OverwatchOverwatch Emre Guide and Overview

A former principled Overwatch agent who left as the organization lost its way. He was hunted down by bounty hunter Freja, who found him heavily modified with cybernetics. His mind is at war with itself, toggling between his old self and a soulless killing machine.

Emre uses his Burst Rifle take over the ranged battle. While most other heroes sacrifice either accuracy or movement speed, Emre maintains both as he ADS strafes to be simultaneously lethal and evasive.

Taking off angles helps him to bypass barrier Tanks, find targets behind cover. When he catches someone off guard, he can get them with a direct nade and finish them off with a rifle burst. He also has great self-sustain thanks to life steal, and his health regen passive.

TLDR

Play As

• ADS as much as possible. Only unscope when there is no target, or when fighting at very close range.
• Keep yourself alive and don’t rely on Support healing. Use Siphon Blaster when you need healing.
• Throw Cyber Frag and quickly try to shoot the same target. Frag + headshot is his most lethal combo.

Play As

• If you don’t have good burst damage, try to escape during his Siphon Blaster, so you minimize how much life steal he can generate.
• Emre has no crowd control counters other than trying to dodge with Siphon Blasters. He’s an easy kill if you can stun or knock him around.
• Listen for his Ult voice line, and prepare to shoot Emre out of the sky.

Strengths

Good medium to long-range dueling

Fast strafe speed during ADS

High amounts of self-sustain

Weaknesses

Vulnerable during ultimate, easy target for enemy hitscans

During Siphon Blaster, damage output is very low

Burst damage capabilities lag behind many other DPS heroes

Primary Fire: Synthetic Burst Rifle

Tips for Synthetic Burst Rifle

• Stay unscoped when you need to make large aim adjustments or are targeting an enemy at close range.
• Designed for frequent scope/unscope play. You can seamlessly swap between the two.
• Unscope when not actively aiming at a specific target so you retain full FoV, and don’t limit your visual information.

Secondary Fire: Take Aim

Tips for Take Aim (Emre)

• No movement penalty, super fast strafing while ADSing, unlike Ana and Ashe, who slow while aiming.
• