I feel like every Damage hero has a pretty hard counter, but with McCree it feels like he has a tool for every situation.
Dive him? He has more health than your average hero and a stun. Out range him? He can still two tap you or roll into closer range. I don’t know it just feels like he’s one of the only heroes, if not the only hero, that doesn’t have any hard counters.
I’ve thought this for a very long time, but it’s never really been an issue because he didn’t excel in comparison to his competition. That is until his recent buffs…
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Go tracer and outplay him. Hard counters shouldnt be a thing, you should be able to outplay your counters.
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McCree counters McCree.
Or as T37 said, out playing him…
Hahaha normallly mccree counter a tracer. Also mccree play safe around the both supports. If You killl a mccree on tracer is because he was on very Bad position xd
What reallly can “counter” a.mccree is a widow or ashe on very long range Map xd
You can bait it, and I’m not talking about whether he’s op or not. I’m talking about how countering cree requires you to out play him.
This is not counter. Counter is like Winston against genji
Outplaying your opponent is a counter.
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A good way to counter mccree is to bring Bans back into the game 
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One doesn’t necessarily have to counter McCree directly. He’s not a character who can simply try to invalidate most terrain hitting a backline like Pharah or Hammond. He is still limited by the space his tanks give him and support of his backline to keep him up.
If you really want to mitigate what he can do run a shield tank. It greatly lowers his influence as he has a lower damage output until you close distance. Meanwhile, the rest of your team can overwhelm someone on your team McCree can’t help.
McCree only provides damage and nothing else. If you pick Mei and wall off a tank to cut off healing and some damage from his team you can kill the tanks as say McCree can’t really do anything to prevent that from happening.
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Lol. sure. Then if You kill a widow with torb on long range, because You outplay her one or two times… then now torb is a widow counter??
What a terrible logic.
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McCree is at a disadvantage vs. any hero that can maintain a long distance because his gun has a mid-range falloff. Also, while he is deadly in close range by design, he is actually a little weak against close-range specialists like reaper, mei, or junkrat (provided he doesn’t just pick junkrat off at range).
Soldier 76 usually beats mccree because of his self sustain and significantly longer effective range, plus sprint makes it pretty hard for him to close the distance for a rollbang.
Mei will usually win vs. McCree because of his large hitbox, the fact that she has two abilities that can counter-play flashbang, and also because he has no way to escape far enough away once he starts to get frozen: Mei’s freezeray is 10 meters in range, and combat roll only goes 7.2 meters, so he can’t actually escape her.
I would say Zarya usually beats McCree, too, but she’s probably the only tank who isn’t at a severe disadvantage vs. him.
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NOTHING ELSE??!
WTF… HE IS A ANTI FLANkER, ANTI AIR HERO, SHIELD DESTROYER, TANK BUSTER, CLOSE RANGE AND MID RANGE GOD!!!
what more You want!!!
Really i can’t undertand the logic of some players.
Yes Mei give You a wall. But she ls not a shield buster , she ls not consistent on mid range and not good against air heros. Also mccree stun is better on the majority of cases against flankers. Mccree Also have a Lot more burst dmg with the fth combo
I guess that would be the general idea. Try not to dive McCree on your own as he usually wins close range fights. What you want instead is to overwhelm him for being out of position or abuse someone else on his team.
Its sort of like Ana. If I play Winston and drop a bubble right over the enemy tank we can completely surround him, block off damage supporting him, and block off healing for awhile allowing enough time to kill the tank.
torb is pretty good to spam a sniping spot, coincidentally enough. His stable rate of fire and immediate shot make him a pretty good pre-fire.
Those are his strengths when you run directly into him. If people want a direct counter to McCree as a 1v1 sort of thing you won’t find it for such reasons.
Its like when I play Winston into Reaper. Even if Reaper is around I don’t hit where Reaper is standing. I hit other areas where Reaper is not covering due to his poor mobility and can get lots of value. Its when nearly every member of the enemy team has something against Winston its hard to use him.
This is a similar weakness with McCree. He still has low mobility and say you knock him off high ground, but other parts of his team are on high ground. You hit those weak characters not the one’s around McCree.
This is why I saw rather than trying to hit McCree directly which might be in the backline, you overwhelm the enemy tank. Tanks are at the front of the team not in the rear. Overwhelm the frontline
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As soon as I hear that Flashbang go on CD, its lunch time unless someone died as a result of the flashbang.
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Sure. You can outplay widow. But be sure that torb is not a widow counter xd.
Same than tracer is not a mccree counter.
he didn’t imply it was a counter either. Just that you can exploit weaknesses. Mccree reliance on stun can be baited by some heroes, making him diveable for 10s.
Now, if we’re talking about a protected mccree… well, what weakness does a protected bastion have? You’ll obviously need to bust his protection first (shield).
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