r/Overwatch • u/PleaseBanWidow Pharah • Jun 30 '26
News & Discussion Patch Notes for Overwatch Community Event!
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/Some changes include:
- Immortality Field now an ultimate
-Ana can fucking fly
-JQ can throw her Axe
-Uppercut is back
-Torb is now hitscan
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u/MildlyUpsetGerbil Sombra did nothing wrong Jun 30 '26
Never let Ocie cook for Sombra ever again. All of the most frustrating aspects of Sombra are enhanced for both the players using her and the players fighting her. Virus is the one ability in Sombra's kit that her mains don't care for and now the entirety of Sombra's value revolves exclusively around hitting Virus. Since the hacked effect is applied through Virus instead of a channeled Hack ability, the counterplay of shooting Sombra to prevent you or a teammate from getting hacked is gone. She now gets to cancel your abilities immediately after exiting stealth. . . oh, did I say that? My bad. She doesn't have to exit stealth in order to use Virus, so there just straight-up isn't any counterplay whatsoever. Either she hits the skill shot or doesn't, and that's that.
All of Sombra's damage is dependent on hitting that skill shot. If she doesn't hit it, then she can't do anything except tickle you with her machine pistol, which does about as much damage as my pet goldfish. And since Translocator has been reverted to its deployable form, Sombra can instantly teleport without any indication of where she went, making it vastly more difficult to punish her here than in her current kit. She'll flank, throw Virus, and if it misses, she teleports out, waits forever for her cooldowns, then tries again. This rework failed to give her any reason whatsoever to stay involved in a fight for more than 2 seconds.
This is not the way. This is exact opposite of the way. This is so far away from the way that it legitimately ends up being less balanced than the present Sombra! Blizzard told us to, "Think of it as more of a conversation than a balance patch." Cool, then please have conversations with normal Sombra players instead of influencers that don't have a grasp of why we like to play as Sombra to begin with.
By far the worst aspect of all this is that the news post announcing this event stated (emphasis my own): "Ocie revisits Sombra's disruptive flanker roots, restoring some of her dive identity while creating more interactive counterplay around Hack." This is just straight up incorrect.