Taking one of my 3 comfort picks and offering suggestions? I’m in.
Make her builder centric. That’s always been fun. And not the old Shield Gen+ Torb Armor. Nah that was lame. I like turrets, teles (not in its current iteration), and deployables in general.
LMB: Only change is lock on back and that it charges faster. Reason: Reaper can one shot 200 hp heroes, has 250 hp, lifesteals, has an invuln+reload, and a teleport as well as a game winning ultimate. Sym has 200 hp, has to wait about 1.5-2 seconds to kill a 200 hp hero, has no lifesteal, no invuln, and no personalized intuitive teleport- she has a stationary “door” basically.
RMB: No change really. I like this. I wish it was the 2.0 shield piercer, I’m sure that woulda fixed the GOATS meta. But. Sym’s illegal.
Turrets: Halve turret damage, double turret health, double turret count (3 to 6 charges, 3 to 6 out at a time), make allies able to see turrets and what heroes they hit. Seriously, I’d kill if these gave vision. I’m so upset they don’t. Reason: These should be used mostly for information and not “cheese kills”. To emphasize that, I’m totally willing to increase cooldown per charge by 1 second. That way grouping them is more punishing, but not “throwing”. Just like- now they are all gone because Junk naded them.
Teleport: Limited duration. Infinite charges. Medium cooldown. Use intent- plays. Stop letting stupid things through like Dva bomb and Rein firestrike. No. Players only. CD between uses. So that the Bronze destroyer tactic is gone. Bastion+Tele+2 shield tanks in bronze= auto lose Volskaya. We can’t beat that. Reason: Teleporter in current iteration is holding sym VERY far back.
Ultimate: The wall’s dumb. I hate it. I’m sure someone likes it. I want old Shield generator, but not as Shield generator. As regen generator+steroid. First time you place the ult it makes a mapwide buff (so your allies always have it, unless generator breaks which means it does have to be outside spawn) to give allies 15 hps. After that, you charge ult normally and re-using ult triggers your generator to send out a buff to all currently alive teammates (read: its not residual, they have to be alive to get this at the time it is used). Buff gives CDR+ATKSPD in FPS form for 4 seconds. Numbers are rough but basically low perma healing and low duration ult with high impact. Make generator have REALLY low health so that just placing it at your spawn door isn’t feasible.
Passive: Sym dealing damage allows her to store excess energy. Then when she is near an ally, that excess energy becomes healing in the form of shields. Math that out how you want. But now Reason: Sym is a support. She was released as one. Put her back. Let us have nice things. So long as she competes with Reaper, Tracer, Genji, Widow, Mcree, and Doom people will expect something exciting and interesting. So long as she competes with Lucio, Moira, and Mercy people expect something consistent. Makes her easier to balance and get community to accept changes.