Unless you can land the hook she’ll just melt you with her projectile and beam attack combo
Genuinely miserable experience
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To be fair, not like Roadhog is the best against flying heroes like Pharah, he’s a short ranged hero
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echo makes all tanks miserable
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Playing Roadhog before echo was already miserable
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Really? i have the easiest time dealing with her has Hog so far
Unlike Pharah, Echo cant stay in the air as much, making it easier to hook her, also that she has to be a lot closer to her targets
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Characters like Sigma and Dva have an eat field to absorb her fire and Sigma has his shield to block her fire. Hammond has mobility, Zarya has her bubbles, everyone else has at least something that can act as some form of counter to echo’s damage
Roadhog and Orisa on the other hand
Sigma is the worst tank, and if he’s the best we’ve got against echo that’s not really a good thing…same for dva basically
basically tanks can’t deal with flying heroes, and being able to throw pellets at them does nothing
Hog as Self heal which can easily prevent him dropping below 50% HP, combined with Healers
And Orisa can shot her since Echo has a fairly big hitbox
That’s his weakness though…
He can’t have Huge damage, a ton of HP, a hook to bring targets closer/one shot combo, self healing/damage reduction
AND another defense tool.
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Just need to be more aware of your surroundings. He can take a good portion of her damage and still hide. There’s no real condition for you to stand out in the open most of the time and she can’t boop you into a pit while you are. It’s not that bad.
If she had a sincerely strong knockback that would cheaply and easily put him into pits, then I’d agree. She has NOTHING of the sort.
Echo makes playing everything miserable
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Another “Reaper”, at least will be the hog fault or good movements from echo, to me an acceptable interaction.
Oh of course I don’t want Roadhog to gain additional defense tools, I am just pointing out his tank archetype gets super countered by Echo
Its not like how Reaper counters tank he has to put himself in harms way and is short ranged. All echo has to do is fly over and bam burned to cinders
Good. Playing against a Roadhog makes me feel miserable.
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Been playing Roadhog a lot lately. Echo is easy to deal with. Especially when she copies me and does not know the “hook second” rule when roadhog’s duel each other.
In addition, since her beam requires being in hook range it makes baiting her in pretty easy. Not to mention her descent arc is extremely predictable.
In a team environment I find fighting echo easy enough.
Roadhog’s real enemy is Zarya. Saving her teammates from hooks.
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D.Va probably has it worse since Echo’s beam goes through DM and shreds her mech and already massive hitbox.
My only approach with D.Va into Echo at this point is to fly straight into her face with sticky bombs attached to me and see if the self-damage hits her so I can clean up.
In my experience hog deals with her pretty well tbh
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Roadhog is THE tank to kill pharahs and echos, and you have a right click, if she’s too far for that right click to do much damage you should also be able to dodge any headshot damage and not let yourself get under 300 hp so that beam doesn’t work well, Roadhog is the ONLY tank I play against echo, because I can reliably stick her with a bad case of the deads.
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Good. Hopefully you will swap of hog than.
I mean, Roadhog makes playing most of the cast miserable. 