It wasnt overlook, really. It had an specific usage and was intended for specific situations, but as a healing source it could awful. Healing hypermobile targets as Ana is annoying already, slow charge slow travel time piercing orbs could make Sym literally useless as a healer unless you run an all immobile comp.
And were rarely lethal and in OW2 it could be completely useless with less barriers and people more spread.
Piercing orbs were an ult farm tool first and foremost. Kills with those were rare and using them after deploying your ultimate was literally just giving free ultimate charge to the enemy healers.
After a dozen nerfs no hero could compete in any role.
And there is no universal law that Sym is destined to fail as a DPS. Making her a healbot isnt some kind of magical fix. Much less with the awful and poorly thought ideas some you have.
Her niche doesn’t exist anymore. Not even OWL players are using her on Lijiang, or bothering to use TP out of spawn. I agree that she shouldn’t be unrecognisable, which is why they should keep TP and make her a mobility-centric support hero. We only have one in Lúcio, why not another?
That could be fun. I’d love to see a flying Bastion in action!
She isn’t a killer true but she also is in no way categorized as a support either. She’s a Saboteur for Corporate Espionage utilizing weaponized tools initially designed for Construction. With the purpose to advance Vishkar as the leading company in the Market.
She has a conscious because she was born in poverty and she, repeating myself here, repaired a STATUE. That is not the same as Baptiste who was a Combat Medic. Again, going by the Support Sym logic, Soldier 76 saved a girl from getting blown up by a Grenade and he has an actual team healing ability. He’s not a support.
There are no lore claims that Symmetra is a support in any capacity. Any claims are speculation at best and most likely projection or nostalgia.