Her shield generator is an ultimate and can be destroyed. Thatās far different than other restorative moves by other support.
Sheās definitely a hybrid and is essentially listed as such on the official Overwatch website. I main her and while a bad Moira only does DPS and no healing a good Moira balances healing and damage to bring her team to victory.
Iāve been maining her as well in comp. I obviously do some damage but itās not nearly enough to call her a hybrid Iād say. Zen would be a lot closer to that in my opinion.
then thatās not symmetraās fault, then
sheās too easily countered, and thatās the biggest issue that everyone keeps bringing up
shields and barriers are proactive healing and are actually meta in a lot of MMOs anyway, due to the nature of them
sheās just bad at her job
thatās why people want her to be fixedā¦
but keep her base design
It is, but maybe theyāll change how it works in her rework. For that matter her shield generator protects all allies within a generous range simultaneously. Other supports can protect like that with non-ult abilities but itās extremely limited often in range, power or how long you can use it continuously, and still wonāt necessarily protect from burst.
Iād say itās good enough to be an off-support.
It gives the whole team a better sustainability, and because giving sustainability is part of what makes a Support in OW, she is a Support.
well, an off-support.
You said youāve started playing her, but then mentioned her ult arenāt suit for Support? This means you havenāt been playing her as a Support.
Start playing her as a Support, make her ult the end goal of your playstyle.
Jeff, pleaseā¦keep her a support. If you donāt, itāll give up on your game design philosophy that a non-healing support canāt belong in Overwatch. Donāt move her to another class please!
It works if the character is guided in the right direction and considering that theyāre working on her until the end or beginning of summer, they can give more supportiveness that can actually make her viable as a support in the eyes of those who donāt see her as one currently. But we can agree to disagreeā¦
Every support should be a healer, hands down. The game has far fewer heals (and tanks) than dps already.
You basically laid out why the current Symmetra doesnāt work. Itāll be hella hard to fix and balance that without making her a real support or real dps (or even tank, who knows).
For the very same reason people pick up characters that are already healers - also, they are vastly different, not ādum graded versionsā of one another