Who does Sym counter?

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This post is for Symmetra mains and others to talk about who they feel Symmetra counters or does well against. Everyone will have their own OPINIONS that you can agree or disagree with but try not to disrespect them.

Based on my experiences I feel like Symmetra counters:

  1. Reinhardt: You can melt his shield pretty easily and leads to making him and his team vulnerable to being dove or picked off.

  2. Mcree: Being that he has little to no mobility, he can be a pretty easy target for Sym. Getting trapped in turrets and not being able to get out and not being able hit shots on Symmetras slim hitbox.

  3. Roadhog: If you can bait out his hook, you can charge off of him pretty quick and it melts through his take a breather and eventually the rest of his hp.

  4. Zenyatta: He has no mobility and is very squishy. You can easily hit him with a fully charged ball or your full charged primary beam and he gets melted pretty easily.

  5. DVA: You can easily melt her mech by using primary fire and can one shot or melt her with beam very fast when she is baby dva.

  6. Hammond: He is usually rolling around and trying to get in your backlines. He will also run into your turrets while being shot at by your team. With his big size you can charge off him and melt him if hes being slowed by turres or if you are close enough.

  7. Doomfist: It will be pretty hard to kill him on your own if hes diving you, but if hes diving one of your supports you can easily shut him down with your supports help by placing some turrets and either using primary fire or secondary fire on him.

  8. Junkrat: He can easily be hit by your fully charged secondary fire and his traps and mines are shut down completely by the turrets.

  9. Bastion: You can either to nuke behind him and try poke him to get him out of position or engage with your ult and melt the shield he is hiding behind.

  10. Widowmaker: As Sym you can not properly deal with a widowmaker but you can scare her away by throwing a tp next to her with a turret to zap her alittle bit.

Those are some of the heroes I feel Sym can counter. Tell me who you guys think you counter best when playing Symmetra.

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Her teams “skillful” mindset

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Sym does well against:

  1. D.va, as she has a hard time dealing with turrets, can’t block the beam, and is easy to hit with orbs.

  2. Reinhardt, can’t deal with turrets, slow, short range, and boosts her beam.

  3. Winston. Though he deals with turrets, he has a difficult time with her.

  4. Doomfist. Stopped by turrets, she can get away from combo, and she can easily hit him with orbs.

  5. Genji. Can’t deflect.

  6. Junkrat. Hard time against turrets.

  7. Reaper. Also has a hard time with turrets, and is easy to hit with orbs. His range is a problem.

  8. Sombra. Turrets stop her from hacking.

  9. Brigitte. Same as reinhardt.

She also does well against orisa, hanzo, pharah, tracer, ana, lucio, mercy and moira.

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Whom* …

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Oh yea I forgot about Sombra. You can disrupt her flanks pretty easily your right.

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I think overall people that have a large hitbox are an advantage to sym, as long as she has the right protection of course. Melee heroes with low range attacks like Brigitte if you can put the turrets high enough or behind her while you beam her up front. Her shield will melt and the back turret will widdle her HP away.

But overall I don’t think Sym is meant to counter a specific type of character, rather, shes an enabler for the team (in an ideal world free of sym hating teammates)

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She does well against a torb as well, I can usually take out his turret for a team push. She does really well against most tanks, especially once you get your beam up. If you have a shield tank or your ult to charge from behind your primary melts almost anyone who can’t aim as well as you.

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Symmetra counters no one and is countered by everyone.

No matter how we look at this she literally counters no one.

She is countered by every single dps.
Tracer, Genji, Doomfist, and Sombra easily murder a Symmetra as she has literally 0 defenses and no mobility to deal with the dive targets.

Phara, Junkrat, and Brig hard counter her as she can’t deal with burst damage at ALL and is unable to fight against them at all without dying instantly.

Mccree, Soilder, Widow, Hanzo, Ashe, and Bastion utterly destroy Symmetra no matter how hard you try. You dont counter them at ALL as they can easily kill you before you even remotely damage them with their range.

Reaper, Mei, and Torbjorn are 10x better than Symmetra for playing close range heroes. Symmetra literally is unable to fight a Reaper, Mei will instantly destroy you no matter how hard you try, and Torb is literally unkillable for Sym with his new E ability and his Turret instantly kills your turrets.

Winston, D.VA, and Hammond EASILY kill symmetra no matter how hard she tries to defend herself. She can’t deal with any character diving her or even remotely focusing her.

Rein, Zarya, Hog, and Orisa kill Symmetra because of how Close she had to get to them especially since she has 0 protection. Rein will kill you when you attempt to charge it off his shield. Zarya players will just instantly burst you down, Hog is just a HARD counter to Symmetra now as she cant even protect herself. Orisa will just fortify and be able to kill you before your beam gets to level 3. Not only that but their Armor (goes for all armored characters) makes your damage ineffective and useless.

