Sym gets another nerf for a tank's problems? Again?

So we’re nerfing one of the universally worst balanced heroes because shes good at something niesh (again) and it’s not even her fault (again).

Much like the damage revert on her primary because “Mauga’s life steal was too strong” (before they buffed it to 100% for his own heals mind you), we’re again punishing one of the worst preforming and inconsistent heroes in the game, all the while buffing characters like Sombra for 12 damn seasons for the same reasoning (Statistic oriented balance)

For the love of god just re-work Symm already. It could be something small like a new ability instead of turrets and returning power to her gun so that she can actually secure a elem without the use of every single cooldown on her kit. She simply can not secure kills effectively and reliably, and now one of the only things she’s good at is getting adjusted because D.VA, who has been a borderline bully of a tank like Orisa used to be, can’t defense matrix a beam from a character who she can kill before they get to full charge…?

This game gets worse the longer yall keep it on this $60 skin life support system. I literally don’t understand it’s yall game if you hate Symm so much remove her? Change her? Stop punishing her on balancing because of how she plays with tanks when her whole rework was to be a SHIELD BUSTER to which she is one of the worst heroes at now. She has no identity and becomes even more antiquated every patch, significantly more so than other heroes. Out of the original launch roster I think she’s undoubtedly received the worst balancing with adjustments being either extreme nerfs or incremental buffs too few and far in between.

I feel like this game won’t survive long enough for us to play 6v6 again, and yall REALLY can not balance 1 tank. Like flat out. 12 seasons and like 2 good balance patches total.

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I called up bliz because I’m tired of seeing triple beam swaps on my Dva which is simply crutch and told them to correct this obvious oversight to which they agreed and thanked me for pointing out.

In seriousness it’s not cool having your only option against beams being to just run away so this is a good change and they very well could buff sym’s kit somewhere else

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You know what actually, as long as Sombra gets nerfs ill take another unceremonious Symm nerf

Which is a design flaw D.Va has always had. They should have addressed beams being unnecessarily strong against her years ago when Zarya single-handedly gatekept her from ever being meta. Symmetra has been strong against several tanks up until the last couple seasons when tanks became giga-buffed.

Symmetra definitely needs more significant changes to match the relative power of other heroes in the game but adjusting the “destroyed by beam heroes” hero to not be as destroyed by beam heroes to make it more fair isn’t going to gut her. It’s definitely one less situation in which she’s good (of which there already weren’t a ton), but she may get some other compensatory changes later.

She’s not even that good at it anymore since Dva is so strong right now.
Any time I pull out Sym or Zarya to go against today’s Dva, they are NOT afraid and will booster right into me and destroy me in a second.