How To Fix Sombra 

"The least satisfying gun in the game" Me, an SMG user, who loves smg, looking at sombra... The hero that has the only realistic looking smg in the game

I actually do like the first two ideas and I agree that I wish blizzard would get more creative with exploring her hero identity, but I personally feel that the third option would feel really annoying and people would find themselves in endless hacking loops because one or two of your teammates doesn’t realize they’ve been hacked and won’t leave

I’ll play against a sombra instead of a widow/sojourn any day

I've always wanted to explore the option to hack team mates, and "unlock" their potential in some way by hacking them. Nothing over the top, but then you choose offensive or defensive approach like with Moira, but this would probably push her into a support role vs dps.

These are some pretty good suggestions, maybe for gms it's different but i can miss some sombra shots from time to time, and if you happen to miss your target you usually run out of ammo exactly when they are on 50 hp and have to translocate back or they just escape due to the 1.5 second window to kill them. Meaning you either need to hack at the perfect moment or have another hero help you. That wasn't the problem before because you can take any hero into a fair 'gunfight' by hacking them for 5 seconds. They lose all their flashbangs and helix rockets, but you don't have any damage abilities either, so better aim wins

I feel Sombra fits more in a support class because for one she inflicts debuff to enemies, but also can hack medpacks for herself and teammates

Awesome ideas! I really hope Blizzard sees your video, you clearly have a strong grasp of game design.

I think they could do something incredibly creative and make sombra a support. Hack could affect allies, giving them a damage boost similar to mercy’s boost, and instead of hack increasing damage on opponents, it decreases their damage. An alternative to hacking health packs, she could create a temporary, hacked health pack, or hacked allies get a passive healing like a Zen orb.

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You know I was pretty dubious about most of what you said at the beginning but not gonna lie, those last two changes could be kinda sick. Also thank you form making custom footage to show these off, it helped a lot with understanding what you meant and looked very cool

This is a very good video keep up the great work!

you’re actually a good ow channel, that I didn’t think could exist until now you bring prolific new ideas to the table, that could make the game better. Keep it up man!

An idea I had was just changing the hack cast time based on the range. If you're like right next to the target, it is instant but if you are 15 meters away(max hack range) it would take 1.5 seconds.

Cool ideas. I like the idea of doing damage to keep hack up, although I like the EMP damage ngl cause it makes it possible to do really good ult combos with Sombrero

This is an absolutely incredible suggestion. I don't struggle against her too much right now, but I would probably enjoy this version much more against or as.

well presented and thoughtfully explained, nice vid!

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Bruh i watched this video and i was like wow this is really good and a big effort video. Then i went to subscribe and realized you only have 432 subs and damn you deserve so much more.

I really like this rework. Another thing I thought was to make hack take a variable amount of time to pull off, and if you get to do a longer hack, they are disabled for longer. There's the minimum time that it is now, and it locks out for the 1 second. If you don't get interrupted or stop the hack, you can get even longer than 1 second.

Great ideas! More fun for everyone with these changes 🎉

Hmm, these sounds nice, im your 400th subscriber btw

Dude great vid, love the ideas, I'm always annoyed when I play Sombra because hack barely does anything so the only skill needed is aim for damage

I am in disbelief at how small of a sub count and view count this has. I will share the video because this is so well made.

I like this very creative ideas love the vids !

this is a really well made video!

I like it, I really like it. I was always missing a part of Sombra as a hacker since they shortened the ability lockout so much, this is refreshing, imteresting and makes sense

There are so much honestly they could do I love the concepts you made I personally believe translocator cast time could be interesting where she has to fully commit to the fight and can't just teleport away as soon as she meets resistance.

7:10 I can already hear the raging Pharah as the Mercy flies towards them. Would be hilarious to witness in a match.

The last one was the most realistic and most creative one i think. It's fair for both parties to play around with.

This is how I felt about mei's change. I like crowd control. So these two were my favorite characters 🥺

This is how you fix Sombra. buff damage to 8 and hacked damage to 10. Drop her HP to 175. EZ fix. Or keep her the way she is and just make it so any hacked target she hits heals her. 0:55 Sombra was not OP, players just Sucked ass to deal with her and took the easy way out by crying like always. 2:20 players like that have no ears or awareness. you won't get away with that shit in High Ranks. as soon as anyone hears that shit 3 - 4 players will turn around and dump on you EZ not even giving you a chance to shoot.

