Been playing more comp since last season and literally every single solitary match 5/6 of my teammates vote ban sombra and shes been banned in 100% of matches ive been in. I like sombra. Shes the best distracter in the game and sometimes you just need to make the enemy team turn around to advance and shes the best at it. Shes genuinely fun to play and honestly there are far more broken heroes that in good hand will dominate lobbies waaay more. All you people who just hating sombra because shes slightly annoying or because yoy got spawncamped one time gotta stop. These hero bans are terrible they only cause fights. wether it being sombra mains never being able to play or mercy mains getting yelled at by their team waaaay more than before. This is not right. this is genuinly bad for the community and the competitive scene will greatly suffer. This is a failed experiment, please end it.
Iâve seen Mercy banned a reasonable number of times but I hadnât had anyone rage about it. Several games have had players indicate that they wanted to play Sombra and the team changed their ban preferences to attempt to allow them without being toxic. Sometimes it worked, sometimes the other team banned her.
This made me laugh. People are banning a hero that isnât known for being strong but is for sure known for spawn camping and being generally annoying by design. Whoâd have thought a group of people would have collectively wanted to opt out of that so that one person canât enjoy troll fly gameplay on the rest of them for an extended period of time?
Player numbers are up. Toxicity seems down. Some of the big streamers are back playing praising it, even IGN is giving it positive reviews. The pro scene has been using bans for a little while and it works well there too.
I am not really seeing where this is âbad for the communityâ and more people are playing comp. Not sure how that makes for suffering.
You not liking it is understandable. And not being able to play your hero is annoying (I feel your pain, I main Ball). But it isnât about you and I. It is about everyone. What is better for the game. Ban give players more agency, and that is a positive.
It isnât an experiment, let alone a failed one. I would suggest maybe being a little less dramatic about it. It is just a video game.
Under no condition is is right for a hero to be locked out every single match being effectively banned from comp
They arenât. Just most.
Also, there is a condition. It is called the majority vote. The players have spoken, and they said no thanks.
Now, you can shed tears over it. Or you can figure out how you are going to move on.
Personally, if they ban Ball (which happens most games), I choose to stick 2 metaphorical fingers up at them, pick someone else and run them over.
The whole âwoe is meâ because the cartoon character you like isnât available is embarrassing behaviour. You are not an infant.
Calling someone an infant for pointing out the injustice of locking out a character shows you know youâre wrong. This is a genuinely unfair situation thereâs no other way about it no matter what you or some influencer says. Throw all the insults you want you in the end you too must know its unfair to have a character locked out every match
Quite clearly said you werenât.
My main is literally banned just as often as Sombra. It isnât personal. It is just a game. I can play someone else.
Look up what fair means.
Iâve not thrown any insults yet. Give me a change.
Everyone is treated the same in game. It is fair.
Yeah, no, itâs not unfair at all.
Sucks, sure, but the majority of the playerbase has decided.
The people who said, âjust delete Sombra from the gameâ actually got what they wanted which is cray cray.
If Sombra is banned in 100% of games, that says a lot about how the player base feels about her.
The devs need to seriously reconsider her kit â itâs simply too frustrating to play against.
In any PvP game, certain mechanics can suck the fun right out of the experience. Two major ones are stealth and control. Control includes things like stuns, freezes, or disabling abilities â basically anything that prevents you from defending yourself.
Stealth is similarly frustrating because it removes information â you canât react or prepare for what you canât see.
Designing a hero with both stealth and control is just bad for PvP gameplay. It creates an experience that feels unfair and unfun for opponents.
deserved
Game is better without sombra in it, and this proves it.
So if Sombra was allowed in games but somebody else picked her before you had a chance would you come on here and cry âŚ
No you would play another character and life would go on
So do the same in this instance or go be a nuisance in quickly
this is insane, and the people saying âget over itâ are the the babies who couldnt stop crying about sombra until they finally got what they wantedâŚinsanity.
your argument only works if it wasnt every single game, her pickrate is effectively 0% now which is not right and you are being a hypocrite by now learning to play around or against her instead you just want to ban her forever itâs remarkable.
It will be ok, we are at the late stages of ow life cycle so the point is trying to maintain the population you have and foster slow growth to survive the next few yearsâŚ
Whats really going to happen is a new stealth hero will be made⌠but as a healer/ dps and everyone will be OK with invisibility like in marvel rivals⌠and as they cry Sombrero purpose shall rise again.