I would rather eat my computer than support for a single one of the creatures that makes up the people in this community.
one of my friends who mains Widow has promised to become a server admin because she thinks these Sombra nerfs are too much. I’m curious to see how it plays, because I’ve always loved the more hack focused play style over this assassin play style we’ve been forced into but I was hoping we’d see a return to an OW1 version of stealth 
It depends upon the nuances of the kit.
Without stealth being broken it seems anymore, arguably there is no longer a delay from coming out of stealth. You can hack, shoot, or virus DIRECTLY from stealth immediately speeding up the pace at which Sombra moves.
At the same time, people will hear the translocate and know you are within 5seconds of the translocate. When you make that dive, people will know you are there. However, you get several seconds of a speed boost to try to make combat. She’s at like 50% movement speed or something. That makes you kind of hard to track/hit while she has hitscan to track others.
Since she’s keeping stealth regardless of being hit or not, she should keep the increased movement speed she gets from it while in that form. The extra damage she does is nothing to sneeze at either. Going from 160 → 192 DPS is going to help break down tanks.
You’ll probably play with your team a bunch more and only make short dive jaunts with people while in stealth keeping up with people and stuff. It seems like a minor buff to staying with allies and a nerf to camping in enemy backlines.
sombra was nerfed because of widow. Direct your hatred towards them.
Cringe
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Do that, please
So the rest of your team still loses on the point while you afk for ages
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i kind of think it would be cool if the timer for translocate would be 2 seconds even if you forced yourself out of stealth but i still dont have a clue how itll work
have to find out season 13
was think about this since you kind of dont want to attack at all until stealth is gone. otherwise you will be visible for more time. i wonder
so her loop will be more of a waiting till stealth is fully gone before attacking making a lot of passive/scared sombras or yea its gonna be real clunky
Difference is skill floor is raised atleast from the depth of illios well to somewhere in anubis tunnels.
She was a automated scripts hero before.
Now sombra mains have to press buttons to run the scripts.
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It’s either this or a support sombra rework like mirror watch which is more trouble to balance and don’t know if whole sombra community wants this.
Or nerf her straight
This is better.
Also can we stop comparing to tracer, she is a different being and is way more skilled.
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with stealth you cant really make a hero an assassin. has to be more of a utility dps, thats how it was with world of warcraft
the pvp type rogue which was usually sub had a lot of control abilities
overwatch 1 sombra was pretty well designed just needed tweaks
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Don’t you threaten me with a good time 
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I mean sure would have been nice if all sombra mains vehemently wanted and asked for this when virus sombra was made 
Seemed everyone was happy with asasino sombra 
I know you and robot were not happy with it, also a few others seem to want utility sombra but most seem to keep asking this direction.
This is actually not a rework in technical sense more of them tweaking up the skillfloor of invis and adding more util and burst.
I’m curious to play and see , i know you will adapt you are fast enough to do that.
You just are too chill to tryhard
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It was never broken, like not only does the game give ways to pop behind the enemy with flanks. But sombra her self was giving you sound ques, a hard cast time that could be interupted or ignored if you set up cooldowns while it’s happening, and or also needed to land virus.
Giving you about a second time before she even shoots her gun, or if they just throw virus at you. You have your full kit to just do whatever.
Now sombra isn’t even a flanker, because took away the dedicated tools both position and separately like other flankers have. (not to mention survive mid fight)
And is now basically discount short range soldier 76.
Like their isn’t much nuance to anything
You can’t shoot while invis, And if you leave before the 5 second mark you will be left without an escape tool for long then 2 seconds.
At best you can set-up hack on the tail end of the invis, but even then that leaves you out in the open for 2 seconds. So if things go wrong that’s it you dead.
I thought it was a nerf at first, but the more I saw… these changes will cause havoc.
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Enjoy getting sucked to death then
Sombra mains aren’t beating the toxic troll allegations
I’m not a Sombra main. That’s why I said “pick her back up”.
Please read.
I do enjoy how you didn’t dispute the toxic troll part, since that’s exactly the sort of attitude you were displaying.
But, if it makes you happy, I’ll correct myself to Sombra mains, players, and former mains.
When you’re saying Sombra mains ain’t beating the toxic troll allegations, and I’m saying I am not even a Sombra main, then I thought it was pretty clear that the latter part is also untrue.
So, no. To be clear: no, I am not a Sombra main. No, I am not a toxic troll. Don’t leave out the other part:
I will try to say this as gently as I can. But your opinion and assumptions about me do not phase me. I am neither things you claim I am to be. And, really, nothing would be worse to me than being some of the verbally abusive people I have seen here flaming Sombra players/mains. I find it odd you want to expand the net to “former Sombra players are toxic”. I would like to see that energy towards the other players as well if we are going to be equitable with this. 
No, it was not because of Widow.