damage
Specialist
Satya Vaswani
Unknown
Hit Points
275125 Health - 0 Armor - 150 Shields
Symmetra literally bends reality. By manipulating hard-light constructs, she crafts the world as she wishes it to be, in hopes of engineering a perfect society.
PRIMARY FIRE
Short-range beam weapon with increasing damage.
PASSIVE
Eliminating an enemy briefly increases your reload speed by 33% for 3 seconds. Refreshes on each elimination.
SECONDARY
Hold to charge, release to fire an explosive energy ball. Damage 5-100 direct hit, 2.5-50 splash. Takes 1 second to fully charge. 50 m/s projectile speed. Explosion radius 0.5-2 meters based on charge.
SHIFT
Deploy a small turret that damages and slows enemies. 30 damage per second, 40 health, -15% movement slow per turret, 10 meter beam range. Holds up to 3 charges. 10 second cooldown per charge. Turrets persist until destroyed or replaced.
E
Create two temporary teleporters up to 30 meters apart that enable instant travel between them. 100 health + 200 shields. Lasts 10 seconds. 1 second interact cooldown per use. 12 second cooldown.
ULTIMATE
Deploy a massive 4000 HP energy barrier that spans the entire map (50 meters tall, 484 meters wide). Lasts 12 seconds. Can be placed from anywhere and orientation can be changed. 2025 point ultimate cost.
PASSIVE
Dealing damage reduces enemy healing received by 20% for 2 seconds.
PRIMARY
Short-range beam weapon with increasing damage: 60/120/180 DPS at charge levels 1/2/3. 100 ammo, consumes 10 per second. 12 meter max range. Damaging barriers or shield health regenerates 10 ammo per second and 10/20/30 shields per second based on charge level.
SECONDARY
Hold to charge, release to fire explosive orb.
Minor Perks
Sentry Capacity
Sentry Turret gains an additional charge, allowing up to 4 turrets.
Perfect Alignment
Increase the range of Photon Projector primary fire by 20% from 12 to 14.4 meters.
Advanced Teleportation
Teleporter range is increased by 50%.
Major Perks
Hovering Barrier
Teleporter gains the option to create a forward-moving 600 HP barrier instead that travels at 5.5 m/s for 6 seconds. Pressing the ability key again slows the barrier movement.
Shield Battery
Symmetra regenerates 20 shields per second while within 10 meters of her teleporter.
Base projectile size reduced from 0.5 to 0.4 meters.
Base shield health reduced from 250 to 200.
New Major Perk. Teleporter gains the option to create a forward moving barrier instead. Pressing E again slows down the barrier's movement.
Moved to Minor Perk. Now only increases the range of Photon Projector's primary fire by 20% regardless of beam charge level.
Removed.
Symmetra regenerates 20 shields per second while within 10 meters of her teleporter.
Sentry Turret gains an additional charge.
Primary Fire's range increases by 15% with each additional charge level.
Teleporter's range is increased by 50%.
Base shield health increased from 200 to 250.
Developer comment: Symmetra is performing quite well but we'd like to further enable teamplay around an interesting ability like the Teleporter by making it more difficult to destroy.
Primary fire charge rate increased 25%.
Base health increased from 100 to 125 (total health 275).
Health decreased from 50 to 40.
Primary fire damage per second decreased from 65 to 60, scaling with all levels. Maximum DPS 180.
Health increased from 30 to 50. Damage per second increased from 25 to 30.
Health increased from 50 to 100. Shields increased from 150 to 200.
Primary fire damage per second increased from 60 to 65, scaling with each stage. Maximum 195 DPS.
Primary fire beam width increased from 0.2 to 0.25 meters.
Shields increased from 100 to 150.
Base shield health reduced from 125 to 100 (total 200 HP).
Secondary fire maximum impact damage increased from 45 to 50. Maximum explosion damage increased from 45 to 50.
Developer comment: Symmetra is exceptionally map dependent, to the point where she is oppressive in certain situations yet ineffectual in others.
Damage per second reduced from 40 to 25. Turrets now reveal enemy heroes to allies while dealing damage and for 1 additional second afterwards.
Regenerate up to 30 shield health per second when primary fire deals damage to barriers or enemies with shield health.
Ultimate cost increased 10%.
Beam charge rate and decay rate increased by 20%. Primary fire ammo consumption rate increased from 7 to 10 per second. Primary fire gains ammo from damaging barriers again.
Developer comment: The changes to Symmetra's primary fire will make her gameplay faster by enabling her to charge the beam up to dangerous levels more quickly.
(Beta) Charge time reduced from 1.2 to 1 second. Projectile radius increased from 0.4 to 0.5 meters.
(Beta) Cooldown reduced from 16 to 12 seconds.
(Beta) Projectile speed increased from 25 to 50. Max damage reduced from 120 to 90 (45 impact, 45 explosion). Max charge projectile size reduced from 0.5 to 0.4. Ammo cost increased from 7 to 10. Charge time increased from 1 to 1.2 seconds.
(Beta) Travel speed increased from 15 to 20. Movement speed reduction on targets reduced from 20% per turret to 15% per turret.
(Beta) Build time reduced from 2 to 1 second. Now has a maximum lifetime of 10 seconds. Cooldown increased from 10 to 16 seconds. Health reduced from 300 to 200 (50 health, 150 shields).
(Beta) Primary fire maximum ammo increased from 70 to 100. No longer generates ammo when damaging barriers.
Can now be manually destroyed while dead.
Base shields increased from 100 to 125.
Secondary fire max damage reduced from 140 to 120.
Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds.
Developer comment: We're reducing the cooldown of the Teleporter to help lower the friction between needing to use it as both a personal and team-focused mobility tool.
Damage increased from 120 to 140.
Damage per second reduced from 50 to 40.
Duration reduced from 15 to 12 seconds. Health reduced from 5000 to 4000.
Developer comment: The duration of Photon Barrier was too high considering its impact on a battle.
Primary fire beam width reduced from 0.3 to 0.2 meters. Beam DPS per level reduced from 65/130/195 to 60/120/180.
Now lasts an infinite duration until destroyed. Players can destroy their own Teleporter. Cooldown starts when destroyed. Maximum range increased from 25 to 30 meters. Destroyed if entrance is more than 40 meters from exit.
Developer comment: Symmetra's Teleporter is an interesting tool but often felt too restricting to use.
Interact range increased from 1 to 1.5 meters.
Railings and other breakable objects no longer block teleporter placement and teleporting.
Primary fire damage ramps up 20% faster.
Primary fire beam charges up 20% faster.
Primary fire range increased from 10 to 12.
Moved to Damage role. Photon Projector primary fire no longer locks on. Secondary fire no longer pierces, now explodes on contact. Sentry Turret now projectile-placed, max 3. Teleporter reworked with limited range and duration. New Ultimate: Photon Barrier (5000 HP map-spanning barrier).
Developer comment: The goal of these changes is to move Symmetra to her new damage role and make her more flexible and viable across more areas of the game.
Carried turrets increased from 3 to 6. Cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds.
Health decreased from 200 to 50. Shields increased from 0 to 350.
Primary fire range increased from 5 to 7 meters.
Photon Shield ability replaced by Photon Barrier. Shield Generator added as new Ultimate option alongside Teleporter.
Developer comment: We wanted to address two main issues with Symmetra. First, she didn't feel active enough. Second, due to the nature of her Teleporter, she felt weak in certain situations.
(Console) Turrets damage decreased by 30%.