Lets compare her to zarya shall we? who is a tank and really similar to her
Zarya, at full charge, can do arround 200 dps with her beam at her full charge, 90 dps at minimum
Her beam is 15 meters long, her gun takes 1.5 seconds to reload
She also has a right click that has a pretty large aoe arround 2 - 3 meters and does 90 damage per direct hit or so, moving at a whooping 23.5 meters per second
She can go from 0 to 80 charge in a few seconds if the stars allign, her barriers getting destroyed quickly at the same time
Oh did i mention she has twice as much hp?
Now lets see symmetra
180dps max, 60 min
Charge time of a minimum of 4 seconds of constantly firing at a target,
12m range Her gun takes 1.8 seconds to reload
only 200 hp
Her right clicks do 120 damage, and take 1 second to charge , and moves at 20 meters per second,
Lets put this nicer so we can compare
Symmetra Vs Zarya
primary fire damage min: 60 vs 90 Primary fire damage max: 180 vs 200 Secondary fire Damage Max: 120 vs 180 Secondary fire damage Min: 120 vs 45 Primary fire time to charge: 4s vs 1s(to80%str) Secondary fire charge time: 1s vs 0s Secondary fire speed:: 20m/s vs 23 m/s HP 100shield 100hp vs 200 hp + 200 shield (+200hp barrier)
So…IN what world is this hero suposed to be a DPS?
Now…Sure…Symmetra has both a teleporter and 3 turrets, so Technically symmetra can deal more damage if her turrets are firing at the same time as her
But come on, her turrets barely last more than a second against a player with more than half a brain due to their Low hp that even 2 bullets can destroy,
And her teleporter…sure…you can justify her her as “oh she has the teleporter that can teleport her entire team somewhere” Yeah…tell me how many times people actually use the teleporter, and its not a viable retreat strategy either because it takes like 2 seconds to setup and by that moment your dead
And lets not compare their ults, Atleast zaryas cant be cheesed by just walking through it and its one of the most powerful ults in game
Just buff this hero please
no im not asking for a zarya nerf, im asking for a sym buff, its inexusable that a DPS has less damage health, and charge time than a tank!
It’s simply inexcusable that Zarya’s beam is superior to Sym’s in every way. The base damage should at LEAST be equal on a shorter beam from a squishier target.
You…can’t compare an Attack hero to a Tank, of course they’ll be better, they’re built for prolonged fighting. Symmetra needs fine tuning yea, but don’t compare her to a hero on the opposite spectrum
They aren’t comparable other than that the both have beam weapons. That’s not how you base things. I’m not saying sym should have the primarybstay the same, but comparing it to zarya’s is nonsensical.
One thing that really kills Sym is she has NO damage on demand abilities everything she does takes setup time/ramp up time and for a DPS that is a HUGE problem she will never be taken seriously unless she has the ability to do respectable damage right off the bat. people used to fear getting close to Sym cause of her lock on primary her primary now does way less damage in comparison and unless shes at rank 3 beam people couldn’t care less about her