Sombra Doesn't Hack in Paladins

The Sombra esque characters are talus and Skye.

Not only do they not hack you(there is a tank that hacks but he needs los), but you can buy something during the match to reduce gun damage.

I usually jump away if they get the jump on me, or duel Skye in her smoke bomb as you can still see her somewhat.

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thats great, go play paladins

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they probably would if the game wasn’t dead as dirt

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Good thing this isnt Paladins

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bullying skye as rei :smiling_imp: you’re not escaping me buddy

Both characters have like 4 full trucks worth more damage though and zero utility for themselves or others. Sombra can play as an assassin but she’s not designed to only assassin.

I’m having too much fun cause there aren’t any troll heros, maybe I should come back and play ow

At least it isn’t overrun by casuals

And I don’t play paladins :face_with_hand_over_mouth:
don’t they have their own forums or are they dead like overwatch eu since 2016?

I wish we had something like this for obnoxious characters like Widowmaker.

I think they should combine sombras hack and virus.

Remove the regular right click hack (maybe turn invisibility back to an ability instead)

Make Virus do less damage, reduce cooldown, but should disable the abilities for a few seconds.
That way it would take more skill to actually ā€œhackā€ someone from far away, or sombra would need to commit to get really close to make sure the hack hits.

And I say this as someone who missed a virus from 2 meters because the person that was camping just happened to move in the exact same second I threw the virus.

Also would be good tool to deny healthpacks from far away.

Paladins isn’t overrun by anyone :skull:

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You… realise that Hack also needs LOS, right?

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Skye is way worse to deal with.

Even though I always defend Paladins for having better balancing, Skye isn’t one of those.

mh… so in what is similar to Overwatch, exactly? :sweat_smile:i mean, is this just feedback on how sombra should be or how overwatch doesn’t work? i don’t understand why you would point that out.

"Grrrrr how dare someone plays a game casually! Overwatch is sweaty players who sits in a comfy and plays hard as if this was real sport!
How dare someone has ā€œfunā€ there is no ā€œfunā€ in Overwatch! Ranks are at stake! My pride is on the line here! Play the this MY way or GTFO!!!
~ Bossgodmasterreaperplayer.

The game has a tank with Tracer recall, and a more broken assassin than Sombra (Vatu).

And yet it is much better balanced than Overwatch, despite being a game in which the developers have to be aware of balancing a thousand more things than Overwatch.

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I’m gonna cue you in on a little secret… Sombra isn’t in Paladins. She’s actually from a game called Overwatch. :open_mouth:

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As I understand it, you want to make Hack and Virus into a skill shot, but that’s absolutely not a good idea. Honestly, I don’t know why people think this would work.

I just finished a round with Ana where I had a 100% hit accuracy with my Sleep Dart. Now imagine if we made Sombra’s Hack a skill shot. A skill shot that she would hit every time with ease since she’s invisible. Even if she had to become visible first, the time you’d have to react would be drastically shortened! The fact that Hack is an auto-aim with a long activation time is good and should not be removed. However, it’s also true that Hack is currently pointless, and the combo with Virus feels forced, which shouldn’t be the case.

Sombra needs to go back to what she once was in order to function even remotely well!

There’s potential for greatness here - what if Sombra hacking a character in Overwatch also resulted in a random character getting hacked in Paladins!?!?!