The damage-dealing hero Echo has arrived in Overwatch. Like a Mercy who has ripped up her Hippocratic Oath, she glides across the map blasting away along with her robotic gunhands. Or possibly she’s extra like a Pharah that’s far more manoeuvrable? Oh no, she simply changed into a Roadhog. What have you ever performed, Blizzard?
This. This is what they’ve performed.
She has three assaults: a tri-shot finger pow that chips away at well being, a extra targeted beam that does excessive harm to weakened enemies, and a sticky grenade. The sticky gloop will do a substantial quantity of harm, and comboing it with any of her different assaults will go away an enemy or two begging to be healed.
In conjunction along with her enhance and glide manoeuvre, she’s a flanker’s dream. There are sure spots on maps that Echo can merely glide over, which means you’ll be able to take out inattentive snipers by forgoing the same old paths to them. She’s additionally nice for making a mad sprint at a cart throughout extra time.
Most controversially, her final means she will clone right into a participant from the enemy workforce and construct as much as that character’s final tremendous rapidly. There are fewer downsides than virtually each different final within the game. When she hits it she has the cloned participant’s full well being, and when she dies in that kind she returns to her personal physique with full well being. As somebody who rails in opposition to the myriad ways in which Overwatch permits gamers to speedily return to well being, that is essentially the most egregious instance going! A weakened Echo can flip right into a 600hp tank after which return to 200hp when she’s “killed”. Admittedly, it’s a much more restricted energy than a easy well being enhance, nevertheless it feels futile to assault her when she’s rampaging round as one other participant. She gained’t die.
But… my quick time taking part in as her final night time was plenty of enjoyable, particularly after I labored out my very own private meta: glide up and over, sticky bomb folks from behind, then hearth no matter else I’ve left. I died lots, however I additionally took out a sniper nest a bunch of instances.
She’ll be nerfed. She must be. So, get pleasure from her superpowers whereas they final.