Really well presented video

Finally someone spoke out👏I am all for and agree with everything in this video

What do you think of changing her to support? Changing hack to promote faster cool downs, DMG reduction, speed, etc?

The final one is really creative, i love it

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High quality videos, i tought u had 100k subs not 200

Sombra is fine how she is

Wait this is actually a brilliant unique take

This is a really cool video! The first idea is one I really like. I have a few of my own that I'd like to share One idea I had about how to increase the impact of Sombra and her hack while retaining its "anti-ability" functionality is to change it from straight up disabling (active) abilities and instead have it increase the cooldown duration of any ability on cooldown when they are hacked and any ability used while hacked (abilities without cooldowns would be given them and effectively be her normal hack). This would result in the person she's attacking have to make a choice between using an ability to kill, run away from, or force a teleport from Sombra and not have that ability for awhile or preserve that ability but have a harder time fending her off. Another idea for Opportunist is that instead of dealing extra damage to hacked targets Sombra deals more damage (say like 15%) to targets under 50% health sort of like Echo's Focusing Beam. I know this goes against the idea that she shouldn't just be doing damage but I feel it goes along with the rest of Opportunist quite nicely as it incentivizes you to pick off weak targets that you can see through walls. Another thing that fits with Sombra's character both in personality and her gameplay in some fashion is the control of information. Making hacked targets be able to be seen through walls by your allies was a good idea imo. An extension of providing information to your allies is denying information to your enemies. What if being hacked made the hacked target not be able to see their allies through walls and vice versa? In higher level games or any with a full team in vc it wouldn't be too much of a problem other than for Kiriko. But in games with less cohesion it would further enable Sombra or her allies to pick off enemies through a denial of information. Another thought I've seen in this direction is to make it so that hack conceals the UI of the target for its duration. Lastly a couple more smaller things that I feel would make Sombra less annoying to fight against are 1. Make it so that there is either a maximum range Sombra can teleport to for her translocator and/or have it make a small beeping sound so it is easier to find and destroy. 2. Make stealth have a time limit that discourages being in stealth for a long time by making it have an increased cooldown if it ends naturally or from taking damage.

Honestly I love the final idea as this could give some counterplay to pharmacy without outright nerfing them also the los one is interesting all in all solid suggestions

i don’t agree with some of the points in this video, but i gotta give MASSIVE credit to the presentation. seeing the characters you’re talking about sitting at the table is super neat.

I hope they add a hero that can steal abilities, and use an ability as resource.

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as well thought out as this rework is. people would still complain about it just bc it's sombra.

imo I think it would be better to move sombra to the support class, putting more influence on her hack would encourage disrupting abilities and denying health packs for the enemy team without directly doing damage to contribute, after all support doesn’t necessarily mean healer, even though every support can heal

I like the idea of hacked enemies not actually being hacked unless they're close together. I think the duration would have to be fair, and the cooldown would have to be fairly low, but it would space out the team in an interesting way, and it's a unique way to counter pharah-mercy. I also like the idea that when Sombra ults, she's simultaneously hacking every enemy within its range like the hyper-smart cyber girl she is. Like you said, it'd emphasize her identity so much more.

I was also thinking of making it where sombra does increased damage to any target 100hp or lower. This really empowers her assassination / secure potential and would replace her stupid increased damage on hacked targets

This is very beautiful

As I Sombra main I do like these ideas and wouldn't mind it if they actually implemented it. I wonder what they'll bring us in Season 4.

I think seeing the hacked above enemies is super helpful because I know who sombra is shooting at in the given moment.

Prioritizing Counter play is an awesome way to go. I've been wondering what they could do and I really hope they take your approach.

Really liked this video as a beginning point of discussion In regards to your first idea, I think the concept that this makes sombra into a dual character very cool We could reinforce this by making sombra not want to teleport away from battle which adds a greater risk vs reward sentiment to the engagement Maybe hack duration is reduced by a second or two when she teleports away and the sound translocator makes is louder so you'll want to place it further from the fight Forcing sombra to actively stay in combat and risk death if she can think she could win the dual This also means if she loses the dual without dying (by teleporting out) the greater distance from the fight + the reduction of the back duration will effective make sombras tp away into a mini respawn

I love this person's voice :)

I don’t really agree with reworking her but this video was well made!

