The Buffs Sombra needs 💪

[Unnamed-22466]

I guess a much better buff would be to reduce the cast time of Stealth from 0.7s to 0.5s and I think I’ll change it to that. Rather than removing counterplay just reduce the delays that hold Sombra down.

Sounds good to me.

[Lightning-22274]

Technically you could still hear you hit someone, so it’d be up to the player shooting figure “hold on, I hit someone, must be Sombra” and try tracking her from that.
Not making her useless by fluke.

[Vindition-1389]

Technically you could still hear you hit someone, so it’d be up to the player shooting figure “hold on, I hit someone, must be Sombra” and try tracking her from that.
Not making her useless by fluke.

This was exactly the thought. I wanted to keep counterplay with the purple flicker without punishing Sombra for things outside of her control.

[Lightning-22274]

I wouldn’t mind, it wouldn’t be broken, nor would be it be too good to me. That’d give windows for both Sombra and the enemy to do something about it.

[Vindition-1389]

I wouldn’t mind, it wouldn’t be broken, nor would be it be too good to me. That’d give windows for both Sombra and the enemy to do something about it.

Thank you. I know a lot of people are really skeptical about Sombra buff requests but I’m pretty sure her community is the most lax on requests and understands that in theory if over-tuned she could be broken lol

[Lightning-22274]

Absolutely, I think the recent changes and her speed reduction in stealth took a toll on her. I actually find it too easy to chase her now, I’m guilty of often figuring out where she translocated, shoot around, reveal her and kill her even if there’s a hacked healthpack around.
A thing I wouldn’t do that often before that, probably because speed and playstyle helped her.

So I believe she’s in need of some changes.

[Vindition-1389]

Absolutely, I think the recent changes and her speed reduction in stealth took a toll on her. I actually find it too easy to chase her now, I’m guilty of often figuring out where she translocated, shoot around, reveal her and kill her even if there’s a hacked healthpack around.
A thing I wouldn’t do that often before that, probably because speed and playstyle helped her.

So I believe she’s in need of some changes.

I’m certain that she needs some help but honestly I would be happy if Blizzard would just listen to their community lol.

If even one of these buffs went through I would be satiated.

[Somvra-1200]

@Vindition-1389

1. Damage Increased by 5%: You’re probably thinking to yourself “Wow another Sombra Damage buff request” - but hear me out. Currently D.va does 168dps with her primary fire and Sombra does 160. I just feel like this very tiny push is noticeable enough to make her damage output better without making her replace Tracer, Reaper, or Genji in any significant damage oriented role.

I love this one, but it need to be tied to something such as her passive Opportunist, you can have it where it give Sombra only, a buff whenever she is near an injured enemy.

You can have it link to the passive so that she only does extra damage to whomever enemy is in critical condition state, and revealed by her passive.

You can have it so whenever you hack an enemy either they do less damage or Sombra only deal additional damage to hacked targets.

Another route you can go is that whenever she de-cloak, she deals additional damage for x amount of seconds… reset every time you de-cloak manually, but if you get knocked out of stealth, then you don’t get the additional bonus damage.

@Vindition-1389

2. Receive Ultimate Charge from Self-Healing: I am not saying to reinstate the “EMP Bot” method of playing but currently Sombra is the only Hero in the game who doesn’t receive Ultimate Charge from a Self-Healing ability.

This is a toss, as I would love for this mechanic to be a thing, I don’t see the devs giving this Strat and mechanics back to Sombra. I would love for them to do so though.

@Vindition-1389

3. Make Translocator indestructible Mid-Air or increase HP to 25: This is a simple fix to one of the major issues people have been having were Translocator is destroyed before you can teleport to a location.

This is an unpopular opinion: But I am fine with her translocator being at 5HP, I am not opposed of her getting an health pool buff to Translocator, but I am honestly fine with it being 5HP.

@Vindition-1389

4. Reduce the Cast time of Invisiblity to 0.5s from 0.7s: This is an edit. The delay on invis is pretty silly long and causes her to have far too many clunky interactions and adds to the downtime of Sombra unnecessarily.

This, I made countless mega thread asking for this. This QoL Change need to be a thing, or at least tested on the PTR.

@Vindition-1389

5. Sugar Skulls and LoS Fixes: Enemies who are hacked should receive a giant purple Sugar-Skull over their heads to indicate to the team that this target is hacked - this would fix an infinitesimal amount of problems on ladder where people don’t have a good visual indicator of which target has no abilities. LoS fixes are pretty self-explanatory - things that should work should work.

Garret showed me this.

[Album] imgur.com

But if you look at all the indicators, Sombra’s Hack is by far the most un-noticable for not only Sombra and her teammates, but also for the enemies as well. Instead of the swirls that has hacked numbers coded spin in spirals around the enemies, it need to be something like this.

Imgur: The magic of the Internet (Click On The Link)

or even this

@Vindition-1389

6. Increase Sombras base movement speed to 6: Currently Sombra is extremely slow at her base speed and this would mitigate that sensation without making Invis insanely quick again.

Another yet most requested and most asked QoL Change of them all, this again need to be a thing. I made a mega-thread with over 200 likes on this and many would love this buff as it wouldn’t break her at all, let alone it make perfect sense for her to have this QoL change.

[MEGA-THREAD] Sombra's Base Movement Speed Changes 💜 (Click Me)
Here is the thread above.

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Also here is my suggestion, I would edit it, but it been locked... but this is some of the things I would do to improve Sombra for sure.

