Hey Geoff! If you guys are not dead set on moving her to defense yet, I wanted to share my ideas with you! However, I understand wanting to preserve Symmetra as a non-healer and moving her to the Defense category. I am sure either way it will be awesome!
[Symmetra]
- Photon Repair (Replaces Photon Barrier)
- Similar to her original Photon Shield ability, but mixed with Brigitte’s “Repair Pack” ability
- “Photon Repair” heals a single target, and any healing over the ally’s maximum healing provides shields that remain until destroyed by enemy (maximum 75 shields)
- “Photon Repair” cooldown is 6s
- Yes it is essentially Brigitte’s ability, but the Shield version, with minor tweaks, but this now provides Symmetra with a healing ability, while still keeping her a “shield-focused” support, just as Brigitte is an “armor-focused” support
- Sentry Turrets
- Increase the maximum amount of turrets in play at once from 6 to 8
- Remove/Significantly reduce cooldown of Turrets. They are destroyed instantly/one-shotted when attacked, and Symmetra needs to be able to mover her “nest” quickly or she loses some of her viability
- Teleporter
- No longer an ultimate ability
- A regular ability (E.g. Using Xbox Control Scheme: Click “Right” on the D-Pad and “RT” to place the Teleporter)
- The teleporter is on a cooldown of 25 seconds
- The teleporter has a maximum of 3 charges, which Symmetra gains charge for passively over time AND by collecting “Photon Particles” from the deaths of enemies, allies, and herself (Similar to Torbjorn’s Scrap Collector ability)
- When the teleporter is first deployed, it would have 0 charges
- When a teleporter has no charge, instead of the teleporter portal being displayed, a red circle with a slash through it would be displayed, indicating no current charges are available
- The teleporter can still be destroyed, and when it is destroyed, it resets the charges to 0
- Symmetra can choose to move a teleporter before it is destroyed, however this will then reset the charges to 0
- Shield Generator
- For her ultimate, it will still be shield generator, however 75 Shield HP is not significant enough for a stationary object that can be destroyed, thus the change here would be that the shield generator provides 150HP to all those within a smaller 35 meter radius
- Quality of Life Change
- Allow Teammates to See the Location of her teleporter/shield generator