Sombra. The Devs listened to the community and did every thing they asked for:
Removed unlimited stealth, no skills shutdown, no unlimited range translocator.
Result: She became worse, because to compensate she had to get some buff, in that case, and huge damage increase.
What the community actually wanted was all those nerfs WITHOUT any compensation, in other words, they wanted her deleted from the game.
And even if the devs did just that, the community would have moved to the next hero they wanted deleted until their favorite ones got in the block, or the game becomes boring because all heroes feels the same.
People complain about anti-nade, wanting it to reduce healing healing instead of blocking it, but they don’t realize that would have to come with a HUGE compensation most likely turning Ana into a more powerfull pick.
Stop asking for balance changes, lets this job for the devs. I was there once, I asked for many things to change, just to see them get thought and make the game worse.
99% of players have NO idea what’s making them like and hate the game, as well, and more even so, what’s actually making them lose or win a game. Game sense of players is really poor, even on high tiers. Don’t bother with game mechanics, just play the game if you like, stop trying to change it. And devs, stop listening to the “community”, you will never appease it.
In 2016, you released a GOTY-winning cultural phenomenon because you built it without constantly reacting to community pressure.
Now Sombra mains can’t play in comp, “good riddance” you may say, but I think this is wrong, it’s not their fault, it’s the dev’s fault.
Don’t come with “people ban her because she’s annoying rather than actually good”. I don’t buy that for a sec, people play Comp to win, period.
The community (overall) has a very poor game sense. It’s not Sombra that was making you lose. Her winrate is bad but your PERCEPTION is telling you otherwise. If you had better game sense you’d rather ban another hero, that actually would improve your chances of winning. But even if you do that, others would have banned Sombra anyways, so it’s what’s happening now is: Competitive don’t have Sombra. Yey!! So much fun. Now get rekt by Moira out-healing and out dps-ing every other hero in the match. Or Pharah forcing your DPS into hit-scan that they have no experience nor aim to play.
Don’t get me wrong Sombra is very annoying now, but she is WAY WORSE than she ever was, and she got there because Devs are always trying to appease the community. And it backfired, really hard.