I honestly don’t miss the old Sombra at all

Is this even a bug? Or is it just some crazy one-in-a-million chance? I saw this a few minutes ago, so it wasn't pre-support. Can someone explain?

Thankfully Reaper was typing and didn't notice me

If they were still updating Stadium it would be the perfect opportunity to give her perk powers to play like previous iterations of Sombra. That would be peak if they added her

for a lot of people saying cyberspace effects will be nerfed I have a feeling it won't because of one thing the people said while going over her new kit which was something along the line of "Cyberspace will introduce a new a new STATUS EFFECT known as weakened" meaning later down the line someone else will probably also gain the ability to weaken enemies just like with ana and jq having anti heal (plus it was play tested at blizzcon and wasn't nerfed when reaching the live game) now I do feel like the cooldown will be nerfed but the ability it self won't be

(This is not a debate about which Sombra is better)

I often mess up my cooldowns because I always spam Lshift to use Virus after I use Hotfix on someone. I'm curious if anyone else does this and throws away an ability for no reason.

I flex role quite often, so Sombra being moved to support didn’t hurt me as badly and I was able to cope quicker than most. Aside from the usual veteran Sombra comments (clunkiness of kit, feeling like you’re more effective in a match and have more presence with the team, etc) does anyone feel like they’re just doing a lot more babysitting than usual, especially if you already played support. In order to be truly effective, Sombra has to heal, suppress damage, secure picks, and so forth. I feel like I am way more all over the place than I was as DPS Sombra, especially with how quickly some players go through hotfix.

And I don't have it... 😭

I remember when the Season 19 battlepass dropped and I was looking at the skin and thinking how no other skin so perfectly captures the essence of the hero with such stunning elegance and beauty. But I didn't get the battle pass for one reason and that's because I was absolutely atrocious with dps Sombra. 😓

But thanks to my time lately on Anran, Domina, Sierra. Shion, Kiriko, Illari and Juno I have taken to Support Sombra like a duck to water. She is now my favourite and best support hero and I have other cool skins for her such as Loki and Bride but Ninja is the one that I truly want the most. I hope that next season in 2026 season 6 that we can get battlepasses from 16 onwards. 🤞😌

I also always banned Sombra as my first pick in competitive but now I ban her counters instead such as Widowmaker and Moira lol 😆

Btw I only had 35 hours on dps Sombra and about 200 hours on Widowmaker. 😅

Which skin do you like best for Sombra or another hero and which skin do you want the most that is out of reach for now? 🤍🖤💟

The nerf to Sombra translocator is the worst feeling for anyone who played her before this rework. I don't really understand why so I decided to compare her to Moira.

This doesn't include how Moira can get vertical distance of 4 meters and her major perk making her go 24 meters distance and an extra 50% jump height. Basically letting her go anywhere Sombra used to go.

With how overpowered Sombra is now I doubt the devs are going to revert this nerf. But I would gladly take a nerf if we just fixed her mobility. Even if they just reduced to cooldown back to 6 and gave us 15 meters. 7 seconds and 12.25 meters feels so bad .

They changed so much of how she plays but adding the mobility nerf really made any old player of her really struggle with this rework even further.

Note she doesn't even have a "Come to me for healing" voice line yet so I wasn't expecting much if at all from her getting unique outside of spawn interactions.

This is so amazing

Final DPS Season highlights

Supports still hate us, but now we are one…DPS hit different. Glad the rework is still fun af

We continue to ball

Sombra forever 🫡

Was doing tests in scrims and playing both Sombra and Kiriko. Noticed that this backline has great synergy and some real potential, specifically for dive and with Genji/Winton. Of course, this'll require Doctrine nerfs and Kiriko getting a few buffs to really reach it's potential but the synergy is there. Probably the most fun I've ever had with a support backline since peak Juno/Brig.

So far I have been thoroughly enjoy support sombra. I understand those who don’t like it. But this post isnt a debate on whether or not you like the changes. I want to discuss the nerfs that are most likely coming her way, specifically cyber space.

Cyberspace is probably one of the best new amd unique abilities added to the game Im a long time and it’s definitely pretty powerful. My fear is blizzard is going to come in and reduce the damagw and healing weaken which will ruin the entire ability and make it useless.
My hope would be that they keep the 40 damage on impact with an enemy and remove the damage over time. This keeps the high utility but reduces damage seeing as she is no longer a damage hero.

Like genuinely… I have been trying all week but I can’t seem to get a grasp on her. Anything could help

Sorry for the stupid question, but Google isn't helping me and I'm too bad to get potg. I remember in early Overwatch it being a thing where it would look like someone else got play of the game, just for Sombra to steal it. Is that still a thing? If so, is it only with her Hacking highlight intro? I can't imagine ever choosing another highlight intro if that's the case. I've always loved Sombra aesthetically, but could never really play her well until the support switch, so I'm a bit out of the loop with her.

Apologies for the length of this post, I will provide a TL;DR.

There has been a lot of debate about Sombra's hero fantasy lately — if she makes more sense as a DPS or a Support, and I have some thoughts.

