Im honesty okay with her changes.
What I want is just a sugar skull above an enemy when hacked and a damage threshold of 10-15dmg so that a freakin 1-5 dmg does not interrupt hack.
Two things. Someone need to be in voice comms and people need to listen to you.
Beside after minute you can press tab and see what people picked. Maps are rather streamlined so you can predict flanking routes. She can be scouting and take out staggers but still require team work.
They’re not as reliable as you think they are.
This all sounds great on paper, but something as basic as people not being in voice-chat can completely ruin that.
I mean, it wouldn’t shock me if they did, considering the hate I get just for picking Sombra.
This isn’t a reason to revert Sombra when the current version of Sombra is seeing so much success in the World Cup, it’s a reason to improve the UI so that your team can more readily recognize who is hacked and easily exploit it. If you recall, Blizzard changed Sombra so that her team mates could see her hacked health packs thru walls awhile ago, it’s more of those kinds of changes we need.
Permanent Stealth and Translocatir are fantastic, Sombra mains were dead wrong about the utility they offered and reverting them would only be a nerf.
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Tell them to join voicechat. Even still, 5 people executing an idea is sure better than you keeping it to yourself and executing it alone.
The number of nice, helpful, cooperative teammates heavily outweigh the toxic. Just sound like you know what you are talking about. Dont slur your words, talk clearly with confidence and an end goal in mind. Following is much,much easier than thinking for yourself.
If they do, im sure you have bigger problems than you playing sombra.
Well the biggest buff I’ve thought she needed for ages was sugar skulls on hacked targets, been asking since her release. So this is my hope that it will finally happen.
I also knew ages ago that she’d get hit with a massive amount of tweaks and be frustrating on ladder if her hack ever got sped up, I even said it would be straight up OP as is at the upper levels.
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I don’t think they were wrong about it on ladder. Being able to give so much information to me seems like something infinitely more useful in a team setting, and not nearly as useful on ladder.
Stats seem to agree with that, but maybe that will change when people can see what your talking about.
I would expect teams to have shorthands and play descriptions that they use so that communication is less long winded and less likely to interfere with them hearing important audio informatiom from the game. Randoms will never have that. But better a/v cues may be able to alleviate some of that.
And since they are all full 6-stack teams, with solid coordination and good communication, that info is valuable and it’s making Sombra a good pick.
While in the peasant, non-pro world people are still ignoring you ;p And if you are lucky, you’ll have a decent play.
But at least she was 2% pickrate in GM. That’s something, I guess xd
I am pretty positive that they were not joining voice chat in their games after complaining in the forums.
I’ve stopped bumping my threads because they more or less dont get any traction and just die.
The same has been for many Sombra threads, and its a trend for any hero whos gotten some controversial changes. Roadhog nerf complaints are gone and fading (Damage one way back), D.VA ones faded quick, Bastion ones faded pretty damn fast except the mega that the devs ignore, Mercy complaints are slowly dying.
Fact of the matter is that I, and I feel like many others just gave up or quit since they’re more than likely going to be ignored and the devs aren’t gonna do anything with her since the pros dictate what can or can’t be balanced since its their game. Screw the other 99% of players who play the game, right?
Sombra is still very much a weak hero, even with proper communication. Because of how brittle her kit is, and with no form of secondary damage, shes only as good as her team is, which should never be the case for a hero like her.
Sure because OWL = ladder.
She’s still has the lowest win rate in the entire game. Stop these inane posts claiming she’s fine because a few dozen players use her at a pro level.
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if they balance around the low elo and want sombra to make a real impact than she needs a buff to her damage or reduction in her spread.
even with the old changes sombra made no real impact at the lower SR range.
You need to understand that utility in higher tiers has more value than pure damage. When sombra hacks an enemy that helps your whole team but when soldier uses helix rockets that helps only him.
So you have a choice of giving an edge to one team mate or all of them. Looks like a no-brainer to me.
And holy hell… after 2 years sombra is finally picked a bit and people are losing their minds, but when soldier is picked every other game nobody bats an eye.
The problem is more if people are in chat. For console we only got voice chat and yeah a lot of people don’t join or stay in their own group chat.
Why do we need a thread like this every single time Sombra is used in pro matches?
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This.
Having a sugar skull over a hacked enemy head would do wonders. I cant tell you how many times when I hack someone especially in a team fight, they get ignored.
Im sorry I can not speak for console, I am a PC player myself. I do not have a say on how sombra affects console.
If you’re playing Sombra on ladder and you’re not shotcalling, you ARE throwing.
She’s the one hero that requires communication.
They need to revert infinite stealth. It’s a little too good under the correct circumstances.
Until her pick/win rates climb they aren’t nerfing anything.
They need to revert infinite stealth not just because of that, but also because you don’t fix what wasn’t broken. Stealth and Translocator were fine before. Hack needs a complete rebalancing, and has done since the original buff, with it becoming less and less balanced the longer time has gone on.
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