Sombra is designed for people who don't understand the game

You don’t know how to play in a team? Don’t know how to position yourself? Don’t have a clue about “off angle”? Don’t worry, Sombra is made for you.

It’s easy to surprise your opponent, since you’re infinitely invisible. Your mere existence is enough to give your team any value, because you can literally be anywhere on the map. No need to think.

To help you take kills, here’s a hack for which you don’t need to aim, and which prevents the target from using its spells, so it doesn’t run away. What’s more, it synergizes with this other spell, the virus, which bursts harder if the target is hacked and applies a DoT (which goes faster if the target is hacked), so you’re almost guaranteed to take a kill if you fire a few bullets to complete the assassination. And if things get a little messy, don’t worry, you can TP to save yourself. That way, even if you really suck, you can escape. With a bit of luck, the DoT will do the rest.


This hero is an aberration. His mere presence

  • Creates a climate of paranoia (shoot at any opening or corner because she might be there).
  • Prevents you from being aggressive, as you always have to use part of your kit defensively to try and find her.
  • Forces a systematic 2v1, because otherwise it’s an almost guaranteed kill for her. And you don’t know for sure who it’s going to fall on.
  • Forbids flanking, because she has the completely unfair advantage of being invisible 90% of the time.
  • Forbids certain heroes from existing (80% of Sigma’s kit can be cancelled by a simple hack, Widow has no time to defend herself if she’s in scope…).

Add to that a volatile assassin kit, and sprinkle in harassment-based gameplay. Congrats, you’ve designed the sickest hero ever created for this game.

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IDK, that all sounds way more complicated than ‘aim at head, press M1’. But then, we can all make any character sound like ‘babies first OW main’ if we try hard enough.

Now, I’m not Sombra’s biggest fan either. (I play support so she’s up my caboose 90% of the time.) But most of the Sombras I encounter seem to have a pretty fair grasp on the game. The ones that don’t get destroyed tbh.

I don’t think that hating a character or wanting change is wrong. I just feel we shouldn’t be levelling insults at the players behind those characters. Because then your arguments for change just come off as rage about being eaten alive by a sombra player.

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Au contraire, mon ami.

Sombra is designed for people who can coordinate an entire team offense/defense while hindering key abilities that would make the enemy push successful.

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The hilarious thing about this is that Sombra is countered by playing as a team and having good positioning.

The people who complain the loudest about Sombra are lacking the most in these areas. It’s why Sombra keeps getting buffed - on paper, she’s not strong. In fact, she’s pretty horribly weak when played into competent teams, even by competent players.

She’s an absolute noobstomper though, and that’s the issue. If they want to stop the cycle of buffing and nerfing her, they’re going to have to rework her yet again.

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