I mean, the pros are the ones that didnāt want to deal with a Sombra that was marginally better than the previous iteration, and got her nerfed into oblivion.
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To be fair, her ultimate is completely BS with any coordination. It shuts down entirely too much on paper, fortunately only a well oiled team can usually capitalize on it.
Hm? Current Sombra has seen a decent amount of pro play rep. It was hackfist and GOATs for the World Cup and contenders in a lot of ways. Itās not like the complaints were just from pros. The forum was full of complaints about the LOS checks and such. It wasnāt a purely pro movement.
I disagree with your assessment.
Itās not that surprising though. Blizz already has a track record of rolling out absurd patches.
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So youāre saying your want some sort of āBig Healā option for our resident necromancer?
How about 100hps or 120hps for the main beam in Valk, but for only 2 seconds, with a 10 second cooldown, as an R ability in her staff?
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And itās always been as strong as it is, but itās never been so strong that it was a problem for anyone.
I seem to remember Sombra being outright broken for 4 months, because the pros pushed for Sombra changes that didnāt get tested on the PTR. They resulted in a long series of bugs (A list of Sombra's Many, Many Bugs (6), Now with more LOS Bugs!).
For the record, even on ladder, Sombraās pickrate was dropping even before the LOS change. No one denies the Hack LOS needed to be fixed, but it was solely the pros that got her changes pushed so they wouldnāt have to play against the Sombra that was better in the middle of a fight.
So no, my statement is not wrong. I am not talking about the abomination of SOmbra we have now, whoās sucks at everything sheās supposed to be good at unless youāre literally the best player in the world. Iām talking about the Sombra that was mildly useful for 2 weeks in february, the Sombra that pros didnāt want to deal with so they had Blizzard āfixā her without testing anything.
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I was specifically say just āAura healingā.
I.e. Lucio heal, and Brig inspire.
Well iād agree with most of your ideas for her though, including the āvalkyrie spearā one.
Why not just grey out Brig if Lucio is selected?
It would do basically the same thing.
Really? Granted at my gold-plat level is usually not a problem but the GM games on twitch and the few OWL games Iāve tuned into it was a major factor last season. Did you not see the same?
No, because Sombra was never had a high enough pickrate for it to be a problem. EMP and the followup of a team can decide a fight, but so can Graviton, Earthshatter, and Blizard. You can Track a Sombraās ultimate fairly easily.
It wasnāt just the pros pushing for that. You realize that, right?
Changes wouldāve happened regardless. It just happened faster than usual. I donāt mind that taking place, as the original LOS issues were straight broken.
So she was only useful when her hack ability was broken to the point of guaranteed? And even then her ladder stats didnāt go crazy or anything?
Yeahā¦ I disagree with your assessment. Not disagreeing really on what happened, but your take on it seems too personal imho.
Iām good with the idea of balancing the game such that double-off healers isnāt all that good except for lazy low tier games.
Remember that whole I donāt want people playing a character they donāt like thing Kaplan said when denying hero bans? Same applies here
The difference with a lot of those ultimates is you could have a chance to counter ultimate and not be steamrolled. Sombraās ultimate is just way too oppressive in my mind.
Donāt get me wrong, as a hero as a whole she feels lackluster in many categories ā especially because sheās in the loosely defined ādamageā category.
I honestly feel like her hack and 10x more so her ultimate are too polarizing to make her even a remotely good DPS. Thatās my problem with her design.
Why would making it so 2 heroes donāt synergize together make it so that the hero is equivalent to being banned outright?
Double off healer was the actual main competitive comp for much of the timetime of the game. Thereās no reason it shouldnāt be viable.
Except for the whole āitās almost impossible to make TripleHealer a subpar option if Lucio+Brig strongly synergize together.ā
Because people want to play Lucio, regardless if someone auto picked Brig.
I think Brig just breaks the game in so many ways she should be completely reworked from the ground up.
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