Just everything about her kit feels like parts of other heroes kits but have been chewed up and spat out.
Like her fly: Some weird combination of Mercy’s GA and Pharah’s jump jets. And yet they patched out the one thing that made it fun (and broken, so it’s understandable why it was patched) leaving the hero with a completely bland, undynamic, snoozefest of a watered down flight.
Her primary fire: Super boring. Feels boring, looks boring, even the animation is boring and rigid. It’s like they took a look at Genji’s primary fire for inspiration, but made it overall better and somehow more unintuitive at the same time. Like, it just doesn’t feel rewarding at all.
Sticky Bombs: They’re actually pretty cool and unique. Definitely not my favorite ability but at least the devs got something right.
Focusing Beam: It’s like they made a Sym beam but overpowered and without the microwave sound effects. And they balanced it by putting it on a cooldown. It just doesn’t feel good to use this since it’s always a finisher that is basically risk free since it’s almost always used on tanks and barriers, because it’s almost always better to just use primary fire to finish off anyone with less than 300 health. It just feels lame, there’s nothing about this that really gets the blood pumping.
Ultimate Duplicate: Uh yeah. Just like most of her kit, you get to copy a hero. And to make up for the lackluster experience, you get ~600* percent ult charge gain, which more or less equates to being a different character and ulting twice with that character. And it seems like this was still too boring, so the devs decided to just make it a risk free ult, since she literally can not die during this ult.
A lot of this is just opinions so of course you might think she’s the most fun hero in the game, and this thread also isn’t salt for her not being a support hero. I just literally haven’t seen much discussion about Echo these past few days so I thought I would share my views on the hero.