Symmetra now counters goats LEGIT

General Discussion
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Aw had no idea

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Make Symm’s beam look like a giant sword (with a hitbox to match) imo

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Yassssssssssss Queen!

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I honestly think we’re going to see a lot more people pick up Sym now. Maybe even hear the line: “They’re going Goats. We need a Sym.”

Can you imagine?!

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It feels like there was a Sym player on the dev team working on the last patch and they were secretly like ‘Yo I’m just gonna slip this is real quick’

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Symm’s beam didn’t care about armor at all it seems. This is actually legit, strong buff. :eyes:

Honestly though, it’s probably a bug since it wasn’t mentioned in patch notes and will get fixed in a jiffy. I honestly don’t believe they want symm to be a good char.

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Her primary fire has been fixed. I discovered this by accident as someone who rarely plays Sym… I was like “what is all the fuss about, this is ez!”, only to go on the forums and see all the posts about it… lol.
I have been playing her a lot now. This is exactly what she needed.

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They didn’t put it in the patch notes when they “fixed” the exploit to begin with. I believe this is the Sym they originally envisioned when they reworked her into 3.0 and I will raise a glass to that :clinking_glasses:

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They fixed it without reintroducing the primary spam dmg glitch? Color me impressed.

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Did the maths looking at the vid slowed down. It looks her beam now does about 37.5 damage per tick at full charge (32.5 against armor), giving her a tick rate of 4.8 hits/second.

So against armor she does:
60% damage at level 1
80% damage at level 2
86% damage at level 3

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The way people say goats in this post probably makes people think goat is an overwatch character :joy:

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Symmetra now counters goats legit
Can be changed to something like
Symmetra now counters hammond legit

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Thanks for doing that.

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Chainsaw. Disney may crackdown if we call it a “lightsaber.” Of course, “illumination sword,” “firelight falchion,” And “radiance rapier” are good choices.

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I fear that given how Symmetra needs to be close range, and is kinda fragile.

She would need speed boost, and to be surrounded by tanks…

Which sounds less like countering GOATs and more like becoming one with the GOATs.

SMOATS?

Not to mention, it removes GOATs biggest weakness. Highground.

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Thank you!

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They are talking about junkrat new skin

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I doubt goats would run symmetra, since sacrificing dva for the symm dps slot makes them very susceptible versus pharmercy since symmetra is also very bad versus pharah. Her sustained damage is still fairly low and charging up on tanks who are being healed does little more than provide their healers a load of ulti charge, while being at risk yourself.

But with symm and bastion buff, I do wonder if we’ll be seeing more of this combination. Coordinating teleports does mitigate bastion’s biggest weakness.

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But Symm 2.0 was ever better at countering goats, shooting a fat orb that passed through barriers and players? Sounds like the perfect counter to me.