I am going to spawn camp every last one of you support players until the devs get their heads out of their asses and properly adjust or rework her. Sorry, it’s the only way they will learn. Screw this. Nice Ram nerf too, by the way.
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no no no, her kit right now is basically tailor made to sit in the middle of the team, hack a tank. And just spam 300~500dps into their head.
Which was an issue when they first did the damage boost thing on hack. Because like the effect lasts 10 seconds ish. Which virus was made to get around.
So combined with the ram changes you can just sit behind a barrier and hold M1 to win.
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It’s pretty wild to me that people think Sombra got nerfed. Her TTK will be insane now. She’s going to dumpster squishies.
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Where are you getting this 300-500 DPS from?
It a gigantic nerf to any Sombra players not in plastic tier.
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Her entire ghost in the shell infiltrator, data collector play style is dead, but like she will be at least a discount soldier 76. That with team work can melt the enemy tank.
160 dps plus 20% from opertunist bonus damage on hack targets (192 dps) ~ times 2 for headshots (384 dps) + Virus which does max of 140 over or about a 100 in a second. so (485 ) within a single second. give or take the tank passive armor eating a bit of that.
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I’ll do both. My goal is to be the most toxic Sombra I can be from now on. People thought bad Sombra players being able to sit in stealth all day was frustrating to play against? They haven’t seen anything.
They moved power from one frustrating part of her kit into another frustrating part of her kit that’s even further from her original identity. Sombra is now my spawn camp character or my tank bully. I’m going to start racking up death threats like they’re nothing.
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Tbh, it never fit into OW anyways. It’s just objectively not healthy for the game or fun to play against. We really should have just gotten Mirrorwatch Sombra.
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I wanted them to do these stealth changes but give us Mirrorwatch Sombra’s hack as a secondary hack mode. That would have given us a nob to tweak on her that people actually like.
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As a tank player this change is asinine. Blizzard leaned into everything wrong with the last rework. Worst job I have seen ever with any hero.
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Careful.
That’s how you get the devs putting a purple Lucio aura around the spawn room door, that only Sombra can see, that makes it so the Invis visually glitches out.
OW is about wild broken tools, abilities, and playstyles that would class horribly in most games or only work in a single player game. Being put into a PVP mutliplayer game.
It’s just one giant combat fantasy VS another.
And talking to people in regards to what they don’t like about, could have been remedied something a none directional sound que playing when she was in ideal combat range while invis.
Letting you know the interaction was comming, but not giving away her were or how in the process.
Note: incorrect commit ahead.
Also if I remember mirror watch sombra correctly where the hack speed up cooldowns, keep in mind that wasn’t made for a game mode that has things like suzu/ lamp / fortify / ram transform and more in it.
It just increased attack speed and gave a little overhealth. I would have been fine with just the attack speed. A lot of people enjoyed it.
Oh ok, be it that doesn’t really do much for a lot heroes then. ( and really breaks other like ana or juno) And is dead weight in a 1v1 battle. Which is what dps are made to deal with.
Yeah, that’s kind of the point though right? She doesn’t need to be better as an assassin. She needs to be better as a hacker and get some more mid-fight presence. And it’s very good for almost every hero. More shots per second = more damage/healing per second. It wasn’t a MASSIVE buff, but enough for it to be noticeable.
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So choice words here she doesn’t “need” to be something.
that is a want on your end.
I prefer the whole Ghost in the shell infiltrator info gathering disruptor.
That hit a very specific niche no game really fills, especially these days were metal gear is long and dead.
And despite complaints wasn’t exactly lighting up the teir lists. outside one doom meta moment.
On a side note, hackers tend to be malicious, Stealing info and disabling key infostructure.
Not like modding your weapon to shoot faster.
Lmao part of me wants to pick her back up and figure out how to play her effectively, so I can make people babyrage. It would be funny to see them pop a forehead vein raging about it. 
The other part of me (80% of me) hates playing DPS and I just…don’t want to spend my time doing things I do not enjoy, though. 
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Do it make the tanks eat your bonus damage and virus at the same time.
and shut down all the rams that can’t punch through barriers anymore.
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Yup, it’s one-trick time until Blizzard pulls their heads out and figures out a proper direction for her. I’m griefing the other team hard as possible, and hey, if she’s terrible and drags my own team down too, that’s Blizzard’s problem 
I had been all in on Support the past seasons since Sombra and DPS in general is rather boring in 5v5 and Tank is just horrendous. But welp, Kiri’s already feeling a bit clunky and Juno looks to end up similarly so Illari will be the only occasional temptation.
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Spawn camping the supports you say?
I’m in.
Either the Neanderthal Ranks will finally figure out how to actually play the game or Blizzard will be forced to re-re-rework her.
I do so enjoy the tears of ragebabies who cannot figure out how to counter ONE hero in a game.
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It will just require more skill to pull off. That’s why I am not too worried. It’s an improvement as far as I am concerned even if I do not appreciate the design philosophy. I prefer buffs to utility. Baby Tracer is pretty lame…
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