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Damage hero · counters
Venture counters
Who beats Venture, who Venture beats, and why. The hardest counters to Venture include Brigitte, Cassidy and Echo. Venture's strongest matchups include Ana, Ashe and Illari.
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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 Venture
Pick one of these into an enemy Venture, or watch for them when you play Venture.
Tanks
Damage heroes
- Cassidy : Flashbang punishes her when she surfaces
- Echo : cannot reach her in the air
- Freja : Quick Dash and Updraft keep her away
- Mei : Cryo-Freeze survives her burst and the slow pins her
- Pharah : cannot reach her in the air
- Torbjörn : turret covers her routes; Overload survives her burst
- Symmetra : turrets cover her flank routes
Supports
- Brigitte : Whip and flail punish her surfacing beside the backline
- Jetpack Cat : can't reach her in the air
- Mizuki : Binding Chain stops Drill Dash and her burrow escape
Heroes Venture counters
Venture is a good answer when the enemy plays one of these.
Tanks
- Sigma : weak to flankers and slow to hit her
Damage heroes
- Ashe : surfaces in her weak range; Burrow clears Dynamite
- Soldier: 76 : surfaces in his weak range
- Widowmaker : surfaces beside an isolated sniper
- Emre : surfaces in his weak range
- Hanzo : surfaces in his weak range
- Sojourn : surfaces after her slide is used
Supports
- Ana : dives an immobile support
- Illari : surfaces beside her and her Pylon
- Zenyatta : surfaces under a slow target
- Baptiste : surfaces beside him from underground
- Kiriko : surfaces on her when Swift Step has no safe ally
- Lifeweaver : close-range pressure he cannot escape
- Sombra : surfaces on her landing spot
Venture against dive, brawl and poke
- Bad into brawl: grouped teams with turrets, slows and peel catch her when she surfaces
- Good into poke: surfaces beside immobile snipers and supports