Sombra is going to dominate the pro scene. Be scared

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https://twitter.com/PhazOW/status/968579604821696512
Look at the Discord likes. Those are pro players. If you want to be more scared, look up “Sombra” on Twitter and see how many pros are worried about a Sombra meta.

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What happen in these Sombra changes

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My popcorn is ready.

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PTR scrims showed a Sombra dominated meta with no tanks because Hack was too strong.

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I spoke with a couple GM tank mains friends today. They said the pros are going to showcase her, and everything will be built around her.

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I was thinking that watching pros play Sombra would be fun if they really go for hunting.

Only watching Widowmaker or Ana looks good to watch, probably because they had more clear vision of the fight and doesn’t have VFX like Genji that makes watching fights a guess work.

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Is poor Sombra is even going to last that long? >.>

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can not wait to see it

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Sombra is fine. She still has relatively low damage and is hard countered by McCree.

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She can Hack Mccree on any engage. She simply turns of the frontline for free right now.

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I like Sombra a lot, but even i think she will do too much :frowning:

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So… what do you propose?

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Sombra concerns me.

She always has.

She basically has EVERY thing in her kit that players hate to fight against- things that have been demosnstrsted in so many other games.

Invisibility.

And Instant teleportation.

Which make her very hard to kill and almost impossible to ever lock down.

An ability that basically makes your character worthless.

Strong damage potential.

And wall hacks.

She was held back largely from being annoying by having nearly all parts of her kit toned down immensely.

But now they have buffed nearly everything about her.

Her teleport lasts notably longer- and gives her a huge escape window.

Her damage spread was buffed.

She gets wall hacks on everyone not at utterly full health.

And the biggest- her hack wa buffed hugely in multiple fashions. The time to hack was decreased to a point now where the average human has less than a half second of time to respond or be crippled.

And the things it hacks and shuts down err expanded upon greatly.

Even IF Sombra is balanced- I have strong concerns that the community will NOT enjoy her being so. Her kit is a hodge podge of thigs that suck to go up against.

And to be clear- I’m not personally worried about how I will feel about her. I welcome the shift.

But I have no doubts others will not be so welcoming, short of Sombra mains themselves. And understandably so.

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I would trade 0.65 Hack and Lúcio song for self-healing ult charge.

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I’m bookmarking this because I think it sums up my concerns as well.

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This is all fine, but you need to stop getting the patch notes wrong. It was actually very clear this time Sombra doesn’t have wallhacks on everyone under 100%, she can just see their healthbars. Her wallhacks are unchanged.

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Then she will become a EMP bot again, but worse since you will not gain charge as fast by yourself than with your teammates healing too.

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So what? McCree 2-3 shots her faster than she can kill him.

I am really excited that this game finally has an anti-mobility hero. The heroes I hate to play against finally have a real counter: D.Va, Genji, Winston, Tracer, Moira

Sombra is hard countered by Torbjorn and McCree. Junkrat, Reaper, Hanzo, and Soldier are good against her too. She’s not OP.

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OH NOES! PTR Scrims???!!!

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I played Sombra yesterday and constantly hacked Roadhog and he really did struggle witht hat. I mean with no heal or hook that guy is just a giant meat ball, especially for Sombra’s uzi.

We wanted Sombra to hurt Genji & Tracer but sadly she’s also gonna hurt every tank and may render some unplayable.