She’s been bottom tier(if not the worst) for 3 years, and has caught significant nerfs(including being the only character with Goats nerfs not reverted) while being in dead last on ladder.
…so no, not especially.
Absolutely, she needs some small buffs/QoL tweaks.
NO REWORKS! Been down that road a few times already, it never works.
I’d gladly take a revert on Translocator though. 6s CD is painful, and new TL encourages it to be used for escape, rather then mobility/evasion, plus the most recent change removed a ton of high skill tech.
Current Sombra except:
- Base movement speed increased to 6mps —Matches Genji & Tracer. Will also in turn increase her stealthed speed to 9mps, from current 8.25mps, causing some lost map jumps to be available again without TL, and would make others much more reliable. Also would slightly reduce downtime.
*Falloff damage penalty reduced from 70% to 50%. —No reason she’s the only midrange hitscan to have 70% reduction…Her enormous spread, low damage, zero burst, shortest range in class, AND damaged is halved vs armor ensures she’s not a actual threat over 20m. It just means she won’t need half a mag to finish off a 10hp character at 30m.
*Revert TL from cooldown starts on throw to on use again. Cooldowns becomes 0 seconds (self canceled)/ 2s (used)/ 4s (enemy destroyed), this is a 2s reduction from previous forms TL canceled and used times. —The most recent change on TL is painful… it reduces mobility, evasion, rollouts, and some fun high tech uses/styles while highly encouraging “leave Translocator in Narnia” playstyle because having it destroyed is so punishing and it’s always advantageous to have it down now. Reducing cooldowns of self cancel and when used will allow it to be used for midfight presence if you’re willing to sacrifice your escape. It opens up “Pocket TL” playstyle, drop hacks, canceled bait translocators and more back into options again, and reduces downtime a bit.
… if those aren’t enough to help her on ladder(and currently none would break her in pro play honestly).
—Revert Goats nerfs. *Hack/EMP back to 6s duration, EMP cast time back to .5s cast time. Cause c’mon, she shouldn’t be the only one who’s nerfs weren’t reverted because she posted a 42% WR in OWL for 2 weeks.