Hate to break it to you but thats a lot of work per hero/ role that is not exactly universally funtional with every hero in the game.
On top of the fact you basically giving her aoe/team nano/sound barrier effects. On top of the fresh cooldowns and health bars.
Like its either to much work to be viable, or rather patch work almost work shop esq change.
Like at that point your pulling away at what makes the ability interesting to begin with. As in suddenly changing into rien, and playing playing rien super aggressively for an ult if not multiple.
Instead of a patchwork support that now has completely different kit they cant really use because they still have to support. Especially if you are just passively swinging in the background to heal.
Like its not that they couldn’t get it to work. Like if they really wanted to they could make mcCassidy into mei’s sister. But what would the point in going that far to make a dup ability if the player is doing anything but using the duped hero.
That and as i mentioned the last hero was going to be a dps. We had a tank and a support before hand.
If it wanst echo, it would have been another hero all together.
If that was the case why not change a dps that already has support like abilities. You know like sombra, symetra, or even soldier. That already have the baises for a support rework. At least in utility, or flat out a healing tool in soldiers case.
The only reason people want echo as a support is because she has the looks for one. And people felt robbed when she was released as a dps.
I was initially disappointed that she wasn’t a support, but I’ve learned to like her as a dps. She’s a delicate, unassuming robot that’s extremely powerful, which is a cool idea. She could definitely use some balance adjustments but reworking her into a healer is not necessary.
Echo was reworked into a DPS. It just happened before she was launched.
She was initially conceived and designed to be a support. The only reason she wasn’t was because the devs couldn’t let go of the clone ult and felt it was not something they wanted a support having.
For OWL, they might. She is a bigger problem than the average forum goer perceives. The same people who feel Sombra is bad, by the way. Albeit, from seeing how they reworked her, like, I say they should steer clear. I do not want them touching Echo given their track record.
Echo started as a support yes, but it would have been several months if not a good year plus of dev work to put her in the DPS state she is in today. As you know those completely unique fire patterns/sticky bombs/ and health sensitive Damage checks, are not something that could have been done overnight. And that’s “IF” the duplicate ability worked in the same way it does now.
There was a change yes, but it happened a long time ago before she was ever released.
That and of course we would not have Echo at the moment, if she was anything other than a DPS.
I agree that we need more support in the game, but I know that a lot of people want Echo to be a support based just on her looks even though they would not admit it.
I would actually like to see new supports released be very ugly and unappealing, yet fun to play to see if people still will be happy that they got more supports or are they more concerned about how the hero looks.
Nearly every support has hard bricked the meta for months on end, and it is support mains that feel this most. I can’t be the only support main that’s hesitant to get new supports when Bap still exists in his current form, and bash stun is scheduled for public execution to appease whiny tanks.
I’ve heard credible theories that the real issue was that a double pocketed pharah was impossible to take down.
Perhaps for support mains that care about the meta. But I just play who I want, so… I hardly care if they release one as broken as Baptiste or another Moira that nobody wants on their team. It doesn’t matter to me.
If she gets close enough to her ally, she is able to lift up her ally during valkyrie by pressing her ultimate button. Pressing the ultimate button again drops them on the ground. Allies cannot attack or use their abilities while they’re in the air.
Or, bear with me, they don’t remove a character from the game and instead just make a new one? Also they’ve discussed why Echo can’t be a support, shown a cinematic with her using non-support abilities, and already released Echo as a support.
In what universe? Echo is a horrible hero. Shes literally nothing but a big pile of burst damage that can fly. She’s extremely unfun to play against for most sane people.
And the only reason this character is “balanced” is because of how good hitscan heroes are. Mechanically she isnt balanced at all, and I would argue she most DEFINITELY could use a rework, especially in a game like overwatch 2 where her being allowed to melt a tank in 2 seconds would be absolutely unacceptable.