It’s so bad. Like REALLY bad. It’s been bad since launch of OW1. It’s been a suicide button meme since beta. It’s usually a detriment to use it unless you’re in very specific situations because of how vulnerable it makes her and how inconsistent the mini rockets are.
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The only way Pharah’s ult gets a rework is if Pharah gets a nerf to her flight uptime. Echo is clearly the better design in terms of flight capability. Nine times out of ten, I would rather deal with an Echo than a Pharah. Echo has to eventually come down to the ground, Pharah doesn’t.
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Echo also has better maneuverability, her huge amount of burst with stickies, her finishing beam, and her pick of whatever enemy she wants to be and their ult. An Echomercy is way more deadly than a Pharmercy.
Pharah has fly, boop, and shoot.
Her ult is antiquated and a liability.
Best Ults are the ones who use when nobody is watching or happens unexpected.
Reaper, McCass, Rein, Orisa, just to name a few of them.
Reaper can move, does damage all around him, and heals from it.
Cass can be across the map, cancel it, and move slightly.
Rein’s isn’t channeled, he can move around before and immediate after using it, plus he’s able to use it up close without killing himself or dying due to being a tank.
Orisa is also a tank, can’t be crit during it, can cancel it if she needs by casting it at a lower charge, and it does damage in a 360° area around her.
Pharah can’t move, can’t cancel, can’t use it close because self damage and cc, she can actually be killed with her own ult. It can be absorbed by D.Va, Sig, and Orisa, plus it’s able to be reflected by Genji. You can’t use it far away because it does literally nothing, and is easily killable mid-range. Plus the randomness of the mini rockets means it’s inconsistent.
It’s just a bad ult.
Problems with that ult:
- it only works when the enemy players are clustered, which makes its usage rather niche, as opposed to many other ults.
- You are vulnerable.
In fact, the first point makes your vulnerable position even worse, cause you are shooting to one player, and that gives time to any other to shoot you at will.
It basically is an ult from 2016. I hardly use it. And it is my main.
And extremely deadly from long range.
Name another ULT that deadly from those kinds of ranges.
Cassidy got a damage reduction during his. Maybe we could do to that? She does die maybe a bit too fast. Then again she’s been indirectly buffed by the existence of Lifeweaver who has one of the easiest times healing her.
They should just allow Pharah to cancel her ult - like how Cass can cancel his Deadeye…
Really that simple, “this single trick will fix all our OW problems!”
out of those 3, only shatter is good
While you are reworking it, perhaps remove pharah from the game. That would be the most sensible course of action… 
Why didn’t they just keep the ability to move like in battle for olympus or whatever that mode was called??
Don’t know if it would be a good idéa but at least something!