How it feels like to play sombra in a high rank

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So i mained sombra since season 6 and was in silver, I 2 tricked sombra and widow and climbed to low masters and I have around 150 hrs on sombra and 146 hrs on widow.

Whereas my 3rd most played hero is tracer, with 30 hrs only. And I get more value out of 30 hrs of experience compared to my Sombra’s 150+ hrs of experience. With tracer I can kill enemies within a blink of a second and even her pulse bomb is a guaranteed kill 80% of the time, whereas sombra has probably the lowest DPS in the entire DPS roaster and doesn’t provide with much utility other than scouting (which is only done at the starting of the fight in normal comp match) and for her EMP which requires follow up. Considering there is a poor indication of a hacked target. most of the time players have no idea what to do when I say “EMP activated” when I’m not in a 6 stack. And we can also see a drop in her pickrate after doom and brig nerf which means she will provide with even less utility.

Sombra needs to be slightly good at killing and needs some buffs on her SMG because after you are above diamond she can barely even finish off low health targets because the amount of healing is way to much and sombra can never outdamage it which means she has little to no impact in her games.

Tl;dr buff Sombra’s SMG and decrease the hack duration so that she can create some impact.

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“Why can’t Sombra be Tracer” thread number #7 of the day. Why people, why?

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Never said that, just wanted to make clear that sombra cannot kill anything with her pea shooter

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I find it ironic that the skills you get from playing a lot of Sombra translates really well when you play Tracer with twice the effectiveness too.

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I do watch kabaji playing tracer, and my accuracy is fairly above average. if you can aim then tracer can delete people in less than second. But why am I not rewarded for that accuracy when I’m playing sombra ??? pepehands

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Buffs? PLease no. Should be removed from the game. She is everything that is wrong with the direction Overwatch is taking. Removing other peoples powers is not fun for anyone.

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The excuse is that Sombra has hack to compensate for the long TtK, but hack isn’t that big an issue to far too many heros.

What counters Tracer? Brigitte or very high skill.
What counters Sombra? Any damage. Any hero.

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tfw brig and doom are nerfed and you want another hero to be deleted from the game

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Just to repeat what Blizzard have said a million times already: We don’t see Sombra as a flanker. That is not her job or what we intend her to do. She is a disruptor. She is not meant to do as high or consistent damage as a flanker.

Hacking is a really strong ability. That’s why her effective damage output is low to balance it out.

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I actually find Sombra to be overpowered in high ranks. If you’re wondering what SR, I’m 4220 right now.

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I want her utility to be stronger tbh because that’s what I consider her skill floor. Management of resources and utility versus damage. I want her speed back and sugar skull indicators on her hacked targets and give ult charge back to her kit at a reduced rate so she isn’t waiting for healing and slowing her down.
Right now, I feel like she’s just soooo slow and it feels gross. I just feel like she’s a speed walking grandma at the park. Abuelita Sombra

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but the thing is, hack is not that good, I mean if you can still shoot, what’s the difference

some heroes don’t even notice a difference when hacked

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I preferred the old sombra (the one right before the rework)

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I don’t understand her changes because it just…moved her power but not a net buff anywhere. She still has low dps but now it’s more forgiving. So it just lowered her skill floor but her main value as an emp bot is her best use. It just changed from farming supports and health packs to farming tanks :roll_eyes::roll_eyes: like cool, now 2 dps players replaced the people who stopped playing sombra because of her new style. She has not even had an increase in use so it’s not like she was changed for the masses. It just…alienated people who already played her. :disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved:

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Sombra always felt slow and easy to use after her rework. It feels like she doesn’t really require any skill compared to the prework sombra

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how it feels to chew 5 gum

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her value isn’t in damage. its in getting good hacks. shes more support than dps. If you want a sombra playstyle with damage, play tracer. Giving a hero with the ability to completely take away ever defense a person has and perma invis high damage is not good for the game.

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Not the best suggestion, but maybe just dont play sombra in bronze since people cant follow up on hacks at that rank?

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That is because to me Sombra is a more complex Tracer…

With Tracers, you have a pretty simplex job, which is just killing, as your kit allows it, since her kit is more fluent.

With Sombra, one have to preform multiple task then just killing.

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my proposition to fix Sombra