Sombra is bad and about to get worse

General Discussion
42

hack on his turret is a good waste of a cooldown tho.

1 Like
43

pootis

44

Overbuff still works from a sufficiently large sample size to be representative.

You realise that it’s just about impossible not to have a 50%+ win rate in Diamond? If you don’t have a 50%+ win rate, you fall out of Diamond because of the way SR works at those ranks, you only gain if you win.

3 Likes
45

As others have stated, Overbuff isn’t super reliable anymore.

The main reason for her low winrate is how team reliant she is, and how her effectiveness scales with coordination. In higher ranks she’s actually a really solid pick right now, especially with how prevalent Doomfist is nowadays. I think experimenting with flatout buffs to her is just a bad idea right now and asking for her to become broken.

46

She also is very easily one of the hardest hero’s to play with due to her kit being buggy and her dps is super low. But it’s about the utility people play her for.
I agree Cree and soldier will make her a less viable pick because soldier spread is really good now and sombra is so very rng. But torb is actually easily contested by her since his turret is weaker now and his hit box is so huge. He is a tually easier to kill than zen

1 Like
47

With all due respect, If someone can’t break 50% winrate on a hero then they probably don’t know how to play them effectively.

48

That’s complete nonsense.

This game isn’t about one single player it’s about six working in a Team.
Know what you can do alone? Loosing that’s what. (There is no Solocarrying in this game) Sombra is the extream case of that no Teamplay mean Sombra is useless. When somebody of your Team thinks it’s a good idea to not go into Voicechat then you just lost about 1/6 out of your potential.

I will say it again a Hero that’s only “good” at the VERY top is NOT Balanced correctly. And nowhere near at good balance.

1 Like
49

It’s more often that your team doesn’t know how to play with her … at least in low elos where everyone think in gold medalls.

1 Like
50

Random question…I feel like his turret has targeted my translocator and insta-killed it.

Can anyone confirm if it does autolock on the translocator?

1 Like
51

Great memes after 2 years of her in the game.

1 Like
52

It did pre-rework.
So I guess if Torb is not hitting anyone and lets his turrent autoaim it will destroy Translocator just like before.

(Btw. Sym turrets and Moira balls attack it too.)

53

That’s…super annoying :expressionless:

1 Like
54

Yea it does and if Torb really will become Strong in the Meta game I think we will see Sombra drop dramatically (Road to 0.5 Pickrate again yeeeeeey)

1 Like
55

It is nice they have been slowly patching Sombra’s numerous bugs. Still no ETA on LoS bugs for Hack, definitely would like to know what is taking so long to fix it. Maybe they will rework Hack from the ground up like Earthshatter?

1 Like
56

If they accualy would fix it yea but if they do the same as with Earthshatter (That now just has new bugs) then no plz.

1 Like
57

Lmao. Fixes bug with new tech, new bugs appear. It’s a neverending cycle.

1 Like
58

Sombra’s bug fix story in short -w-

1 Like
59

Just my two cents as a Sombra player - I feel Sombra is pretty okay. I sit at about mid diamond SR and Sombra feels like she has a strong impact, but only if you really coordinate with your teammates constantly and keep your downtime to a bare minimum.

It’s easy to say “just be good with her 4head” but she’s definitely one of those heroes who is kind of underwhelming in a lot of ranks, but rapidly picks up power as you climb into the higher ranks.

What I really want for Sombra is a bunch of bugfixes and QoL. I think the spinning camera Translocator glitch is still in-game (the one where if you use Translocator after previously dying mid-translocate your camera will do about 500 spins in a second and completely disorient you) for example.

Sombra already is already pretty powerful at very high tier play, so buffing her for the other ranks could make her overly oppressive up there. Not to say that we shouldn’t buff her because of that. It’s just something to consider.

Again though, if I could personally choose what should happen to Sombra, I would pick the following:

  • Bugfixes!
  • Some QoL, such as putting a skull icon over/on hacked targets.

If new heroes/abilities/etc are introduced that worsen Sombra, buffs should be considered, but right now, whether it’s a controversial opinion or not, I’d be happier with what I mentioned above.

TL;DR, neither for or against buffs, would like bugfixes & quality of life changes.

3 Likes
60

But it’s true …

  • you hack the enemy doom and hamster every time they dive in and take them totally out of the match … team: “Sombra did nothing!”
  • you go behind the enemy and play hide and seak with half the enemy team and your team can’t push through a 5v3 … team: “Sombra is useless!”
  • you emp the entire enemy team with countdown, everyone is focusing on you and you get a kill before translocating out and your team still lost the fight … team: “Sombra switch!”
  • you are outdamaging the other dps and two off tanks …. team: “Sombra no dmg!”
4 Likes
61

I think @Jessicka means this:

Is a Meme not your Reply to it.

Or did I understand that wrong?
Because its really a meme.