This is exactly why we shouldnt let the community balance the game. Sombra was fine on release, only issue was that she could hack you repeadetly on a 4 second cooldown, but that has been fixed. Sombra wasnt even meta when she got her rework, maybe at the start of season 1, but towards the end i didnt see any sombras in my games, once people came to the conclusion : Why should i bother going on a flank, prey on a lonely target, hack them, spray them down, repeat; if i can just go pick sojourn and oneshot rail them all. Cut out the middleman, straight to the source.

I really like the idea of damage extending the ability lockout instead of hack just being discount discord orb

I actually really love your sombra ideas. And frankly speaking, "Hack extends based on you dealing damage" is just so obvious, that Im flabbergasted that isnt how it works in-game.

I do really enjoy these ideas. Honestly, one thing I feel needs fixed for sombra is a minimum damage requirement to stop a hack. Because, right now 1 point of damage can stop a potential hack, making Dva the best character to counter her. When, Dva is one of the characters that Sombra should be focused on hacking in order to shut down a dive comps. I feel as though a minimum damage of say, 30 or even 20 damage in order to stop the hack. Still easy to achieve, yet opens a window of opportunity for Sombra's to be able to pull off more hacks in the long run. It also makes it easier for Sombra to play with her team in team fights as she can scour the edge of fights, rather than needing to completely backline flank. I also agree with some of the other comments around her invisibility, it should not be infinite, or in a more radical case shouldn't exist at all. A more agreeable ability in my mind would be something akin to Hanzo's sonic arrow allowing both her and her team to scout enemies, or Moria's fade, where she can dip in and out of the fight giving her more survivability. These are just suggestions but I feel her invisiblity is worth looking at even further. In terms of translocation, it's.... Well, it's not fun, either to play with or against. It's a panic button and often times is utterly worthless at actually doing anything unless you have a set location to teleport back to. But, in a fight without it already being set or it was destroyed, it's a worthless button, when something more useful could be there. If, we were to give Sombra a speed boost fade like ability on a mid to long cooldown and short active timer, that say, allows her to travel through a wall, it would allow her to get to hacked health packs and back faster to rejoin team fights than what she's currently capable of. It would also do well for her as a flank, making her decide whether to use it to get a possible pick on an enemy support/backline, or to regain health during fights, or even as a way to disengage in bad situations. (I realize that this suggestion is going to be very controversial and I could absolutely see how it could be extremely broken, but it is just an idea so please don't yell at me.) As for what could replace translocation, I feel a small disrupting pulse wave around Sombra could fit with her kit and work well. Perhaps maybe 5 to 10 meters around her? As Sombra needs to get close to deal optimal damage anyway, something that punishes diving enemies could work well in her favor. It could perhaps slow enemies that get too close, or apply the hack debuff while in range without locking their abilities. Or as a way to reduce enemies damage output by say... 10% as if she's hacking their weapons themselves? Or even as a type of debuff to healing, not a full anti-heal but it reduces healing received similar to cauterize in Paladins? Something that I feel could be added to her hack is also perhaps a bit controversial. Allowing her to instead of disabling certain deployables like Sym's/Torb's turrets and Ashe's Bob, instead turning them against the enemy team for a few seconds. Imagine Ashe throws out Bob and Sombra hacks it and for 3 seconds Bob turns against the enemy team surprising them and possibly getting a few kills in the process. It would incentivize the enemy team to carefully plan when and where to use these as it could backfire on them if a Sombra is skilled enough to capitalize on poor placements or defensive lines. I feel that that could make Sombra feel both more engaging to play and more of a viable threat to certain playstyles. (This idea also follows the line of thought that Sombra could hack a Sym teleporter and use that with her team to rush the enemy). It also requires careful planning and team play from the Sombra to use this well. As for EMP. It's not worthless mind you, perhaps one of the better tools in her kit, yet it feels rather lackluster in game. Applying the Hack debuff and disabling shields fits... But imagine if Sombra could fully lock down an aggressive team, by literally locking them in place? It wouldn't freeze them like Mei, but would instead throw up circular walls around anyone caught inside making it impossible for them to escape. Enemy supports could still heal their team from the outside, but anyone caught inside wouldn't be allowed to disengage from the fight, nor the Sombra's team. This could perhaps last maybe 4 - 6 seconds? Plenty of time to capitalize. Or if that idea isn't something you'd enjoy (as I'm sure it could get frustrating and perhaps too useful at winning fights). Why not instead an AOE effect where anyone that enters is debuffed with reduced healing (or anti-heal that could be cleansed) and the hack debuff? Perhaps it lasts 7 - 10 seconds in a 15 meter circle from where Sombra cast it? Although, I do feel her EMP could also just be left alone as is. Regardless, this was really long, but I do hope this spurs more ideas in everyone as to how Sombra could be come a more engaging and satisfying Hero to both play as and against. Please let me know your ideas, I love coming up with ways that Sombra in particular could be reworked.

