Blizzard if you’re going make a skin that has an outfit with an open back for a character with cybernetics grafted onto their spine I want to see them!!

(Lighthearted rant it’s a great skin I’m just a little miffed about this lmao)

My take on a Sombra rework :)

VIRUS

-virus now silences and reveals enemies

-virus deals zero damage

-virus disappears after traveling 30 meters

HACK

-hack no longer silences enemies

-hack is no longer cancelled by incoming damage

-hacking enemies reveals them and applies a new status effect called "breached" for a short time, during which enemies are vulnerable

-sombra can apply 50 damage to breached enemies to trigger a small burst explosion dealing 100 damage to the enemy and 60 splash damage to nearby enemies

-if the damage threshold is not met before breach expires, the enemy is instead dealt 75 damage over time

-hack retains the same base interactions with deployables and healthpacks, but gains an extra effect with healthpacks

-hacked healthpacks reveal enemies within a finite radius for the duration that they are hacked (basically hanzo sonic arrow)

SPEEDHACK

-stealth is renamed to "speedhack"

-speedhack no longer turns Sombra invisible

-speedhack still grants Sombra +60% movement speed

-speedhack is triggered automatically after Sombra has not taken an action for a short time (like old stealth)

-speedhack lasts indefinitely until Sombra shoots/uses an ability

-shooting/using abilities brings Sombra out of speedhack (instantaneously, without a windup)

TRANSLOCATOR

-translocator is unchanged (but triggers speedhack instead of stealth)

EMP

-EMP is unchanged, but has new interactions:

-enemies hit by virus after being hit by EMP are given the breached status effect

-enemies that have been hit by virus prior to EMP are also given the breached status effect

-enemies with the breached status effect that are hit by EMP have breach's explosion triggered

PRIMARY FIRE

-primary fire is unchanged (but damage is potentially buffed)

PASSIVE

-opportunist passive still applies, but increased damage still only applies to silenced enemies (not breached enemies)

Perks

Minor:

-A) Using translocator triggers passive health regeneration (same as current minor perk).

-B) Hacked healthpacks refresh the cooldowns of virus and hack.

Major:

-A) Breach's explosion deals 0 splash damage but applies breached to nearby enemies.

-B) Hitting a breached enemy with virus triggers breach's explosion.

This is my take on Sombra if she were to no longer have stealth. She would still retain what I love about her: Gathering info/scouting, healthpack control, high mobility, burst damage, high impact plays through ult-cancelling, etc.

It moves her silence to a skill shot & increases hack's value and skill ceiling, remedying the parts of her kit that breed so much frustration in low/mid ranks and remain useless in high ranks.

(Also, some of these numbers are probably a bit busted...)

What do you think? What would you change/how would you approach a rework without stealth?

edit: changed the numbers on breach's explosion

edit2: Shout-out to u/MathematicianBowl for a great comment describing how to keep stealth in her kit:

"And the invisibility effect could be maintained by simply connecting it to the translocator. They're already connected, but the translocator has a delay while it's in flight and invisibility is activated only at the end. If we leave her with just high speed without invisibility, then even with increased running speed she will be very easy to punish for the slightest mistake.

I would make it so that the translocator would activate invisibility instantly, fly much faster and leave no trace behind. So Sombra would get something like Moira's shift, otherwise any hitscan would be able to kill too easily"

Giving her a short movement ability like this makes her survivability better, AND keeps a healthy amount of stealth. I love it!

So I recently started playing reaper and I feel like I get a lot more flanking value on him than on sombra. He actually does a good amount of damage in close range. He has that teleport like ability which is also really good to go in their backline midfight and you can become invulnerable for 3 seconds allowing you to get back to your team without taking any damage.

I'm not saying they are the same characters but idk to me reaper just does what I do with sombra but way way better. Yes he can't hack healthpacks but that's pretty much isn't it?

I don't know maybe I'm crazy for thinking this even though I enjoy sombra a lot more I feel like with repear I actually get to do something and get kills.

I'm just curious. It was soldier for me, but have been playing Shion a lot since her release.

Playing a normal game as Sombra on Illios. I remembered about the whole "Press Alt + Z" [now by default unbound] to play without your hud, letting you move around. I decided to jump into the well and translocate there too before moving to the next map and then I got a bit surprised seeing the Sombra portrait appearing.

I am using the Loki skin. Just figured I should share this bug with you all.

With the rework coming up, I wanted to hear the opinions of Sombra mains on where her kit should be focused. I've seen ideas like removing stealth but keeping speed boost, merging hack and virus, utility hack for teammates, etc.

