Symmetra been a bad hero for a long time. Bastion still gets more usages than her. It’s easier to sync up with Bastion than Symmetra. They really need to make her kit a bit independent like her old versions.
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how it actually feels to play sym https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/72884484/you-fool-youve-just-activated-my-trap-card.jpg
Niche in this game means absurdly strong with the caveat of being easy to deal with. Pharah for instance. If you don’t counter Pharah, she just bulldozes your team, but a decent Widow turns her into a throw pick.
Sym falls in line with that. Except imo, she’s more versatile and not as easy to shut down. Her two biggest counters in Winston and Pharah can be shut down by having a Bastion on your team, Bastion who Sym can then supplement with mobility.
Torb just has more consistent damage and a mini tank ability. His gun is allowed more consistency than Syms because his turret has always been less lethal than her turrets. They can hardly even be compared at this point anymore imo. The only similarity they share at this point is the fact that they have turrets.
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Well that’s certainly a part of it. That’s the nature of how automated effects work. If Torb or Symm places a turret, their job (in the context of that turret) is done. Whether they go AFK or play with unmatched skill, it’s not going to change what that turret does. The only thing that matters for that turret is how the opponent plays.
Symmetra’s kit isn’t all automatic anymore, though (Symm “2.0” was almost entirely). Only that one part of it, which is still a significant part.
Edit: Technically Torb can change what his turret does in certain scenarios with the marking feature they added.
then literally nobody is good at her beacuse its pretty hard to make her work lol,
i can kind of make her work but its an uphill battle
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Except your trap card somehow triggered the trap card they had and it somehow took all your life points.
are you saying they need to buff sym?
Buff no…fix yes? Heck yes!
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As a Brig player, I start nervously sweating when a Sym chases me. It’s a tricky situation of… “do I hold my shield up to stay alive, but therefore letting her get max charge and full ammo…”
So I usually end up whipshotting syms away from me and running away because rarely do I survive them, and if I miss whipshot it’s all over
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what do you mean fix? remove charge for her beam and let it be monster killing machine allways?
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Wish her alt fire functioned like this, then she might handle better
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Yes I understand that, but this is Symmetra we’re talking about and many players willing wanting her on the team. She’s okay, but overall the most easiest to shut down on pressure compared to 2.0 and before.
Perhaps another rework at this point.
That’s sadly embarrassing.
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Even if this was true it’s blizzrd fault for forcing sym mains to aim with such a hard weapon.
Of course it is. Sym is easily one of the most difficult heroes in the game to master because her kit is complex, she has many options in most situations and picking the wrong one can be heavily punished, and she has multiple learning curves with all of her abilities.
I disagree. She’s always needed pressure from her team to operate and exert her own pressure. Except now she has an option to create pressure on her own via her ult.
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Symm needs to be reworked to be entirely non conditional and keep up with the current state of the game
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You can’t aim at something slowed to a crawl via turrets?
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So tired of these Sym threads…
She’s niche and requires a team. She’s not nearly as bad as these forums make her out to be.
She does not need to be reworked or reverted. Possibly some TP buffs, but that’s all.
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Have you ever played Brig against a good Sym? Sym counters a lot of Brig’s kit very well. She can throw a turret behind you to stop your escape route even tho Brig doesn’t have any mobility, the turret slows her escape route even more.
And Sym exploits Brig’s defensiveness by feeding off of her shield and getting stronger the longer Brig holds it up (did you not know Sym can feed off shields now?)
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i love every part of her kit right now, i can kill anything i want while i can actually help my team in a meaningful way.
the only two that’s gives me a bit of a problem is winston and pharah but they usually die to everything else on my team.
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Don’t forget teleporter.
If she can set it up, Symmetra will torment a Brigitte by never being in range while forcing the Brigitte to deal with turret and beam harassment (assuming 1v1 scenario)
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