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There will be Riots I say!
Red Arremer
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Sombra discussion eh? I know I'm not Anne, but here's what I think about Sombra's viability.
She is very situational at best.
Clearly, the majority of her kit point towards her being supposed to be a flanker. She can pick off people, she has the means and mobility to get into the enemy backlines, and she also has a way to both bolster her survivability and deny enemy flankers the same by hacking health kits.
However, the problem I feel she has is that her damage output is just low enough that she can't reliably pick off people. Her mobility options are nowhere near as reliable as those of the other flankers. If you set up her beacon in a safe spot before engaging, you have to be really fast - 15 seconds to get behind enemy lines, get a pick off. Otherwise, your beacon will be down. If you don't use it before engaging, it's very easy to follow the trail it's been thrown to, and unlike Tracer, Sombra cannot do additional blinks. The stealth is an awful mode of escape, it only is useful as a tool to get behind enemy lines, the startup just is too much otherwise.
Meanwhile, Genji, Tracer and even Reaper have a fairly easy time getting out of hairy situations, and they also deal much more and, more importantly, more reliable damage. If they engage, they will most certainly get at least one pick before retreating. With Sombra however, it's a gamble. But not only is it risky, she also has to commit so much time to setting up her engagement and still might not be able to get out that it's extremely difficult for her to get a reliable pick. This is especially true if she tries to pick off the healer, aka Ana, who can use healnade and sleep dart. So unless you also spend the 2 seconds to hack Ana, she'll easily hold her own and maybe even kill you instead.
Beacon has a 6 second cooldown after being used or the timer running out. That's a potential 21 seconds of downtime before you can re-engage. To compare, Tracer takes 3 seconds for one charge of her blink (so she has 2 blinks in the same time it takes for Sombra's beacon to come off of CD), Genji's dash has an 8 second cooldown, which gets reset if he scores a pick and he also can double jump and wall climb infinitely.
And sadly, her utility simply doesn't make up for her being a much less reliable flanker than the other flankers in the game. Her EMP is great, but only if you have teammates who really know how to make use of it. Her Hack on enemies is okay, but situational. Her Hack on health kits is okay, but situational (health kits generally are not where fights tend to take place), and also take ult charge away from the healers.
She is very situational at best.
Clearly, the majority of her kit point towards her being supposed to be a flanker. She can pick off people, she has the means and mobility to get into the enemy backlines, and she also has a way to both bolster her survivability and deny enemy flankers the same by hacking health kits.
However, the problem I feel she has is that her damage output is just low enough that she can't reliably pick off people. Her mobility options are nowhere near as reliable as those of the other flankers. If you set up her beacon in a safe spot before engaging, you have to be really fast - 15 seconds to get behind enemy lines, get a pick off. Otherwise, your beacon will be down. If you don't use it before engaging, it's very easy to follow the trail it's been thrown to, and unlike Tracer, Sombra cannot do additional blinks. The stealth is an awful mode of escape, it only is useful as a tool to get behind enemy lines, the startup just is too much otherwise.
Meanwhile, Genji, Tracer and even Reaper have a fairly easy time getting out of hairy situations, and they also deal much more and, more importantly, more reliable damage. If they engage, they will most certainly get at least one pick before retreating. With Sombra however, it's a gamble. But not only is it risky, she also has to commit so much time to setting up her engagement and still might not be able to get out that it's extremely difficult for her to get a reliable pick. This is especially true if she tries to pick off the healer, aka Ana, who can use healnade and sleep dart. So unless you also spend the 2 seconds to hack Ana, she'll easily hold her own and maybe even kill you instead.
Beacon has a 6 second cooldown after being used or the timer running out. That's a potential 21 seconds of downtime before you can re-engage. To compare, Tracer takes 3 seconds for one charge of her blink (so she has 2 blinks in the same time it takes for Sombra's beacon to come off of CD), Genji's dash has an 8 second cooldown, which gets reset if he scores a pick and he also can double jump and wall climb infinitely.
And sadly, her utility simply doesn't make up for her being a much less reliable flanker than the other flankers in the game. Her EMP is great, but only if you have teammates who really know how to make use of it. Her Hack on enemies is okay, but situational. Her Hack on health kits is okay, but situational (health kits generally are not where fights tend to take place), and also take ult charge away from the healers.
I agree.
The problem is the player base seems to really go for these events, and the fact that they are limited makes the holiday skins all the more "rare".
I could see them eventually moving on to maybe storyline-style events accompanied by a comic that advances the plot (?) forward a little bit, and have some skins related to that. It depends on how they want to handle their world/lore going forward. Even if they don't tie it to a story some new "alternate concept" legendaries would be awesome.
However creating new skins and just dumping them into general loot boxes doesn't seem like it would have quite the same effect that event ones do, so I don't know. We did get that Rein one to match the new map.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Loud noises?
Garrett Hawke
Member
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Dreadnought
Member
Sony you are a disappointment
Puck Beaverton
Banned
I came at the Nutcracker
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
omg
Trickster
Member
Those are just incredibly dissapointing
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Ryo Hazuki
Member
6 v 6 Mei snow battle, damn.
holy shit!!!!!
Jimnymebob
Member
Does that say GAMF lol?
Garrett Hawke
Member
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OdysseusVA
Banned
WINSTON
MY NEW MAIN
MY NEW MAIN
Ryo Hazuki
Member
Symmetra has a new voice line
"I made you something"
And a new intro where she makes a snowflake.
"I made you something"
And a new intro where she makes a snowflake.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
HOLY SHIT WINSTON YETI
Vault Dweller 111
Member
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Why does Roadhog get a Rudolph skin but not Reinhardt?
That doesn't even make any sense. D:
That doesn't even make any sense. D:
Garrett Hawke
Member
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OdysseusVA
Banned
MORE PICTURES
Garrett Hawke I LOVE YOU
Garrett Hawke I LOVE YOU
falconxcrunner09
Member
DAMMIT NO MERCY SKIN
That Pharah skin is really dope tho
That Pharah skin is really dope tho
Ricerocket
Member
That Winston looks sweet. Much better than the armor/safari shit.
Wow that Zen is good too lmao.
Wow that Zen is good too lmao.
Bumbletron
Member
Winston got the Bumble skin, all is right in the world.
My final form has now been achieved.
My final form has now been achieved.
holy fuck
Garrett Hawke
Member
So I won't need to change my avatar
nor buy lootboxes until I get the new skin
falconxcrunner09
Member
Will Pharah ever get tired of winning so much?
Dreadnought
Member
No Mrs Clause Mercy what are you doing Blizzard
Garrett Hawke
Member
So many cool skins! But no Widowmaker love.
Why Blizz?
widowmaker got a highlight
gunna gif it in a sec
Gotta rep my Mexican waifu.
Winston yeti skin! YES!
Thank you Blizzard. ;-;
Ryo Hazuki
Member
Zarya has a new epic skin too - Frosted
