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Pharah counters

Who beats Pharah, who Pharah beats, and why. The hardest counters to Pharah include Ashe, Cassidy and D.Va. Pharah's strongest matchups include Anran, Brigitte and Junkrat.

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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 Pharah

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

Tanks

D.Va (hard counter): Defense Matrix eats rockets and Boosters reach her
Roadhog (slight edge): Trash Compactor eats her rockets and throws them back
Sigma (slight edge): Grasp eats her rockets and Accretion knocks her down

Damage heroes

Ashe (hard counter): scoped hitscan punishes a hovering flier
Cassidy (hard counter): hitscan revolver punishes a flier
Soldier: 76 (hard counter): sustained hitscan tracks her flight
Widowmaker (hard counter): one-shot hitscan on a flier
Bastion (strong counter): hitscan in both modes reaches her
Emre (strong counter): hitscan bursts reach her in the air
Sojourn (strong counter): charged rail hits a flier

Supports

Ana (strong counter): scoped shots are hitscan at long range
Baptiste (strong counter): hitscan bursts; Immortality Field blunts Barrage
Illari (strong counter): charged hitscan reaches fliers at long range
Juno (strong counter): hitscan and homing torpedoes find her

Heroes Pharah counters

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

Tanks

D.Mon (strong counter): she has no vertical reach
Hazard (strong counter): no anti-air; she stays above his leap
Junker Queen (strong counter): out of her reach in the air
Reinhardt (strong counter): no anti-air; rockets over his shield
Zarya (strong counter): fights from the air beyond her beam
Mauga (slight edge): fights from above his shortened range
Orisa (slight edge): fights from the air out of Javelin reach
Ramattra (slight edge): kites him from the air

Damage heroes

Anran (hard counter): out of her reach; punishes the end of Dancing Blaze
Junkrat (hard counter): flies above his arcs
Mei (hard counter): stays above her walls and range
Vendetta (hard counter): sword attacks cannot reach a flier
Genji (strong counter): stays above his reach
Reaper (strong counter): stays out of shotgun range
Symmetra (strong counter): beam and turrets do not reach a flier
Venture (strong counter): cannot reach her in the air

Supports

Brigitte (hard counter): flies beyond her flail and Whip
Lúcio (strong counter): spams him from the air where he can't reach
Mizuki (strong counter): fights from above his ground aura and range
Kiriko (slight edge): Kunai are slow projectiles against a distant flier
Wuyang (slight edge): his slow water orb struggles against a flier

Pharah against dive, brawl and poke

Good into brawl: grounded brawl tanks and melee heroes cannot reach her
Bad into poke: hitscan poke heroes shoot her out of the sky

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