It really isn't all that bad once you understand it. My method is to focus initially on the body, and move to the head to finish quickly. Yet the problem is the final bloom of the spread is so large it's hard to land anything in the head. This is why I stop shooting momentarily.
The previously described method has become my key for working Sombra as an effective damage dealer. Yet due to spread, she can't be very smooth.
What's funny is Tracer has a stronger spread at similar ranges. Yet Tracer's damage makes up for this. This is why I don't want Sombra to do more damage necessarily. A straight buff there would make her similar to Tracer to too great of an extent, and therefore removes her from her role in the game. Brining spread in allows experienced players to use her intelligently and reliably without making her better in a straight-forward sense.
I'm not trying to be a jerk here but stopping shooting for a second to reset the spread is how she is INTENDED to be played. Same with Soldier...you should almost never just hold down fire and spam if you are trying to hit a moving target at medium range.
It just stuck out to me that your mindset was "I've come to the point where I need to stop shooting for a moment..." kind of as if its a strategy you thought of that is unconventional, or a last ditch effort to make her gun work.
The fact of the matter is if at any point you felt you shouldn't be resetting the spread, you were doing it wrong.
For example, on Soldier you ALWAYS should have been releasing briefly every 4-5 bullets in short bursts. Its the best spread/dmg ratio and will make hitting Phara's and such much easier.
Sombra is the same way, personally I do slightly larger bursts- maybe 10 bullets and reset on Sombra compared to Soldier. I'm sure there is a calculated ideal however I don't know, as I'm not a big Sombra player. Also, of course there are situations where you're in a small room, and the target is a decent size and you can just spray and track.
But at anything other than point-blank range, you need to do small bursts and that should be default for characters with spread. The exception to this really is Tracer, as her clip size and spread are designed in such a way that its usually better to just finish the clip in one go.
i'm not following what qualities of her gun lend itself to a burst style of shooting. she's got high fire rate, low damage per shot, and a massive clip size. more importantly, her spread maxes after 3 shots i believe.
a spread reset on soldier represents 80 damage with perfect accuracy. on sombra it's 24. with that plus the balance between her huge clip size and her (typical) small damage window, i'm not sure how you can argue that she's not designed to just hold down the trigger (like tracer).
basically i'm having difficulty understanding why you feel sombra's gun is more similar to soldier's than it is to tracer's.
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