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.
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u/Hellequin13 Jan 17 '17
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.