So, I’m a bit confused on Echo. Every time I do see her, she pretty much owns and hard carries. Her bombs are really great damage and she has a good escape ability or engagement. But the biggest thing is that beam. Should still be what, 50% more damage to those less than 50% health? She’s the literal best finisher in the game with that beam. Can erase a jumping Genji as long as he’s low, delete a Trace blipping past, an even melt a tank down and damage way over healing as long as they’re low. So why is she not used more? I only see her in maybe a 5th of my games?
because its way more fun to pick Widow and go hide in the corner and watch the other team push the payload across the map while you get a few elims. Echo is way too effective to be played more, it just way more cool to go
Theres also not very many counters for a good Echo, people wont play Torb even though its the most effective DPS vs casuals in the game. So you can just fly away every time without getting hit too
Because she requires half a brain cell to play.
Very hard, needs pocket vs hitscan meta heroes
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That’s why she usually owns the matches I do find her in. No one can shut her down enough to be of any use so she still just gets free roam. I certainly can’t get as much use out of her, but I’m certainly trying.
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She takes a lot of effort to play well, and the result is basically a worse Tracer.
If you’re willing to put that much effort into mobility, Tracer will do more.
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I find her projectiles very difficult to aim and lead compared to the rest of the projectile cast
Hmm. So you’re in the thought process and belief that others just do her job better. I can see that. She takes a lot of skill to pick up and has, i would argue, a higher skill ceiling than Genji and Tracer, while being more situational with her ult. So could just be that you get more value with others so its not that she’s bad at anything, just not glaringly worth it enough.
just lower your sensitivity and instead of aiming so much, move your character the same direction as theirs and use timing more than aiming
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Use Range, theres not a lot of damage fall off, if there even is any. Its harder to land every shot, but they will run off or die eventually. Echo is good DPS. Just get so far away they can barely hit you and spam, if they are hitting hard close range. I usually play right next to my team but its easier to stay alive spamming from far away
Because shes very hard to be good at and you need to understand alot more to use her then like soldier or reaper her ult is trash and amzing based on what hero you pick. On top new players dont get then info they need from the game to tell them to only use beam when heros are half hp
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She’s actually one of the best DPS at jumpscare assassination. The issue is that she can be pretty janky, her Ult is useless, and her head hitbox is magnetized to get hit by any and everything.
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Echo ult useless? Against DVA you can Dva Bom them, and Echo is the best DPS Against Rammattra there is, you can take his ult and take his entire team out . People think S76 is good but Bastion does 2x the damage in 2x less time. Echo is better than S76 or Bastion if played right
I think her ult is right in the middle of dps its all based on the enemy team tho
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It’s about as useful as BOB. So your mileage may vary from mostly useless, to moderately useful if you get a very good opportunity.
Yeah. It really depends on how well you can get her ult up. I’ve had times where I would copy someone and not get enough damage or do enough to even get an ult out before it wore off and I turned back. Kinda jank, I once grabbed DVa and then hit self destruct and timed out right before it exploded and it turned back.
Echo has two flaws:
- you must also know the other heroes well to use the ult at the right time;
- her tanking nerf, however honest, creates more problems for her than how she managed to dominate the meta in 2-2-2 creating a tankwatch situation. she becomes more crucial the right time to become a tank, but it also means being an extremely bright target with not much health.
and let’s face it very honestly: it’s easier to break the meta with the laziest, safest and fastest tactics possible than to demonstrate that you can execute a very good strategy. It’s one thing that OWL, as a show, has greatly marred the perception of OW as a competitive game. especially abusing tanking at all times rather than the ability of characters that simply require more coordination to function (like symmetra or sombra).
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Which is why Contenders should have been front and center. It has and always will be 10x more interesting.
Why when there’s sojourn?
after the bullet velocity nerf there’s more predict work for her, but the stacking railgun right click is devastating to everyone, not just Echo.