we might see astra back in the meta with pearl
Well maybe but I think that they played her back than because her smoke is just bigger than every other controller (except Viper as well) so she could use one smoke on B site entrance + her Ult is really good there and you play postplant
But now as you can see they have learned to block pull and the entrance is smaller so other smokes can cover it as well
They will probably play her there tho cus she was played before and we like to comebcak to things we know (and thats prob her best map together with Abbys)
Nah Astra is just underwhelming in proplay
Omen has 3/4 smokes per round, 2 tps and Paranoia which is broken so its basically 6/7 pieces of util (if you dont count tps its still 5/6 but tp is broken af as well)
Astra on the other hand only has 4 pieces of util, either you use smokes and no other skills, or you have only 2 smokes and 2 really mediocre skills (pull can be blocked and is really slow to work as well as stun)
They just need to buff Astra really
I think what made her broken before was that her cooldowns were also low. Astra also can't really play the mid-game with only 4 stars. If she uses 1 star in the opener and 1 star in the mid-game, she now has 2 stars left for entry and nothing for post (assuming she's solo). This is also assuming she's only using smokes and neglecting the pull and stun.