This is not a balance post. As a support, I actually like the rework, playing with and against Sombras is interesting again.

The problem is that infinite stealth is being used to troll instead of playing the game. In consecutive games, I’ve had different enemy Sombras sneak around in the back spamming “boop” and “no” without actually engaging anyone. This effectively does nothing unless the support overreacts, and is usually to the detriment of the team of the Sombra. What it usually achieves is that the supports check that they’re well positioned against a Sombra attack, further to the detriment of the enemy team.

It’s generally accepted that around 10 seconds of doing nothing starts to harm the team. It’s basically like a free elimination of a DPS player. So, doing nothing but spamming voice lines is forcing the enemy team to fight a 4v5 for most of the match.

Now, this is clearly a skill issue. But it was a skill issue 5 years ago when Jeff introduced perma-invis the first time, and I don’t see the player base at my lowly MR learning this time either. In fact, I see more useless Sombras over time, despite the fact that the rework allows her to be played to impact during team fights.