I was always had the opinion that EMP should have a mich higher ult charge tbh. She can only have currently emp and its frequent charge because the rest of her kit (besides hack which is in a fine place) suffers heavily imo.
If you nerf EMP charge rate, you would have to significantly buff her base kit. This would probably involve hack buff, but you cant communicate that to the haters so…
I think buffing most things besides dmg and hack (atleast not in its effect or cast) should be fine tbh.
Imo we somehow need to weaken EMP’s frequency some way or another its powerlevel is just on such a different level then her base kit.
Its just the biggest part of keeping her on the low level she is.
Or rework emp complete even. Not that I have good ideas tho.
EMP gives her the biggest value. If you nerf it, alot of value is lost. Downtime reducing buffs would have been fine as it is if you didnt nerf her further in return because she already is in a poor state.
So if you take something of great value, you have to give something back of great value. And she gets the most out of hack from her base kit. I dont like EMP bot either. But i think she is stuck in a stalemate spot where she cant afford any more nerfs because the haters push against any forms of buff at all. People are even flipping their tables over small spread buff which doesnt buff hack at all because she gets a few % points more EMP.
I know that not gonna say it will be easy but aslong as EMP stays where it is we won’t make progress.
Less EMP means less complains because its one of her most “annoying things” meaning more possibilities to buff her without a hate nerf immediately after.
Even better if it gets completely reworked and hack itself is the only silence she has probably also allowing her to get buffs for it if its not tied to a fast charging short casted aoe attack.
I actually heard more people complain about hack itself rather than EMP.
EMP hate train was only a thing when she was used in OWL to beat some peoples favorite goats teams.
I’m against a rework. Bizzard is terrible at it and i doubt they would do that with good intentions for the Sombra player in mind. They would do stupid stuff like tech support Sombra.
It actually isnt that strong or impactful as you think because she still easily countered by mcree and hanzo. Torb and ashe and hog have 2 of these on your team sombra becomes difficult to play.
I mean if a lose cuz a Reaper did dodge my best shot with WF then he used his ult to kill me i don’t feel that bad cuz I had my abilities to do something against him. But when i get hacked, EMPed and all i can do is pressng W+M1 while the enemy team can use their abilities… Well… It’s kinda unfun.