She was already an assassin, and scout is just a fancy way of saying she does what Hanzo and Widowmaker already do without any kill potential. I made two threads regarding this if you’d like a read:
All the PTR does is patch her for nobody. People who never played her will pick her up and go right back to their mains after they realize it takes 10% of the effort to get the same job done all while driving off us Sombra mains and finally getting that pickrate to 0%.
And I prefer the new and improved more powerful Sombra. We cannot always get what we want. This time around, I have a feeling I am going to get what I want and Sombra will be much better for it. Sorry, but change is inevitable. A lot of characters are getting reworked and almost all of them are stronger for it. Poor Bastion is all I can say.
It makes the worst hero in the game even worse. Her entire kit can be denied by 1-5 damage, it destroys a lot of flanking potential, it makes her take more time to do a job live Sombra was already capable of doing. The worst hero in the game has been nerfed. This is a very big deal
Honestly I’m torn. I created a thread AGES AGO asking for a way to cancel the translocator so I love that change. I don’t dig that they are lowering the skill floor for her but at the same time enjoy various aspects of it… I don’t know. I’m probably going to just adapt to the new style. I wish we could go back pre nerf sombra even if it meant before the buffs
But she’s not more powerful. This isn’t about prefering one kit over the other, the fact is that this Sombra is NOT more powerful to anyone experienced. Her skill floor has just been lowered to make her more accessable and feel more powerful to people who don’t understand her kit, but at a level where the kit is mastered, she is unquestionably worse, because they lowered her skill ceiling to do it.
She is going to be a lot more powerful for me and I am sure once the professionals figure out the new Sombra, there will be new and improved optimized path. It took most Sombra players months to figure it out, as if anyone expected them to grasp this new concept in a week. That would be the joke of the century.
Without trying to be condecending, if she’s going to be a lot more powerful for you then it means you haven’t mastered her kit. The fact is we can optimize new Sombra all we want, the fact is that she’s worse. You CAN’T make her better because damage now shuts down translocator, the last reliable part of her kit that wasn’t shut down by damage. You CAN’T make her better because she moves slower and is now literally unable to interact with anything while in stealth. Infinite durations isn’t something we needed. Mastery of the kit means you work in the confines of those timers. Not because the timers command it, but because if you can’t work within those timers, the game is moving faster than you are. This new kit FORCES you to be slower in exchange for the removal of timers which literally does not improve Sombra at all.
You can’t buff a hero around players who can’t play them efficiently, otherwise Widowmakers ultimate would be a headshot triggerbot