I also spent some time thinking about sombra, i really like her, your rework sounds like a very fun way play sombra and also, here's my humble rework: - hack duration 6 seconds. cooldown 2, no hacking to already hacked heroes. - hack fx 1: abilities blocked for 1.5 seconds - hack fx 2: during the first 3 seconds of the hacking, every source of ult charge will give the victim NEGATIVE ult charge x2 if your ult charge is between 5% and 95% - hack fx 3: If an ability is used under hacked condition, that ability will go on cooldown with extra 10 seconds - hack fx 4: 20% less damage to sombra, hacking sombra will do 20% extra dmg to the victim, both dmg modifications apply unless you are an enemy sombra. - EMP: applies these fx to every enemy, but EMP hack extends 10% extra dmg to allies. - Keeping actual passives, role/heroe - translocator and invisibility partially lost when hacking are cool to me i would love to try these in experimental

This needs to get blown up I think

I like your first hack rework idea, since it basically locks both sombra and the hacked target to a duel (unless someone decides to join in, that is

Sombra could be reworked to be sort of in between support and dps. I had this idea where you could drop her damage but give her the ability to stockpile hacked health packs that she can drop for teammates (or can be picked up by quick enemies, like lifeweaver's leave the battlefield effect.)

Finally someone who agrees with me about sombra's gun!

This is the best thing ever!

they should make sombra a support, honestly, buff hacking healthpacks to make it somehow heal your team, she'd be a support similar to lucio where healing is NOT the main focus, her main focus would be shutting down enemies pushes, it'd fit her a lot more imo.

Not saying some of these ideas aren't worth considering, but a number of them would only serve to exacerbate the problems people have with her abilities like hack. Personally, I'd like to see Sombra's health total brought more in line with a character like Tracer's given how much utility it given to her in being able escape a situation freely, especially when we consider the impact that abilities like hack can provide to swaying a team fight. From there, I believe some power can be returned to her kit in small doses, making larger adjustments where needed.

I love how i've said since Sombra was added back in O1 that they need to go all in with one side of her kit. They've always flip flopped between making her a good hacker or disrupt the enemy team by killing backline. They can't make both really good or we get O2 launch sombra. I remember when you had 15 seconds to be invisible and I never had a problem with this or when you couldn't hack being invisible. They can't figure out what to do with her.

I really like your ideas on sombra she’s my favorite but im really fearful of what her “rework” will do to her. I lived without the damage boost in overwatch 1 so that would be fine but I would be devastated if she lost invis because that is one of the reasons I loved her to begin with.

Absolutely love the first idea. This fixes all the problems with her. Instead of her being some dumb hero who can just mindlessly harass the enemy, she actually has an important role on the team and can be countered with some communication and awareness

I think Sombra should play in the Support Role instead of the DPS role. This change would 1 dilute the DPS category and add another to a less represented role and would add a new design idea to it. 2, introducing this new idea into support role would widen it's design space. The disruptor role which she would fill would be one that is excellent at skirmishes: Hacking health packs to support team mates instead of outright healing them herself. This could also be an interesting trade off: sacrifice a healer for someone who can shut down enemy abilities? To do this I would change hack to silence enemy players for 2s but have a debuff place that lasts longer. During this debuff period, enemies would have an effect that will tell the player that a hack is being performed and if they don't damage sombra before it is completed it will have additional effects. These effects could be: -an additional 1s silence -ultimate charge decrease -antiheal -slow -Sonic Arrow effect -or direct knowledge of how their ability cooldowns for 3s. Because she is moved to healer her hack will also further boost health pack regen, grant increased healing after pick up, and will highlight it for every player on your team.

