As per the title. Symmetra is still off the mark despite recent changes. She is an absolutely terrible DPS and every other DPS does her job better. There’s literally no reason to pick her except for some absolutely rare instances of throwing the enemy team off-guard that requires League level of coordination or a 6-stack.
Her damage output is inconsistent.
Her method of dealing damage is easily avoided, nullified.
Her main method of dealing damage requires time and her getting in range.
She has zero survivability, no escape ability, no movement ability of any kind. Is incredibly easy to kill.
Her teleporter is incredibly clunky, has long cast-time, is hard to use, doesn’t work often on elevated ground.
Her ultimate is one of the worst in the game and is incredibly situational.
I can go on but all in all, F tier hero for 3+ years now. Not to mention she still doesn’t have a single highlight or victory pose that shows her gun in any way, shape or form. This is literally the only hero in the game that has this drawback, no point in obtaining a gold weapon for her.
Ah, nevermind then. Yes, it drives me absolutely insane at this point that she is the only hero in the game that has zero highlights and victory poses with her gun.
I’m used to you being on the “enemy team” when it comes to the Mercy debates so I jumped the guns, my apologies.
Symmetra is garbage. She counters no one and gets pooped on by everyone. Im barely playing her since 3.0. Oh and dont get me started with her “ulti”. That thing should get the mercy treatment - make it a normal ability with a 30 sec cd and 5 second duration. Or atleast give enemies who pass the barrier a 50% slow to movement for 2 seconds. But yeah, kinda lost all hope tbh.
Ha. I’m not a Mercy main by any means. I do have 425 hours on Sym though.
I’m worried that if she doesn’t get a highlight intro with her gun in Archives we’ll be waiting another year. Anniversary doesn’t do highlight intros but we may see a golden gun victory pose.
Another opportunity for a golden gun victory pose might be if she got an event. It’s just galling that all these new heroes get gold added to their kit which can be seen in victory poses and Symmetra has nothing.
They made BOB gold.
They made Brigitte’s shield gold.
Moira’s nails gold.
We’ve been waiting for three years. We can’t even get a simple still from her Snicker or Insignificant emote added to the base lootbox.
At this point I’ve stopped asking for a Golden Glove.
TP:
Faster by 0.5 seconds
Interact range improved by 1-2 metres
All self destruct bugs fixed
Always spawns under Sym’s feet
OPTIONAL: Range increase by 5-10 metres
…Just fixed the TP. This is how it should have been from launch. Having a better TP helps her survivability and utility. Boom.
New Passive:
25 shield aura within 10m.
Also helps survivability and support and gives better synergy with diveable supports and bunker comps. Shielding is the only thing absent from her original kit and not returned/reworked in any form.
The fact that they made Moira’s nails gold and BOB gold drives me even more insane. Surely they could have done the same with Symmetra.
But yeah, absolutely agree with you 100%. Like kinda of hard to imagine almost considering our history in the Mercy debates Life is full with little ironies. We should do that again sometimes, just don’t tell anyone, don’t want to lose the infamous reputation.
Agreed, have barely played her since 3.0. The aiming part I don’t have a problem with but the rest of the kit is just terrible.
I hope there is. The only thing I like from the current iteration are her moving turrets and her fast orb (although I really miss the shield piercing).
Agreed already with you in your topic. Absolutely missing hardcore the shielding aspect of her. Good suggestions.
Honestly, I suspect the personal health or shielding will get buffed, most likely shielding to 25 if Torb’s armoring works out properly.
The other change might be a recharge effect to her shielding when she damages shields. Why? Because Blizz is currently concerned with too much armor and shielding in the game, ironically she has been designated to a degree as a “shield breaker” with her primary fire… and needs her own shielding to accomplish this…
Do no expect any serious changes, she just got a 20% increase in primary charge and I’ve read the armor changes work in her favor for turrets and stage 3 primary fire.
People clamoring for a Sym 4.0 are barking up the wrong tree, that is not happening. Blizz is currently evaluating still the balance with Torb and Sym, but given both not doing much to break into OWL and higher up the ladder, expect more changes to both in terms of number balancing on their current kits.
She’s ok just needs a few qol stuff and maybe the ability to headshot. Some games have lasers that headshot (destiny) it’s pretty cool. I’m not sure why they don’t allow her to do that.
There are so many at this point (plus the dead horse has been beaten on a subatomic level at this point) but I know you are on the same team as the other regulars from the “enemy team” (figuratively speaking). I know all of you by heart at this point, but I am not sure if I can mention names because I’m not sure if it’s against the CoC and I don’t want to get false flagged again.
That’s not a bad deal but the critical issue with her is that she has no mobility, sustain, escape ability or movement ability of any kind. And she dies super easy. And her main primary way of dealing damage requires time to charge up. And her attacks no longer pierce shields.
I just don’t see her as a viable pick so long as she and her turrets die by a cough.
But you know I only want the best for Symmetra. Genuinely did think she was fine and just needed some number buffs but I got pure annoyed when they overlooked her TP in the big PTR update.
As for Mercy, I enjoy playing her but do feel she needs something more but that’s for Mercy mains to fight for and me to support.
Life is full with little ironies. We should do that again sometimes, just don’t tell anyone, don’t want to lose the infamous reputation. 
Good suggestions.![:joy:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/joy.png?v=6" ":joy:")
I know all of you by heart at this point, but I am not sure if I can mention names because I’m not sure if it’s against the CoC and I don’t want to get false flagged again.