How to Unlock Echo: Changes, Skins, and Redesign

Echo is a Damage hero in Overwatch 2. Read on to learn more about Echo, their weapons and abilities, their patch notes history, their backstory, and more!

Echo Latest Buffs and Nerfs

April 26, 2022 Patch Notes

Echo Day One Patch Notes
Focusing Beam	• Max DPS reduced from 200 to 175.
Duplicate	• In the original game, Echo could copy the total HP of her target. This has been nerfed with a cap of 300 HP max.

Echo Hero Profile

Basic Information

Echo (Echo)
	Role	Damage
	Ranking
	Total HP	・ 200 ・ 200 (Base Health)
	Voice Actor	Jeannie Bolet
	Nationality	N/A
Affiliations	Overwatch

How to Unlock

No Character Redesign

When something isn't broken, you don't try to fix it. Such is the case for Echo's design from the first Overwatch game. Echo is one of heroes that has kept its original design with virtually no change.

Echo Weapons and Abilities

Echo Main Weapon

Tri-Shot
	Damage: 51
	Description: Fires 3 shots at once, in a triangle pattern.

Echo Abilities

Sticky Bombs	Type: Ability Cooldown: 6 secs Damage: 25
Effect: Fire a volley of sticky bombs that detonate after a delay.
Flight	Type: Ability Cooldown: 6 secs Duration: 3 secs
Effect: Fly forward quickly and the free-fly briefly.
Focusing Beam	Type: Ability Cooldown: 8 secs Damage: 38
Effect: Channel a beam for a few seconds. Deals very high damage to targets under half health.
Glide	Type: Ability
Effect: Hold jump to glide while falling.
Duplicate	Type: Ultimate Duration: 12 secs
Effect: Become a copy of the targeted enemy hero. They cannot swap heroes for the duration.
Role: Damage	Type: Passive
Effect: Eliminations grant a burst of increased movement speed and reload speed.

How to Play and Tips

Fight at Close and Medium Ranges

Avoid fighting enemies from afar, as Echo's damaging abilities work best at close and medium range. Tri-Shot and Sticky Bombs are projectile-based abilities, meaning they are easier to land against nearby foes, and Focusing Beam only has an effective range of around 15 in-game meters.

Combine Tri-Shot and Sticky Bombs

Landing all of Sticky Bombs alongside a single burst of Tri-Shot can take down most Heroes with 200 HP. Practice landing this combo to quickly dispatch key enemy Supports and Damage Heroes.

Use Sticky Bombs in Choke Points

Aside from being an effective burst damage ability, Sticky Bombs also excel at controlling space and taking down clumped-up foes around choke points and payloads. Use this ability to wear down and deter advancing enemies.

Finish Off Foes with Focusing Beam

Focusing Beam deals massively increased damage against targets below 50% health. Use this ability to rapidly drain the health bars of low-health foes and barriers.

Flank and Surprise Foes with Flight and Glide

Use Echo's Flight and Glide to flank your opponents and attack them from unexpected angles, taking key enemy targets by surprise and quickly bursting them down.

Use Flight Wisely

While Flight is the core of Echo's mobility, it is also her only escape tool in difficult situations. Ensure that your team is nearby to support you when diving into foes with Flight, and don't hesitate to use it to disengage and keep yourself alive.

Duplicate Max Health is 300 Points

In Overwatch 2, Duplicate now has a maximum cap of 300 health points. While this change makes copying Tank Heroes with Duplicate less efficient, don't hesitate to do so if their abilities or ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.

Significant Duplicate Targets

• Damage: Mei, Reaper, Sombra, Soldier: 76, Tracer
• Support: Ana, Baptiste, Brigitte, Lucio, Moira
• Tanks (Low Priority): D.Va, Doomfist, Junker Queen, Orisa, Reinhardt, Sigma, Winston

How to Counter

Use Hitscan Heroes

Echo for the most part will probably be floating in an open space. This makes her susceptible to hitscan heroes like Widowmaker, Ashe, Soldier: 76, and Cassidy.

Echo's ultimate allows her to mimic the heroes currently in the game. Just be prepared to switch strategies quickly.

Echo Hero Counters

Echo Skins

Base Game Skins

Hero Skins
Butterfly (Legendary)	Camo (Legendary)	Moth (Legendary)
Stealth (Legendary)	Carbon Fiber (Epic)	Hot Rod (Epic)
Durian (Rare)	Marina (Rare)	Papaya (Rare)
Vanda (Rare)	Classic (Common)

League Skins

Hero Skins
Good and Evil (Legendary)	Atlanta Reign (Epic)	Boston Uprising (Epic)
Chengdu Hunters (Epic)	Dallas Fuel (Epic)	Florida Mayhem (Epic)
Guangzhou Charge (Epic)	Hangzhou Spark (Epic)	Houston Outlaws (Epic)
London Spitfire (Epic)	Los Angeles Gladiators (Epic)	Los Angeles Valiant (Epic)
New York Excelsior (Epic)	Paris Eternal (Epic)	Philadelphia Fusion (Epic)
San Francisco Shock (Epic)	Seoul Dynasty (Epic)	Shanghai Dragons (Epic)
Toronto Defiant (Epic)	Vancouver Titans (Epic)	Washington Justice (Epic)

Event Skins

Hero Skins
Kkachi (Legendary)	Surf's Up (Legendary)	Vampire Bat (Legendary)
Overwatch Contenders (Epic)

Echo Cosmetics

Victory Poses

Poised (Rare) Season 1 Battle Pass	Heroic (Common) Base Game	Empowered (Rare) Base Game
Prim (Rare) Base Game	Stasis (Rare) Base Game	Medal (Rare) Summer Games Event
Pumpkin (Rare) Halloween Terror Event	Toast (Rare) Winter Wonderland Event	Fan (Rare) Lunar New Year Event
Hey There, Cowboy (Rare) Archives Event

Voice Lines

Emotes

Echo Story

Mr. Liao's Creation

Echo was a project born of the ideas of Dr. Mina Liao, one of the founding members of Overwatch and one of the members of the team that created the very Omnics they are trying to defeat. While they had tried to limit Echo's capabilities to prevent history from repeating itself, Dr. Liao had secretly created a powerful AI that could learn through observation.

Echo Joins Overwatch

Cassidy is one of the few survivors that know of Echo's true capabilities after the death of Dr. Liao. After years of leaving Echo in quarantine, she was brought out to aid in a large fight against Omnics in Paris.
Now that Echo is a full fledged member of Overwatch, what will she learn and how will she evolve? Will she fulfill Dr. Liao's wish and be an echo of her true desire for Omnics to be a path to peace and prosperity? Only time will tell.

Overwatch 2 Related Guides

Tank Heroes

Junker QueenNEW
D.Va	Orisa	Reinhardt	Roadhog
Sigma	Winston	Wrecking Ball	Zarya
Doomfist

List of All Tank Heroes

Damage Heroes

SojournNEW
Ashe	Bastion	Cassidy	Echo
Genji	Hanzo	Junkrat	Mei
Pharah	Reaper	Soldier: 76	Sombra
Symmetra	Torbjörn	Tracer	Widowmaker

List of All Damage Heroes

Support Heroes

KirikoNEW
Ana	Baptiste	Brigitte	Lúcio
Mercy	Moira	Zenyatta

List of All Support Heroes