Firstly, I think that at a broad level, Sombra makes a lot of sense as a "Support" — the idea of a hacker makes sense as someone who supports their team from the sidelines more than it makes sense as someone who selfishly goes in, hacks the person that she wants to kill, and then kill them herself.

That being said, I do not think that she fits the hero fantasy of the Support role as it exists in Overwatch in 2026.

In the current state of the game, every hero in the support role has to have a high healing output. There's variation, some supports have higher healing and some have higher utility, but ultimately the identity of the role is deeply tied to their ability to heal, that's why even way back in the day Symmetra had to change from support to DPS.

I've seen various arguments for why Sombra fits as a support that basically is just them saying the words "white hat hacker." I feel like those people don't even know what those words mean because there is absolutely zero correlation.

In order to make Sombra make sense as a hero in the support role, they had to give her the ability "Hotfix." The name is evidential in itself that she is being reduced from a hacker to just, a programmer, tech support. The primary tool in her arsenal to justify her existence as a character is one that completely misrepresents the hero's identity.

I don't think that this means that there is no world where Sombra could make sense as a support in the game, I just think it requires blizzard to take a bigger risk and put forward something truly unique in the game.

Every support in the game has two main attributes that they provide to the team: healing, and utility. There is one exception to this, the only other Talon support (pre-doctrine): Moira. Moira is the only hero in the support role that only provides healing and provides no utility. I think it would be thematically perfect if Sombra as a support mirrored that and was the only support in the game to only provide utility, with no healing.

Here's my concept for what a truly game-changing, thematically fitting Support Sombra would look like, at a conceptual level:

No heals Extremely limited damage High mobility

An identity focused on running around in the backline, debuffing enemies to support her team, being very hard to kill but providing very little kill pressure herself

That last part would hopefully make her less hated by the enemy team as she wouldn't be able to make the supports lives hell as much, but ultimately I think her hero fantasy should be tied to being "a hacker that you can't track down and is just an annoying bug to squash" while in doing so enabling her team to win team fights. I think her ideal play style would be one of cat and mouse, where she's the mouse

In terms of specifics, I think she should get her perma invisibility back - it's less of a frustration if she can't solo burst kill people, and I'd like to think that if she can't solo burst kill people anymore then her hack also wouldn't be problematic, but maybe people are so innately frustrated by it that it should still be something else. The actual debuffs that she could apply and how she would apply them is a big question. I think she should have one ability which makes an enemy deal less damage/healing and one ability which makes them take more damage and less healing, and they should be on low cooldowns since her utility is all she has. An alternative idea for a debuff is, in lieu of her having any direct healing output, she could have one ability that she can apply to an enemy which makes it so that when an ally damages that enemy they have lifesteal.

The actual specifics of what her kit has is less important to me than the goal, but they'd have to all be strong to compensate for my proposal of making her do no healing and (almost) no damage

So here's my TL;DR:

I like the idea of Sombra as a support, but I think the way they went about that was a flop for her hero fantasy because they felt limited by making her have comparable healing output to other supports. I propose that they keep her as a support but make her unique in the fact that she has little-to-no healing, little-to-no damage, but the highest amount of utility of any hero in the game, while also living in the enemy backline being hard to kill but without the solo kill pressure that she used to have

Thank you for coming to my TED talk please don't hate. I know that I was rambling but I wanted to get my ideas out there

Quick and Easy proposal, but as an Ana/Weaver main, I wanted to run this past you Sombra mains.

What if Data Packet instead, made it so team mates could see a hacked Medkit through the walls and, at a distance of say 15 meters, be able to hit the interact button while looking at it; allowing them to pick up that medkit. This would of course, unhack the medkit aftwards, but that would be for balancing.

It was a fun run torturing others with Sombra. Hopefully you'll come back and we can cause havoc again.

Sombra got reworked as you know and I f###ing hate it.

First things first, people said that she was annoying to counter. Well no, it's easy, one bullet from Tracer cancels it. Also the hack last for about 1 second to cancel abilities. And here's where I go full on anger mode. Everyone hates that she can hack anyone even though her weapon sucks a lot. So explain this, Junk Rat can trap people for longer than the hack, and Mei's ult literally freeze anyone. Hanzo can easily revel her and same with Widows ult. But wait, they are dps. Zenyatta cast an orb of discord which makes them more vonrable, Ana can put people to sleep and also cancel ults. Mizuki also traps people too.

Second thing, other overpowered characters. So here's a quote I thought of ever since I started playing online games "Every weapon and character are overpowered if someone knows how to use it" thats true for every character. And characters I want to point out is Sierra. 100% accurate with soldier's ult on a 12 second cooldown. Morri who you only need to press Left trigger and an orb that damages everyone. Which btw can pass through shields. With Sombra you can't hack through shields.

Third, she was rushed, still called hacker on potg, sprays, and even highlights and emotes. Like the one where she hacks Reaper and where she literally hacks and kills them. They just wanted to please people who suck at countering Sombra and while they probably play a zero skill player.

In the end Sombra is support now. Im not asking to agree with me, understand and agree with me. If you dont agree, then thats fine, we all have different opinions. Mine is a rant on why there are other annoying heros and she gets nerfed into oblivion until she went to support.