The Sombra changes are dumb and will continue to have the character hated. People cannot deal with her now, they hate virus now, especially with how much damage it does.
The support players crashing out currently will crash out harder with the opportunist passive… This will not help Sombra be more welcomed at all.
Also, the Sojourn and Hanzo changes are extremely dumb. They went through all that just to buff Hanzo again after reintroducing his “identity” with the last buff yet remove one of the main parts of Ram’s “identity” of punching THROUGH barriers. It doesn’t matter if he can do more damage, he still has to destroy the barrier first, that’s time and low enemies he would have currently killed, being able to escape or get healed up.
They literally nerfed Ram because of Pro play and to cater to Rein and Sigma baby whiners. Sojourn also got one of the most braindead parts of her kit buffed along with her railgun so next season it’s back to mobile-Widow with a buffed AoE that damages through solid objects alongside regular Widow…
I swear, the Sombra haters cheering for this have no sense of perspective.
Whether she’ll be bad or good balance-wise, doesn’t really matter, the changes didn’t actually address any of the issues. The Sombra mains will keep on tormenting everyone else regardless, just as we always have, and if she preforms badly stat-wise, Blizzard will buff her just like they always do and this version will terrorize the masses more than ever.
But now Sombra has a time limit to setup, can be seen while she’s getting ready to setup, and will have a long downtime for escape if she attacks early and a longer downtime than before after escaping
It will be much more lethal, but much easier to work around
They don’t. We told people permanent invis would introduce more problems and be hated by them without actually helping the character when it was first implemented. They literally never learn. The good Sombra players already stomping noob lobbies and uncoordinated teams will do so, harder now. Good Sombras never needed infinite invis to begin with, that’s one of the reasons we were against it. They don’t know how to actually balance the character.
Currently, she’s bearable. She’s annoying but if your team is paying attention, she’s bearable. That’s why at the ranks where people pay attention, she is not picked. Whoever finds her unbearable now, will find good sombra players even more unbearable with this increased lethality and the ability to see and hunt down low targets easier. Taking damage won’t end stealth so she will still maintain her speed they just increased in the other patch.
People hated opportunist when Sombra didn’t have Virus or the dps passive, the same people will loath it now.
It’s not with this team of devs. Sombra players called out the initial dumb rework changes and look at us now, removing infinite stealth. Changes don’t matter if they don’t fix problems and introduce new ones, the same happened with Sym, they kept changing her in the wrong ways instead of constructive ways that would actually help the character.