A Thesis Essay: How Symmetra Was Designed to Fail

[Zephrin-11143]

@TommySalami-11559

Do you understand that their ranges that they are good at are widely different? They don’t have the same effective range that’s a huge part of the equation here.
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Man guess who else has no mobility zen and Anna yet they aren’t the same at all because they have different effective ranges and ways to use their kits.

primary only has 2m longer than old primary. current orbs have an effective range of like less than 15m as can be shown by the following:

@Zephrin-11143

They have splash radius of 2m, diameter of 1m (source ), they move 25m/s, and players typically move 5.5m/s.

So to retroactively dodge a perfectly aimed/fired orb, the target will when fired at 15m away from the target, they take 15/25 = 0.6s to reach the target.
In 0.6s, typical heroes can travel 0.6 x 5.5 = 3.3m > 2.5m projectile radius + aoe splash radius.
i.e. with reaction time included, a target 15m away can guarantee only taking splash fall off damage let alone considering longer ranges.

if you use those equations to find the Dodgeable Direct Range you get approx. 8.522727273m.

can sym m1 from where zen, ana or heck where moira typically positions? hell no.
can sym achieve the same “aimability” with orbs from from where zen, ana or heck where moira typically positions? obviously not from the above calculations. it mathematically shows your argument is wrong.

hence all the points I presented in my previous reply that I’ve been binging up multiple times.
her range did not increase enough to pass nor even reach the point where there is a major change in how she gets uptime without mobility. obvs her sustain isn’t compensating either and neither did old sustain.