I’m sorry, did you say you can get away from a freeze?
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Dive was the meta complimenting her the most and she’s been very bad at this time. Her highlight was to see some play while still being bad statistically.
For a hero as situational, she shouldn’t underperform like that withing her own niche.
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Even then she was only used because of her ultimate and only on maps that allowed her to have emp every team fight.
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The big problem here is that Sombra has always been a little weak but still fun to play. Her changes made her weaker and less fun to play.
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Sombra is one of the hardest heroes in the game to be effective with. Proof of this is the OWL, where you see plenty of sombra play as they are the best players in the world. All they would do at this point is dumb her down to appeal to the masses.
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The thing about the nerf was I believe it was necessary, because although it was great for shutting down Tracer, hack shut down Tanks/Supports way too easily, so Blizzard needs to find a way to buff her without making her insanely oppressive towards Tanks/Supports, she already does that enough as is, but I agree, she needs serious help.
This is true and anyone using pickrate numbers to talk about Sombra is kinda missing the point, Sombra is incredibly powerful, she can make Pharah’s life a living hell and Genji’s and even Mercy’s and most of the roster tbh
She also has 15m as falloff, have you sat down and measure how long is 15m? for comparison, melee range is 1 - 2m, Brigitte weapon is 7 meters, you get double of that with a ton more attack speed. Her spread isn’t all that bad either, which means that you can deal quite a bit of damage accordingly to how disruptive you can be
The only acceptable buff would be lowering hack’s cooldown a bit? from 8 to 6 or something like that, the LoS checks were bugged and they fixed a lot of instances but broke a few others, they should fix those too but aside from that Sombra is as powerful as she can be
Yeah not only is Sombra weak herself, but the current meta is horrible for her.
No, she’s bad lol, Look at the stats.
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I was only answering the guy’s question, but my take on that is:
It worked the same for a year. Why wasn’t it brutal and oppressive then? 9 times out of 10 the Sombra took a crapload of damage while trying to hack while being shot at for that long, and couldn’t do any damage of her own because she had to bail, or died.
Although I’m just arguing for arguing’s sake, I agree that the 2-second penalty shouldn’t be reverted, but she should get another buff to compensate.
“young” dude she’s 30 years old.
Sombra is fine. She is still picked and I got countered hard by her in two different games today. I’m a Moira main and Sombra harassed me because I was basically the number one healer to kill on my team as Brigitte can just be jumped.
You are aware that you’re talking about the same company that refuses to revert changes on hero’s right? Look at what they did with Mercy they didn’t need to rework her. All they had to do was make it so she has to have LoS of atleast 1 soul in order to Rez her team but instead they kept pushing with the rework until we have the boring press space till you hit skybox and heal Hero we have today.
all of the sombra thread has become so overwhelming but devs just yet not saying anything. so interesting.
30 isn’t old…It’s not young but middle age don’t really start til your 40s imo.
Sombra does need help right now.
Her buffs were good but the nerfs she has gotten made her worse again.
I agree with the developers that the lenient of her hack had to be removed. Getting hacked behind a wall, in an invulnerability ability and behind a shield was just unfair. But it was this leniency that made her hack reliable. Now can it be interrupted by a pole. I have no problem with this, but the 2 second cooldown after a failed hack is just too much.
I only want to see the cooldown on a failed hack removed.
Lol sure, they’ll apologize for Sombra right after they apologize for Roadhog and Ana.
If it is not fair to hack people the last 0.05sec after they went behind a wall, why is it fair that mercy can stand behind a wall and heal people?
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I totally agree, I’m also fighting the good fight for Sombra.
Unfortunately the bigger picture of OWL means the people who actually PAID for the game are being ignored while people who GET PAID to play the game make all the calls.
As someone who runs a good bit of Mei, I can assure you people can escape from freezes…