Is "Echo" underpowered?

He does everything a support is supposed to do, increasing his damage is unnecessary. The only area that could use some improvement is his health/protection, but he shouldn't be targeted first anyway.

"Josh_K;437029" wrote:
He works well only in a clone team. However, there is just not enough damage going on in the synergy to be arena viable. Clone sarge is the only one who hits decently hard. Fives is almost always ignored and left to the end. You practically have to run with RG to make sure echo doesnt get OHKO.

Maybe its not echo specifically but choosing him over a non clone like rey for a clone synergy team underperforms compared to the alternative. And if subbing clones for meta alternatives performs better, why not just run a full meta team anyway?

He does need a boost.

Love my Echo i don't think he needs more damage but hp and protection as it makes him hard to run for arena.

I have echo at Gear 10 (fully geared), level 80, 7 star, 7/7/7/7 abilities. 7359 power. I don't think he's under-powered at all.

Not everyone can be a top 5 or top 10 character. Not every character can be perfectly equal. Echo has value in raids, value in arena, value in GW. He's not the best in any.

In arena I tend to mix up my clone squad. Sometimes I go full clone, sometimes I mix in phasma, rey, aayla, leia, STHan in various capacities. All of those combinations can be fun, and all have been successful against maxed out dodge teams.

Do I wish Echo was better? Absolutely. I have him and a lot of people don't, so I wish he was the best toon in the game. But he's fine the way he is.

Were I to tweak anything, I'd reduce the cool down on his grenade by 1. Then by 1 more with Omega. I'm tempted to omega his basic.


@LordAlvert thanks for the tag.

Yes. I wish his grenade cool down was reduced as well. Seems reasonable. Pretty much all other debuff toons get that respective skill reduced as they go up in tiers. For him not to get equal seems a bit weird. Take the damage off it a bit (which isn't much anyway lol) if you want it "balanced" but reduce the cool down