Buff Stealth 😢

General Discussion
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Since Sombra’s buffs evidently weren’t enough to make her viable, and since hack got needlessly ruined, how about fixing a genuinely shoddy part of her kit? Shorten the cast time and sort the ambiguous visual cues. Just make it so it works.

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Oh boy. That 2 second cooldown if the hack gets interrupted sure is a HUGE nerf. Sombra is totally RUINED because her hack got a 2 SECOND cool down.

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Buff the bait posts please. The game is too weak –

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Really I didn’t feel hack needed the cast time buffed anyway, and since Bliz refuse to revert, they’ve given it this cooldown. Just mangled it for no reason really. Whereas Stealth’s function is actually bad.

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I think she needs a kind of combat stealth:

~3 secs duration and 4-5 cd.
Short cloak/decloak delay(<0.2s)
Effect not being interrupted by damage
Sombra appears for a moment if damage taken.

She needs something to keep longer in teamfights and to perform careful(as devs wanted) hacks.

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Blizzard nerfed her without even testing it on the PTR. What makes you think they even care about Sombra? If they want to just remove her from the game, they should just get it over with.

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Uh, 2 seconds is a long time considering how low ttk is

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It’s the leiency removal that’s the big nerf and which I was all for. The cooldown seems like an unnecessary annoyance.

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To me the 2 second cooldown is actually not even noticeable. Yall should be thankful that it doesn’t have the full cooldown when interrupted, like some other abilities in the game.

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Not really. She was still barely playable before the nerf.

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Look at mercy and then stop complaining. She was destroyed in the name of balance and everyone who has the balls to complain about her has to face the fury of everyone. Your hero was nerfed, so what? Such a small nerf means nothing.

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It’s telling isn’t it? Someone relies too heavily on holding down rmb don’t they?

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Blizzard was so feverish about adding a stealth hero, because of the TF2 spy. The key difference here is that Sombra is not a back-stabbing instakiller. I definitely agree that she should cloak faster.

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Whattaboutism is completely meaningless here

Sombra is a flanking dps, Mercy is a support. You’re comparing apples and air bags

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Oh so flankers have a right to complain about nerfs but supports don’t? Seems kinda dumb to me. To be honest they should have made the cooldown last the full 8 seconds.

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Not complaining about nerfs. Asking for a buff to Stealth because Sombra’s weak, and Stealth is bad.

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Honestly, the only thing I want to be removed are her voice lines when she uncloaks. There’s already a pretty noticeable sound when she uncloaks and adding a “LoOkinG foR mE ?” isn’t necessary

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Bump. This is the time to fix a shoddy ability. She’s still low tier.

Takes forever to cast and end, loud, ambiguous to Sombra, anything and everything knocks her out of it, has counters anyway.

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This is a Sombra thread though…
Yes, Mercy got destroyed, but leave that in a Mercy thread.
We have heroes we care about as well, and even if this nerf doesn’t seem very much, it impacts Sombras overall kit quite a bit.

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first of all, my reply was posted 23 days ago.

secondly, I understand what you mean. But the way I see it is that sombra mains are making a chicken out of a feather. I simply used mercy as an example. The situation could be much worse and I would understand the complaining if the nerf made her literally unplayable. which it didn’t do.