Originally Posted by
Mutazoia
With her range, though, it's not as bad as it seems. Rein's hammer is just as bad, if not worse, and it's range isn't much less that Sym's beam....it will damage you from a few feet past it's swing arc, has a 90 deg "firing" arc which means he doesn't need LOS either, he just has to turn slightly to hit you if you get behind him. Plus he has more health than Sym does, and can rocket away from you if he needs to, which Sym can't do. Syms beam WILL break off if you lose LOS for more than a second. I can't tell you how many times a Gengi has rushed behind me and broken off the beam before I could turn around.
Sym's real danger is when you ignore her/don't know she's there, and she can focus that beam on you uninterrupted. Her short range primary fire put's her in the same class as the pure melee characters, since her alt fire is so slow moving that the only way you hit anybody with it, is by firing it off and hoping some one runs around a corner and smacks into it at just the right moment.