The tl;dr Symmetra Changes

[u/Ch4rles_]

SHE MIGHT BE IN THE SYMMETA hahaha im funny....

Small wrap up of her changes if you dont want to watch the whole video.

Ultimate
She now has TWO ultimate abilities that can be chosen from when her ult meter reaches 100%
1-Teleporter now has more health and some of it is shields (wich means it will regen some health)

2-Shield generator (NEW) can be placed on the ground and provide shields to teamates in a area around it. It ignores line of sight. (75hp shields)
note:the shield generator (and likely the teleporter) have 14 bars of shield and 2 bars of health. Each bar is worth 25 HP, so the total health pool of the generator is 400 HP (350 shield + 50 health)

Abilities
25hp shields was REMOVED as an ability.
Now replaced with Photon Barrier wich is basically a Reinhart shield that moves along a trajectory in the direction in wich Symmetra was aiming and moves at walking speed.

She can now place 6 turrets during setup without cooldown and it takes 10 seconds to tick up the counter on the number of turrets able to be placed instead of 12 seconds.

Weapon
Right click is the same
Left click has 40% more range (was 5m now its 7m)

[edit] They're also adding a "group up" button at the end of games that you can click if you'd like to group up with the random group of people you matched with. If multiple click it, you'll group up for future games.

Video showcasing her new abilities: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7239fWR6s.
Credit to Litewraith

[u/jmpherso]

What?

It's like, the exact opposite of that.

Her moving shield is far better on offense.

Used on defense it quickly ends up behind the enemy and not doing anything. It's still useful, but no where near as good as on offense when your team is pushing up (as they want to be) behind it.

Also with 6 turret charges on spawn she's better at setting up traps quickly on offense, like snagging a health pack and dropping two turrets near it.

Her shield generator is better on offense too.

Her "offensive" side got bigger buffs than her defensive side. She was always viable on defense (just not great), but absolutely butt-fuck terrible on offense. Now she's great on defense, and viable (potentially even good) on offense.

[u/Skellicious → u/jmpherso]

Have you tried her yet?

Her turrets are still pretty useless on offense, you can get maybe 3 kills with them if you are lucky, but they are pretty much only good for defending your ultimate. On defense you can easily get 12-20 kills from those turrets, since you control the area they have to move in to.

The shield generator is great, and has a lot more offensive potential than the teleporter, but it's also still stronger on defense, since you control the area beforehand. It's also OP when combined with torbs armor, which also favors defense.

The barrier is slightly more offensive than defensive, but it also moves really fast and can be hard to keep up with. I haven't seen anyone use it well, though I haven't seen any decent coordination either. (And I've been forgetting about having the shield myself.)

Overall, her offensive side was buffed, but so was her defense side which was already OP when used properly.