Sombra players mad they can't chicken out

I think she will be underpowered at launch. They will buffer her to viable, then nerf her down to holding pattern as they say “she needs a rework again” and it will be another 6-9 months. Same as Hog and same as Sombra was this cycle.

Will she be an effective DPS if this is the case?

What we know is Virus runs AT LEAST for 2 seconds, and there is no way in hell Hacks lockout is going to last less than 1.5

well, say that happens a lot. Sombra will be being killed more often than she is now right? The beacon change will see to that.

So, for her to get the SAME value required to be viable (which is more value than now), she will have to succeed more often when she engages, even more often than she did when she was doing ok, because as frustrating as Sombra was, she didn’t have a high rate of actually killing a target. But now… she won’t survive as often so… So she will HAVE to be, by design, more lethal than she was, and if DOT isn’t doing the job often it will be buffed until it is…

This is why I am saying there isn’t a good balancing point.

They HAVE to push her up until people are going to non stop rage about her.

She is going to be even more frustrating AND she will have to be more effective at winning fights, not just as good at breaking even.

There is no good balancing point here.

Like remember this post?

yeah, here we are. Back in 2019, I’m like, we can’t run assassin Sombra, because… people won’t play again it, and … well we couldn’t, because… you know, they wouldn’t.

Now we have a build were we extra can’t. I just want something which we can actually have running long term, and this direction can’t work for the same reasons as I was posting back then that the OW2 out of the gate Sombra style build couldn’t work.

It isn’t like we didn’t see this problem coming - the post is from 2019, and I was already talking a lot about people who were begging for assassin Sombra because they were frustrated with Hacker Sombra, saying to them that they won’t like it if it happened. It wasn’t workable for Blizzard, and we know it wasn’t.

She needs to get value from something which isn’t shutting down abilities long term, and she can’t act as an Assassin. They NEED to find other ways for her to get value.

This is not a build which can work for Blizzard.

Will it be fun to play for the brief moment it is able to be viable? Sure will be. It just won’t be long. I’ll reinstall, so I can play it, but it won’t last.

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