As a support player, it’s extremely difficult to play this game now that echo has been added.
It’s not so much that the character, itself, cannot be countered. She can be countered by Soldier or McCree. But if the DPS players on your team don’t pick hitscan heroes, it’s just a complete and total steamroll of a match that’s pretty unplayable…
A lot of maps have a really high perch that she can sit atop. She just sits there, and the moment your team spawns and walks past, she just dives your back line, and kills your supports nearly instantaneously. Rinse and repeat.
The reason that she differs from Pharah, is because her burst damage potential is so much higher, and can get rid of the supports before your team can suitably react.
When I play QP, I don’t mind losing at all, and I’m okay with everyone just playing whoever they want to play, even if it’s being hard-countered by the other team. But at least I’m still able to play and get in on some action.
But if I queue up as a support, and there’s an Echo on the other team, and the DPS players on my team don’t feel like playing hitscan, I basically spawn and die to Echo before I ever make it to the point. I can’t even play. Period. I have to sit through two rounds of just dying over and over without being able to engage in any fight and stare helplessly at the team chat: “Where are the heals guys?”
There’s no other hero in the game that creates this kind of situation 
Why can’t you switch to Soldier or McCree yourself?
Because I’m queued up as a support.
Play Moira, AoE heals against her spam.
Well, you can always try a support that works better against her like Moira. Pity they’re ‘reworking’ her into the gutter soon.
Best you can do is run Moira or Baptiste. Moira can shed sticky bombs, and Baptiste has invincibility. They both can damage Echo pretty reliably.
The main issue right now is that, while Soldier and McCree can fight Echo, they’re not exactly counters. Echo pops them just as easily as any other 200hp DPS. Even the best Soldier will struggle against the best Echo.
Baptiste is a great support against her.
- Hitscan
- Vertical mobility to avoid other threats while dealing with her.
- Has a lamp that can be used in case of being surprise dived.
- An ult that can be used to take her down quickly.
The tanks could help too, Sigma and Orisa deal with Echo quite well
Bruh, you gotta get off the negativity train, it’s bad for your health
Not exactly the same topic, but i agree that role queue butchered a lot of flexibility in counters, and that one of the main problems with the current game is not having enough ways of counterpick everything while playing as tanks and support. As long as they keep adding DPS and not more varied tanks and supports, the problem will persist. There is a lot of hero archetypes that only DPS can currently counter.
Thanks for the tips… looks like I’ll be grinding out a ton of Baptiste.