Dear Blizzard,
Why is Sombra the only character in goatswatch (OWL season 2 stage 1) that keeps getting buffs? Why is she so strong to the point that she makes certain heroes unplayable? Wanna be a hamster? Nope! Enemy team has a Sombra. Wanna Doomfist and perfectly time your engagements? Nope! Gotta wait for Sombra to show or else you’re feeding. Wanna Zen? Nope! Sombra got an EMP with the names of you and your three other teammates names on it. Now we gotta play hide and seek from EMP instead of healing our team like Mercy’s old Rez Ult. Does Sombra need to worry about engaging? Nope! She has infinite invisibility. Wanna kill her? Her translocator doesn’t have a time limit for the longest time now too. Why is her hack-duration the same length as when hacks took some level of skill to pull off? Who knows! Be nice if our Rein could protect us with his barrier. Be nice if I could use health packs. Why did you guys remove the decision between hacking health packs or enemies? Paris with its terrible health pack placement makes you entirely reliant on your healers if there’s an enemy Sombra. Sombra being this broken powerful is worst thing you can do in a game with cool abilities. How can you devs not see this?
Look Blizzard. You already admitted that Brig was too overtuned, so here’s a novel suggestion for you: ban her from competitive and pro play until you have an actual solution. Why are you keeping Sombra at such a high power level just because you want to keep any and every counter to goats? She obviously wasn’t the answer. Neither are Reaper and Junkrat. Just do the responsible thing and ban Brig for now and balance the rest until you get your butt-cheeks together. FFS.
Truth be told, I never thought I’d be giving serious thought about uninstalling Overwatch. Sure, I’ve taken breaks before, but I’ve never indulge the idea of quitting permanently until recently. Playing Overwatch is like being in an abusive relationship. The balance patches and updates always promises change and improvements, but it inevitably and unequivocally will remain a new flavor of bad design. I’m not really sure how much longer I can hold out for this brand.
P.S. Anchor Stats sucks too especially for long time players who’s gotten better and upgraded their rig.
Yours Truly,
A Longtime Overwatch Player.
Forum Mod Edit: This post has been edited by a moderator due to masked language as it is in violation of the Code of Conduct.
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She is fine. Just get gud, really. Communication is key for her.
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Thanks for contributing nothing. See how often you get good communications two games in a row nowadays.
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Sombra is terrible on ladder so unless you’re an OWL player’s smurf account you don’t know what you’re talking about.
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You want to play Lucio, nope, the enemy has Sombra!
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Yea Sombra Hardcounters alot if we count everyone that would be:
Lucio, Doom, Hammond, Reinhard, Bastion and Zen there are some others she counters to but much less them these. So the lets look at what counters Sombra:
Literally anybody with a half decent gun…
And anybody with a fast mobility ability or a shield can escape hack with some experience…
Oh and there is the fact that Sombra just brings you to her level only having a weapon as dmg output…
Etc etc.
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In a perfect world where you are in 1v1 with Sombra and aren’t doing anything else what you say is true. Let’s not forget sombra can see when you are low health, and cheap shots you all day.
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Lucio is still played against her even in league. Lucio is not very fun to play into her but that’s different than not being able to be used.
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Thats cause goats is OP OP.
A flanker, doing their job of flanking is now cheap shotting?
What in the world am I actually reading?
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Yes because thats the only point I made. Thanks for straw-manning.
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And lets also not forget both have a team. The best thing against Sombra is teamwork. And She herself needs teamwork or she is worthless.
And if your on low health its your healers job do heal you if they can’t because they are dead the fight is normally already won.
In a perfect 1v1 fight Sombra is normally in a disadvantages unless you have even the worst gun them She has. Also She is at a constant time pressure.
Lucio’s ult is accualy one of the best Counters is Sombra. Believe it or not (When the Lucio is playing smart obv.)
I’m not straw-manning. I’m literally quoting you…
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That’s fair enough, I am just saying she hard counters him via pressing 1 button without any skill what so ever, she shuts down him totally. Same as DF & Hammond, I have no problem with hard counters but a system of skill/reward would be preferable. She does too much to them for no skill or effort in my opinion.
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Yeah, the problem with Sombra Goats is that you lose the Dva and can’t take as many fights. You have to play slow and wait for Sombra to farm EMP first. 
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Please look up straw man fallacy. It’ll do you some good ^^.
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Sombra needs comms waaaaaaay more than you do. Without them she’s pretty much useless.
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The whole support ults thing was reference in the hide and seek point in OP btw. The same applies for Lucio. Doesn’t change the point that he has to hide instead of healing his team. very un-interactive way to play.
If the following heroes are in a match then Sombra is basically is an extremely strong pick
Bastion, Doomfist, Hammond
Now she may also counter Lucio, Zen, and Reinhardt but so does many dps. That’s not unique to her or a reason to bring over another dps, who are better chosen based off synergy.
It’s only those three that offers such a huge advantage that it’s better to run her over a bit more synergistic dps.