Sombra nerf/buff suggestion to EMP and Virus

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So, I thought of a way to make EMP “less” annoying, as well as making “Virus” a more skillful ability, per say.

  • EMP: No longer causes 25% damage to enemy healthbars. Cooldown increased. Hack “lockout” duration reduced to 1 second again. Hack “status” increased from 8 seconds to 10.

Ok, before you pull out pitch forks, let me show you the virus change…

  • Virus: Resets on cooldown ONLY when eliminating a player inflicted with the “hack” status. (Similar to Genjis Dash).

This change in turn makes Sombras EMP more dangerous as an ability for herself that can cascade if done right, but only in skillful hands whilst also giving her kit more synergy overall.

I thought of this whilst trying to sleep, but I’d like to hear everyones thoughts on it

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So gutter EMP right after we finally got it back to a decent place(it still costs WAY too much), and in exchange we gets cooldown reset for a 5s cooldown that only triggers when you’re handily winning the fight?

Is this satire or just a “Nerf Sombra!!” post?

LOL! Nope, it makes EMP completely worthless again, and Sombra even more “feast or famine” with the “feast” part ultimately being a second or two off Virus cooldown.

…it would also ironically slow down her TTK as you’d have to Hack before throwing Virus on engagements, and without EMP you could only get a single reset as Hack’s CD is longer then Virus already.

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I hope you have an easier time falling asleep tonight lol cause this was not worth the struggle

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Prob not, but I figured it would be a more interesting interaction with virus if it reset on hacked targets. Maybe keep that in itself

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I feel like that would make people hate her even more than they do now. People are already wanting it nerfed despite her underperforming. I think that would just exasperate the problem more.

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True. I never want to nerf Sombra, but more so allocate those sources to another part of her kit rather than buff outright (Since people are screaming power creep over any little buff)

I hope Sombra doesn’t get changed in the future. But, knowing the pattern of annoying heroes, Blizzard is going to more than likely ruin her again and I really hope that doesn’t happen

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Remember when EMP used to lock abilities for 5 seconds and hack was 3 seconds? What they are today is hardly as painful as it used to be.

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I just wish virus would end if she died

so annoying killing her and then dying to virus

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Just FYI, this was never the case. It actually was 6s for both at one point, but the bulk of the time was 5s each.

IIRC there has never been a point before now where EMP and Hack’s silence were different amounts of time.

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EMP still only does 25% of current health. It’s good sometimes but arguably still worse than it was before her rework. Plus now it can get rid of the tree which kinda sucks.

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