Echo's ultimate is so bad now

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Echo’s ult has received two nerfs to her ultimate, both of which are kinda devastating.

  • Copied tanks will now grant echo a maximum of 300 health.
  • Rate of earning ultimate nerfed from 6.5x to 4x.
    (Ignoring the ult cost reduction of 25% for now)

Echo’s ultimate take’s far too long to build up in 15 seconds. Even with “easy” characters like Moira or Junkrat. Even when you DO earn the ultimate, some ultimates take too long to act out, still becoming effectively useless.

This needs to be programmed better. All of these weird buffs/nerfs aren’t needed. Even when you do activate Echo’s ultimate, it telegraphs to everyone that you’ll use it within 15 seconds, and you become target #1 anyway… so idk, I never felt the ult was that good to begin with.

Can we not make the ult just “end” after using an ultimate one time? This would eliminate the rare occasion of people getting two ultimates.
Or have a timer extender when you DO “Press Q” before 15 seconds is over, you still have the reward of the ult?

Frig, just something to make it usable!

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I don’t play Echo, but I have played into her a lot recently and yeah, I can’t remember the last time she ulted while ulting. She usually dies instantly.

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Simple solution, switch off , only way blizzard is going to fix something is when less and LESS pick the hero.

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Echo’s ult is boring and bad game design.

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Which is ironic because they literally made her DPS since they loved the ult so much even though it went completely against her character.

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You know what the funny part about echos ult is?

It shows how quickly any hero can die when focus fired….but nobody ever does

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Echo’s ult is becoming like Pharah’s in that without a hard pocket, she’s not gonna score any kills.