“Niche is fine” = Selfish

[Zephrin-11143]

@Candi-11463

If ‘niche’ heros -who excel at their niche role, and are less useful all around- were to get rebalanced to be ‘all around’ useful, a lot of what people like about those heros would go down the drain. Take Sym for example; people generally who play Sym like placing her turrets to form strategic chokes. They like that her turrets slow. But if Sym were reworked in a way to make her more useful overall, it’s likely that part of her identiy would be removed in favor of more average just damage shots.

not necessarily. like for sym:

@Zephrin-11143

Solution

If we really want to let sym have more independence for her own uptime (because she’s really low on that atm and that’s like 1/2 of her core problems), what’d really extend her range and mobility, i.e. the “must haves” are:

• renumber her orbs to be an aimable midranged bursty (but lower fire rate) weapon fire i.e. renumbering them around being faster moving projectiles
• making tp have a better cd mechanic like old 3.0 finite tp e.g. (cd starts on placement, but pauses when it reaches halfway until destruction)
• making sym herself (not necessarily her team) able to interact with tp sooner after placement

better mobility —> “getting in range” would take less time which is something sym isn’t doing all that well with rn esp post infinite tp cd mechanic implementation.

throw in also better range (and hopefully a better balancing of burst vs sustain too in renumbering of orbs), this would also reduce the time for “getting in range” and in terms of mixing with tp, provide a LOT more options as to how that’d happen (i.e. more positions for self tp’ing to that let sym be in effective range of orbs).

and this further works out even better as it further bypasses the “iT’s lOW SKilL aND oPprESsiVe tO lOW raNkS” the typical “skill elitists” and sym haters usually