That is not the issue of her fundamental design. That problem exists because the devs never gave her a fair chance of being viable.
For most of the time she was a buggy mess.
Then they eventually fixed it and buffed her. Pros complained, so they insta nerfed her making her buggy again.
Then eventually came the infinite duration patch which took away some her skill ceiling ceiling for making stealth braindead to use.
Then they nerfed EMP and hack.
Then they changed translocator cooldown start and negated that with an overall cooldown nerf.
Cant wait for the first complains about getting killed by Sombra from stealth and the devs rolling out stealth nerfs to negate what they accomplished with the spread buff.
On the money. Sombra’s biggest problem is that she is more team dependent than her DPS counterparts. And in lower elos where coordination is weaker, it shows.
Any “buffs” she’d get should help her consistency and follow-up.
Think of when Kephrii (the widow dude) was in Korean Contenders. During a Dorado match Kephrii was defending on the highground above the first checkpoint and saw that a Genji (or Winston I forget) was flanking on the left. Being that his teammates didn’t speak a lick of english, Kephrii popped his Infrasights so his team could SEE the incoming flank.
You see where I’m going here?
He’s on a professional team where coordination lets team depndent heroes shine but was forced to pop an ultimate because of a language barrier.
That’s Sombra.
Imagine if when Sombra hacked a target in addition to your team being able to see if they have Ult, they will gain her oppurtunist passive for the next 20 seconds on that target.
This is what she needs. Changes that make her easy to coordinate and follow up with. What better way to do that than being able to literally SEE her hacks and target priorties.
I brought this up when Sombra’s first overhaul took place. The fix is VERY simple. She gains more damage done to her hacked target. Simple, easy peasy, and it would be totally fine and not overpowered in the least.
So, for example, whatever the devs are thinking about buffing her damage by (10% for example) they would instead give her hacked target a 10% increase in damage taken FROM SOMBRA ONLY.
I’ve been saying since 16 that Sombra should had been released a the second non healing support instead of offense. This way, people would stop trying to compare her with heroes like Tracer, and set her place as an enabler instead of a finisher.
Pretty much Sombra was the offensive counterpart to Symmetra. It would make sense for her to be support.
Whilst hacking anyone doesnt take skill mechanically, the skill comes from game sense of understanding what the other teams win condition is and shutting it down. Oh your comp struggles to win the sheild war vs a hazo and junk just hack the rein or the orisa just before her shield breaks or you know the mcree has high noon and he wants to take the high ground for it try and get into position for denying it.
I do agree that hack doesnt need anymore buffs tho sombra does need some quality of life changes that affect her alone. The buff in experimental is perfect for that as it helps sombra at her optimal engagements.
The question is why do you think that are the only things to buff there been alot of ideas on the forum to buff her in many different ways without making her more annoying Deykar’s ideas, for example, are buffs that would help out greatly without making her more annoying
and because I’m a Shameless individual I’m gonna link my own stuff here: SOMBRA BUFF IDEAS WITH [WORKSHOP]
And there are so many more. Saying her gun is the only thing to buff is just being short-sighted and uncreative. IMO
Trust me, I know all about her fundamental design. You and me both.
I am just saying I just came into conclusion that with her design, the devs and the community will never give her a chance without doing the whole one step forward, two steps back approach.
I said it time after time after time again that her main issue is her downtime.
I personally do not mind the infinite translocator and stealth, however, they could have kept the 75% speed boost.
They could have done without the translocator cooldown increase, meaning they should have left it at 4 seconds oppose of 6 seconds.
I personally do not mind the 1 damage knocking her out of stealth, however, I think her cloak and de-cloak time need to reduce from 0.7 second to 0.5 seconds.
Last, but not least her base movement speed, personally, need to be increase from 5.5 m/s to 6.0 m/s
With this 10% spread deduction, I am fine with that too, but knowing Sombra’s past history with buff, I am afraid that the devs is going remove the buff, or keep it and nerf 2 more thing of her.
Seagull is back in his clown car riding around spreading the great gospel of an impending Sombra meta to rally up the troops to storm Blizzard HQ to get her nerfed again
