SHIELD = Ramps up her damage and gives her ammo
WHY WOULD YOU RUN TWO SHIELDS INTO SYMMETRA. This game gives me mental pain.
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she still needs to put herself at risk in farming shields and will often die because she overextends
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My last match:
Anubis point B defending:
Orisa throws shield at the first choke
Rein holds his shield by our point’s choke
Symmetra: charges her beam on Orisa’s shield which is right by the gate
Symmetra: puts down teleporter on point and goes in with level 3 beam
GG
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It doesn’t sound like the second (Reinhardt’s) barrier would have any relevance to Symmetra’s success in that scenario. The Orisa left a stray barrier out to feed Symm for free, and no one killed her or her teleporter when she went in.
Orisa puts down shield. I ramp up shield to level 3. Reinhardt bashes my skull in 3 swings
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Sym doesn’t really counter shields.
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Exactly. If you need a shield buster go Bastion or Junkrat.
i want them to change her so she does bonus damage to shields and leeches shields and shield health as temp shields much like doomfist but in her own way
Why do people keep saying symm hard counters barriers?
Stop spreading this lies!
She is not even the best at doing it, she is middle tier barrier buster,
Dont believe me? watch this
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Doesn’t really counter barriers per say, but it enables easy kills if they just keep letting you charge off of it. It’ll be more prominent next patch with the beam damage now fixed.
In terms of actually destroying the barrier, it doesn’t do much. Like it’s a constant way to damage it and she can do it forever death notwithstanding, but there are other heroes who are much better at it so putting her value in that doesn’t do much.
Yes!
Symm “gains advantage” over barrier by charging and gaining ammo but she isnt a barrier counter, but somehow people made this title, now everyone expect symm to destroy barrier in games! Ive met this toxic guy told me why didnt i destroy the orisa barrier,lol
“Isnt that supposed to be your job to destroy barriers”
“Symm is great at destroying barriers”
Like whaat?
I want to know who start this misinformation that is now spreading among the community!
The devs didn’t even state she is a barrier breaker when 3.0 went live, Did i miss something ?
that’s going to be less likely with ptr tp 
but I do agree that’s what I do with live sym.
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I mean it’s pretty peabrain to run two maintanks at all but as a Rein player, I usually won’t put my shield down in front of a Sym because Syms little beam is usually less of a threat than a bunch of the other things I’m blocking for my team.
Symm can charge up all she wants on rein barrier, it only means the ana behind the rein is gonna get huge amount of ulti charge spamming healing on the rein because symm cannot kill him if he’s being pocketed. =)
Because in the end it doesn’t affect much when you have stuns and other ways to deal with a Sym in the backline.
Yes, she is deadly and can come in with 3 turrets and a lvl 3 beam but honestly the Rein can swing his hammer one to four times, get healed by potentially Ana who can also put Sym to sleep and anti heal, or Sym has to contend with snipers and w/e else can be hidden in the backline.
But still, playing 2 shields in general isn’t the greatest idea, Sym or not.
People tend to oversimplify things like that. She is pretty decent at burning down barriers if she can get in range (certainly not Bastion level, but probably second best), but her benefit is more about what happens as soon as the barriers are gone.
She’s more like a battering ram than a breaching charge. She takes a while to break down the door, but she’ll also crush everything that was behind the door.
At full charge, Sym does 195 hp/s. Ana can’t outheal that.
Most Sym will usually kill the Ana first anyway (hello turretbombing).
Why would you run 2 shields ever?
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Ana can certainly outheal symm who’s being blocked by barriering rein and heal boosted by ana. And ana can just grenade your whole turretbomb plus you to make the whole thing useless and anti the symm for easy pickings. If symm is in position to grill rein shield, she certainly doesn’t have any room for turretbomb without rein immediately punishing the attempt.
In the video i posted its shows bastion,roadhog,reaper and torb can destroy barrier faster than her, symm is at the middle tier of barrier breaker so i wouldn’t really call her second best. Plus these heroes can do it at a safer distance/have sustain to be at the range.
Symm only benefit at the barrier coz of charge and ammo but if you dedicate your whole firepower to barrier you will miss the chance to flank with full charge and go ham on the backline.