Sombra is being revived 🌟 So We Thought

[Somvra-1200]

SOMBRA IS BEING REVIVED! https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/improvements-to-sombra2-0/146400 (Check this new thread out please)

https://gfycat.com/ImpoliteWebbedChick

I just want to first start off saying, by now many of you guys may know me as a person who try to represent our fellow hacker known as Sombra.

After 3 Mega-Thread Posts, one of our fellow user, name ASTER, has completed an very rare goal. WE FINALLY GOT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT SOMBRA FROM JEFF HIMSELF.

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I will post my mega-threads and ASTER's Mega-thread as well at the bottom of this post.

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I just want to celebrate, but not too soon as the changes to Sombra will be hitting the PTR sometime in July, but now we can say that Sombra is hacking her way to the dev’s attention.

@JeffreyKaplan

We have changes going in for Sombra for our July patch. Most likely, the changes will show up on the PTR sometime next week or soon after that. They are pretty significant.

I’m not going to detail the changes for now as they are still in flux. But playtesting has gone well and we’re eager to improve her.

Links Below for ASTER

Even Fitzy and Danteh are calling Sombra Bad/Weak now

She has half the pickrate of pre-rework Symmettra. You said you’d keep an eye on her, please, please tell me you have plans for Sombra buffs coming up, or something, anything. She’s my favorite hero and the only reason I continue to play Overwatch, I just want to know the dev team wants her to be good, too. Please.

SOMVRA’S THREADS

Somvra's suggestions for Sombra.

Somvra’s Ideal changes to Sombra Stealth Reduce her Stealth’s Delay from 0.7 seconds to 0.5 seconds Somvra Comments: With all these changes, it will help Sombra from feel so less clunky, as the delay hinders her a hero. With this she can move in and out of Stealth more fluently. EMP EMP when activated now resets Sombra’s Translocator Somvra Comments: Many typically use this following combo → Translocate - Stealth- EMP- Translocate out. This change will help promote…

[MEGA-THREAD] Sombra's Base Movement Speed Changes

As many should know that everyone beside Genji and Tracer, all share the base movement speed of 5.5MPS while Genji’s and Tracer’s base movement speed are 6.0MPS I feel like since she is classified as a Flanker and her kit literally screams F L A N K E R how would the community feel if she got a nice QoL change/ Minor buff to her base movement speed.

SOMBRA

Base Movement Speed Has Been Increase From 5.5MPS to 6.0MPS I just feel like that this change is so minor, but yet it can overall help imp…

Sombra's Delay is Whats Killing Her.

I think I am about to draw the straws with being a Sombra Main for sure. I love the character and the challenge within itself, but strongly hate the neglection that comes with her. There should be no reason why there are such delays that hinders her a hero… Sombra shouldn’t have to compete with herself (DELAYS) to be effective. legitimately there are delays in each of her kit. Stealth DELAY 2x Hack DOUBLE DELAY EMP DELAY Translocator DELAY It is superb frustrating to say the very …

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Thank you everyone for the supports, and to my fellow Sombra Main, we finally de-cloak and hack our way back into the meta.

EDIT: We got some more information about Sombra too.

@ScottMercer

Patch 1.25 does fix some Sombra bugs!

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NEW UPDATE: June 26, 2018

@mchu

I wouldn’t trust most of Sombra’s advice.

I mean who would fully trust Sombra

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NEW UPDATE: June 27, 2018

@GeoffGoodman

Sure. These changes started by seeing how far we could push the duration of her Stealth and Translocator abilities. As we pushed them out, it allowed her to play more and more as an scout/infiltrator for your team and also allowed her more time to pick and choose when and where she popped out to ambush her enemies.

So now she has infinite duration on both Stealth and Translocator, but we had to solve a couple problems that were caused by these changes. For one, she needed to be able to destroy the translocator, or it would often be stuck in some place she didn’t want it to be. To that end, you can now destroy it by looking towards it and pressing the Interact key. Also, Stealth giving you 75% bonus movement speed forever was… a bit strong. This bonus has been lowered to 50%. In addition, she can no longer contest objectives while in Stealth, since she that would just be super frustrating with infinite duration.

These changes are really interesting for her as now she is in complete control over when she reveals herself, allow her to time her hacks better for her team, or go for a back line ambush during a critical moment in a team fight.

I guess that was more than a hint.

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UPDATE ON INFORMATION as to why the devs chosen to buff Sombra the way they did on the PTR July 20, 2018

Why Blizzard decided to give Sombra infinite invisibility in an upcoming...

[MiSaMo-21770]

All you “pro” players and Genji mains out there better take cover cause my girl is coming for youuu

[Saga-1675]

Way, WAY too soon to celebrate, remember what happened last time?
Yeah.

[Froilen-1963]

I’m causiosly optimist about this

[Somvra-1200]

@MiSaMo-21770

All you “pro” players and Genji mains out there better take cover cause my girl is coming for youuu

She can finally HACK EVERYONE NOW. I am so excited.

[PabloPenguin-11160]

I’m hoping it’s not a complete rework, she had some potential as we saw before she got nerfed and bugged into the ground. But anything is better than this…

[Somvra-1200]

@Saga-1675

Way, WAY too soon to celebrate, remember what happened last time?

Yeah.

I know, it too early, but I am just glad she is finally getting the attention that she deserve. Now hopefully it’s the right changes.

[MiSaMo-21770]

Maybe now they know to not listen to their crying “pros”

[Somvra-1200]

@Froilen-1963

I’m causiosly optimist about this

I am too as he said it is pretty significant.

[Cameron-22892]

@Somvra-1200

Sombra will be hitting the PTR sometime in July

Didn’t Jeff say next week (maybe a bit later)? So possibly even sooner…I’m being a bit too optimistic though D:

[MiSaMo-21770]

If the changes will hit PTR in July and they are playtesting it already, maybe it is a Hanzo level rework but without all the visuals and new animations

[Reazen-11489]

I’m expecting number tweaks mostly. Damage figures, spread, ult cost, cooldowns, animation delays between her skills, stuff like that. The core design will probably remain intact.

[Somvra-1200]

@PabloPenguin-11160

I’m hoping it’s not a complete rework, she had some potential as we saw before she got nerfed and bugged into the ground. But anything is better than this…

Agreed. I did celebrate too early, but I am nervous because the last changes we got recently did receive such negative feedback. I don’t want to repeat that again with Sombra… AGAIN.

[Somvra-1200]

We can only wish…

[Somvra-1200]

@Cameron-22892

Didn’t Jeff say next week (maybe a bit later)? So possibly even sooner…I’m being a bit too optimistic though D:

Agreed. Trust me, I want to find and test out these new changes, but I am too optimistic about it as well.

[Somvra-1200]

@MiSaMo-21770

If the changes will hit PTR in July and they are playtesting it already, maybe it is a Hanzo level rework but without all the visuals and new animations

I am just curious to see what is being changed…

[JellyandJam-1179]

Told to you Somvra, nice work man😂

Jelly is in a good mood👌

[Somvra-1200]

@Reazen-11489

I’m expecting number tweaks mostly. Damage figures, spread, ult cost, cooldowns, animation delays between her skills, stuff like that. The core design will probably remain intact.

We can only hope so, hopefully nothing too crazy.

[Ziegler-11543]

hacking intensifies

[Somvra-1200]

@JellyandJam-1179

Told to you Somvra, nice work man😂

Jelly is in a good mood👌

Thanks Jelly and Always appreciation to JAM as well.

Hopefully it is nothing too crazy, that will make her objectively worse.