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[Zephrin-11143]

@Haise-11848

“but sym is bad and needs MANY buffs!!!11”

she’s a niche hero, deal with it

Except a niche hero is only balanced if they’re proportionally stronger in their niche for how narrow it is, i.e. strength in niche compensating all the weakness outside of it.

Is that the case for sym? I highly disagree that it is.
Her winrate on gm overbuff in the last month and 3 months struggles to be top 10 which is filled with quite a lot of generalists.

Like if she’s only picked in her niche to justify how low that pickrate is, you’d think her winrate would be much higher.

If you think that unpopularity is another reason for how low her pickrate is, then you’d think her winrate would be even more skewed higher from the lack of mirror matchups.

So the resounding question is why is that the case?

And a likely answer is that she’s simply bad.

And when you start comping her kit vs others, esp in terms of how often she can get uptime for herself to do her job vs how often others can get uptime for their respective jobs, the answer of “sym simply being bad” seems more and more likely. I could and legit have written essays of analysis of sym’s kit, but to spare you the details and proofs: amongst the cast, she legit has low sustain, low effective range (yes, even when including orbs), low burst AND low mobility.

@Haise-11848

That’s a problem with the kit, you’re not supposed to buff the kit, you’re supposed to REWORK it. When you overbuff the kit, when SYM is being played, like right now, she’s a nightmare to play against with that 225hp.

Your problem is solved by a rework, not buffing.

no her core problems is her insufficient tools to get uptime and that can legit be solved through buffs on sym without making her OP:

@Zephrin-11143

Solution

If we really want to let sym have more independence for her own uptime (because she’s really low on that atm and that’s like 1/2 of her core problems), what’d really extend her range and mobility, i.e. the “must haves” are:

• renumber her orbs to be an aimable midranged bursty (but lower fire rate) weapon fire i.e. renumbering them around being faster moving projectiles
• making tp have a better cd mechanic like old 3.0 finite tp e.g. (cd starts on placement, but pauses when it reaches halfway until destruction)
• making sym herself (not necessarily her team) able to interact with tp sooner after placement

better mobility —> “getting in range” would take less time which is something sym isn’t doing all that well with rn esp post infinite tp cd mechanic implementation.

throw in also better range (and hopefully a better balancing of burst vs sustain too in renumbering of orbs), this would also reduce the time for “getting in range” and in terms of mixing with tp, provide a LOT more options as to how that’d happen (i.e. more positions for self tp’ing to that let sym be in effective range of orbs).

and this further works out even better as it further bypasses the “iT’s lOW SKilL aND oPprESsiVe tO lOW raNkS” the typical “skill elitists” and sym haters usually