If you hate Sombra so much then you should be asking the devs to do something about Widow. A widow who can hit shots is uncounterable by anyone but another widow. Sombra is the only dps who can do something. In a straight 1v1 Sombra can shut down Widow but OW2 is not a 1v1 game. Anyone who has actually ever played Sombra and not just complained about her knows this. Playing against a half decent team the Widow will either have an Illari pylon above her 24/7. Or a Mercy attached to her. Or whatever other support utility that makes heroes unkillable. This idea that Sombra hard counters Widow is the most annoying myth I’ve ever seen in this game.
Sombra is the one dps with the uptime available to keep that constant pressure on Widow. Even if you aren’t killing her you’re at least stopping her from playing kovaaks in the back of the map. I’ll stand by this forever that Widow is the worst designed hero in this game. It’s not that the one shot is inherently op. It’s that it is a risk free one shot that is always available. One shots should either have a big risk-reward associated with it or at least be on some sort of cooldown so it doesn’t randomly pop out of nowhere.
Widow has neither of these which is why she’s is a cancer to this game. If you really want Sombra to be reworked then start with Widow. Because Sombra only exists to keep the real problem in check.
The only thing I ever wanted to make Widow balanced is:
Scope glint.
People don’t realize how many people still play on older hardware. There are people who play on low settings and sometimes at far ranges a Widow can look nearly invisible to them. Then they get one shot from what looks like out of nowhere. A simple little glare beyond a certain range or even a laser to know where she is would be so helpful. That goes with the second thing I always wanted.
Put the one shot on cooldown.
I always wanted a rework where her one shot is attached to a cooldown. I had an idea of putting her ult as an ability so when she says No one can hide from my sight. She gets wallhacks for a few seconds but at least everyone knows, ok widow can one shot now. Time to be extra careful. As opposed to now she can one shot at anytime. From any range with zero warning.
I’ve said to just give her bullet drop. A hitscan sniper is silly. Give her bullets travel time and drop, that increases the skill it takes and would make it feel better to die to her
They have so many options to remove the one shot and keep her viable. She’s a long range hitscan for goodness sake! It shouldn’t be that hard to make her good without a one shot lol. But of course blizzard is more worried about HERO FANTASY or whatever…
Sombra has gone through many drastic changes since her creation. She wasn’t created as a Widowmaker hard counter. Her original design philosophy was actually to avoid being this kind of TF2 Spy clone.
I wish that Ashe had been a Widow rework instead of her own hero. I would even have settled for current Sojourn as a Widow rework, but it would have been less ideal. But no, we’re stuck with Widow forever. We couldn’t even get the fall-off nerf to stick.
Lower the cooldown on grapple a little. She doesn’t need a lot of compensating buffs. She’s the only hero in the game who can get multiple kills at range without an ult. There should be heavy penalties as long as she can still one shot
It’s just exciting that if/when sombra gets a nerf doom complaints will sky rocket and so will ball complaints. And these two will come up and be crushing back lines. And supports will sit there and say “ what do I do when the ball with 1,000 hp jumps on me. Nothing you die. Have fun y’all.
Sombra hack doesn’t even kill ball/doom anymore lol. Tank hp is so insane that a hack is a minor inconvenience to them. I can play Ball against Sombra all day, doesn’t really bother me. She’s never going to kill me.
It’s wild to know Widow isn’t a problem to me personally, cuz I play console. I’ve seen high-end hardware, max-sensitivity Widows do insane things on YT.
Theres no counterplay to it on her maps, that distance cant be closed before heads explode. Smart Widows arent restricted as much by maps too, they know where to be to pop heads safely.
Ive seen on it console sparingly, I’m grateful. Bless high elo pc players who grind, I couldnt do it cuz of her.
