Overwatch 2’s Lead Balance Designer, Josh Noh, admittedSombrais the hardest Hero to balance in the game due to her unique kit.
Nohexplainedthat Sombra was one of the harder Heroes to balance for the game thanks to her invisibility which restricts how powerful she can be.
“Probably Sombra due to permanent invisibility restricting how deadly we can make her,” Noh said of balancing Sombra. “But also because she is a hero that excels with strong team coordination.”
If you have a coordinated team, Sombra is incredibly powerful, which is why she works so well in Dive comps. However, if you are hoping in a Ranked game where no one is communicating, Sombra is quite restricted as it’ll be much harder to dive single targets.
Noh further added that there are several other Heroes with performance stats that differ widely from their community perception which makes it hard to balance them.
Although he didn’t name the Heroes, players in the comments speculated characters like Reinhardt, Sojourn, Orisa, and Kiriko, were the Heroes he may have been referring to.
These Heroes all have a contentious part in the meta.SojournandOrisaare not very popular but have long been strong picks in recent seasons.
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Reinhardt meanwhile is one of the most popular Tanks amongst most ranks according toOverbuff, but in the community isregarded as one of the worst tanks to play.
However, it should be noted Nohsaidin the AMA that stats from Overbuff don’t show a “complete picture” numbers-wise, but their data on win rates were fairly close to Blizzard’s internal stats.
Jeremy Gan was a Games Writer on Dexerto’s Australia team. He is a journalism graduate and expertly covers CS:GO, Valorant, Overwatch, League of Legends, and Dota 2, as well as trending stories in Twitch and Kick streaming.
