PLEASE GOD change Somrba’s kit… what are yall thinking??? Seriously, what in holy hell are yall thinking???
They wanted her to have some reliable damage that isn’t based around primary fire, and thought translocate was too complicated to use.
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I do not believe they have given it a lot of thought. That’s the crux of the issue here…
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Why do you go there and write a new post with the same content every few days? Moreover, you don’t even specifically address your issues with her! What exactly bothers you?
The fact is that Sombra is one of the weakest heroes in the game, mainly because she is very easy to counter, and almost everyone who complains about Sombra doesn’t understand how to play against her.
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Idk if she’s weak, half the games I get into have one spawn camping people.
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i agree, if hanzo and widow 1shot is removed… otherwise, she’s fine.
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She is viable but I prefer the old Sombra. The translocator change is so bad for me.
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hmmm is she easy to counter or is she easy to counterpick?
They’re two different things, and since in many cases my personal opinion leans towards the latter, I think thats just emblematic of current overwatch design problems.
Getting hacked is not interesting nor fun. Regardless of if she does much. Hell I watch Twobold hack a team an entire game, doing nothing. To quote him “I may not be doing much, but they are all miserable.”
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I believe the title should actually say “Sombra ruins MY games”. And whenever someone complains about her, the person tends to run heroes she counters.
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They aren’t. Hack in its current incarnation is effectively meaningless. It locks ability use for about as long as your average Rocket Punch or Accretion. The rest of the duration just gives you a pretty purple glow.
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And you take increased damage from Sombra, but it’s not hard to prevent her from doing too much.
They are. It does not have to actually disable me forever to ruin the game. It is not fun to just have my hero’s abilities turn off with no way to stop it on something like Rein, because a Sombra looked at me intensely for a second.
You don’t get to decide how fun something is to face. It’s frustrating, not interesting. It is not fun. It is an annoyance that just ruins the fun that I could be having instead.
it’s like LW, theoretically only takes away a small percentage of my control of my character, functionally makes me feel like I never have control of my character, because he can always just choose to take over.
Lemme do that with my shield oh right
Honestly I agree she’s harmful for game health(designed to be intentionally frustrating to play against) but at this point sombra mains have had to adjust to so many reworks that they should wait a bit before reworking her again.
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Sound like salt to the tenth degree, stick together and use a bastion near the back line, if your team cant do that then i guess to deserve to get rolled.
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Not any more. As far as I can tell, that was scrapped pretty quickly after the Overwatch 2 release redesign. These days, it’s only Virus that does additional damage to hacked targets. Which isn’t nothing, but also isn’t as much as her SMG doing 50% more damage.
Whether you, specifically, are having fun is entirely immaterial to the discussion. Your anecdote featured a Sombra player who just hacks enemies and does little else. That’s not frustrating. On the contrary, I welcome such players on the enemy team, because they’re effectively sandbagging. The enemy is playing 4v5. It’s the same with a bad Wrecking Ball player who just drops in and runs away repeatedly. It’s only annoying up until you realise that he’s not actually accomplishing anything. The only team you’re trolling by doing this is your own.
And more to the point - if you’re this upset at Sombra’s Hack, then the same should apply to Sigma’s Accretion, Doomfist’s Rocket Punch, Orisa’s Javelin, Roadhog’s Hook, Mauga’s Overrun and - lest we forget - Ana’s Sleep Dart. Hack has been nerfed so heavily over the years that it’s now functionally indistinguishable from a regular Stun ability, minus the root. You’re free to not like it, but it’s not that powerful or that effective.
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Real talk I loved the way she was before, she was the best revenge character.
Oh got a hate ***************** for Mei so big that you needed to chase her all the way to the spawn point leaving your team behind…
Time for Sombra pay back.
Now that I think about it, this change is the reason I stopped focusing on GP or any PVP mode.
Yeah but hanzo and widow head shots require skill and can be played around. Sombra is so busted she can reliably trade herself for a support or a dps. Hack, vrius, and 1/3 of her clip, dead. All of this happens in an instant from a blind spot. The only way to stop it is to anticipate when an invisible character will reveal themselves. It’s bull. The worst part is that sombra is weak against supports like anna, kiri, bap, and even life weaver. So she’s just a win more hero that shuts down the rest of the meta while perfectly preserving the most broken parts. It’s garbage. Sombra should be a bad hero. Her kit demands it. When sombra isn’t played at all, we have a strong and diverse meta.
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until supports and rather powercreep get nerfed, then we can nerf sombra. until then, sombra is fine the way she is with the current power level of this game
Your statement falls into the category of “it annoys me while playing, so it must be removed!”
If we follow that logic, all heroes should ideally have water pistols, and we can only get each other wet!
What do you prefer: briefly not having abilities or a free ticket back to spawn?
- If the hack bothers you so much, how about Hog? He kills every 6 seconds.
- Widow, who gives you a third eye with every shot (or a second one with Ana XD).
I’m hardly bothered by being hacked. 1.5 seconds with a 0.65-second setup time. For the hack to really make a difference, your team has to collaborate very well with you, which is impossible solo. While I hack, I could also deal 30 realistic damage, which is often better than hacking.
Also, why did Sombra work with a 6 or 5-second hack for 6 years?
Additionally, Sombra has the worst win rate. Only Widow and Cassidy are lower, and both require very high precision. Sombra, on the other hand, used to require timing and tactics. Well, until now. After the last rework, they removed that because they absolutely had to turn her into a standard DPS hero!
But back to the point. If you had to choose between a few seconds without abilities or a ticket back to spawn, what would you choose?
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