I just want to make sure, you’re on PC right?
Yes. 20 characters…
I think we have noticed 
Most people are not okay with it though. Of course there are die-hard mains that will stick by her even in the state she is currently in, but when you get accused for throwing or trolling simply by picking a certain hero, there is a design flaw.
At the very least, this is a way for Blizzard to curb the toxicity surrounding one-tricks on both sides of the issue.
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Okay if you knew her kit well and if you actually had a good team that knows how to work with her. There’s not really much of a problem with her kit. For starters her teleporter is handy to go get to point faster or used for ambushes. If your healer is Mercy then you don’t need a teleporter ult unless a Mercy player asks for it or your team. Your best partners are barrier tanks while your best healers are Lucio, Mercy and now Bridgete.
Because of her status some players just perform poorly due to her reputation and believe it or not. There’s a lot of bandwagon hoppers in this game. However those who are willingly to give it a try do succeed well. I’ve seen so many times so I understand Symmetra’s designs and potential pretty well.
In this game support means having a healing half even if your a hybrid. If we considered support as “support” almost every hero would be support.
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A support that doesn’t heal is a defense hero, hence why she’s being moved to defense.
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It’s really nice to be in an inclusive, welcoming community. 
As long as Sanjay is a fun hero, I have no doubt I might enjoy playing him, and maybe even adding him to my hero pool. Brigitte, for instance, was a very welcoming addition to the game and to my hero pool as well.
That is not a design flaw. That is a community issue.
A design flaw is what is hitting Ana right now, her kit was nerfed so hard to curbstomp triple tank lineup back in season 3, that she have not recovered from it up to this day. Ana have one of the worst win rates according to Overbuff in all ranks, and unlike Hanzo (another bottom-contender), she is not seen as a “throw pick”. Ie, someone people pick when they are mad at the game and no longer want to win, just to mess around.
Even under those conditions, no one is accused of being a troll by instalocking Ana at the start of the match.
Symmetra is a disliked hero in a conceptual basis. Many people (including some very influential streamers and youtubers) don’t want to give Symmetra a chance to show her colors, and that is a community perception isssue, and, IMO, Symmetra biggest problem right now. I assure you that unless Sanjay gets into Valkyrie 1.0 levels of broken, this will not be fixed by buffs and reworks.
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Denial isn’t healthy
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Well that theory is wrong because 76 does have a healing ability and it’s on a cool down similar to Bridgete, but he’s on offense. Perhaps they should make him support?
Who is Sanjay. I don’t pay much attention to lore so saying that over and over is just confusing and misses the mark
Needing to heal to be a support does not mean being able to heal makes a hero a support. Everything red is not blue, but not everything that’s not blue is red.
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Ask yourself something and consider it very carefully.
if
If
IF symmetra had been in “defense” from the very beginning, do you honestly believe we’d see people making threads/comments/posts to the tune of “symmetra should be moved from defense to support!”
Honestly?
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We have a good amount of people that asked Sombra to be placed on support on release, so…
Ehh even weirder. Anyway I’m happy with these changes and can’t wait to play SYMMETRA once she is released. All the heroes I played have gotten some good changes lately and sym is next in line
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And in fairness- Sombra gets medals for healing.
i think that literally the only problem now is that you cant save yourself (and only yourself mostly) using photon barrier from long ranged dps
i mean it wasnt a life saver (always) but it did buy you some time to run away, although even in some situations it still would be useless
because pretty much every defense hero but torb has a way of escape
Uh huh and you sure know a lot about supports since you primarily view them as healers. I guess that’s Overwatch fail on that vision unfortunately with a shield type in this game where as Heroes of the Storm succeeded.
its almost like hots and ow are different games …
mmm…
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Doesn’t mean they can take look at it and gain insight how to design a shield type support properly.
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