TL;DR at the bottom.

So, I’m a Sombra main (250ish hours)

After the recent ‘adjustment’ Sombra had, she’s been put in a spot she hasn’t ever been before. All her output has been minimized.

She no longer gains ult charge from health packs (a decision I agree with, though now under these circumstances am starting to regret) so her EMP output has been decreased significantly. From my stats I normally got about 28 EMP’d per game, and now currently I sit around the 20-22 EMP’d. That’s a solid 4 EMP’s left out.

Now hacking. Pre-buff her hack was longer, but stayed locked on better so you could keep hacking the tracer whithout it going down into cooldown before you could adjust your aim so in the end you’d have a better chance at hacking fast targets like tracers and genji’s. Currently in live it’s literally impossible. A single blink and you get put into cooldown. I don’t remember what my previous average stats were because hacking is pretty situational thus making it very inconsistent. I do however notice a huge difference.

Right now as it is- nothing feels hackable, and I keep just going back to my gun disregarding the hack’s existence at times where I shouldn’t. It feels like Doomfist’s rocket punch after the sledghammer hit it. (Not completely useless, but completely unreliable.)

Now what really sparked my attention- and the reason I’m writing this is because of the plummet of the winrate. Sure you can say ‘winrate doesn’t matter hur dur’, but it does. Symmetra and Torb are different because of how they’re played, and thus are artificially inflated. This does not happen with other heroes.

If you look at the previous 3 months of sombra’s winrate you can see it was 46.89%- presumably slightly inflated because of when she briefly peaked at 52% for a day and then stuck around 49% for a week and a half.

Now if you look at the past 6 months of sombra’s winrate you can see it was 46.15%.

Past month- 47.56%.

Now last week- 46.64%.

This is no longer a case of people not knowing how to play her. She’s dropping. Fast. 4 days ago her winrate ‘last week’ was 46.76%. It’s not getting better.

TL;DR - Sombra’s hack and EMP’d amount have dropped significantly, her hack is borderline unusable at times where it previously wasn’t, and her winrate is dropping. Fast.