if they know what to look for or are using their ult. It also makes you unable to capture points... you have to be visible to do so. I have seen games won by players using this ability to sneak past the enemy team and push payloads to the winning area... I chop this up to idiots not paying attention the payload position while "chasing kills". Her passive is... sort of useful. Basically it allows her to see low health characters regardless of where they are. Though I've found this is either useless seeing as they'll just grab a quick health pack or have one of the team healers heal them up losing any sight advantage on them it gives. Basically it helps finding an easy target... so long as that player is stupid enough not to seek out healing knowing there's a Sombra on the enemy team. If you won't a better understanding of why I think she's the weakest but the funniest character to win with. Just try beating one of the (currently 3) anniversary maps with her on anything above easy mode. You'll quickly see her damage output and hacking skills aren't as OP as people think. Along side this you'll find that Brigitte is also the WORST HEALER EVER!! Fun to win with... but bad at the assigned Role.

@@natanislikens okay some of what you said made sense and others didn't. Sombra is by far not the weakest and you are making that assumption based on arcade modes. Go to comp and get some evidence, I am a 3800 player and sombra is fairly strong. Yeah she is op she is just annoying but there is counter play. Tbh it doesn't seem like you have a good playstyle for her so maybe watch Fitzy if you haven't. She really isn't a hero meant for gold damage but emp is easily one of the best ults in the game.

We're excited to play too! Maybe we'll try out Sombra:D

Doomfist is not the leader. Reaper is. Actually no Max the omnic is. Doomfist came in after reaper, while max has been in power for a while since the omnic crisis if I'm not mistaken. The chain is Max, Reaper, then Doomfist

@@yorukage5926 Reaper isnt the leader

@@lukeman4264 Can u read? He said Reaper is the leader but then he changed his mind and said that Reaper is like a co-leader and Maximilian (This one Omnic dude) is the Leader...

Doomfist is the leader

Thank you for the explanation!

SAME!!!!

Same!!

Sombra has the best cinematic in my opinion so me TOO

i know right 😂😂😂

She does appear in this comic, though. static.playoverwatch.com/media/comics/15/en-us/comic-overwatch-searching.pdf

Igor P. YET

She's not a likeable character

@@CharlyQuinn7 well you'r right

Thank you for letting us know!

That 2 story is separate and not continuous to it doesn't matter which one first.

And reunion

@@Renul1101 I'm just talking in order of release. Most of these could honestly be watched in any which way and it not matter.

Is it just me that read rise and shine like the meme

Or right before. The timing is kinda murky and there's nothing to indicate when this short happens. Oh, and IIRC, in Recall Winston was watching a news report about fighting against Omnics going on in Russia right before Reaper invaded his base.

Thank you for clarifying!

G-Mineo i believe that most of the cinematics take place during the second omnic crisis, which happened after the petras act and was the reason Winston recalled Overwatch

Thank you Nyfriom!:D I didn't know there we're more uprisings after the first!

It's not before the second, the second already started in the animated short released with overwatch 2.

We're having a great time watching them too! We're always so blown away by the production level and writing for each one:)

Yeah 😂

get them to play overwatch

Awesome thank you for the rec!

Hahahah you caught that. And thank you we will try to make sure to deliver ❤️

Hahahah you caught that. And thank you we will try to make sure to deliver ❤️

that was also shown in the masquerade comic, so it's not new information. the interaction is pretty cool though

Hope you stick around :) ❤️

Hahahah such an Iconic moment

Tbh, i think they are doing a rather bad job as of now. They started out very promising and it became pretty bad pretty fast after the launch. And everytime they give us tiny new tidbits of lore via these cinematics (and even of those we're getting fewer and fewer), it poses more questions than it answers. The whole deal with "First Strike" is pretty much symbolic for how Blizzard handles the lore development of Overwatch.

Yep we're trying our best! We're getting most of our lore knowledge from the cinematics which we're watching for the first time and people in the comment section explaining it to us but it's still pretty confusing for someone who's completely new to the lore:) Thanks for watching!