Either way, you get that my orginial reply was meant to be facetious, right?
If i knew what the word meant, yes.
Isn’t that half the reason they’re reworking the hero? XD
That and the lack of viability in most matches.
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Winston does damage to enemies directly in-front of him. Symmetra only disconnects after 9.5 meters and at very forgiving angles. Her max dps is also double his on a single target. He is also a bigger target and easier to hit, while Symmetra is tiny and more difficult to hit.
Regardless, she will likely get more dps because she is no longer a support. And they have thought about changing her primary fire to be more effective against more than one target. They are still iterating and trying things. Chill.
I will make it real simple for you:
Current weapon: balanced because it’s trashy enough to be afforded auto lock
Current kit: garbage
current weapon with enhanced kit: still garbage because it’s a trashy weapon that is held down by the fact that its auto lock
new weapon with enhanced kit: hopefully a genuine hero that isn’t tied to outdated gimmicks and actually has a skill curve
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Zarya Bubbles, Wraith form, and Mei cryo freeze. There may be more but I honestly cannot think of them.
But on a side note there are things that do not block his damage but mitigate it or cancel it out such as armor any source of healing makes his beam a tickle at best and the fact that his cleave is lost by spreading out and not all standing dead in front of him.
That is what makes him fair is that his damage is generally difficult to block but only acts as a counter balance to healed targets. Leaving the killing job up to his team.
Where did anyone say it’s unhealthy for the game? I thought she was being reworked because she’s currently useless?
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Lmao. Winston does 60 dps.
Also Winston needs more mechanical skill and game sense than sym. He also has a higher skill ceiling
okay
3x stronger
twice the ammo
did bonus lock loss damage
these three things winston did not have
EDIT: and is also a giant monkey that’s easier to get crits because of his giant head
Symmetra’s was capable of doing considerably more damage than Winston’s. She could melt a squishy in seconds, and unlike Winston, it wasn’t always obvious where she was going to appear from.
Because most people are just going along with group-think and don’t really have opinions of their own. If they did, they would have logical arguments to back up their beliefs. They don’t because the obvious answer here is what you point out.
Uh because Winston’s damage doesn’t exponentially ramp up like Syms does. She melts people with no skill, Winston slowly tickles people with no skill.
None of these things give it significantly more damage (it’s uncommon to be sizzling more than two enemies at once). Your point is still completely invalid.
Skill cap vs skill floor.
Are we really getting to this petty level of “ Well if I can have it why should he?”
It’s a very weak argument that makes you look bad.
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Winston’s weapon by design is not auto-lock, but is an area cleave. Like Reinhardt’s hammer or Brigitte’s flail.
He will hit all targets within a 6m wide, 8m long box. If a target steps out of said box they stop taking damage.
In the case of Symmetra she had a maximum lockon range of 7m, and a tether range of up to 10m for the target she had locked onto.
Winston’s gun is more of a “cleave” than an auto aim?
Both of them are braindead easy to “aim” tho
It works for winston because his kit is worked around his short range. Sym’s lockon was removed to make it stronger dps. Not because its a lockon that was op but because it was underpowered.
lmao good luck getting 360 dps as winston without getting knocked or insta burst. Winstons dps will never be the strongest part of his kit, his health and space making ability will. Im sorry to call upon your rank, but i was silver once, and symmetra is MUCH better than winston there. Winstons in silver constantly feed- and are out of position. If a winston is doing 360 dps to your team- that is a YOU problem. If a symmetra is doing 120 dps to you, that is also a YOU problem.
Winstons in reality will never catually be doing 360 dps, and will usually only get up to about 60/120 if they are lucky- since they are 100% doing better if they dive the person ALONE. Yes, you could do 360dps as winston, but if youre doing that you sure as hell arent doing your job.
Winston doesn’t have a tiny hitbox, he does low damage, and his attack doesn’t stay locked on around corners/behind cover/out of range.