12/10/2024
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.
Teleporter
- Base shield health increased from 200 to 250.
6/20/2024
Developer Comments: To help solidify Symmetra as a close-range threat, we're increasing her health to better survive in that range, along with how quickly her primary fire beam damage ramps up.
- Base health increased from 100 to 125 (Total health increased from 250 to 275).
Photon Projector
- Primary fire charge rate increased 25%.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Symmetra can’t troll you if you don’t press Teleport.
Teleporter
- Only places exit Teleporter.
- Any ally can use Teleporter regardless of their location.
- Teleporter duration decreased from 10 to 4 seconds.
3/19/2024
Photon Projector
- Primary fire damage per second decreased from 65 to 60, scaling with all levels. Maximum damage per second is 180.
Sentry Turret
- Health decreased from 50 to 40.
3/8/2024
Photon Projector
- Primary fire damage per second increased from 60 to 65, scaling with each stage. The new maximum damage per second is 195.
Sentry Turret
- Health increased from 30 to 50.
- Damage per second increased from 25 to 30.
Teleporter
- Health increased from 50 to 100.
- Shields increased from 150 to 200.
2/13/2024
- Shields increased from 100 to 150.
Photon Projector
- Primary fire beam width increased from 0.2 to 0.25 meters.
10/31/2023
Developer comments: With Symmetra recently gaining more lethality in her long-ranged secondary fire, she's no longer as reliant on playing at close range, so we're reverting her total health back to 200.
- Base shield health reduced from 125 to 100 (total 200 HP).
7/11/2023
Developer Comments: Symmetra is exceptionally map dependent, to the point where she is oppressive in certain situations yet ineffectual in others. The following changes increase her weapon effectiveness while lessening some of the frustrations caused by her turrets. The Photon Projector primary fire is now an even more pointed counter against certain heroes due to its conditional shield health regeneration, and the secondary fire now takes one less fully charged projectile to eliminate most heroes. Symmetra's turrets are especially powerful when focusing on the same target due to their combined total damage output coupled with their slowing effect. We are lowering their raw damage and angling them towards utility to make spreading them out a more viable option.
Photon Projector
- Secondary Fire maximum impact damage increased from 45 to 50.
- Secondary Fire maximum explosion damage increased from 45 to 50.
- Regenerate up to 30 shield health per second when primary fire deals damage to barriers or enemies with shield health.
Sentry Turret
- Damage per second reduced from 40 to 25.
- Turrets now reveal enemy heroes to allies while dealing damage and for 1 additional second afterwards.
5/9/2023
Added the Hero-Specific Options:
- Toggle Secondary Fire - Off by default
- Hold To Deploy Sentry Turret - On by default
- Teleporter and Photon Barrier Confirmation Input - Primary Fire by default
- Default Photon Barrier Rotation - Horizontal by default
- Hide Photon Barrier Timer - Off by default
2/7/2023
Photon Barrier
- Ultimate cost increased 10%
12/6/2022
Developer comments: 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. However, it will also drain to less lethal levels at an increased rate when not damaging a target. We're reverting the adjustments to her ammo management because, while it helped with matchups where there were no barriers, it lost something interesting to its interactions.
Proton Projector
- 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