Trying to cross map both RARELY ever works, you'll see infinitely more success with a bolt+ shot from a primary thanks to bolt tracking and bigger radius and still have a melee charge up.
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While that's true, those are the situations you can walk out of the smoke with relative ease. I'm not here to argue about balance, honestly, in my opinion the sunsinger's melee and nade are overall much stronger, but that's balanced by the fact that singers are slow af and NS can evade like a mother-blam!-er. I think the gametypes you frequent may also change your experiences, but as someone who mainly frequents 3v3 gametypes, I'm infinitely more scared of firebolts than smokes.