Wouldn ' t a stationary shield allow Symmetra to put her turrets more in the open ? The current photon barrier doesn ' t get rid of the need to create death rooms at all . And there ' s no way Symmetra ' s reliably getting behind the team when she has no movement buffing ability like Winston or Genji and can ' t recall like Tracer and Sombra . You ' re essentially prescribing a bunch of roles onto Symmetra which she can ' t realistically fill . Given the way that everything else in her toolkit works , Symmetra will always be most useful as a guard dog just as Tracer and Genji are flankers and D . Va and Winston are dive tanks . The problem with Symmetra is that she was only a good guard dog at the beginning of payload maps and so Blizzard improved her to make her better at defending more chokepoints and objectives . Her weapon , movement , health , turrets , and ultimate are all horrible tools to use offensively . There are just so many other heroes that can work better than her . And I ' ve already declared I want her to keep the barrier , but make some tweaks to it . I want it to be something she can reliably use to protect herself and her team . If anything , my suggestions make it more supportfriendly than it is now !