This is what I think of whenever someone says turrets are OP
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All heros that are annoying seem op if you are good at them. In reality sym mei sombra doom all suck. Hot take
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You just named some of the best tank counters - or at least the heroes most likely to make a tank player leave the game. Those heroes have to be the most annoying in the game and that’s why they can never be better than they are. If they appear in more games you will get an exodus of players as the fun will just be sucked out of it, except for those playing them of course. You can add sombra to your list. The devs are well aware of this problem.
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nah she aint op but i dont think shes underpowered either. she is very good on some maps and if supported in stack groups. she is godly in stack groups really if the team is coordinated
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This.
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The problem is symm mains want her to be good on every map and anything else means she is trash. Same as reaper mains and other more niche heroes. It’s just the way it is - not all heroes can be good on all maps. Only ranged heroes can.
I don’t think she’s op
I just don’t like her 
I think there would be a lot less animosity towards sym if turrets didn’t slow. I feel like symmetra’s matchup either goes too one sided towards sym or against her.
I wish we could customise our forum profiles because this would be screenshotted and made my profile header
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Well and that beam and the sound it makes and how stupidly powerful it gets and the visual for it. I don’t think many people like facing beam weapons and ending up in a game against Zarya and Symm is very unfun, especially in tight chokes when they poke them through a Rein shield putting out 350 DPS between them, then echo might join in too!
You understand that heroes like soldier 76 can output the same dps from better range without a windup as heroes like Zarya and Sym right? Your disdain is just based on audiovisual input that makes the incoming damage seem more “annoying” to you
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It’s also as a tank when you have to push through the choke and those beams are destroying you in a couple of seconds. It’s harder for soldier to get such constant damage as the beams get. The speed your health bar disappears when a sombra or zarya is beaming you is usually a lot faster than a soldier at distance because then it is easier to use LoS or a shield.
She is apparently pretty OP on console, where everybody apparently really sucks at the game.
Again that’s just your feelings about it.
Soldier does 171 DPS flat to shields, falloff starts at 30 metres.
Sym has a hard range limit at 12m, dealing 60 dps for 1.3 seconds, then 120 dps for 1.3 seconds, then 180 DPS.
Where she outshines him is in very long fights where her ammo regen makes her win out in the long run.
But as for melting your shield in the choke? The beams aren’t some sort of giga powerhouse compared to any hitscan hero or hanzo or echo or torb or hog etc. etc. etc. The numbers simply don’t work out that way
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not anymore. it’s 180 dps now so it’s 1:1 the same dps.
This most players saying she is a taxi arent realizing the full potential of sym in stacks, using tps for engages as stacks is godly, especially if you have a rein and mei to support you to create tp then protect it on engage.
but even adding one turret to it makes it 100 160 220 two140 200 260 which would be the most common scenario in most chokes atleast.
That said she isnt op are anything.
All it takes for sym to get countered is merely having her or the turrets’ presence acknowledged. People think she’s OP cause they don’t notice her ;-;
She’s a better stealth hero than sombra but more forgotten
I nominally main Mei; the “ez” comments by Genji players in particular says a lot. Yes, primary fire is ez; spamming double jump is even easier to get value in low to mid tiers.
If Mei were so ez to be massively effective she’d be in meta after meta and more people would play her. Ditto for Sym - it’s low to mid-tiers that most of the issue with her by people usually on kits they cannot handle, even Samito doesn’t rage about her. He’s not a fan, but he I think sees her limits.
Moral of the story: Characters have different skill floors and ceilings; do not baby rage about something “OP” because you took a higher skill floor kit that requires more skill than someone else did when you lose to them. Part of the problem is you simply are not as good as you think you are.