Overwatch Tips: How to Counter Mei

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Countering Mei

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Range

While Mei may be exceptionally powerful, she has one major crack in her offense: Range. It’s pretty easy to stay out of her beam’s reach, allowing you to plug away at her from a safe distance once you locate her. She can still hit you with her alternate attack which has some good range on it, but dealing with that is much more manageable than getting frozen and killed. So stay out of her face if you can. If you do run into her head on, back up, shoot, and put some distance between you two.

Debuffs

Now that you know how to get around her ice blast, dealing with her impeccable defense is the next order of business. Your best bet is to burn her fast. There are a few heroes who are especially useful at this:

  • Torb – Torb’s Turret is a good way to keep steady fire on Mei and serves as a defensive structure for you as well. Mei must deal with the turret if she wants to kill you allowing you to plug away at her. You can armor up if she gets to close while still wearing her down. She can’t defend herself and kill you at the same time.
  • Zenyatta – The Orb of Discord amplifies the amount of damage done to Mei as long as you have eyes on her. This makes her easy pickings as you spam your combo fire.
  • McCree – McCree’s fan fire is surprisingly useful against Mei. Use your combat Roll to get to her side, Flashbang her to stun her for a few seconds, and let your Peacekeeper rip right through her. She won’t have a chance to heal or put up a wall, and you get to walk away without becoming an ice block.

Fight Ice with Ice

The last counter is to just to be her. Mei does very well against Mei. It pretty much comes down to who saw her first in this case, so be on the lookout.


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