What if Sombra could hack allies to "overcharge" their kits? Kinda how Kirkiko's ult would decrease CDs for a short period? Lasts for like 3-4 seconds and then locks that player out from a 2nd hack for +2s compared to an enemy hack?

as a sombra main i personally REALLY like the last 2 and we should build and tweak them but in concept it seems good !

As a sombra main, i think this would be amazing! Most of my games i get poor dmg outputs while barely doing anthing for my team when i hack, but i also get games where i do well dmg and elims wise but feel like i couldve just played soldier. These changes would make me embrace the hacker playstyle more and actually bring value to the team

The pharmercy counter potential is what I'd like to see.

blizzard needs to hire you to their balance team. your reasoning is very fair and logical! its clear that your mindset, applied to other heroes will do nothing but benefit the game

Blizzard needs to hire this person

about her tp i have an idea 1 , if she tp out of fight she get the hack effect on her self , it will make people give effort into hiding their tp far away and you need to take the risk of throwing in middle of battle to run instead of no brainer 2 , she could attach it to an Allie to teleport to and on the ground but if the teammate dies or someone breake the tp she instantly force teleport to her trance locator this way she need be aware of her placement and force her to play safe and place it far ( so she take more time to get into the objective) or risk it and maybe het flanked

What if the longer you held down hack on a target, the longer they are hacked?

Adding skill to hacking targets sounds like the best way to make it less frustrating and unfair. And this is coming from a guy who kept getting chain hacked back in OW1 as a tank (please, let me play) and hacked often enough that I wasn't allowed to make space at all (Zen Sombra is a surprisingly painful combo, Allowing people to hurt the discorded target if they try to make space is big pain)

I love the 3rd idea the most, but I have ny own idea I want to throw on the table still no opportunist damage buff, and not sure how this would affect emp, but what if hack was a channeled ability? as in, if you want to keep an enemy hacked, you have to hold the button the whole time, still with an initial delay and breaking the hack and putting it on cooldown if she gets shot while using it so there can be some counterplay. the idea would then be to interupt or disable key enemy abilities at opportune times to enable your teammates to do their work. I believe this would be less frustrating to play against because if a Sombra tries to pick you off you know you'll have your abilities for her, and when you are hacked she cant use anything else either, but that's also where a concern rolls in; is it good to disable your enemy abilities (importantly still leaving their primary fires available) while you disable yourself entirely to do so? it might be worthwhile to have targets take damage while being hacked by Sombra so that hacking enemies doesnt leave you as disabled as the enemy you're hacking, or if not that then have the ult charge allies build up on targets you have hacked also apply to your own ult charge so that it contributes to your ult economy much more, then rework EMP to be much more fun and interesting so it feels worth it but still fun and fair to play against fantastic editing btw

What about we make it like sleep? And the hack ends of the opponent takes too much damage/ damage reduces the duration?

Good concept. Send it to Flats, he likes to review rework ideas

I think they should make it where if Sombra hacks at Target their screen is filled with pop up links and ads like a virus. so it's harder for the Target to see you and the more damage she deals to them the more their screen gets crowded

I disagree with the idea of making hack damage and attack based. I do however, like making it a radius thing, and making it an indefinite thing only as long as sombra stays within range of an opponent.

These are some good suggestions but I don’t think a lot of people understand why the devs wanted to make her more dmg based. She had the lowest win rate in the game in Overwatch 1. Removing the amount of dmg she has makes it where she has to depend on her teammates which at least in a comp setting are random players. It’s the same reason why Zen is meta in higher elo and not played in Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Characters need to be playable when you are alone and Sombra wouldn’t be with these changes. The damage buff has to stay. Also based on annoyance the most annoying thing prior to ow2 was the ability lock. Making it harder for her to be able to go on targets is the best method to make her less of a nuisance to the player base. I think either making a range for translocator, getting rid of perma stealth, or having to wait a second or two uncloaked to be able to hack a target

This is really a clever idea, because the problem with certain debuffs in this game is there isn't much ways to mitigate it yourself. Your ideas address this nicely with different methods! Also problem with modern blizzard is they want to homogenize everything because they lack the creativity & ingenuity to make more distinct ideas & identities work.