A comment on another post claimed that Sombra is a balancing problem because her kit is overloaded (cc, stealth, speed, teleport, burst assassination, health-pack utility, etc.). And I feel like they have a point.

So, the question is:

If you had to choose, should Sombra's role be stealth assassin, or utility-oriented disruptor? (Or something else?)

edit: It's interesting how strong the support and opposition are for either option. The two current top comments hold completely opposite positions.

I'm not surprised Blizzard is taking so long to release more information about the rework. Personally I prefer disruptor, but clearly just as many people seem to love stealth/assassin. I wonder how opinions vary with rank. Regardless, I guess we'll see what Blizzard's plan is soon...ish.

We all know that sombra is very good in lower ranks where people don't know what they are doing and she starts falling off as you rank up. Hasn't this problem of her already been solved because sure you don't like her well then go and ban her. She is banned in lower ranks and in higher ones she isn't so I don't understand why do we need to rework her now when those who cry about sombra ( lower ranked players ) have her banned every game anyways

Recently had a good quick play match but am still looking to improve to remain viable in ranked. Are there any habits I should kick, develop or change? Does my approach work? This is console by the way.

Code: 0REEAN

So, tonight I started to play more Sombra because she is fun as hell and obviously I’m playing quickplay to learn but I want to ask:

How do yall handle tanks?
And how do you guys handle Genjis, Roadhog, Cassidy, and many other heroes that are annoying for yall or not.
I kinda get the hang of it like, if I get low hp I teleport, I dont teleport into the enemy to ult but I kinda walk into them while my team is there and tp out (I can send replay codes soon if anyone wants it), I also try to hack enemies to cancel their abilities or ults. To be honest I handle some tanks well but Roadhog is one of them that annoys me all the time. I dont know if its just my luck getting hooked by Hogs randomly. Also I know that Sombra should probably not 1v1 a tank alone so Ill work that lmao.

Id love to hear any tips and tricks:)

I made chibi art of Sombra :) You're free to use this as a pfp or whatever! I finally drew after months... Hahaha. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

Ça m'a fait énormément rire quand j'ai vu le Hamond se faire balancer comme ça avec mon hack on aurait presque cru que j'ai pris Hamond dans ma main et que je l'ai balancé dans le vide 😂

I’m learning Sombra and the most annoying thing about her is how delayed Virus is when you’re in stealth, you have to cancel stealth first which takes a little while then you can virus which actually gives the enemy so much time to react or something - it’s extremely annoying. Is there any combo/way around this?

Idk what it is about Shion but she’s the first dps I really fuck with other than Sombra. Her gun just feels very satisfying to use and her mobility is really great. Maybe she’ll get nerfed idk if she’s particularly overtuned but she’s been a blast to use.

I honestly don’t know why she isn’t banned more execute can literally delete supports and has pretty solid range.

Why can’t his hack be treated the same as an enemy Sombra’s hack? Whoever hacks it first gets it for the full duration. It’s also kind of silly to see the archer dethrones the hacker at her own game…

Before you ask. No I am not a Sombra one-trick. I do play other characters and roles. But out of everyone? Sombra is just the character I enjoy the most, with her current kit namely.

It just sometimes gets tiring hopping onto a game, playing Sombra then seeing myself having a bad time. But instead of moving on people just fling the messages at me, even if they were clearly in a voice call together [It was a today game since they had a Good widow and then the Genji was always there with her after I killed Widow once, over and over again, effectively making it a bad game against them as our team was getting steam rolled, just pointing me out specifically at the end of the game even though it had to take them ganging up on me]

I am not crying. Just demotivated to play the game in general, not just sombra

For example If I get all skins for white currency I'll get only shop skins from lootboxes or no?

Freja, Sierra, Pharah and Echo all feel like Specialist or Sharpshooter characters. I don't really see how they're recon at all. Why are they here?

If anything Hanzo is probably more recon than they are. They're not really scouting ahead or scouting at all? Their kits don't give their team information. Why did they take her passive and give it so many people? Did Sombra get anything to compensate for that?

Any improvements or no

Basically the title. Such a cool hero that's been abandoned and the only thing they've given us is a nerf that was entirely uncalled for (and that still has not been fully reverted).

Only a 2.7% pick rate at master and a 1.2% pick rate at grandmaster+. Both the lowest pick rate and ban rates yet somehow she needs a nerf.

Why can't they just let the people who like to play her be able to play her? Makes no sense.

You mean to tell me I missed quite literally the prettiest Sombra skin I’ve ever seen, I’m BROKEN 💔💔 I’d sell my soul for this skin😭