My wishlist for Symmetra

[Zephrin-11143]

@Fancybelle-2399

Teleporter (E)

• Revert change to duration → Teleporter lasts 12 seconds instead of being permanent
  – Players can still destroy it early through the same button, cooldown starts upon destruction
• Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds (from 12)

I hate the changes coming from the infinite duration the most. It is such a spawn taxi enabler. The crazy 12sec cooldown is also massive. The teleporter itself has huge potential by instantly moving an entire team, but looking at Sym’s niche usages, I don’t think we got there yet, so I would rather encourage it than discourage it with a 12sec downtime.

A reduction in range (20-25m from 30m) was also something I thought about. The smaller the range, the more the teleporter can be used to reposition in combat without removing yourself from it completely.

this wouldn’t really change anything and tp will still be terrible tbh (at least from what I understood from reading that).

@Zephrin-11143

Useful calcs/equations:

Old 3.0 tp:

• time to next cast = 12s from placement, fixed
• experienced down time = (10s - usage time) + 2s
  • where usage time is in [0s,10s] which represents time spent actually using it and the last 2s is the remaining cd when tp duration is spent.
  • 0 <= experienced down time <= 12s

infinite tp :

• time to next cast = uptime + 12s
• experienced down time = 12s + (uptime - usage time)
  • which is unbounded above
  • but already the MINIMUM experienced down time here is greater than or equal to the MAXIMUM down time of old 3.0 tp

what changes we want should try to use the above to compare the standards of cast frequency and experienced down time.

Your tp will be:

• time to next cast = uptime + 8s
  • uptime bounded above by 12s
• experienced down time = 8s + (uptime - usage time)
  • in the interval [8s, 20s]. can get 8s if you instantly destroy.

which is still a lot worse than old 3.0 tp.

the rest of the changes are pretty OK in my book (i.e. don’t really see much of an issue).