I think your last idea is the best one. The previous two are decent but lack something, the last one is the right nail in the coffin to make her viable but not frustrating like 90% of the DBD cast. I personally find current Sombra to be hella underpowered and unfun to face and play as, your last version would fix her identity as a character I would however like to add that the last one could be implemented on an even stronger form, should the TP be nerfed heavily to not allow for escapes after every fight(boring play style with 0 counterplay that isn’t all that effective either because of healing)

I wish they brought experimental mode back and made these kind of changes to test if they work

I like the idea of divide players, looks like a true identity for sombra but sure people will think its pretty op altleast in low ranks, people bronze or silver just know how to play all together with a shield tank, but who know maybe that can work, I like more the idea of sombra be a support dps char and not a dps, I even trougth sombra must be change to another roll, she cant tank but maybe support but a very unique style of support just about "sabotage" the enemy team, I really hope to sombra change to support one day, I dont speak english then maybe its a little hard to read it

great points. As much as Blizzard does a great job in character design, they somehow always stop short of pushing it to the fullest potential when it comes to the character game mechanics. Maybe they are afraid of breaking the game or throwing in too many variables, or just locked into the mentality that dps character are to deal as much dps, support is to do as much healing, and tanks to do the tanking.. I really like idea 1 where Sombra has to maintain damage on hacked target to keep them hacked. It nicely complements her choice of smg, as she wants to spray to for more hits rather than going for accurate shots. Also agree with the current EMP, it's very weird that it does 40% flat damage, it made sense originally when it removed shield health. I guess Blizzard wanted to keep things simple since not all heroes have shield health. The use of Rammatra ult for emp is interesting, but personally it also doesn't match to the idea of an emp, which is a one off blast. I think just increasing the base hacked uptime is sufficient. Combined with the passive of sombra's damage to maintain the hack, it should be fair enough as she has to choose to focus a target to maintain the hack. Probably to make EMP more impactful would be to increase the range, allow it to pass through walls and destroy all turrets and shields.

Bu good video liked SUM ideas

i wonder if hack could be reworked to become an ability parry rather than just an ability lockout. maybe if sombra hacked a target that was in the middle of using an ability (doom charging, roadhog's hook is in the air, winton is in the middle of a leap) the ability would get locked out for a short time and the hacked target would take a little bit of damage. the hack in this rework would come out really fast (almost instant) but the ability lockout would be really short and the cooldown wouldnt be too fast to make the sombra have to think about timing their parries properly. if sombra hacked someone that isnt using any abilities the lockout would be pretty short and it wouldnt be able to be done from cloak. also even making the hack a hitscan attack rather than a super easy to track ana nano-type prompt could make the parry system a bit more skillful. if this was the case hack could be made to interact with more projectiles like ana nade or pharah boop to change the projectile to become sombras and maybe detonate early. probably impossible to impliment any of these changes due to dev resources but i think it would be cool to see a future hero or something with a parry mechanic. i could see it being really annoying to balance and play against tho

I love that you call her gun a pea shooter

As they said more D A M A G E THAT'S A LOT OF D A M A G E

Bravo. Just, bravo. :)

I love this

The last idea is really cool. As a gold sombra main, I always feel like sombra is really weak right now compared to other dps. So the last idea could be really fun

Sombra is such a hard character to balance imo. shes somewhat of a support but still a dps, she supports her team by stopping enemies and giving good info to her team, and she can do a good amount of damage, its kind of like how current Symmetra is, her tp and turrets are mostly her support usage but still her kit is still damage focused. Her whole kit is so fitting for a character with her playstyle, which is a backline killer and an ability stopper, anything that gets removed from her kit just makes her feel so weird and not right. I think if her rework removes a single ability from her kit she may get used even less, because she is 100% one of the most fun characters to play with, being able to teleport, stay invisible and sneak around, and cancel things. Anything that gets removed won't feel anything like the same character and more like a new character with an old ones few abilities. Just praying her rework doesn't remove translocator or EMP because they are some huge parts of her kit, I can 100% invis being a long cooldown ability or giving it a certain amount of time you can be invis just like 1.0 OW1 sombra was. idk if any of this makes sense but I will say you have some pretty good ideas for fixing a character who is such a hard character to balance, just because 1 small buff she can be broken or 1 small nerf she can be literal F tier.

damage bonus against hacked targets is definitely intended to motivate you to stick around in a gun fight but ultimately fails to