Blizzard’s latest hero-shooter title, Overwatch 2, was released on October 4 as a free-to-play game. The publishers look forward to continuing the legacy of the game's prequel, Overwatch, which came out in 2016 and became one of the most dominant esports titles.
Overwatch 2 has three classes - Tank, Damage, and Support - and Echo is a damage hero with one of the most futuristic and fluid character designs. Originally from Switzerland, according to Overwatch lore, Echo can utilize her abilities to remain airborne briefly.
Echo has five abilities, excluding the primary fire, that allows this hero to output significant amounts of damage.
Echo is one of the many heroes carried over to Overwatch 2 with a few tweaks and changes to settle them in with the new environment. These changes were also necessary since the publishers decided to opt for a standard 5v5 format from the previous version’s 6v6.
Echo is a hero who is fragile when she is by herself against most enemy heroes and hence, requires assistance throughout most of the game. It is wise to play alongside tanks and a support hero at all times and contribute by purely dealing damage to enemy heroes repeatedly.
Echo utilizes her body energy as her primary weapon and other forms of her own energy that can quickly take away chunks of the enemy’s health. Here is a list of all her abilities with a brief description:
Echo is the hardest hero to unlock through challenges, as she requires a total of 150 wins to become available in the hero pool of new players. She is inherently strong but is squishy enough to be taken down by almost all heroes.
Here is a list of all the heroes who can counter Echo in Overwatch 2:
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