Echo hits the Overwatch take a look at realm as a harm dealing copycat

An entire year-and-a-bit after she was first teased in Ashe’s reveal trailer, flying holo-faced robotic Echo is lastly playable in Overwatch. Well, the take a look at realm, a minimum of. An Echo in additional than title, Blizzard’s newest brawler is a flying robotic thief who can nab some other hero’s skills along with her unprecedented final.

If you need to get your palms on Echo’s toolset, head on over to the Overwatch PTR and, properly… hope to god your match masses quicker than the remainder of your group. You know the principles. New character on the take a look at realm means it’s quickest fingers first.

You can study one thing from each scenario.

Echo is now testing on the PTR!

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Echo’s skills have been revealed, fairly unconventionally, by Twitch streamer Timthetatman taking the baby-faced android for a test-drive with Jeff “from the Overwatch team” Kaplan.

Besides with the ability to fly briefly (and glide indefinitely), Echo’s large twist is her final capacity, Duplicate. This lets her turn into an opposing hero for just a few seconds. During this time, her final generates 500% quicker, letting her line up and hearth off some other final within the game. That’s wild. I can’t even start to guess how this’ll pan out in aggressive play.

The remainder of her equipment works properly sufficient. A volley of Sticky Bombs that explode after a brief delay, and a terrifying Focusing Beam that does quadruple harm towards targets with underneath half well being. Brutal damage-dealers, if rather less characterful than outright nicking folks’s stuff just like the flying crime robotic Echo makes out to be.

Revealed earlier this week, Echo is Overwatch’s first new hero since Sigma graced us with his floating toes final 12 months. Expect Echo to fly round on the take a look at realm for just a few weeks earlier than hitting the game’s stay servers.