uh none of her kit elements screamed/screams “let me protect you”.
heck the only thing you could possibly even remotely argue that has anything to do with protecting others is old barrier and even that wasn’t that good for it unless you just so happen to be next to the person that needs protection which was highly unlikely given the mobility and range disparity between her vs everyone else, let alone the fact that it was so easy to get around whether by going through it or a diff angle past it.
you know what actually screams “I will protect you”? an ability like zarya’s bubble that literally protects you on demand (i.e. much more feasible to get it in in time to actually protect someone esp when it’s unlikely that people that need it are immediately next to you or so). or a more consistent and less ally dependent version of brig’s kit.
shield gen, old or new barrier, turrets, her weapon, etc. all of them simply ain’t that.
I said “it screams tank more than it screams support” not “she should be a tank”. I firmly believe that she should be a dps and that her core shtick is zoning (not the frontal zoning kind that tanks do, but the jungler, espionage kind of zoning as depicted in her 1st comic).
I’m sorry did I miss a short story or comic where she’s actually tending wounds? literally she’s not doing that in any of her comics. and no, repairing a statue is not healing, otherwise why the heck isn’t torb a healer for repairing bastion or canonically rein’s armor or heck for pretty much inventing omnics iirc?
except
- those said heroes are remaining damage heroes from communication thus far (i.e. no indication that they would be changing roles).
- the point being made there was “making her into a utility support is basically solving her solutions as a dps (‘utility dps label’ or not) while needing to do so under a harder constraint increasing risk of failure —> there’s no point to doing that instead of just fixing her as a dps” not “utility dps has a place in OW2”. idc about what people artificially put a “utility dps” label on.
there objectively is an uptime problem there which literally has nothing to do with being a “utility dps” as shown by the fact that other “utility dps” simply not exhibiting the same problems. and the fact of the matter is, making her a “utility support” is just unnecessarily handicapping and unnecessarily increasing risk of failure, while the solution that would’ve been better without a role change that wouldn’t bring all this extra baggage.
what specifically are you claiming will she lose here to make her “not sym”?
because the bulk of her “utility” rn is in team tps and ult. and her not having team tps but still having her individual tp to flexibly and creatively zone, infiltrate, grab sneaky, angles, etc. is pretty “sym” (heck, it’s even directly representative of her only lore combat shown in her first comic).
yet her debut lore concept (i.e. her release vision) displays a cunning woman that conducts corporate espionage, sneaking around, claiming enemy territory, killing where necessary, etc. to achieve her goals.
as opposed to mending injuries, or moving in to protect someone or someplace, or statically fortifying defences against an infiltrator, or anything that would be indicative of the “fortress defence” or “protection” or “healing” vision you’re claiming.
pretty sure they don’t want that, but are being forced to because community bias against cc and various other utility which ultimately forces their hand to need to nerf various other things to make sure balance isn’t thrown out of the window if they’re to nerf cc.
ongo. A key thing about supports is being able to do your job while affording your teammates the positional freedom to do theirs and Sym failed miserably at this.