So why exactly is Sombra getting buffed?

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A character that gets most of their value from being invisible and just staying behind you isn’t fun to play against. I don’t care if she’s not as good as Tracer or arguably Genji, at least I can hear them coming and can defend myself/be peeled more often (and in Tracer’s case, Sombra is definitely easier to pick up and get value from)

You’re telling me a character who can wait behind your team, lock out your abilities and potentially get a free 120-150 points of damage on someone is engaging to fight against?

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Its far better than it used to be where she could escape without punishment on pretty much every engagement because press 1 button and run away meant you could never kill her.

Now, it is much easier to possible kill her because of the delay and travel time on translocate as well as the fall time she has and fixed/predictable distance she travels on translocate.

She is more potent if landing virus, but it is possible to out heal her damage or make picks which shut her down.

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So why exactly is Sombra getting buffed?

For the same reason people have been predicting she would be buffed? That she isn’t actually doing that well in any rank?

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  1. Hero isn’t doing well.
  2. Blizzard notices the hero isn’t doing well
  3. Hero gets buffed.

Seems pretty straight forward to me…

But Blizzard does. They want the game to be balanced, so… they buff under performing heroes.

If you want to ask “why is Sombra not being reworked” then that is likely to be a more interesting conversation.

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What you see in your games isn’t the whole picture.

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Some character should never be meta. Also what are you smoking? sombra is legit meta rn with the dive meta. She’s just a niche character and she should be. But for some reason dev can’t allow that. The same wtih torb and sym. Why buff?

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Not your choice of which ones. I think Sombra should be meta and Tracer should never be. But that doesn’t give me influence over Blizzards choice that Sombra can and should be meta sometimes.

With an awful win rate.

She is niche, but niche isn’t another word for “should be garbage”.

Niche is typically means, “used in a more limited set of situations, but is clearly a better choice in those situations”. And this is with her not even being a clear choice at being better especially with her win rates.

Because Sombra was underperforming. So she gets buffed.

You don’t have to understand it, or like it. Blizzard will balancing the game, based on the data they have.

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Win rate doesn’t mean much when she’s still getting pick every other games. If she’s actually gabage why would anyone pick her. :woozy_face:

Sombra has been universially known as an unfun character to be play against, no one want her to be meta.

The thing is she is not. She’s niche as in she’s strong for what she need to be strong for. She was not garbage. :woozy_face:

Ah yes, data data data data. The thing that kill creativity. Data doesn’t speak for everything. The important thing is how the game feel and play. These patch just show how obviously little they even touch their own game. :woozy_face:

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Because people think she is stronger than she is.

I do.

It stops people saying something is OP when clearly they are not.

For everyone, including players of heroes you don’t like. - no one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to pick her.

Some people hate on Mercy, and think she shouldn’t be in the game, but there are a lot of Mercy players who quite like her.

Some people hate on Doomfist, and think he shouldn’t be in the game, but there are a lot of Doomfist players who quite like him.

Some people hate on Mei, and think she shouldn’t be in the game, but there are a lot of Mei players who quite like her.

Some people hate on Cass, and think he shouldn’t be in the game, but there are a lot of Cass players who quite like him.

etc… etc… etc…

This game isn’t meant to be 2 s76’s shooting each other across an empty field.

If you don’t want a wide variance of heroes in a game, Overwatch isn’t the game for you.

They will not remove Mercy or Sombra, Or Torb, or Sym, or Cass, or Genji, or … for you.

If you want her reworked, then get into a rework thread.

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Because she has beeboop skin , money must flow

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Because she is? She’s just situational and tracer and echo are just stronger dps than her, doesn’t make her bad.

Well you’re in the minority. Because if she’s so fun why did you think she got 2 reworks since ow2? People don’t like hack and people don’t like invisibility. It doesn’t make the game more dyanamic, just more frustrating.

Data also doesn’t speak the whole picture. and like I said, it’s the death of creativity.

There are lot of character that I don’t like, but I don’t speak about because they are in that spot where they are annoying but not broken. This buff is making sombra broken. She was in a healthy spot, if not strong especially with the meta, the buff was unnecessary.

But ofcourse, I forgot that she’s also getting the collab skin and suddenly everything make sense. :woozy_face: :woozy_face: :woozy_face:

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No, but other things do (see her win rate as proof)

Reworks… That is what you do with heroes which are not fun, not nerf them out of play.

It does however cut out a lot of the trash takes people have.

Sombra has a below average win rate, she is not broken.

You know this “you can cut out a lot of trash takes with data” this is it in action. She is OBVIOUSLY not broken.

unfun to play into? sure, that could be a thing, but broken? Obviously she is not (win rate show she is not doing well), and so she is buffed.

Looks for the Ball and Ashe buffs which would be there if you were right. - nope, obviously another trash take.

She was under performing, and she got buffed, that is all there is to it.

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I guess you have a point; I know that my own experience with the character isn’t one that everyone will have. Personally, I’m not sure how to rework or balance a character whose gimmick is not being in a match until it’s convenient, so it felt a bit redundant to ask.

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because new skin. buff characters with new skin = money

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Well, historically, Stealth was on a very short timer, and the Sombra mains preferred it that way.

So they were forced to either engage or leave as the timer ran out. Translocation was ALSO on a similar timer.

Sombra was all about having to engage at a certain time, not when it was convenient for the Sombra player.

Like if you wanted to go back to those days, I’d be 100% on board.

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She sells skins. She sells skins by the sea shore.