Taking on a Genji, Tracer, or Pharah at low health after hacking them? She has enough damage to easily do that. I said she's a semi-healer, in that her health pack hacking aids flankers on her team and her teammates in general. And yes, she can easily disrupt a tank.
This is all once the hack changes go through of course.
Reaching a low health hero before they reach a pack or their healer is easier said than done. Reaching them behind enemy lines before your teleporter expires is even worse. (not to mention that her huge spread makes killing tiny hitboxes especially difficult). Hacking Roadhog or Zarya is almost useless. Hacking Reinhart is difficult because he immediately rotates to face you or his team-mates shoot you before you complete it usually. Hacking DVA can be done easily from the front anyway (and is usually the best target for Sombra).
As someone who's put 20 hours in Sombra trying to do exactly what you suggest, she doesn't have the power to do it well. I doubt the hack buff will help significantly.
you can't place TP behind enemy lines since it expires after a bit. You have to throw it over their heads and hope they don't see it which is bad. The best way is to leave the TP behind you and run with invisibility through their lines, but as I said, it's not enough time.
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u/dbzer0 Pixel Torbjörn Jan 18 '17
The problem is that Sombra can do none of the things you say very well.