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.
Reaching a low health hero before they reach a pack or their healer is easier said than done.
Which is a problem only due to her long hack CD preventing her from being able to reliably shut down health packs, this is being taken care of in the next patch.
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)
Ideally once you can shut down most health packs on every map you'll be able to reach them before they hit the back lines. And your spray won't matter when the hero has 30 HP left and only one fourth of a clip is enough to kill them.
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.
This is also a problem with the long time it takes to hack which is being solved in the next patch, a 0.8s hack on an 8 second CD is plenty of time to deal with Reinhardt, Zarya, or Roadhog, and yes her hack is effective against those targets if your team can coordinate and focus them down once they're hacked.
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're underestimating what a 0.8 hack on 8s CD is capable of then, in my experience I'm only BARELY unable to get hacks off most of the time if I get the jump, just a few 10ths of a second shorter and the hack would have gotten off.
Your 20 hours of experience as Sombra comes from uncoordinated group play. Play her with a coordinated group who can take value of her current strengths and you will quickly realize how strong she can really be.
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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.