Is it just me or is the new sombra really bad… the ability to hide is now 5 seconds? The whole nice thing about her is GONE… now if you want to counter a doom who is very fast, you need to do it within the 5 seconds? Like how… ‘more hack damage’, she did not needed it, she was just fine before this update. Very sad about sombra, the 3 years I play OW, this is the most saddest change EVER, even more useless then the one tap that is gone from hanzo.
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High rank players are pronouncing her dead after playing her.
It’s…pretty bad lol.
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No exactly, I was SHOCKED whenever I was playing ranked and she went visible within the 5 seconds, they did her nasty.
I give it until mid-season patch before they start buffing or rolling back parts of her kit. One such example is her speed while invisible, which I’m pretty sure was reduced specifically because it was turned into a passive with Cloak. Now that cloak is tied to TL, I’m fully expecting them to buff the speed back to the 50% or whatever it was before. As for other roll backs? I’m pretty sure when they nerfed her ult damage to 30%, they specifically said it was because she was getting her ult faster when they buffed it’s charge that same patch, so I’m expecting her ult damage to be reverted to 40% now that it charges I think they said 13% slower.
Otherwise? I’m half expecting either a TL refresh or invis on kill/ assist. The only other thing I’d expect would be for them to lean a little further into her offensive capability with a damage increase from the 8.4(?) it is now to 9 tops.
The only other thing I’d expect would just be QOL changes since it feels kind of bad using TL and waiting until cloak is about to wear off before engaging or a buff to her weapon/ ability ready speed. I think with a CD like that, it would at least make more sense to shave off the CD by however much more time you had with Cloak. If you had 2 seconds left of cloak before engaging, it should take off 2 seconds from the CD.
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All she needs is chain hack again and she would be perfect.
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But didnt you thought she was pretty good before the whole update? She wasnt hard to kill whenever you knew how to counter her… it’s just for me the invisibility that is now 5 seconds. Her flinching was really low so it was quite equal.
Just for me her entire charm is GONE. How can u counter someone whenever you’re 5 seconds invisible and 3 seconds or so loading to get the ability back… not a good fix that they did.
She isnt even strong enough in my opinion to play ranked games anymore, makes me sad.
Now you can’t even press to shoot and immediately become visible like it was before S13. Now you have to wait for the invisibility to end or cancel it and THEN be able to shoot, it was easier to bring the shadow from Overwatch 1 back, where the player put the translocator and activated it manually as well as the invisibility.
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Yeah it’s quite some change, I just can’t think of a reason why they changed her? Especially not into THIS useless version.
Sombra is just a ‘loner’ type off player. And they took that away, now you can’t even run away whenever there is a ball breathing down your neck. They did a big L with this change.
I hope they change it back, like I said it’s even bigger than the one-tap hanzo that disappeared.
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That would be too kind of Blizzard to act quickly here. I’m betting we’re stuck with this Sombra until next season minimum.
I think that they are going to lose some players within the game, especially with this change.
It’s not even a small change, and looking at this forum you see some pissed off people. Maybe they will do it a little bit faster? Atleast I’m hoping so cause how it’s going like this… not even excited to play this game anymore.
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What? Thats DUMB. I hope its a bug.
They are taking away all the good things, first the one tapp hanzo, then the nerf of moira’s damage and now the useless sombra. Very sad
Her speed is already buffed isnst it? its back to her orignal faster speed shes had, which is fine.
i play MH a lot, and today i have just executed kamikaze gameplay with the tragedy that is Sombra. The changes they’ve made, both this patch, and previous patches have caused me to ask (and i am serious, not being facetious or snarky) what is her point? With the passive healing all heroes have, why bother to hack a healthpack? her ‘virus’ seems more like an airzooka, her stealth is just seconds short of her translocator cooldown, and they wanted her to be ‘more engaged’ in gameplay compared to previous iterations. I see her as being a nonviable pick now. I can’t see the point of playing her at all.
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I hope its a bug too, but even with S76, after reloading his weapon if you keep hold LMB, it don’t start firing again, you need release LMB and hold it again. Since Season 11 with this problem.
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she’s insanely strong anyone who thinks it’s not a massive buff is delusional. both made her more healthy for the game and way stronger for people who are good.
I’m a GM Sombra main who has had to abandon her the last few seasons after falling to mid Masters, and climbed back up playing Tracer, Echo and Cass.
She is unplayable in this state, and you have zero clue what you’re talking about.
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sounds like you were actually a mid masters sombra main then.
alexa, play glory days.
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I mean I’d probably be a Diamond Sombra main at best if I tried to force her now, but that’s the entire point.
The global health increase, giga tank buff patch and then losing 25hp already really hurt her at high level play, to state that this version is a buff just shows how little you’ve played and understand Sombra.
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You’re just not adapting to the new meta that’s all, and you hadn’t for the past 2 seasons since you gave up after falling off.
Sombra requires thinking and engagement timing now, her playstyle is much more interesting and changes throughout the course of the teamfight. She can absolutely shred tanks with her team, then with the tank dead and the fight in cleanup stages you can destroy everyone with your team pushing hard.
That’s just one way of playing her too. There are many different approaches you can make instead of just staying stealthed behind their team waiting for the perfect moment to catch a support or dps unaware then instantly killing them or disengaging at your own leisure with zero risk.
The 20% damage buff on hacked targets alone makes sombra insanely strong now. Just learn to play better and you’ll be able to leverage her new kit. Or stick to other heroes like you have been and it’ll work out for you like it has been.