This week on competitive alone, she has a 1.10 pick rate, the 5th lowest picked hero, so the only logical thing to do is to nerf her, right? Why?
EDIT: They went ahead with the update without putting it into PTR…
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Because salty bads cried hard enough.
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Because the overly entitled tank players whined. That’s literally it. She’s gotten a tiny leg up and after two weeks, she’s suddenly the devil for making their jobs harder. Meantime…Moira makes her job harder. Torb and Symm make her job harder. But nah, let’s punish Sombra, lol. That makes perfect sense. And yes, I am bitter. Over 150 hrs into this character and I finally get a buff I can deal with for her…now this. I can’t speak for everyone, but I am beyond furious.
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Cause Blizzard wants to make sure we all know that OWL and the people who scream/stomp their feet will always get what they want in the end.
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The OWL pulls Sombra out for 30 seconds in one match, charges 1 EMP, and celebrates over hitting 3 people with it. Their argument should be invalid because any DECENT Sombra player knows that 3 people in an EMP isn’t that impressive. To them? That’s Tuesday. swirls Bison-like beverage of choice
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I started playing Sombra cause i’ve always like her design which is awesome but she has always been really bad and people would even tell me to not play Sombra in games because she was a troll pick. Now i’ve been playing her, having fun with her, she is accepted and a good addition to any team, she is not OP in the slightest nor anything supports that being the case, but she is getting nerfed…
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Some people even think the changes were a net nerf because of how good EMP farming was despite being bad niche/play style. It’s dumb that they will nerf her while her pick rate and win rate are still so low.
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See, I never thought she was BAD, but I can admit she needed some work. The original 14 second cooldown on hack was bad. Glad they switched it. Glad they fixed the translocator so I can throw it around and blink like a poor man’s Tracer more (I rarely leave it behind as an escape, but that’s just me). Glad they fixed her spread. Not terribly happy about not getting ult charge from healing myself or my own team when even Soldier gets ult charge from healing, but okay. Fine. Gotta take a little to get a little. But they’re just getting ridiculous.
I made her work in every iteration up until now and I won’t give her up because I already had to give up McCree around the time everything got barrier-licious and Sombra IS my favorite, but this? What’s she gonna do during a push? Die. Probably. 2 seconds is a long time in Overwatch land and even if you’re standing right in front of a healer with critical health, they ignore her, lol.
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It is! But she’s not a character that’s respected by the meta or their precious OWL, so why should we get ANYTHING? Why have 27 heroes in the game at all if you only want a small number of them played? That’s how it’s starting to feel.
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Nope. You can check my post history. Never once complained about her. Never really cared.
I play Mei these days anyway.
I knew there would be calls to make her less viable the moment I saw her buff. She was actually pretty good there for a while.
Only a handful of heroes are allowed to be viable. Both Blizzard and a large chunk of the community seems to advocate this.
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Yes, the popular ones.
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Because god forbid a hero who counters Dive heroes
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People refuse to adapt to changes and cry and whine until they get what they want. Also apparently the pros didn’t like it (i.e. didn’t want to learn how to work around the buffs) which means ofc Blizz has to please them via nerf hammer.
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I find it ironic they nerfed Sombra, who helps counter dive. But they make Brigitte and say she’s meta changing aka counters dive. It makes me worry about Brigitte going live. I feel like it won’t take long for her to get the Sombra treatment.
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well I’ve heard the pros already think Brigitte is OP so brace yourself…
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Blizzard doesn’t make balance changes around pick rates.
The “Triforce” of balance consists of devs own opinion, professional’s opinion and casual’s opinion.
Only a segment of casuals is against the nerf.
A segment of casuals find her broken.
Presumably most pros find her broken.
Since she’s getting nerfed, devs themselves probably find her overtuned.
I swear to all that is holy…
Are we not allowed nice things.
Well let me just fix your Triforce : according to them, the 3 points they apparently consider before any balancing decisions are : THEIR statistics (the one only they can check) , THEIR own feeling about a change AND the community feedbacks. Problem is, it’s mostly “pro players feedbacks” apparently, a pro OW contenders players stated before the nerfs that Sombra would get nerfed soon and guess what happens ? Geoff states about Sombra nerfs !
In my honest opinion, I’ve always thought 0.65 seconds was too fast for hack because reacting that fast is quite the big deal, but what the hell is this 2 seconds CD if hack’s interrupted ? Just make hack’s casting time a bit longer and buff something else to compensate, I mean, she got buffed 2 FREAKING WEEKS AGO, her pickrate/winrate BARELY CHANGED, and the community’s feeling on sombra is hugely biased by the fact that she was picked so often right after the patch because people were trying her out.
Why I’m salty is this :
Sombra is one of the least played heroes → gets buffed → is a bit more picked and less of a joke but in no way becomes mandatory → gets weird clunky nerfs 2 weeks after because she’s “not fun to play against”
Mercy : one of, if not the most played hero → gets a broken rework → remains broken for half a year, dominates the meta and becomes a must pick: everything’s fine
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Jokes about genji mains and tracer mains tend to pop up a lot but let’s face it… It wasn’t because tank mains cried, or Lucio mains or even pharah. Those characters aren’t their OWL poster characters. It is purely because of Genji and Tracers having a problem, because nothing is allowed to shut them down or that might stop cool plays in OWL.
Whether the people playing tracer or genji cared about her or not, she still interferes and had to go.