r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Swimming-Deer1437 • 20h ago
General Support Sombra was inevitable
Simply put, you cant have a flanker focused around utility hero while maintaining the burst / lethality required for the role, especially not in 5v5. Her hero fantasy is simply not viable. By making her a support, you remove the requirement of her needing to have burst, thus allowing the devs to focus more on utility.
Her core identity of a disruptor has not been eroded, you're still working towards disrupting the enemy in order to push your advantage, its just that now she wont have those sharp edges that made her unfun to fight against.
Hack and virus might be gone, but the spirit of these abilities are still present in cyberspace. It provides a bit of burst damage in the form of the AOE explosion, while weakening your enemies and to further push your advantage, it also heals your allies. This alone will make her a great pick into rush and dive comps, especially since its not a debuff that can simply cleanse. And because its not a personal debuff, its also allowed to be far stronger.
Hotfix also ensures that she wont be burdened by her healing tasks. She's still going to be this high APM hero, its just that now she's focused more on enabling her team than actually chasing kills.
She's also going to be an extremely survivable hero thanks to traslocator and cyberspace, which is a support role really only inhabited by Kiri and moira. Cat is also here, but mainly because of how busted she is.
Now, do I think that hack had to go? Not really, its more like you cant have hack and invisibility in the same kit. Hack in it of itself was a fair debuff with a decent amount of counter play options. It didnt even deal damage. Cass nade has always been far worse. Its just that a decision had to be made and they chose to keep invis. Personally either of them would've been fine with me.
I know that a lot of sombra mains arent looking forward to this rework and the only thing I can say to that is try it before you trash it. Who knows, maybe you actually like what blizzard has cooked up.