Area-denial DPS who places teleporters for quick repositioning and turrets to control space. Devastating in tight corridors and deathball comps; struggles in open maps.
Abilities
Photon Projector Short-range beam that ramps up damage; alt-fire is a seeking orb.
Sentry Turret Places a small turret that slows and damages nearby enemies.
Teleporter Creates a portal that teleports allies to a target location.
Photon Barrier Deploys a large moving barrier that crosses the battlefield.
Meta Analysis
Consistent across ranks (Master vs Silver: -1.2%), with a neutral skill curve. Strongest on Control maps (54.9% avg WR) and weakest on Escort (46.6%) — a 8.4% spread across game modes. Best on Lijiang Tower, Nepal, Samoa — maps characterized by high-ground and chokepoint terrain, where their vertical mobility finds more angles in elevated terrain and open airspace. Struggles most on Numbani and Havana (open, aerial, high-ground, long sightlines maps).
Win Rate by Rank
Ban Rate by Rank
(as of 2026-07-26)
Win Rate by Map (All tiers) (per-map data as of 2026-07-26)
Playing Symmetra? Strongest maps: Lijiang Tower, Nepal, Samoa.
Kit fit (✓✓ … ✗✗) rates how well Symmetra's abilities suit each map's mode and geometry — independent of the observed win rates.
Map Mode Win rate ↓ ± avg Kit fit Bans
Lijiang Tower's enclosed interiors bring every fight into Photon Projector range
Nepal Control 56.5% +6.9% ✓✓ 4.3% Samoa Control 55.9% +6.3% ✓✓ 3.4% Control's single compact point on Samoa forces the close-range scraps Photon Projector wins
Ilios Control 53.9% +4.3% ✓✓ 3.7% Busan Control 53.1% +3.5% ✓✓ 4.0% Oasis Control 52.3% +2.7% ✓✓ 3.8% Aatlis Flashpoint 51.7% +2.1% ✓✓ 3.1% Dorado Escort 48.0% -1.6% – 3.9% Rialto Escort 47.1% -2.5% – 3.3% Symmetra has to cross Numbani's choke-gated attack corridors under fire before Photon Projector can work
Havana Escort 44.0% -5.6% ✗ 3.3% Havana's long payload lanes let poke chip Symmetra down before Photon Projector gets into range
Symmetra has no mobility tool for Junkertown's long rotations — every reset is a long walk