Ok so I think I’ve figured it out. For one, no, her kit does not really function as her only engagement tool is also her escape and she has no sustain abilities. So she can’t really dive. Also she has opportunist which, if it was intuitive, she’d be encouraged to use her ability to chase down and finish off the low health targets she can see. This doesn’t work because if she doesn’t wait the full five seconds for stealth, she is essentially dead after the kill, as again, she has no escape, and in 5 seconds it’s pretty easy to heal those characters.
She is essentially tracer if she didn’t have any blinks and had
That said, let’s say you want to use her anyway. Here are some tips:
- Play like Cassidy. Stick by your tank. You can’t actually brawl. But you can occasionally use your stealth but really you can’t really dive and get out.
- You want to backline ever? You are going to trade deaths unless you do the following: Get in a position, hide, squat walk up to them and then fight. That way you have your escape. Does this sound like worse tracer? Yeah kinda. Should probably just pick her.
- Hacking for damage boost is a scam. Hacking while invisible is a scam. You are just going to play into tanks that aren’t Winston or rein and just hack them. Everyone else is garbage. Emp charges way too slowly for you to waste your time on hack.
- Probably just wait until they buff her to play her.
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Here’s an easier tutorial
- Go back to spawn
- Press H or whatever your console hero swap button is
- Pick Tracer
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She plays like, and you have to stay with me here, the old version of Sombra before perma invis.
Except no she does not. That version was an emp bot without virus, her stealth lasted longer and she had an escape with translocator. She also had a hack that lasted 6 seconds.
So not at all really?
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Plays exactly the same. You’re now just not able to be at two places at once with the old translocator
Ok as a hanzo main use rooftops to glide, main thing to think about on tp is your end point shouldn’t be visible to enemy so does when you comeout.
Get invis hack on enemy you caneven disengage and engage.
Make use of invis hack a lot.
Also don’t always use tp for invis be aggro and ready to use it as aggro engagement by cancelling out on tp with virus or melee .
In defence hack packs a lot they are your save points evennif you don’t heal you deny heals.
Also don’t look for kills always hack virus get out of use cover hack virus get away.
This one is more brawly
I’m also still learning and testing her potential and limits also she does definitely need buffs
- Speed passive like tracer out of invis for proper flow
- Hp buff to 250
- Tp range needs to be increased to 21 MTR instead of 18, before we were running fast in invis jumping about when you throw to a d so had time to set up using props.
Now you use when you are slow so it doesn’t reach far as before.
And falls short often by a bit.
That statement contradicts itself,she doesn’t play “exactly the same” if her whole engagement/disengament is different.
They’re definitely reverting the Sombra changes. Mark my words
But what if enemy actually knows how to play, can shoot and chases Sombra whenever she’s retreating?
You be better than them it works at all ranks see questron, this is dumb like saying what if people one shot you.
Also that’s why isay rooftop rolloouts short of dva or a genji willing to use dash most can’t chase you there.
Remove Stealth and Translocator from being tied together. Make them separate abilities.
At least make Stealth 6 seconds like it was when she was released. (And maybe make it so she can contest in Stealth like she could back then? Maybe)
And then make changes to her kit. Something in her kit may have to go because I’m not sure she’d able to have an additional ability slot on top of what she already has?
Ya the common candidate is virus, or like reishi said you can combine virus to hack so you hit virus to hack and that opens a slot.
But that raises floor too.
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I’d miss current Hack 
but I wouldn’t…hate…Hack and Virus being turned into one ability. It still opens up plenty of options and makes it a skill shot I guess. Raising the floor like you said.
I just want Stealth to be its own ability again. Make it 6 seconds like in OW1 and buff her movement speed back to 70% like in OW1. Done.
(And maybe the contest thing…maybe)
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Ya sounds good, i was kinda like hack becoming a issue if can’t pull it off fast or consistently.
I practically run around with the right click held often 
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We’ve all been there
I just want changes to this rework they’ve done to Sombra. I’m not bothered about perma invis at all. But these changes are god damn awful
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Dumb is showing ‘gameplay’ of a character in a QP with drastically low skill level on the enemy team. I too can get some stomping games, it doesn’t have to do with proper playstyle or power of a character, it only shows how badly coordinated opponents are - which is the case for the first video on Hollywood at the very least
This is the exact reason I questioned you earlier: how do you play whenever your opponent ain’t 8yo kid started playing OW2 just this week and doesn’t let you being as irrationally bold as video suggests?
The old version had a reliable escape tool and more utility
the ammount of times people told me “I can’t play tracer” it hurts to hear this.
ofc you can’t if you never try.
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Unless it was you on enemy team I doubt they were 8 yr old kids.
Since of all the post this was the only thing you decided to nitpick, it seems you have no issue with enemy team being stomped severely due to their worse overall teamplay
That says a bit more about videos of your choice than you probably wanted to demonstrate
