Ok, I give up, Sombra is just a straight up murder machine, no more stealthy gimmicks or silences, if she hacks you and you so much as stub your toe, you explode.
NUMBERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!
Role:
Damage.
Health:
50 Base, 175 Shield.
LMG:
Same damage as normal.
Hack:
Hacking an enemy will have a 10 second cooldown, and has a 0.2 second cast time with the following attributes:
Hacked enemies are revealed through walls to Sombra’s team.
Hacked enemies take 20% bonus damage from Sombra.
Hacking health-packs will reduce their generation time by 50%. Enemies who pick up Hacked health-packs will be damaged and Sombra will get ultimate charge for both damaging enemies and healing allies. Hacking health-packs applies a 5 second cooldown.
Stealth:
[REMOVED]
Virus:
A small throwable that applies a 30DPS DoT for 4 seconds.
Damage is doubled on Hacked targets.
Translocator
Sombra can throw a small device that she can teleport to at any time.
Has a 15 second duration before it self-destructs.
Can be destroyed.
EMP:
Applies Hack to all enemies in it’s radius.
Lasts 7 seconds.
Anti-Virus:
Sombra is immune to debuffs, but not slows or stuns.
Minor Perks:
Trojan:
Any debuffs Sombra would’ve gotten are stored and applied to the next enemy Sombra hacks for the duration of Hack.
Stored debuffs are lost upon death or use.
Phishing:
Hacked enemies will have their ultimate charge revealed and can be seen through walls.
Major Perks:
Hack the Planet:
Hacked enemies have a 10 meter radius where other enemies are also affected by Hack.
Viral Replication:
Enemies affected by Virus that die will spread Virus to all other enemies within 12 meters.
So, a worse version of discord and a cumbersome escape that’s hard to use on-demand because it self-destructs? Oh, right, also no stealth. At this point - let her stay banned, it has the same effect.
The biggest problem with Sombra is that she’s a clockwork mechanism! You can’t take away her hack because it’s literally her entire identity. You can’t take away her invisibility because without it she wouldn’t be able to hack, and you can’t take away her translocator because otherwise, she would just die all the time.
Blizzard tried to forcefully keep all of this while limiting it — which resulted in the annoying parts still being there, but compensatory buffs had to be added.
I guess it is just a worse Discord, I debated letting Sombra’s whole team get extra damage and I thought it was too much. I guess it would work fine as a regular Discord then, until you get to the Perks which would let Sombra Hack an entire team at once pretty much.
Maybe 10-20% bonus damage from your team and 50% bonus damage from Sombra herself?
It self destructs every 15 seconds so you can’t just leave one in spawn and hide in a corner for 2 minutes.
Plus as soon as it self destructs you could probably just throw a new one. It only goes on cooldown if it’s destroyed though, exactly the same as Illari’s Healing Pylon.
People complained way too much over nothing, even after I gutted it as much as I reasonably could. Because I got rid of Stealth, I instead tried to put more power into Translocator and Virus by adding a long duration to Translocator, but not permanent to force more skill expression into it, and I made Virus much more lethal.
Yeah, it’s a shame really because I think she’s really cool conceptually, but also so annoying to fight.
I think Virus would need to go so more power can be put into the more important aspects of Sombra’s kit.
Translocator could probably get a rework though, like maybe it can’t be thrown if Sombra is being shot at? Sombra should have counterplay in every aspect of her kit if she can be a silencer with invisiblity.
i get the feeling she wont be changed till like 3 seasons down the road or something. they have done that before with roadhog and sombra (pre-virus to virus). took them like 3 seasons to do something after they said it
Remove translocator. Force her to commit and take off angles with her hacking and virus trick shots.
She’s already no longer a true dive hero, she’s more brawly with less HP now (yet Genji remains at 250 while being a mobile brawl hero, very fair Blizz).