From his twitter:
Symmetra is doing quite well across most of our ranks! In the right hands, we’ve seen players find great usage with her current kit.
She does however have a low pickrate and we hear a lot of feedback about her. Expect to see some small tweaks to her kit in Season 2.
I’m not sure how she’s doing well across most ranks, as the top 500 Symmetras I follow are all struggling and complaining she’s horribly weak. Ok maybe in lower ranks you get some use of those stealth nerfed turrets, but…
What do you expect these “small tweaks” to be? Do you think they will be any useful or still missing the point as usual?
What I would like most of all is that she gets FASTER at things (casting her TP, charging her beam and secondary fire…), in line with most other heroes.
I would also love her beam range to be 15m like Zarya’s, so she can finally use the primary fire from a safer position.
And of course revert those horrible stealth nerfs (turrets damage reduced from 40 to 30hp, beam charge lasts only 3s instead of 4s) that they didn’t even announce.
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What I hate is that somehow we learn the news from some 3rd party sites like twitter. I don’t have it, I never cared for it (and the rest of them social media). How about using … you know, the official web-site? Or forums? Nah… “engagement”, “marketing”, “publicity”. Go figure.
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Blizzard’s scared to go on the forums. They see mean words.
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Sigh. Yes, generation-fluff and population-snowflake. A single word can send them crying about some inequality and later drink their woes with some milk latte. But I digress.
Maybe one or more of the following:
- Longer grace period before beam level decay
- More health on teleporter
- Slightly more damage on charged right click
- Minor reduction in turret cooldown
- Faster turret or teleporter deploy time
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Is Dawson the new Goodman?
Blizzard needs to stop pretending that Sym’s winrate is justification to keep her below-average. Her winrate has always been very high, but she’s only ever been meta once (and was repeatedly nerfed for it). If anything, she’ll probably wind up getting nerfs because Blizzard has no idea how to interpret the data surrounding her and it’s clear that someone in charge of balance has it out for her if they went so far as to stealth nerf her. I would be extremely surprised if they buffed her, even if she desperately needs it.
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Translation: we will overbuff her and make her busted then nerf her to a state worse than her current in a few weeks.
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Given Blizzard’s track record when it comes to Symmetra “tweaks” I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
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The biggest problem with Symmetra is that she’s just boring. I would delete all her abilities and start over in a full rework. She needs a more active playstyle.
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GIVE ME MY 100M BEAM DAMNIT BLIZZARD
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She needs her old beam back or an overall faster kit to keep up with 5v5
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some?. only some?. I wished they revealed those data to public.
I think they should up her secondary fire full charge to 100 damage. Would be nice if they increased charge speed too.
Her beam needs to charge faster, it’s way too slow at damage to the point of being useless.
Really don’t understand why her beam has to be so much worse than Zarya’s
Tweaks to turrets - they should either do more or have more hp.
Honestly I think they should replace the turrets, but that’s not a small tweak.
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You jest, but the most fun version of Sym I’ve played has been that April Fool’s one with the 16m beam. 
Although I would have loved experimental support Sym if they’d given her decent damage numbers and a healing aura. Bah, what a waste that was.
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One cute thing they could’ve done was have her increase damage resistance/recharge rates for heroes that generate overhealth and shields.
Twas what her previous kit was based around (extra shields) would be nice to see that again in an updated format.
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I like the flavour, but I’m not so keen on how dependent she’d be on allies picking characters with shields. So imagine if she got a passive that converts all teammates’ white HP into blue HP? The main reason that couldn’t be a thing in OW1 was EMP, but that no longer shreds shields so…
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Yeeeeee that’d be nice…
Honestly just something new tbh. She’s just, so forgotten it’s painful. Although her current kit’s great in brawl so she’s in a weird spot
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