She was finally a reliable and consistent counter when it came to these 2 profanity
It boggles me how you think adding that delay upon a 1 damage interruption is even a remotely good idea.
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I’m 99.99% positive that it’s going to go straight to live without any changes specifically so that the nerfs are in for stage 3 of OWL. Feedback? We don’t need that.
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Tracer hasn’t had a hard counter since the game’s inception
“Oh what’s that? Something hard counters her for a change and forces her to play around something? A Tracer player? NEEDING TO THINK??? This can’t be.”
Instant Sombra nerf
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What’s wrong with Gengi? We already have Moria.
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I really feel like these changes aren’t going to affect her much if at all. Yeah taking damage will be annoying but if your already taking damage then the attempt to hack was a fail and you might wanna get out of these before more of the enemies team tries focusing you. The line of sight changes are definitely needed because hacks really shouldn’t go through walls. The hack is still fast so chances are more than likely you’ll still get a hack off before anyone has time to react.
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You really expect the poster girl and Mr. Edgycyborgninjadude to get nerfed? You’re better off finding the lost ark than blizzard nerfing those two.
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The problem isn’t being damaged consistently it’s chip damage from multiple sources.
A D.Va could be just holding left click miles away from me and it will cause my hack to go on a 2 second delay. Why even try hacking at that point.
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Understandable, a random D.va pellet is annoying but (at least from my experience) this rarely happens. Because either a.) i’m Hacking the d.va first to get her out of mech or b.) hack goes off before she notices me. Her hitting me is by accident instead of on purpose 90% of the time. Which is why I feel this change won’t hurt her too much.
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dont just copy/paste a post LOL
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Tracer nerfed? HAH, not unless our OWLords will it.
Honestly, I main Genji, and I wasn’t hurt very much by the Sombra buffs. And Genji was one of the characters who Sombra specifically got a buff against.
For people running Reinhardt/Zarya comps, on the other hand, it’s pretty much hell on Earth. Hacking a Reinhardt can be a death sentence for him if it’s followed up properly. The result is that Sombra ends up hard countering tanks an order of magnitude better than she counters Genji and Tracer.
Also, Tracer is debatable, but Genji has a balanced pick/win rate and doesn’t need a nerf. He’s not overpowered, just annoying, as any mobility based character is going to be on a fundamental level just from being mobility based.
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Genji is fine stoo with you’re Mercy main Bias
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This is why the developers don’t value community balance as much as pro balance.
If any character gets changed people here will whine “WELL IF MY HERO GETS NERFED THEN X SHOULD GET NERFED”
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She hard counters tanks and supports more than she counters Tracer and Genji.
She’s barely even a problem for Tracer. What.
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This.
You’re not gonna be able to hack someone then instantly try a 2nd time.
Big deal.
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"A Tracer player needing to think"
You mean one of the least effective hero’s below Diamond?
For a community that likes to say the Pro opinion shouldn’t outweigh the lower, more populated ranks, you sure seem to like ignoring how Tracer technically could do with buffs in these ranks.
You have to be incredibly attentive and smart with your movement to make it as a Tracer player, hence why the majority fail.
They are nerfing the hack as it is low risk, incredibly high reward with no counterplay. It’s that simple.
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It’s well known that the average Sombra player thoroughly thinks through his tactic of holding down right click until it doesn’t interrupt because the other guy has to reload.
Sombra will still be problematic to Tracer and Genji, I guess now everyone has to think before doing something! Amazing.
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Just give us a damage threshold, give us the thing we’ve been asking for for literal months. It would feel better on both sides to have the longer cast time but not get canceled by trash damage from halfway across the map.
Uhhhhh. No. Sombra needs to be reverted asap. But while we should keep her spread reduction, nerf the almost instant hack. You are a S T E A L T H H E R O
and need to play like one. Just like in real life, hacking doesn’t take a millisecond. Don’t fight anyone head to head. Hack them and then proceed. You are not tracer, you are not genji. You have no burst damage and need to remember that. You are not a ravenous wolf, you’re a sneaky fox needing to use stealth to get the kill. Since most dps mains are totally brain dead they won’t hear the hack. Besides, she has no place in the frontlines and they need to keep it that way.
Who are you tring to fool, Sombra was not used to counter Tracer/Genji. She was used together with them and made their job even easier and turned the game into hell for tank/support players. The nerf is absolutely justified.
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