• Sombra Gamepedia
• Sombra Hero Summary
• Sombra Animated Short
• Codey playing Sombra
• Describe her in one sentence…
• Short to mid range hero that excels at sneakily disabling heroes, initiating team fights, and harassing and killing enemies from the backline.
• Shoutout to Codey - a player that makes all of this look easy
• Stats: 200 hp
• Machine Pistol
  • Rapid-fire hitscan
• Hack
  • .8 second cast time
  • Enemies (6 second abilities / 20 second ult & hp reveal)
  • Health packs (60 seconds)
  • Turrets (10 seconds)
  • 8 second cooldown
• Thermoptic Camo
  • Increased movement speed
  • 6 second duration
  • .7 second cast time
  • 6 second cooldown
• Translocator
  • 15 second duration
  • 4 second cooldown
• Ultimate: EMP
  • 15 meter AOE
  • 6 second duration hack
• Passive: Opportunist
  • Sombra detects critically injured enemies through walls. Below 50%

Overall Strategy
Build up ultimate charge asap by hacking healthpacks and doing damage and then initiating with EMP. Flanking can be done several ways - finishing off low hp heroes, hacking heroes so they lose their escape/heal and then dueling them, or just harassing with a hack and weapon damage

What makes a Bad, Good, and Great Sombra
Bad: doesn’t use hack effectively to build up charge and harass enemies, doesn’t use teleporter to keep enemies guessing where she is, and only tries to DPS

Good: knows her kit (doing the opposite of “bad”), but isn’t opportunistic enough to initiate team fights and finish off critical heroes

Great: has ULT for almost every team fight, enemies always run into hacked healthpacks, enemies are shut down (EMP/hack) right before and during team fights, and Sombra is always flanking

Heroes Sombra is good against
Heroes with shields (Rein, Orisa), heroes that are skill-heavy (Mercy, Doomfist, Tracer sometimes, DVA)

Heroes Sombra is weak against
High damage/short range heroes (Tracer, Soldier, Reaper)

So, what does the community think of Sombra?
Not a lot of hate, but if you’re playing Sombra people expect you to swing team fights in lieu of doing massive DPS. Since you won’t top the damage charts regularly, you need to stay on top of hacking and harassing to make an impact