Been playing this game almost every weekend for 4 years now. Even through some of the least popular states of the game (double shield and the great content drought in late OW1, S2 Hog frenzy, S6 Giga-Orisa bunker comp), I’ve never had less fun than playing into Widow and Sombra now.
Not sure why we made such a big deal about nerfing Hanzo in exchange for his one shot back, and let Widow keep her one shot with an even larger projectile size after the S9 changes…
Not sure why we buffed Sombra’s speed and simultaneously nerfed the health of 7-8 backliners. Yes sombra lost 25 hp as well, but what does it matter when she initiates the duel on her terms.
It feels like your always on the back foot against these heroes. Widow is too far away to engage, and Sombra is invisible. Every duel against them is on their terms. They choose when and where you fight. If you turn your attention to another enemy for even a second, they strike.
Combine these two heroes with the mini-tank pick up and play characters (Reaper/ Torb/ etc) running rampant, what’s the point of even trying heroes like Echo or Genji? Why practice flanking and efficient pathing when I can just turn invisible and navigate the map freely? Why practice damage combos when I can just sit on elevated ground 50 meters away and one shot?
I feel like turning my console off every time I hear that virus sound cue through my earphones.
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I understand your Sombra frustrations. Not sure why it is taking Blizzard so long to deal with this character. I really, really hope that we at least hear something about her next week (as I assume changes will sadly not be ready in time for the S13 patch).
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Ive quit/ stopped playing countless times just cos of sombra. The game is not worth playing, game stops being fun with her in it. Sad…
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Your first problem is playing ow on the weekend.
2nd problem is you just need to learn the matchups on how to deal with either hero because there are stronger DPS out there.
Either way streams or vids to see how others deal with them. Or play as then to see how teams or individuals shut these heroes down.
I hear you, but even shutting them down just isn’t fun. It just sucks constantly watching your back for an invisible opponent or a paper thin sniper in the distance. Sombra’s speed buff in stealth and wave respawn just made it worse. They get back to the fight so much quicker.
I get that there’s ways to beat them, but I’m just tired of always looking over my shoulder
I got to say it is tiring to play against sombra and it’s not exactly hard but if you are the only one keeping her from roasting your entire backline it makes you less effective and can be very annoying. Basically you alone deal with the issue and if you die your team just gets farmed. It’s boring when you get in these games.
I would welcome a sombra change just to have more chill games where you don’t need to play hide and seek all game
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man, look the tank role. the whole game is still about hardcounter the enemy tank and blizzard dont do anythihing after like 13 seassons.
Us Sombra mains want it because we know that Perma Invis has gatekept her other abilities and damage for a long time. I don’t think you realise how much her viability has fallen off a cliff in ranks Plat and above after her rework last year. I think Genjis the only weaker flanker hero tbh.
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Sombra is like a dementor sucks and slurps any fun in a match biggest issue is lack of downtime,.I just killed the b in backline and pushed to frontline it’s already back on the frontlines cackling.
Like give me a break.
I’m not a watchman or janitor to constantly clean up this …
She is the most tiring thing to have in a match in any team.
The moment my other dps swaps to this caricature I know I have to carry this dead weight and he has admitted to being diffed and has become useless.
It’s just pure mental torture putting up with this dumb character.
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Yep, I referenced it earlier: the speed buff to stealth was crazy unnecessary. She just gets back into the match even faster by default. Combo that with the wave respawn changes, and you don’t even feel any difference between eliminating her and her translocating to escape. The down time feels the same
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Yeah, agreed. I know sombra is weak af at higher ranks but if you’re in metal ranks she is downright unfair. She is invisible, can teleport on a super short cooldown, deals hella damage, can disengage and reengage almost immediately, can elim any squishy in the game in less than a second, can disable abilities (so if you dont have good aim youre screwed) and is damn near effortless to play.
I mean, yeah, skill issue. If you have good aim you can two tap her. But I don’t have good aim. That’s why I’m in metal ranks. No other hero literally removes your ability to play like sombra does. If you’re in bronze to plat, and you’re against a sombra who is even vaguely decent, you lose unless your entire team swaps to counter her.
IMO this is the least fair version of her. I’ve been playing since ow1 beta and I would take literally any other rendition of her than this. At this point, I wouldn’t be unhappy at all if they just plain removed her from the game I do not say stuff like that lightly.
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Laughed out loud reading this, I feel you. I don’t mind being told to “git gud” to match up to a player that’s better than me. But it’s annoying as hell to know that we’re all sub par players, and the dub goes to whoever picks the free value hero
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People I know already quit because of that trash rework on Sombra
People who’s been here since the OW1 Beta
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Fresh off another Sombra L. Eliminated her 19 times over 22 minutes of play, and it’s like she was never gone. No matter how many rails I put into her head, she just kept coming back.
No reason we should have lost after the number of times we sent them back to spawn
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I’m not like you all sub par players 
I’m a par sub player 
I hate sombra despite killing repeatedly she restricts your play potential a lot, i despise her as teammate way more for how useless she is and focus she puts on others.
I hate the tediousness she brings to match.
She is a total griefer, she is like the hero modelled after the worst PvP griefer that everyone despised.
The kinda player that used to get kicked off all the servers they used ML on these players and made a hero that did that
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oh keep whining. Sombra can be killed, even very very good sombra players can be killed by a half decent player who knows their stuff. It’s one character, stop blaming it for your bad gameplay.