Her Hack and EMP are both Ultimate’s. Why does she have both?
How many other characters have an ability that is legit just their ult?
She has 2 risk free ults. Why?
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1.5s lockout is an ultimate now you are a genius player!
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I wouldnt consider hacking 1 player as an “Ult”, but i see what you mean by the shared kit ability with her Ult. Id argue that Mei, Hanzo, Solider: 76, Sojourn, Illari, Reaper, Rammatra, Cassidy and Genji all have Ults similar to their regular kit or main weapon abilities.
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Previous answers already pointed how ridiculous the hack = ult was so i’ll rather answer the question you asked.
Baptiste
Kiriko
(Ana depending on how much you hate anti)
(Dva depending on how much you hate matrix in her current op state).
Considering it can be done from range, while invisible and stops ults easily… I would consider it an ultimate. It’s a personalized EMP.
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Sleep dart is personalized emp as well? Suzu which is an AOE that reduces a lot of ults to nothing with little effort? Lamp as well? Hack isn’t some guaranteed ultimate cancel and if the sombra is just afk waiting for it then they’re not providing value.
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Sleep Dart has a 14 second cooldown and requires aim.
Hack has a 6 second cooldown and doesn’t require aim, and can be done while invisible.
Sombra becomes fully visible when hacking players, and anything that hack can stop can also be stopped by other heroes with a stun mechanic. Think Hook, Sleep, Pin, Slam, etc.
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Again she can go invisible.
How many times has a hog snuck up behind you?
Misses the point. And Hog doesn’t sneak up behind you, he sneaks in front of you and proceeds to yeet your sorry butt into a pit.
What’s worse than ignorance? Half-knowledge!
Hack has a cooldown of 6 seconds and can only be applied to targets that aren’t already affected by Hack, which increases the cooldown to 8 seconds. If you use the 6-second cooldown to hack a different target, the cooldown for the first target goes up to 12 seconds. And for all that, we get 1.5 seconds of ability lockdown and can disable only a fraction of all abilities. Wow.
Hack has auto-aim but requires 0.6 seconds of prep time. Sleep Dart doesn’t need that. I’d offer to make Hack a skill shot like Ana’s Sleep Dart, but then, 10 minutes later, we’d be back here with you complaining about how OP an instant Hack Dart would be—something you could technically dodge but realistically couldn’t thanks to stealth!
Hacking from stealth… You’re upset that someone invisible can smoothly act from stealth as long as it doesn’t cause damage? Just to be clear, Sombra is invisible! INVISIBLE!
Oh well, I guess I have to spell it out. Sombra hacks you from a position you can’t see because she can reach it thanks to her invisibility, so it doesn’t matter to you whether she becomes visible first or acts from stealth. And Hack is instantly interrupted by damage, so it’s already easy enough to stop it—no need for an extra 0.375 seconds of hacking that you wouldn’t be able to react to anyway!
I get what u mean by saying that hack is an ult, because it can shut down other ults. But it’s tue post is such a poor way of framing it. Could’ve made a post saying hey i don’t think an abilty that can shutdown ults should be easy to land and on a short CD. and i think a lot of people would agree with you. but saying it like this just makes u look bad
Hack cancels ults
Yeah for the unpopular heroes maybe.
Genji/tracer is still stronger than sombra in every way. Why does tracer get 2 ults? Why can she just re-wind time and fully heal herself while escaping any danger??? Why does genji have 6 passives and can reflect every projectile in the game without any questionable exceptions (unlike hack)?
I dont get why people get so pedantic and get caught up in dumb semantics. You know exactly what they mean, why does sombra have hack, and then an ult that does the same thing to everyone. Why does she have a singular attack the does the same thing as her ult. As in hack should be removed from the game. Leave her ult. Hack is what makes sombra a problem.
Ok then they power shift into assassin archetype even more and no one happy. The hero simply won’t be enjoyed no matter the iteration maybe they deserve to be mediocre as they have been most of ow2 like a roadhog situation.
Delusions on 1000 right now. If you cant beat tracer or genji as a sombra youre awful at the game.
How is no one happy? you get to be invisible, you get to use virus, add a interrupt to that and force it to be a skill shot. Shes actually in a really good place since her gun is sooooooo much stronger than tracer’s and 100x more reliable than genji shuriken’s.
As a tracer main i can tell you now, sombra this season is a cake walk compared to any other flanking option. Solely because of hack and her long clip that ones clips everyone with half the aim i need as tracer. Virus is just a silly little bonus tbh.
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Auto shutdown any ability from invis in .6 seconds… It’s not about the lockdown duration, it’s about playmaking denial and absolute shutdown at the skill floor equal to pressing Q and getting rewarded by default.
I wouldn’t say hack is ult level any more than dva matrix is, but Sombra’s entire playstyle around hack is just so damn obnoxious to play against, especially if you’re on a hero that is ability focused and can’t just pew pew the enemy from a comfy distance.