People have always hated being hacked, changing her kit from focusing on health packs to people for ult charge made it worse, and OWL making her more popular made that worse.
a character designed entirely around turning off your ability to play the video game with an autoaim incredibly fast ranged animation is hated. Wow I am so shocked and surprised :0
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You can still move and use your primary. Those are part of playing the game. Now unless you are Doomfist… well, sucks, I guess? She hard counters him along with any other form of CC
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Getting hacked is annoying.
Since she’s showing in in pro games and people are getting kills with her the “omg emp = instant win!!” ideas are spreading.
Annoying does not mean op. Sombra is far from op, and there are far more annoying things than getting hacked.
I just think its absurd that the second a niche pick starts to pick up traction people want them nerfed back down to 1% pickrate.
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Don’t cha know? Getting hacked instantly kills you 
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from hammond mains___________________________
Ah yes, how could I forget? Hajile showed me what REALLY happens when you play Sombra a couple posts ago!
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Meanwhile, on ladder, Sombra’s regularly screw up and use translocator before EMP and end up hacking nothing but the isolated health pack they’ve been camping for the past 5 minutes, 50 meters away from the fight. Or she uses EMP and then everyone yells at her for not calling it out after no one follows up on it. Seriously I see these happen way more than a team kill resulting from EMP.
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Don’t ya know, though? That’s OP
/s
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She annihilates GOATS and pretty much every other comp that relies on shields or movement abilities, which makes her very versatile and usable in pretty much every comp. I think they’ll either increase her hack CD or make the duration slightly shorter.
OWL, really.
Same thing that happened to Tracer last year. People see top tier play and get convinced it’s always happening at their tier as well. Now that Sombra’s become one of the more consistent picks, it was bound to happen eventually.
Implying that Blizzard would fix something that isn’t broken.
Or fix anything at all.
I’m not trying to hate on Sombra just so you know either, I find her really fun play sneaking around and hacking stuff, but it just seems a tad OP that a well placed hack can win the fight with little effort.
Fair. I’m actually working on using health packs more rather than straight hacks and seeing how I can mess up a route. It’s oddly satisfying.
What I tend to do for hacking target priority is sneak around the back and hack the enemy’s main tank or peel for my support and hack a diving Genji, Tracer etc.
That’s the normal routine for me, but I’ve just been looking for the more rage-inducing methods. Environmental kills and denying a route by parking a hero like Soldier on a health pack is pretty satisfying.
She is a character whose only purpose is to ruin your play experience by gimping you, every one hates her because the Hack/EMP design is inherently toxic.
Silence is one of my least favorite things in games but maybe that’s just me.
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People often pick their character to use their abilities.
Sombra disables keyplayers main utilities before a team fight.
What is a lucio that cant heal, wall ride or boop.
A hog that can’t hook or self heal.
A rein that can’t sheild, charge or firestrike.
She is however necessary for the likes of bastion, doomfist, Hammond, etc.
I got you.
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