So does the burst damage(walk back from spawn simulator rinse and repeat) aswell as cc heaven
Its more like
Devs: How can we make it look like we buffed Sombra without actually buffing her?
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You… don’t just blindly engage the entire enemy team from behind… You pick your moment during the fight, wait for distractions, play smart. And when you can’t do that, you should be busy making a nuisance of yourself. Cheeky hacks, keeping relevant healthpacks locked down, just making life easier for your team.
Blizzard, “Hold my beer…”
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Tell that to the people complaining why you stay to long in stealth with you “sombra picks moment” heck people asking sombra’s to switch
By definition that makes Sombra a throw pick. 5 on 6 fight for the team.
That is the reason they did this:
But guess what it changed nothing.
As soon as you come out of stealth, the entire enemy team peels to help the healer, now 1v6
Oops Translocate is on CD
Oops Bad positioning Sombra deserves to die
Report Sombra for throwing…
Rinse and repeat.
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The armor buff is meant for reaper not for sombra KEKW
The armor buff affects everyone not just reaper.
And if sombra did the damage reaper does, Sombra mains wouldn’t complaining about all the nerfs.
Not but It mostly targets reaper.
Armor effects more than just 1 hero. You dont change a general mechanic to balance one hero and take all other heroes impacted as colleteral damage.
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Well no, you don’t just sit and wait either. You should never be waiting to act. That should all be going on in your head as you’re playing.
No but tank players were complaining and whining about reaper a lot recently, and he’s the one that gets affected a lot by the armor buff.
I’m not saying it doesn’t affect other heroes, but reaper is the biggest target.
And logically It’s a buff to torb’s overload, brig’s armorpack and rally armor.
What if there just aren’t any good moments you won’t be able to do anything because sombra’s damage is pretty trash
why they haven’t put her on support yet is a complete mystery
If Reaper is the problem, you adjust Reaper and dont change a general gameplay mechanic.
Alright give reaper a buff by ignoring the armor buff and still dealing -3 per each pellet.
Oh wait, you don’t want to ? But you said It’s a general gameplay mechanic.
No, of course not, let just try to tweek hack and translocator again. And again. And again. 48th time the charm?
Even Fitzy has been for a change to her reload.
As it turns out the middle ground between keeping her viable in the normal game without ‘oppressing’ the professional tournament scenes is razor thin.
Thats the difference between old and new armor. Reaper actually doesnt get hurt alot by it.
Any moment you don’t have the enemy’s attention is a moment to get behind them or pull hacks to help the teamfight. But that’s actually a fine point you made. Some of the strongest Sombra play is a good mix between support and backline harassment. If you try to play her like Soldier, you won’t get any value.
This is more that the patches should be slowly buffing Sombra until she is good.
The buff IS good for the game. So I’m happy to see it.
If she’s close enough to not have falloff, she will lose 1 damage per bullet on body shots and lose 2 on crits against armor. However with reduced shield uptime she will be able to actually hit her target more often to generate more ult charge and hacks will be more effective since only Rein actually loses his shield when hacked, assuming it is already deployed. Since tanks are being pushed to rely more on their abilities instead of their shields, being hacked will leave them far more vulnerable since currently they can more easily sit behind their shield for the duration. She doesn’t fit well in the double shield meta since a Sigma and/or Orisa behind their shield is a low value hack target.
With the current look of the patch, I expect Rein will see more play and he is also the most susceptible tank to hack, making Sombra more valuable in more games.