I have noticed for a while now that sometimes my teleporter will close on its own, and refund a portion of the meter to me.
What factors determine the refunding of a teleporter? What determines how much ultimate charge I receive from the refund?
Overwatch – Grounds for Refunding Symmetra’s Teleporter
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According to the wiki, which seems to be supported on this experiment by Reddit user mctiggs:
Symmetra places a small turret that fires a laser at targets within 10 meters
(image source: above reddit post)
Testing it with Lucio on the training stage:
- I tested it on this spot with the Lucio spray.
After each trial, I moved one step back, further and further until his sonic amplifier would no longer knock them back.
Although I tested it from different distances (taking one step back from the spray every trial), the areas in which the bots landed always landed on the same line starting with the first target. The line is highlighted in red.
Using speed amplifier or speed boost did not affect how much further it flew. Even using the speed boost ability the bot landed exactly on a point on the red line in the screenshot above.
This leads me to believe that regardless how far you are from the opponent they will always fly a set distance.
When testing on different heroes in a custom game, lighter heroes like Tracer, Genji, and Widowmaker tended to fly further than big-boned heroes like Roadhog and Reinhardt
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Best Answer
Teleporters are refunded when either team's active spawn room changes. This is why you do not get a refund when the first point of Gibraltar is capped (neither team has spawn room changed), but you do for the subsequent checkpoints.
The amount of ultimate charge refunded is equal to [uses left]/6.