Ana, Zenyatta, and Lucio CC Symmetra can Kill her faster than She can kill them. Ana hard counters her with Sleep dart and Nade which is a death sentence for her. Zenyatta will destroy you with his level of damage potental. And Lucio can easily deter you and harass you or even KILL you because of his mobility.

Moira still hard counters you. She did in 2.0 aswell.

And Mercy, Mercy actually DOES counter Symmetra. As sym its 10x harder to kill her and even i’ve seen Symmetra players DIE to mercy’s they have attempted to 1v1.
(Coming from a GM Sym main/one-trick)

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Until she has meaningful buffs, she doesn’t counter any hero whatsoever.

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i feel like she counters all supports except brig, if you tp all three of your turrets to any support their gone in seconds i think she’s a soft counter to moira becuase she can fade but usually she still dies

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I just found out a few minutes ago that she does well against Bob. It seems Bob isn’t too bright, so when he appeared I popped up my wall and he was busy firing through the wall at my turrets while I melted him with my primary.

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Sym 3.0 failed so miserably because it didn’t change how you countered Symmetra. Once you learned how to counter Symmetra 1.0, the same tactics worked for 2.0 and subsequently 3.0. That’s been the biggest flaw, Blizzard NEVER addressed why Sym was soooo bad, because she has no ability to counter.

In Sym 2.0, she had her Photon Shield, wheras, a very skilled Sym could time that shield to block a flashbang, or a Hog Hook, or a Pharah Ult, Or a Dva Ult, or many more. In addition her photon orb passed through shields, so, you could damage away a turtled Orissa, her shields did nothing, she was the ONLY hero who could penetrate shields via a projectile.

Sym 3.0 can’t do any of that anymore, and, she is still countered in the same exact way. If all you do is play against Bots, then, yes, Sym seems to counter those listed by the OP. If you play against real players, unless you are a lights out Sym, you will get owned hard. If you are a lights out Sym, you can be competitive in some instances.

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I am sorry, but Winston? She counters Winston? Winston is pretty much the definition of a hard counter to Symmetra. The only option Symmetra has against Winston is to wait for him to jump her and then teleport out before he kills her.

It takes him a litteral half second to kill a turret, possibly multiple at once given his weapon, that is if he does not just shut them out completely with his barrier.

The only situation in which Symmetra wins against a Winston once he jumps her is if she has a level 3 charge and all 3 turrets. Level 3 charge on its own is not enough without outside intervention, not even joking here.

Winston has 400 health and 100 armor, just burning through the armor with a level 3 beam will take you just over a second since it halves her damage and after that you will need another roughly 2.25 seconds in order to finish of Winston.

Meanwhile Winston will deal 60 dps to you, killing you in just over 3 seconds. It will be close…unless Winston makes use of his barrier and barrier dances you, in that scenario the matchup is not even close, even with a level 3 beam.

If you dont have a level 3 beam or teleporter ready, you are just dead. The turrets wont last long and your tickle beam wont reach any dangerous level before he kills you.

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All of those heroes you mentioned, Symmetra doesn’t counter them directly. Maybe just Rein but the rest have better kits att heir disposal to deal with Symmetra. The ones you mentioned can be killed by Symmetra if outplayed. Countered? No.

Junkrat Brig Roadhog Doomfist Mccree, those can easily kill you and for you to kill them with Sym it takes great effort and gimmicky playstyle.

Sure she melts down Hammond and Dva but they can easily escape your beams range.

Maybe another direct counter can be Sym>Widow since Photon Barrier denies her and she has to get too close to get a pick.

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I’m like 99% sure that Roadhog and Winston easily murder Symmetra.

I can’t think of anyone that Symmetra really counters in any substantial way outside of McCree during deadeye due to her wall.

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Let me correct myself, sorry if this has cause any confusion. I wasnt trying to say she “countered” them, its more like who she can hold her own against, if you know what I mean.

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Counter is a strong for what Symmetra does against those heroes. Pharah counters Symmetra, but if Symmetra can kill Pharah it’s outplaying her.

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Yeah, this is more like a who Sym can outplay list, I just couldnt think of another word other than counter at that time.

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Reliably she only counters Hammond and Dva imo. Since they dont have barriers and are easy beam targets. Symm doesnt counter rein, 3 hammer swings and your dead. Combine that with the garbage tickrate and youll be tickling him while he murders you.

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Well I’m not blaming you. Every hero counters something in this game except for Symmetra.