The Devs listened

[Galgus-1855]

Blizzard logic: Symmetra’s teleporter would be OP with a 100% uptime, but Orisa’s far more impactful shield that takes the whole team shooting at it to have a meaningful downtime is fine.

[GOLDamageSym-1773]

Yes you can put it back up with current teleporter but if it doesn’t get destroyed then it stays there and that’s the key difference. It remaining there after you deploy it isn’t something that should be underestimated. Teleporter even now is a strong ability when used right.

So I see having to refresh tp differently than you I think. To me, it can take you out of a fight and you need to find the time and position to safely do it. This means less time shooting people and managing turrets and doing other things.

I think the strongest thing about infinite tp is the increased power to control 2 specific areas at once. Your Point A and your Point B. To me this is much better than current teleporter which yes, may give you more possible areas to control but to a much weaker extent. And the reason I say it’s weaker is because tp will very quickly disappear and will need to be redeployed. This means that you have lost access and control to that area and will have to try and take it back. Infinite tp gives you 2 points that are more consistently yours. I’ve always seen Sym as a character that can be in two places at once and this strengthens her power to be just that.

Infinite tp also means you have a reliable instant escape option. Something people have been saying Sym desperately needs. This also includes everybody on your team as they can use it too. Sure you can keep redeploying the current tp but that takes precious time and it deploys slow, and from my experience there have been plenty of times where I have died because I didn’t have a tp up already and/or because tp did not last long enough.

And about why people are shooting it now well 9 times out of 10 people are shooting tp to stop you from teleporting your whole team to point. Thing is with the infinite teleporter if they don’t destroy it then it stays up and will continue to be available to you and your team. If the team fight seems lost or someone is low on health and the enemy team hasn’t destroyed the tp, then any or all of you can take it back out. No having to wait 3 seconds for Sym to put it back up. Not only that but if the enemy wants to take that advantage away from you they have to dedicate time and resources attacking the tp which means they’re not attacking you.

I’m not saying infinite tp doesn’t come with its downsides but I am saying that despite what it loses it gains so much more. I’m also sure they’re not done buffing sym either but we’ll see. She can be so much more than just a taxi bot and I wish people could see that.

Please don’t take this the wrong way - But I honestly think that only people who play Symmetra somewhat optimally or at least averagely should give opinions on what a particular character needs.

I’m not going to ask a football player what the tweaks should be on baseball gloves.

In the other thread, you literally said that if a Widow is off in the distance sniping your team, that you would just throw turrets at her. Guys got on you for saying that because that seriously pointed out that you do not play Symmetra well.

Yes you can put it back up with current teleporter but if it doesn’t get destroyed then it stays there and that’s the key difference. It remaining there after you deploy it isn’t something that should be underestimated. Teleporter even now is a strong ability when used right.

Ptr Teleporter is strong when used right? Live Teleporter is even stronger when used right.

So I see having to refresh tp differently than you I think. To me, it can take you out of a fight and you need to find the time and position to safely do it. This means less time shooting people and managing turrets and doing other things.

And that’s your problem. You are a defensive only Sym. You are the Sym that throws turrets above chokepoint - Sit with your tanks - Spam Orbs - and only use TP in a defensive manner to bail your team out. This is the suboptimal way to play Sym. This is why you don’t mind the changes because they don’t effect your static way of playing Sym. Currently redeploying teleporter doesn’t take you out of a fight when you are utilizing deployment to attack a backline healer with a Bomb. You are acting like it takes 20 seconds to redeploy. The 1.5 to 2 second of redeployment is completely negligible.

I just read the rest of your quote about how PTR Teleporter is a better escape option and noticed that this sounds word for word for what you posted in another thread. So it sounds like you are literally going around to Sym threads, and copying and pasting the same weak arguments to keep these changes.

The way you play Symmetra would be lunch meat in high level play. Please understand the depths of a character before trying to give irrelevant and bad opinions about her kit. LIVE teleporter is a better escape option for Sym than Ptr Sym because it’s available to be deployed more. Dude please just go watch the great Syms like Raihan. Go to his youtube channel and learn. Watch some of my stuff - or try watching stealth hacker from youtube.

I watch a lot of Syms because she can be played in a variety of different ways.

I can’t think of not even ONE Sym in top 500 that doesn’t play Sym aggressively . . .

which is the opposite of how you play her.

This change severely restricts and limits aggressiveness from Sym.
In Comp, there is a reason why people HATE Syms on their team - It’s because they play her so passively, with their tanks, and just mindlessly spam away…

like there isn’t like 5 dps characters that can play that style even better.

We are stepping into a 2-2-2 mandate. The way you suggest to play Sym would be like a team having 2 Tanks, 1 Dps, and 3 Supports. It’s just so suboptimal and bad. As a dps…you have to MAKE things happen…As in…be aggressive.