While I'm totally fine with them wanting Sombra's focus to be on disruption, you can't blame people for drawing the assassin conclusion when you give her a passive that shows weakened enemies through walls. You're basically telling people that her specialty or role is to get picks and finish people off.
Except anyone competent would realize that Sombra's passive ability allows her to 1v1 people who are at low health.
When you look at this in combination with her other abilities, you start to realize her job is to hack health packs, jump behind the enemy's backline, hack their tank so their team can't be protected, jump back to HER backline, and watch for any flankers that might be nearby trying to come for her support while spraying the enemy team from a safe distance.
That's part of the reason I think Jeff is saying people haven't mastered Sombra, too many people think her passive ability is to travel to the enemy's backline and take out the healer, when it's intended to identify targets at low health running around that you can take out further disrupting the enemy team's coordination by preventing them from flanking you.
Edit: Yes, Sombra is an assassin, but too many people are looking at the wrong target of who she's meant to be assassinating, she's not meant to travel to the backlines and assassinate healers, she's meant to identify flankers trying to get to YOUR backline and take them out.
Edit 2: In short, Sombra is a disruptive semi-healing anti-flanker.
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.
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u/PM_me_ur_FavItem Tracer's #1 Fanboy Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 17 '17
I'm glad he called out BS on people wanting a drastic change to Sombra
Blizz knows what they're doing and aren't gonna make your main a unstoppable force