There is absolutely no point in playing Total Mayhem if the entire game is ruined by a single Sombra. Whether they’re on your team or the other, the game is destroyed.
If they’re on your team, the enemies are sitting ducks. Total Mayhem’s entire point is extreme use of abilities. With Sombra on the field, this is taken away. It’s not fun to play against people who can’t play their own characters.
If they’re on the enemy team, it’s even worse. If there’s a Sombra, there’s no point in playing whatsoever. The only reason to play is for extreme use of your abilities. If the enemy Sombra is disabling you and your teammates’ abilities faster than you get them back, it’s impossible to play, let alone find any fun in the game whatsoever. The only counter for a Sombra is another Sombra. This ruins the game even more for the other team.
I know I repeated a lot in this, but it’s a very simple idea. Sombra on one team means a Sombra on the other team. 1 person choosing 1 character ruins the game for 11 other people. No point in playing Total Mayhem if some douche is allowed to do this. It’s just plain frustrating, boring, and toxic.
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sombra in total mayhem is garbage though
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I prefer Reinhardt. I remember my first game with him in total mayhem. SO FUN !
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zarya and winston are my total mayhem mains lol bubbles and jumps forever
Sombra is the reason I don’t play Total Mayhem, I used to play it always before she existed but now her hack ability ruins the mode imo.
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How many times do we have to go over this?
Moira and Winston counter her extremely easily (plenty of others can nullify her impact too) and Sombra is necessary for keeping the other broken heroes in check and giving Attack a chance vs a cheese Defense comp.
If you want to get rid of Sombra, then you’d have to balance a horde of other heroes too and that would kinda defeat the entire purpose of Mayhem.
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Sombra is necessary in TM, because otherwise Zarya, Winston and Doomfist are practically unkillable.
If you want to complain about a character being actually busted in a mode, look at Lucio in CTF.
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No, it’s called Total Mayhem for a reason, also Sombra is the only hero keeping Doomfist from being uncontestable in that mode, cooldowns are crazy low in that mode, damage flies everywhere, Sombra shouldn’t be that big of an issue and if she is then oh well, it’s Total Mayhem.
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Shes a necessary fun police, without her it’d just be Zarya getting infinite charge and Winstons never touching the ground.
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Play Brig, 2 sec shield bash and you can stun Sombra to death
I’m basically going to write this so I can reference and just quote this any time this topic comes up.
- Yes, her hack might feel unfun. But so do Zarya, Winston, and Mei with their constant walls and bubbles which make them invulnerable. “Unfun” is subjective when multiple heroes can negate the “unfun” factor easily.
- Moira and Winston counter Sombra easily, Moira especially with her damage orbs - they pull her out of stealth, mess up her hack, and you basically get nothing done, meanwhile Moira can throw healing orbs to her team. The only counter to Sombra is not another Sombra - you can use other heroes listed above
- Ana used to have the ability to perpetually sleep people; this was removed because you would be kicked from the match for inactivity. People compare this to Sombra’s hack but they’re fundamentally different. Hack does not take away your ability move and shoot.
- Total Mayhem is meant to have broken abilities (refer back to Winston, Zarya, and Mei). Sombra’s fits in similarly in the sense that its low cooldowns can make it busted. As listed above, there are counters to it.
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Then disable Doomfist , Zarya , Moira , Tracer , Winston …
They are annoying too. If Sombra goes - they must go with her.
And btw it’s not a “OH I’M FRUSTRATED I WANT THIS AND THIS GONE BECAUSE I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH IT”
Don’t like it - Don’t play it.
or…
GIT GUD LMAO
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Lucio is disabled in the 1v1 battle mode because it apparently isn’t fun.
I see no problem doing the same to other characters in arcade that ruin the point. 
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She can have 3 people hacked at once though, iirc.
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I’ve played many games of Total Mayhem. Without Sombra, the match can literally keep going FOREVER. Like seriously, Zarya bubbles and Mei walls and Winston jumps everywhere, the payload is a complete mess. Heck, I’ve played 4 or 5 matches as Wrecking Ball, who is underrated and a complete menace in this mode, and never died once. If nothing dies you cannot win. If you cannot hinder the opponents’ abilities, you cannot kill anyone.
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She’s completely necessary and attack in particular feels god awful without her.
OP just want to run Doomfist and Sombra is the only hero that can keep a DF from going all crazy.
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You could have stopped there.
I played Sombra in total mayhem most of yesterday - I got countered by Ana, Winston, Orisa, Bastion, Moira, just to name a few. They were running certain comps so that if I went to hack someone, I got dived. If I tried to hack the main tank (orisa or winston), either their team would come for me or the tank themself would.
Sombra is fine. If you can’t handle her, maybe you don’t have an appropriate team comp - or even any heroes available - to deal with her.
I was defending Numbani and enemy were running Mei/Winston/Zarya - as you can imagine, they were continuously stalling and the overtime was going on for at least 15min at this rate. I thought “screw it”, went sombra, and I finally ended the game. She’s a necessary evil.
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I mean there’s basically no point in playing if there’s a Zarya either. There are tons of characters that are “too broken” for TM.
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