What Do You Guys Think About The Sombra Nerf?

[Kagetora-11506]

For those who don’t know:

@GeoffGoodman

We’re making some more changes to Sombra next patch to address these issues. There are two main changes coming:

Any time Sombra’s hack is interrupted by damage, hacking will go on cooldown for 2 seconds. With this change, Sombra will have to be more careful about choosing when and who to hack instead of just holding down the button and waiting for people to miss and/or reload etc.

There is currently a 0.1s window of time at the end of the hack where it cannot be canceled via line of sight or other effects (such as Tracer’s recall, Zarya bubbles, etc). This exists so it doesn’t constantly get broken by very small line of sight blockers such as light posts and signs, etc. We are removing this window and instead now using multiple LOS checks to make sure the small LOS blockers are still not a problem. In addition to this, we’re speeding up the update rate of her hacking so that it is more responsive in checking for these fail conditions. The combination of these things means it should be much more reasonable to respond to a hack targeting you.

The intent of all of her recent changes is still to increase her overall strength and viability. We’re keeping a close eye on her to make sure she lands in a good place.

How do you guys react about these changes? Will be Sombra still viable? I personally not sure about the 2s CD of her interrupted hack but I’m pretty agree about that LOS fixes, it’s broken & need to be fixed. Overall, before these changes, I’m one of those players who defend Sombra.

[britzy-21475]

I definitely agree that the LOS being ignored in the last 0.1 seconds of Hack was definitely a big issue that is insanely unfair for heroes like Reinhardt, who could put up their barrier but still get hacked. That’s a very good change.

I’m totally against having Sombra’s Hack be forced onto a two second cool-down after taking any amount of damage. That really doesn’t sound fair - I think it’d be a much better (and easier) solution to simply reset Hack back to 0.8 seconds of cast-time.

[Kagetora-11506]

Her hack is still pretty fast & has a pretty long range. I kinda think these changes are fine. Anyway, I still have faith that with these changes, Sombra can still counter Genji.

[Harmless-1359]

I think people get too worked up about anything that can be seen as a nerf. Remember when Brigitte had bug fixes?

This is definitely a nerf, but it’s immediately following up a buff. Blizzard has decided they’re not happy with where Sombra is, so they’re changing her. If she turns out to be worse than before, she’ll probably see more changes.

It’s better that this happens sooner rather than later, imo.

[Hajile-11864]

Moira’s damage orb is going to be a pita.

[Kagetora-11506]

Well, I think Moira is a Sombra counter now.