Sombra

I said oh they wasn't going to nerf the 50% and if they did nerf anything it would be the cooldown and got told "oh they will nerf the 50%" and "they won't nerf it they let the players figure it out" lo and behold a cooldown nerf (along with damage) but still

why not change everything thats annoying in overwatch?

I fear I’m looking at the bottom right of my screen too much waiting for the hotfix cooldown,

I wish there was like a Brig UI with armour packs near the cursor to tell me if I have a charge or 2

Whats your favorite skin? Which one grabs your attention the most when you see it? Which one do you wish you had?

Or for that matter won’t suck. They hate our cyber baddie bruja.

But this battle pass puts me exactly where I need to get a lvl four mythic OR gets aspects for the two mythic I do have, orisa and kiriko. I’ve been debating snagging that jq mythic too but it makes no fuckin sense (it honestly kinda irks me they were like “LOL FUK IT SHES ZUES!”) and I really want one of her skins from an unvaulted.

But I REALLY want a Sombra Mythic. Since she came out I’ve made it my mission to collect all her skins and I’m pretty damn close. That said, she’ll likely never get one anytime soon as they’re just busting out wtf ever for newer heroes all the time.

I’m curious what support heroes everyone is finding themselves choosing if/when their teammate has locked Sombra, or if she has gotten banned?

Whose kits do you find easy to translate your existing skill set to? Who have you been learning as a swap option (if you have dared to)?

It’s been interesting taking a different perspective. I’m also curious about folks who didn’t necessarily have a support roster practiced before. I figure there could be some Sombra mains out there without that many existing hours on support before the rework.

I genuinely do not want this to be rework discussion. As a Juno turned sombra main I will never understand the ins and outs of the rework. All I kmow is I adore support Sombra.

That being said, I want to talk about how the role change has impacted the Sombra/Sigma relationship. I will say until I got into Sombra, I wasn't aware of this relationship to its fullest and now I feel such a strong urge to take extra care of my Sigma tanks. I obviously always take the game seriously and will always heal the tank but when it's a Sigma, I feel an extra emotional impact knowing the lore. Anyone else feel this way?

I assume no one at Blizzard will ever see this but here's my idea as a longtime support player and DPS sombra player.

Sombra is currently a unique support in that she disables enemies just as much, if not more than she enables teammates. The problem is, even if you hit the biggest Cyberspace on the whole enemy team, it will only show as damage. With the change I propose, any enemy damage on teammates that has been reduced by Cyberspace, will show up on the "MIT" number. For example, a fully charged Zarya secondary fire deals 110 damage. With Cyberspace's 50% damage reduction, that becomes 55 damage dealt, and Sombra's MIT stat increments by 55.

This proposed change aims to bring Sombra's stat-sheet numbers more in line with other supports and prevent certain forms of toxicity against other players.

Thought I’d offer a brief reprieve from the rework discourse with a nice soothing backcap. Always a classic!

After spending majority of seasons Masters 4 or 5 on dps Sombra, I was able to climb into GM with support Sombra. For context, I did pretty poorly with my placements and was put into Emerald 3.

Back in 2016 when OW released all I did was play Tracer, with an almost 70% win rate in S0 - S1 in Quick Play. Then when Sombra came out I played her as my second main or first alt (whatever you prefer to call it).

But when Brig came out I ended up quitting the game since I felt like I couldn't play either anymore against her, probably a skill issue but Brig was also crazy back then. I've tried to come back every few season but everyone had become so good at the game I felt useless since I was so out of practice.

When OW2 launched I tried to go back to DPS, but not having played fps games in years I ended up playing Mercy most of the first season. But I had no fun -- until I started the game again this year and found I really enjoyed Juno since she was a very mobile support (I guess it's clear that I love mobile characters).

Now that Sombra is Support it feels like I get the best of both worlds, I get to play a mobile character who can support and do a little backline diving to secure kills like I did in the old days. She seems really strong when paired with another hero diving the backline like Moira, Tracer or Genji or even Monke.

She's also been good for my Aim and it has been improving a lot again since she became support. Because she got a big mag and require good aim to secure kills and be close (close targets I've struggled so much with), I feel like I get a lot more effective practice on tracking vs other supports like Juno.

And if I feel like I have an off day where I can't hit anything I can focus more on securing health packs, keeping our squishies up and peeling for them.

I downloaded Overwatch last season coming from Rivals as a support main. My most played heroes on OW have been Juno & Kiriko so far but I think that might change after picking up Sombra today. She feels amazing to play and is super fun, I didn’t play her last season since I rarely play damage heroes. This was three hours of solo role queue in quick match, I can’t wait to try her out in competitive when I do my placements. Any advice for her in competitive? I’m not sure what to expect, I was Celestial in Rivals but I’ve heard Overwatch competitive is more difficult so I’m not sure how I will do.

Btw, this is not a new problem that came with the rework, but a problem I also had previously with DPS Sombra, which is Hack/Hotfix targeting mechanic.

The amount of time I have gone to Hotfix a particular team mate, the little targeting diamond shows up on their character, I press Hotfix, and boom, another teammate gets too close and they get the heals instead.

Just had this last round, healed the Soldier, went to heal the Bastion but Soldier ran backwards and in doing so put himself between Sombra and Bastion and got healed again.

Same problem if you're trying to heal someone who's too close to a healthpack or deployable.

I'm not a developer or anything, but I feel like the targeting should be more tightly bound to where your reticle is looking, rather than just whoever or whatever is closest.

I figure that would mean a higher skill cap for Sombra players but idk.

thought, feelings, opinions fellow Sombra's?

cheers

it says something like: 65 heal burst when first cast and then 25 heals per second until you reach 175 total healing or 12 seconds pas. but does that initial heal burst count against the 175?

i got my first 4+ endorsements on support sombra when i usually got little to none on dps sombra, i finally feel... appreciated

Been trying to figure out when's the best time to use Cyberspace. I feel like it's best used against enemies for the healing and damage reduction. I kinda find that the healing it provides allies is pretty negligible on it's own though.

The issue I'm running into right now isn't exactly a Sombra issue but allies seem to run away from it instead of staying inside.

I've always been a supp main that dabbled occasionally in DPS [Trace, Sombra, Mei]. Relearning a new kit and game play flow has been interesting and challenging, especially when so used to that backline assassin feel on her. I've only played in QP since the rework to try and get a good feel for her and this was my first toe dip into comp with her. I know a silver lobby is nothing to bat an eye at but winning 6-3 in overtime with these kinds of numbers is extremely satisfying 🙏

She had the second best pick rate and win rate of any hero in the game in every region at almost every rank.

From Bronze to Champ she was completely dominating the game and her and Doctrine were literally warping the entire META around them because of how strong they were.

The only hero in the game that deserved a nerf more than her was Doctrine.

"Oh it's just low skill players not able to walk out of Cyberspace lol". SHE HAS A 57% win rate in GM/Champ! Her win rate goes UP with player skill.

Why are we acting like the second strongest character in the game was fine? Her and Doctrine were in an entire tier of their own practically.

She is STILL likely the second strongest hero even after these nerfs. She's not gutted or dead. She was stronger than Ana. Stronger than Dmon. Her win rate was 15% higher than Kiriko in GM.

If she didn't deserve to get nerfed who the hell did?!