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Echo counters

Who beats Echo, who Echo beats, and why. The hardest counters to Echo include Ashe, Baptiste and Cassidy. Echo's strongest matchups include Anran, Brigitte and D.Mon.

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From WinCon's coaching read of each hero's abilities, the same one the coach uses: a guide, not a measured win rate. Blizzard doesn't publish how heroes do against each other.

Heroes that counter Echo

Pick one of these into an enemy Echo, or watch for them when you play Echo.

Tanks

  • D.Va (strong counter): Defense Matrix eats Tri-Shot and bombs; Boosters reach her

Damage heroes

  • Ashe (strong counter): scoped hitscan reaches her
  • Cassidy (strong counter): hitscan reaches her in the air
  • Emre (strong counter): hitscan bursts reach her in the air
  • Soldier: 76 (strong counter): sustained hitscan tracks her flight
  • Widowmaker (strong counter): one-shot hitscan on a flier
  • Sojourn (slight edge): charged rail hits a flier

Supports

  • Baptiste (strong counter): hitscan bursts and Immortality Field stop her execute
  • Illari (strong counter): charged hitscan punishes her flight paths
  • Juno (strong counter): torpedoes lock on and she can hover to their height
  • Moira (slight edge): lock-on beam hits her in the air within 20 m

Heroes Echo counters

Echo is a good answer when the enemy plays one of these.

Tanks

  • D.Mon (strong counter): little answer to a flier
  • Hazard (strong counter): flies away from his leap
  • Reinhardt (strong counter): cannot reach her in the air
  • Zarya (strong counter): flies beyond her beam range
  • Junker Queen (slight edge): flies beyond her shotgun range
  • Sigma (slight edge): Focusing Beam ignores Grasp and she flies past his barrier

Damage heroes

  • Anran (strong counter): flies out of her reach
  • Junkrat (strong counter): flies above his arcs
  • Mei (strong counter): flies above her range
  • Reaper (strong counter): out of his shotgun range
  • Torbjörn (strong counter): kills the turret and his rivets miss a flier
  • Vendetta (strong counter): sword attacks do not reach a flier
  • Venture (strong counter): cannot reach her in the air

Supports

  • Brigitte (strong counter): fights from the air outside her reach
  • Kiriko (slight edge): flies outside her Kunai range
  • Mercy (slight edge): flies to her and bursts her with sticky bombs
  • Mizuki (slight edge): flies out of reach and bursts his group

Echo against dive, brawl and poke

  • Good into brawl: brawl tanks and melee heroes have little anti-air
  • Bad into poke: hitscan poke heroes shoot her out of the sky