I was playing Sombra on a some maps yesterday in Comp, and was playing how you do. I was aware of the nerfs, but assumed they werent live simply because they werent in PTR yet.
But it wasnt about halfway into the game. I noticed, whilst I was trying to 1v1 a tracer and ‘‘spam’’ hack her, and saw my hack on cooldown. And I thought ‘‘Oh it is live. Okay’’ Anyways, I kept that in mind, and used it on big targets like Tanks, and if I were in a 1v1 scenario with Tracer, I’d save my hack for when she reloads. Poor Rein/Dva.
That didnt reduce my potential or output. I still ended up hacking 44 enemies and we ended up winning. This nerf is very negligible. Her hack still makes Tanks useless/ult batteries. People in this low rank, simply cant react quick enough to the Hack. No I didnt have all golds or anything (Like that matters), but thankfully my team knew the value of a hack. Got to the point where the enemy team had to switch to a Sombra themselves, and started making progress on the payload, because of it.
All in all, this change hardly makes a difference, and the forums are making a ‘‘chicken out of a feather.’’ She isnt dead. Shes probably still OP for Pros/High tier players, She still ruins Tanks. 2 seconds feels incredibly short, for her, since you can just translocate out or fight off since your Gun isnt trash, or if youre lucky, invis out.
Its incredibly easy to play around this nerf, without affecting your gameplay/role.
High Ground is still your best friend, Flanking is still just as good. Translocator timer is still a lovely get out of jail card. Her gun damage is solid too.
She isnt dead.
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You hear that?
Thats the sombra mains rushing to comment about how you’re wrong and how sombra is dead now
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Shhh, you will wake them up. Take your reality and logic out if here. /s
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oh damn a 2s cd for a missed hacked didn’t kill sombra O_O
b…b…b…but dudes on the forum said she was going back to F tier ???
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Lol. My account on here has been falesly flagged, and banned recently. Wont be surprising if it gets banned again, because my ‘‘post has been flagged as inappropriate’’
People abusing the flag reports since they don’t like what they read. Nothing new.
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They should have just kept downvotes now people just go around flagging everything they dont agree with
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this nerf was never that bad. People dont realise before u usually pulled of ur hack first try 9/10 times so there wont be a big difference now
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its funny you say this the most oppressive sombra i ever came up against was pre buff
In most scenarios the hack will still be pulled off, assuming you played correctly. Why people over exaggerate a lot of things on here, baffles me.
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well from no cooldown to 2 secconds is not nothing its quiet a nerf but people exaggerate how often a hack gets canceled since usually ur first attempt will just succeed
I wonder where are the quickplay Sombra now with 150 hours on the character that claimed her to be doomed for good for a 2 second cooldown change.
Reality must have hit them hard in the noggin
i wish i had 150 on her but im working my way there.
but ya im still playing her ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=5" ":slight_smile:")
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someday she’ll be up there with my tracer and mercy hours
I can’t speak for all of them but from what I heard the only thing the pro’s were really jumping at was the .1 second grace period, as a Rein player myself I understood at all too well how awful that crap was as combined with latency I could lift my shield to firestrike and even if I got my shield back up ithe hack would go through the shield.
I don’t even care about the 2 second cooldown as long as that grace period is gone I’m happy
NooOoo don’t YOU SEE?! Sombra is ruined by Blizzard, why can’t they balance something right? Now we can’t just hold RMB and wait for enemy to reload and hack them, THIS IS TERRIBLE, because now we can’t use hack as it’s meant to use - point blank face hacking
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