Did Symmetra really need to be nerfed?

[Zephrin-11143]

@Pnutapi-2551

the devs obviously have more info than us as to why her orbs were made that damage, so for example if it was made that because they wanted it a certain powerlevel compared to pharah/junk. to us we just see sym bad why nerf but theres likely a lot of thought and reasoning we dont see

EXCEPT:

@Zephrin-11143

Here’s the tea about sym orbs:

• if meant to be aimed, why do they travel 25m/s which is so easily dodged in many ranges irrespective of how well one aims or predicts?
  • like even at 15m it gives enemies 0.6s to reactively dodge them . most heroes can travel 3.3m > than orb splash radius i.e. can completely dodge or easily just guarantee only taking splash damage even at 15m away
• if meant to be spammed, why is there 1.25s between fully charged orbs (1s charge up, 0.25s wind down) preventing decent area coverage and simply being bad spam esp when comparing to junkrat or pharah who have like double the fire rate for similar damage per shot and same, if not faster, projectile speed?

i.e. there’s nothing that justifies their sniper-like charge time.

there’s no consistency nor range for the charge time burst (the reason behind why snipers in general have low fire rate). there’s no higher firerate to cover a meaningful area like pharah or junk rate projectiles can. it’s just the cons of all of them.