Why?
Why are Sombra and Juno in 90% of the matches?
Because they are stinky heroes?
She can break up their formation.
For sombra: A sense of agency.
Permanent invisibility allows a player to run around relatively “Stress free” because no one can see / target you (generally. spy checking is still a thing, but lets be real, its very inconsistent). When you become a targetable enemy is entirely of your choosing. And typically when you do finally decide to play the game instead of running around doing nothing while invisible, youre disabling your enemies abilities for a moment and attempting to instagib / delete them while they cant really react.
Now dont get me wrong: Sombra is weak overall (for most players) IMO- but gives the illusion of being strong because youre often getting to pick a moment to try to assassinate someone. Youre not actively engaging with enemies the entire match. You wait (with many sombras making the game a nice 4v5 for their team mates most of the time), then tada pop out and surprise- try and assassinate.
As for juno: Because shes blatantly overpowered.
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it’s called counter swap. its pretty common. if you are losing, swap to the best character you can in order to win.
seems these days those are:
Sombra
Reaper
Junkrat
Tracer
Symmettra
Winston
Orisa
pretty much the ones you jump to in order to turn a game around
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Usually when team is losing and getting stomped, it means that the DPS are having a hard time staying alive for some reason. That’s probably whey they swap to Sombra.
Since Sombra has the invisibility + mobility + flank potential to stay alive and get picks easier. I guess it’s like their “last resort” or trump card for DPS when nothing else works.
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uh juno is a perfectly fine hero, actually balanced…sombra on the other hand is just straight up bad design lol. she isnt the only swap that happens when things get bad, usually the supports swap to the broken immortality heroes like kiri(especially), bap and lifeweaver to bail out their crap teammates with piss poor positioning, game sense and decision making.
She is the losers lurgy pick were a dps is diffed so much that they know they are useless and need free automated value even if it won’t win the game it will make them feel good as having participated in the match and gotten value
Basically they throw the match and want automated scripts value.
This is why sombra has such a bad wr apart from being weak.
She is used as a fall back hero by defeated people.
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Juno is, as far as we can see on public stats, the most picked hero at pretty much every rank, from low rank to metal rank to high rank to t500. She tops the support win rated by a wide margin. She is a must pick in the pro / tournament scene. And the current meta of the game is literally being dictated by Juno
Juno is blatantly overpowered.
Now I’ll concede and openly acknowledge I view Juno to be, mechanically, a very “healthy” hero design - but her “numbers” are way too high.
This hero needs a swift strike with the nerf bat to her knees. Shes not simply “over performing a little”, it’s a massive disadvantage to not run her currently at all levels of play.
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Its almost as if many of those heroes counter a bunch of popular tanks and DPS that are both in every match and very annoying.
While I agree that Juno is a bit overtuned, nothing has changed in ladder meta-wise.
She isnt dictating anything. She is just adding more fuel to the meta fire.
Her existence just makes the gaps between and inside roles even more obvious.
Juno feels busted in the good sense of a characters like Tracer. For all the time playing the character I just cannot get >50% WR. Its just so much easier to play Brig than Juno by far. 48% vs 58% feels hard to overcome. I still think Brigitte is more powerful overall for ease of use, but I guess pick rate says otherwise for most players.
it happens but usually it doesnt turn around the game unless there is a widow?
uh…i listed those because those ARE the ones that are in every match and are very annoying 
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No one plays Symmetra in this day and age.
You go into comp at all ranks and all you see is double hitscan on both sides.