Sombra is the new Mercy

[Mareaucanard-2332]

So yeah, they said something but they were lying, trust me.

[MerlinBrando-11655]

It is probably just as easy to ignore you here, too.

[NighthAwk-13514]

Yeah, I’m starting to see a similar trend with Sombra players doing that now. Thankfully Sombra isn’t a massively popular hero like Mercy, so I doubt it gets as bad.

You must be misremembering. The number of sombra posts I see is like 1% of the number of Mercy posts I saw.

[Hosorrow-1594]

You must be misremembering. The number of sombra posts I see is like 1% of the number of Mercy posts I saw.

Thankfully Sombra isn’t a massively popular hero like Mercy, so I doubt it gets as bad.

Did you even read what I wrote?
I’m comparing the things they do and say, not the frequency. They’re following similar logic and tactics.

[NighthAwk-13514]

I also dont see Sombra players hijacking threads. I am not seeing any similar logic or tactics between them. Sombra only seems to come up when its relevant like “Doomfist has no counters” threads.

[MerlinBrando-11655]

Same here but will definitely be noticing it when I do, now, thanks to this thread. I just don’t know that anything will compare to the dumpster fires that other Mercy mains started on these forums.

[triageatdawn-2512]

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[opens up the Leaderboards and they all go silent]

[Racillian-1752]

I believe Sombra got nerfed entirely because of OWL

I believe that most changes since late 2017 have been for OWL including the Mercy Rework (because making a popular character appear in every game will surely be popular), followed by the Mercy Nerf Train (because it turned out to be unpopular especially among pros), followed by the Symmetra Rework (because pros weren’t using her enough), then there’s 2-2-2 Role Lock (because they couldn’t figure any other way to break the GOATS META in OWL).

However, it doesn’t mean all those changes were bad, but it does mean that the apparent motivation wasn’t to make the game more enjoyable to play.

[Otlap-2432]

Simple:

Mercy was OP before, she got reworked, nobody liked the moth META (which was insanely OP) and she got a bunch of nerfs to make her less OP. Now she is just boring.

Sombra never had a chance. And even when she got use against GOATS, she still got nerfed just because people hated her. Not even a balance reasons. Niche hero in 2-2-2 situation got even more nerfs. That’s plain unfair and that’s why Sombra mains just want justice.

[tuscoggy-2305]

I mean mercy mains actually flooded the forum and it was unnecessary. Sombra is trash and she needs buffs.

Also, there aren’t enough sombra threads for it to be comparable to mercy.

[Hauven-2768]

There are way more Mercy mains than Sombra mains, and it shows on the forum.

Well duh, she’s a popular hero and was at the start of the game when there wasn’t really much choice regarding choosing a main healer at the time. Now you have Ana, which is somewhat superior and her pick rate shows it. There’s Moira, which lacks utility but gives good amounts of healing (particularly burst) and has some mobility with her fade. Then finally Baptiste, although honestly I don’t know how he is given I haven’t really played that hero much, just enough to see that he can fall into a main healer role.

There are way more Mercy mains than Sombra mains, and it shows on the forum. I mean, the devs had to create 3 megathreads to contain the Mercy threads, and there isn’t a single megathread about Sombra.

Damage control, as simple as that. I also think there was more than three if you also count the old forum.

Also, one group complaints are based on stats.
The other groups complaints are based on emotions.

Guess which hero has which.

Yet Mercy was reworked based on emotions, not statistics.

I just hope the Sombra mains don’t lose their minds and hold the forum hostage like Mercy mains did.

Factually it was no more than a dozen players who ‘held the forum hostage’ as you put it. A minority took part in things such as the failed raid, and don’t represent the majority of those unsatisfied with Mercy’s current state.

[RaysofGlory-1937]

The complaints are completely warranted when the nerfs came from OWL for stupid reasons.

Its infuriating that the hero I love to play is getting nerfed thanks to people I’ll most likely never play against.

[Pachimari-2662]

oh well, sorry that we’re not happy the hero we main was double nerfed even though their pick/win rate is pure garbage?

Tripple nerfed … shorter hack duration, longer EMP casttime and slower ult charge … hits her harder because her main utility comes from EMP

[JƐƐSHǃ-1713]

I mean, Mercy was also reworked because of whiners complaining she was unfun to play against.

[CoolUsername-11445]

end of the day, i’ve given up on her, like i’ve had to do with tracer and d.va. it’s a shame

Yup. You don’t decide who you can play. Blizzard does. As I’ve always said, the 30+ heroes in Overwatch merely represent an illusion of choice. Balancing changes, broken metas and the need to counter enemies all coax you to make very specific hero picks too frequently.

[Needles-11351]

I see way more topics bashing 222 over sombra related.

[Deykar-2772]

Kind of, but first reason they brought up was that her kit encouraged an unintended playstyle where Mercy would hide and abandon her team to die just to rez them again. They didnt want a support to let their team die on purpose.

[Kurfurst-1845]

but there isn’t the same selfish clique similarity as we have with Mercy & Sombra.

This guy again.

“Selfish?”

We aren’t the ones trying to nerf an F Tier character you are.

So who’s really the selfish one?

[Kurfurst-1845]

Tripple nerfed … shorter hack duration, longer EMP casttime and slower ult charge … hits her harder because her main utility comes from EMP

That was just one instance of nerfs… now go father back in time with the rework, and the first time she showed up in the pro scene and had her EMP nerfed then too.

[Hosorrow-1594]

you are.

Excuse me, but I have never asked for a Sombra nerf. I’m not on Blizzards developer team, I’m not Jeff. So why exactly do you get to point fingers at people like that?

You’re either delusional beyond belief or you’re the most convincing troll I’ve ever met.