Improvements to Sombra2.0

I know I said I was going post this thread earlier, but I had to finish an exam. Anyways, that is beyond the point. In this section below the line I will display the original changes that are currently on the PTR for everyone to view it if you haven’t already. Sombra 2.0 Changes as of June28,2018 Here is a list of Pro(Buffs) and Cons(Nerfs) In the Patch Note. ➣The Postives of These Changes. She can now cancel her Translocator at free will. Has infinite amount of time on her Transloca…

[SirCatflap-2306]

Make Translocator indestructible Mid-Air

I was under the impression it only became destructible once it hit the ground, but now I can’t find anything to prove this is the case.

[Vindition-1389]

1. Damage Increased by 5%: You’re probably thinking to yourself “Wow another Sombra Damage buff request” - but hear me out. Currently D.va does 168dps with her primary fire and Sombra does 160. I just feel like this very tiny push is noticeable enough to make her damage output better without making her replace Tracer, Reaper, or Genji in any significant damage oriented role.

I love this one, but it need to be tied to something such as her passive Opportunist, you can have it where it give Sombra only , a buff whenever she is near an injured enemy.

You can have it link to the passive so that she only does extra damage to whomever enemy is in critical condition state, and revealed by her passive.

You can have it so whenever you hack an enemy ether they do less damage or Sombra only deal additional damage to hacked targets.

Another route you can go is that whenever she de-cloak, she deals additional damage for x amount of seconds… reset every time you de-cloak manually, but if you get knocked out of stealth, then you don’t get the additional bonus damage.

See the only reason I was asking for a flat damage buff is because I know Blizzard doesn’t want the “Assassin” style to be the main playstyle for Sombra (although Zens know no fury like a good Sombra 2.0) and I know that Blizzard has a tendancy to over-tune or under-tune anything that is even slightly gimmicky.

If it were linked to Sombra’s Passive I would love it to be a 10% buff to her damage just to help that umph on a low health target.

The extra damage to hacked targets just seems unnecessary and encourages hacking targets like the already slow Zenyatta even if it was only for Sombra

The De-cloak damage Boost is something I thought about for ages and it’s very similar to that same mechanic in MMO’s and Moba’s and while I would like it I doubt Blizzard would implement something like this.

Just my 2 cents.

P.S:

Thank you for your Sombra activism!

[Somvra-1200]

P.S to your P.S

No Problem Mate!

[TheThink4-2353]

Now I would really like to see the buff you proposed but they need to come with bug fixes.

I even think before the developer do anything else to the game they should fix the tons of bugs still in there. Not jut Sombras but everyones. Just put out some Patches only addressing bugs before trying to rebalance anything. Just imagin how great it would be to play Sombra (or anyone else for that matter) and feel consistency in your abilities.

[MooshPaw-1645]

i agree i just don’t think she needs extra speed out of stealth and self heals ult charge. since she already gets ultimate real quick
Btw everyone is asking for fix LOS bugs so jeff pls thx

[WhatPayload-1559]

Increase Sombras base movement speed to 6

Yes please. If shes gonna be a flanker, she needs to be as fast as Tracer and Genji

[Crazyshark1-2319]

Damage Increased by 5%

I would take this or a tighter spread. Both are good.

Receive Ultimate Charge from Self-Healing:

Weird, I know, but I would actually prefer she gain ult-charge from allies healing from them rather than herself. Then Hack-Packs are useful for everyone. Sombra has a 60-second safe haven and allies can help Sombra gain EMP.

Make Translocator indestructible Mid-Air or increase HP to 25

Oddly, I’ve never run into this issue. Even when I threw it directly at a Moira who was beaming in my direction (I was invis so she couldn’t connect to me but she was right in front of me.)

Reduce the Cast time of Invisiblity to 0.5s from 0.7s

It’d be nice.
I would also half the un-stealth time if Sombra does it herself. This way it rewards her for being sneaky while keeping the punishment for being hit.
Why not go the full mile and give Invis a 4 second CD if she uncloaks herself? I’ve never seen anyone Stealth right after uncloaking so it shouldn’t be too much of an issue and would put it in line with Translocator’s half CD if she cancels it herself while, once again, rewarding a sneaky Sombra.

Sugar Skulls and LoS Fixes:

Y E S !

Increase Sombras base movement speed to 6

Just like reduced cloaking, not required but It’d be nice. I would proritse this before stealth time though.

[CreamGod-1455]

The buffs Sombra needs: None, shes fine, shes only as good as the rest of her team

[Freehugs-21822]

No to everything except hack visibility.

[JackisWack-1292]

Currently D.va does 168dps with her primary fire

cant hear you out when you have to use a shotgun hero at point blank range to justify wanting a sombra dps buff.

[WeebTrash-11175]

Ok, firstly I don’t think all of these should be implemented. Just some

Damage Increased by 5%

Yeah that’s fair

Receive Ultimate Charge from Self-Healing:

Maybe, but only a very small gain.

Make Translocator indestructible Mid-Air or increase HP to 25

Maybe something like 15 hp or 19.

Increase Sombras base movement speed to 6: Currently Sombra is extremely slow at her base speed and this would mitigate that sensation without making Invis insanely quick again.

Kinda unneeded. Also I hope you realise every hero in the game (except for tracer and Genji) base speeds are the same

Sugar Skulls and LoS Fixes:

Yeah I guess so, not really a buff more of small QoL changes

Reduce the Cast time of Invisiblity to 0.5s from 0.7s

No, Otherwise invis would become to good at being used as a quick escape tool. Which is what translocator is meant to be used for

[SchWiniX-2357]

Make Translocator indestructible Mid-Air

Is already the case in live

Reduce the Cast time of Invisiblity to 0.5s from 0.7s

Maybe would not be bad.

Sugar Skulls and LoS Fixes

Yes please.

Increase Sombras base movement speed to 6:

And yes please

For the rest I don’t really think it would be good for her nor would it ve needed