Holy hell, I hadn’t even realized what such a small change could do to a hero until now!
For those who don’t know, the Experimental card is up again, and on it Sombra’s spread has been reduced by 10%. This is huge; you actually feel threatening to your enemies after hacking them. Your dps goes up so much considering how small of a change this is.
Sombra, for the first time in nearly a year, feels incredible. With some smaller tweaks to her kit here and there, she’ll be perfect.
just finished a match in experimental, feels alot better, but the question is how impactfull will it be in the hands of someone with perfect aim, they wont let her have a place in the meta, devs are crazy biased towards certain heroes, her being one of them.
One streamer whines after she kills him, and shes nerfed
Well, people better get real, cause this girl needs this live.
She feels so much better now, it’s incredible 
Tbh, I like this change, but I think it should be paired with a nerf, where a preemptive Zarya bubble can block the Hack status from EMP. (Which currently blocks shieldHealth damage, but not Hack status).
Most people below Masters won’t have the reaction time to benefit from that. But it allows her to have some counterplay at high tiers.
cough cough S A M I TO cough
Did they post experimental changes somewhere? Or could someone share a screenshot or something if not? I’m not at home to see right now.
I always said that the only thing she really needed to be viable and good again was either a weapon spread reduction or a damage increase. I’m glad they’re finally trying it out. I just hope she’s not too oppressive with it.
You already did without the buff if you know how to play Sombra.
I would have preferred EMP’s cast time being reverted rather than a spread decrease, Sombra might feel better, yeah, but that’s a given from such a change lol.
Sombras’s spread at launch was crap, it needed the buff, but now that’s not really where she should be heading, they would need to nerf other parts of her kit I feel like and I don’t really think that’ll be a great direction either.
Even in high level Sombra play, she often has to translocate out without a kill at current time. That’s why she’s played as an ult bot.
What could possibly go wrong? Dot dot dot.
You gotta love some posters.
I don’t want that change but I’m seriously concerned about her being more lethal. A stealth assassin it’s near impossible to kill is not a fun playstyle to go against.
It’s gonna be fun to play, sure. But not to play against. Hack or no Hack.
Oh no.
Sombra has a bad history of always being gutted. I’m afraid they will gut her again after this buff. It wouldn’t be the first time.
You don’t understand. Sombra and Mei are too opressive if they are busted, so they need to keep them in check. It’s not just about them being too strong, but they’ll end up becoming mandatory if they’re not nerfed. Even tho i’m in for Sombra buffs, i can’t shake the fact that her mains said she was “viable” after hack buffs when in reality she was breaking the game by having many broken interactions that favored her every single time like hacking through corners, shields, abilities etc…
If you cannot get kills as her, that’s your problem, the character is very capable of doing so.
Which is why a lot of us were against the stupid infinite timers they added for scrubs. Bring her timers and speed back while keeping the spread buff and she feels better to play against and to play as. If you cannot manage her timers, you shouldn’t be playing her because most of her mains could and had no problem doing so.
Even in GM and the best Sombra players in the world are often unable to secure the kills. It’s the entire reason for the spread change.
So no. It’s an inherent disadvantage given to her gun by giving her a wide spread and no midfight mobility.
Like you’re just not arguing in good faith if you can’t acknowledge that fact.
You’re more lethal on pretty much any other dps atm. And you make up for it with some of the strongest utility the game has to offer.
Hey, don’t blame this one on us. We didn’t want Sombra to have infinite stealth. Good luck convincing Blizzard to go back on a decision, though!
They added it because they realized downtime was a big weakness for her and wanted her to be able to respond to things happening in the actual battle. And this change gave the most value to good Sombras like in OWL.
It actually made it harder for bad ones because they spend too much time in stealth doing nothing. Whereas the timer forced them to try to get something done.
I don’t care if they revert the stealth change personally. I do well on her both ways.
They said at one point they didn’t want her to be a backline assassin. She is meant to be played with your team, not as a lone wolf. She was not designed to be Genji/Tracer Jr. That’s why she does not have a finishing move or moves designed to stay in a fight in order to finish people but can see critically low targets. She is supposed to be an opportunist, not an assassin.
She is not designed to pick a fight with whoever she wants and stay in it, she is an opportunist, not Genji or Tracer. You pick the optimal target and coordinate with your team to take them out if you cannot do so yourself.
I’ve seen high ranked Sombra get kills, don’t act like they cannot kill anything because that’s just not true at all.