I would like to see the return of utility supports. It would open the support lineup for more creative heroes in the future and help take overall healing down a peg since one of your supports maybe a utility based one with no healing. Which would also help to bring AoE healers back in line. Because with two of them their overlapping heals get a bit out of hand. But with just one they become the perfect solo healer.
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She’s such a bad DPS she has NEVER been meta except for a brief two week period where she was promptly shutdown to prevent her from being meta.
The problem with the game in its current state is the over reliance on healing. Supports are pigeon holed into healing and there is no room in the support meta because the only thing that matters is how good your healing is.
Then maybe she wasnt a bad DPS but its the devs holding her back because they want her to be useless?
I am fine with her being a support as long as she can do the same job as other healers can. I don´t care if it will be healing or shield based hp, but I have enough of games, where my other support is Zen, who puts his orb on a single person and that´s it. I am tired of being solo heal in 2-2-2.
Its the same thing with Sombra, a DPS that can compete with other DPS AND provide utility is just a superior DPS, so they nerf their kill potential, and whats left is a DPS unable to kill something, so its never chosen. Same reason that Symmetra never worked as a support originally. Without healing she was useless.
She could just make her a DPS with good killing potential and thats it, right? Thats what a i get from your reply lol
It’s more of give her extra utility to make her better
Then what’s the point?
Original Sym didn’t and that didn’t work.
Well original sym worked better than current sym
I’d say she didn’t because you were always down one healer. She was pretty much a 3rd DPS with lock on
Just look at the stats man sym 2.0 outperform sym 3.0 while also out picking her
Even her first iteration had similar stats
The only one healer wasn’t a problem because the utility sym 2.0 provided outperformed sym 3.0
I don’t think a Sym that can’t heal would really fit in the game 4 years after.
The game is to dependent on healing to leave it solely to mercy.
We’ve seen that healing is too important to this game. I’m definitely on the make her heal side
That’s actually a pretty good assessment mercy was broken at the end years of 2.0. But the thing I would like to adress is how the characters recently added are actually beneficial to her old self brig obviously because pierce would be devastating to her. Sigma also for pierce. And Orissa because she can’t dodge while shooting.
I really think sym would have had a place with her old ki
And genji with an extra 75 ho would be broken
As a DPS it sounds by how you put it.
Like most of the value she would bring comes from damage while in a support role.
It would be a waste having her in the support slot if most of her value is coming from her piercing orbs and damage
Actually I think if anything sym 2.0 was a cross between a tank and a support
Nothing in her kit promoted her going out and securing picks it was much more about controlling space and protecting ally supports
I’ll have to respectfully disagree.
Maybe, but than she would truely lose all her identity if she lost all her utility, aka her turrets, teleporter, and shields.
I’m just saying any dps character could easily outdamage her which is my main point. Her gun used to be clearly a support/tank gun
Dps are needed to get kills
Tanks to control space
So because sym wasn’t able to reliably secure kills but able to make space she had more of a support/tank gun
I do respect your opinion though at certain ranks sym could definitely switch into the role of a dps. I just don’t believe that’s the role the devs intended and the most effective role
Like Brig with armour? But instead of armour, it’s shields? That sounds really cool and unique 
This is 100% a lie, totally false and incorrect.
That short week were Sym was actually meta was back in double shield before the infinite tp nerf, thats when Symmetras pickrate was higher than ever, she even made it into the top 5 dps
Sym 3.0 was Syms most picked version.