As a tank, these are the golden days.
I welcome Sym onto my team and thoroughly still find her frustrating to face.
But I play in LFG where teamwork tends to be a common skillset.
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so let her lock-on during her ULT like Soldier.
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I’d rather not have her with the kit she has now while still being lock on. Too little effort for too
much reward.
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The lock on was a major annoyance, I’m glad it’s gone.
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Probably not. The problem with symmetra was that she was unskillful (similar to how torb’s kit is now). Her turrets require no skill, her tele requires no skill, her ultimate requires very little skill. Right now, literally the only part of her kit that requires skill is her aim. If you want to keep tele and turrets, keep the fire like this. You can’t have a hero that is 100% unskillful.
People will argue that Brigitte is unskillful, but that isn’t true. She is low skill (according to some people) similar to symmetra. If we look at her kit, you’ll see this is true.
Shield Bash- requires positioning
flail- requires aim
health pack- requires cool down management and target prioritization
rally- needs grouped up teammates
passive- requires her to do damage, which makers her have to balance fighting and healing
Symmetra’s kit:
Primary fire- requires aim
secondary fire- requires aim
thats it. That’s all that requires skill. If you made it insta lock, she would only have one skillful feature. Symmetra is in a pretty good place right now (in my opinion), simply because she is no longer a troll pick. A builder hero like her is just going to have trouble finding a secure spot in any meta.
Cheers!
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I agree about the beam its just like the lock on was sym and without it it doesnt fell like her. I dont mind aming it just doesnt feel liek sym.
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Hope they don’t do the same to Torb.
Moira doesn’t have a soft lock.
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Moira does not lock on. That’s just the way the animation appears.
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Oh god please no. Lock on beams trigger me more than anything else in this game. Other than getting hacked maybe, idk for sure
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Er, why do you want a worse Symmetra? Her new gun is significantly better. We can’t have auto-aim AND 10m+ range w/ better alt fire. Pick one.
Auto-aim or being viable outside of a small area. Personally, I prefer the “being viable” option over the “hey look I can kill Genji 25% of the time w/o doing much lol” option.
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Well, in my experience so far you shouldn’t try to use her current primary fire the way you did the old one, you should save it for tanks and dealing damage to barriers, otherwise alt fire is the one you should be using like 80% of the time.
Come to think of it, if anything maybe primary and alt fires should be switched around, otherwise more people will think they should be using the beam more.
They should buff the primary fire, not revert it.
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As a player with disabilities, I’m not exactly pro at aiming, which is why i play mei, mercy, junkrat, and old sym was my favourite. I play with a group of people, some of which also have disabilities (which is what we first bonded over) and over time they’ve quit, starting from when symmetra got her rework, and soon I might as well, playing old symmetra was the last time I remember having a lot of fun playing overwatch, I dont mind new symmetra, but her primary fire doesn’t allow me to play like I did with old symmetra, and doesn’t make overwatch feel fun for me anymore. to be honest, no matter how much we speak about it, I don’t think blizzard will do a thing, the overwatch devs aren’t exactly the most in touch with their playerbase
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revert symm. revert mercy. revert everything back to the way the game was in seasons 3-5… that was the games peak and when it was best… blizz will never understand
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They need to fix her abysmal primary and her garbage ultimate. Her teleporter also doesn’t work as advertised.
Sym and a tank buster should never be in one sentence. We are talking about a 200 hp hero with no mobility, no sustain, no escape ability of any kind and small range.
The rest of he kit stills sucks. Turrets still die by a cough, do less damage than before. Orbs don’t pierce. Teleport requires ridiculous level of coordination and her ultimate is absolute garbage and situational. What cake man is what I ask? 
More like crumbs.
That means you were a bad Genji.
Again, a 200hp hero with no mobility, small range, no escape ability, no sustain that was hard countered by 80% of the OW roster. Maybe she was OP in silver and gold because people in there have god awful aim but anywhere else you need quite a lot of skill to actually make her work. So please, don’t talk non sense. Making an F tier garbage hero work particularly in high elo is very difficult.
Yeah her winrate and her pick rate have dropped significantly. I dunno what good place you see but it ain’t there.
Who said I disliked it as Genji, it was a lock-on that would hook around walls, Just because I main Genji means I dont have an opinion, wow thanks.
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I’m ok with her new primary fire in principle but it needs to be a little better (maybe faster ramp up). Sym does not have the survivability to stay alive long enough in the range it operates to kill many targets, even if played well. And it just gets worse higher up.
Also, reloading is a huge problem. Right at the time you are getting to level 3 and going on a rampage, bam! Out of ammo.
yea if you want the wall to be gone… sure. you cant have both tho.
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I’m actually pretty fond of new Symmetra and actually like her primary fire the way it is now.
Though if there was anything I’d change is maybe increasing her primary fire to either 13 or 14 meters in range.
Other than that, I’ve actually been having a lot of fun with her otherwise.
That’s probably the biggest issue I have, her magazines are too small for her to actually get the most out of her LV. 3 laser.
Her magazine needs to be increased a bit.