Compared to all the other smokes in the game I believe Astra is actually one of the best characters when it comes to it. You can place your stars from any place around the map. You have stuns, smokes, and even pulling people in which means you can get the person planting the spike where you want them to plant the spike if needed or even pull them into a specific spot on the site for your teammates to just absolutely roll them while they are hard pushing. Also making the other team go in blind with your ult is just crazy and is kinda overpowered. Yeah it only lasts a certain amount of time but in the end if you use it right after plant you will be able to pick off most of the other team for the advantage. You can’t tell me this character isn’t one of the best smokes in the game.