In the past week Ive played quite a lot and I have had her in roughly 80-90% of my QUICKPLAY games even. During the weekend it goes way higher.
Has sombra always been this popular? Even today I played 6 games, in all 6 there was a sombra.
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Just to be annoying
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It really feels like all sombra players embody one thing only, to be annoying.
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Since the rework she’s been a bit of a last-minute rage pick
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Since she became braindead.
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She’s been in every qp game since the rework that added virus. It’s made me stop playing it entirely.
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Because most players take the path of least resistance, and it’s pretty easy to position in their backline for free, surprise attack someone not paying attention, and the get out for free if it doesn’t work out. Then just rinse repeat every 15 seconds. Even if it only works 1 out of every 5 times, that 1 time is usually enough to win a team fight.
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Sombra is the worst addition to OW in its existence, worse than brig 1.0, she should of been vaulted and given a PROPER rework a long time ago, i pray to see her banned every game next season
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Once they added virus, she became one of the most popular DPS. It must have been because they added so much skill expression…
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Did they not though? Sombra can melt nearly instantly, or she can accomplish next to nothing and die.
She’s always been about setting up raw aim duels from the flank, now her skill ceiling is extremely high due to how much she benefits from aim and capitalizing on opportunities.
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Ever since she became an invisible assassin instead of a hacker, she’s been showing up this often. OW1 Sombra was superior to the current version in every aspect when it comes to balancing!
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And what exactly was so bad about OW1 Sombra? Her hack was the slowest ability in the game after Mercy’s rez and could be interrupted really easily. Invisibility was necessary because of the drawbacks of hack, and the translocator made up for those weaknesses too, since you often had to get into dangerous positions. Both invisibility and the translocator had their own downsides as well.
In terms of design, Sombra was actually one of the best-crafted heroes out there! Her kit was built exactly for what it was meant to do and worked together like a well-oiled machine. On top of that, she required real skill — not that pseudo-skill like aiming, which we all train and improve automatically just by playing every day.
What skill ceiling?
Waiting at the end of invisibility, throwing virus, and emptying the SMG isn’t skill ceiling! The SMG hits about the same number of shots anyway, and throwing the virus out of invisibility isn’t hard. OW1 Sombra required skill to be effective, but the current version is just a pile of trash for noobs, made by noobs, against noobs!
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It has to be a qp thing I very very rarely see sombra players in ranked. You might get the occasional counter swap, but people actually starting out on her is like 1/40.
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Heck, I’ll weigh in since no one else mentioned it.
Sombra is unfortunately a pillar of the new ecosystem, in the same way that getting rid of a pervasive species of wolves causes all the deer to eat the grasses down to nothing and now an ancient poisonous species of cricket re-emerges.
The short answer is we need her to keep Ball from simply taking the place of loathing & derision. I personally want to deal with too many Sombras, when she attacks me she doesn’t have an entire tank’s worth of HP to commit with/
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Out of 100+ comp games, I saw her…maybe 5 times? Only 1 of those did she win, and it was not because of her lol.
QP is the same, I don’t see her often in there. I guess they’re in everyone else’s matches 
Sojourn and Ashe are the constant DPS picks in mine. 
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Why work for your eliminations when you can simply play Sombra?
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The skill ceiling of deleting every flank you make and flanking more frequently. The ability to contribute more during cleanup. The ability to chase smart and effectively every time.
Sombra has so much more potential than most people are ever going to accomplish with her. What is that if not a high skill ceiling? Even the best sombra players can always be playing more consistently and more aggressively.
And people who find her to be a problem? Just get good at Cassidy and protect your team. That’s a big ask I know, but it works every time if you are good enough at Cassidy.
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It’s quite simple:
All tanks are oppressive.
Why would I not pick a hero that results in less frustration?
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Virus is stupid. It should end when she dies or TPs away. So many times i win the fight but i dont because i die from virus.
same reason doomfist is in nearly every quickplay game.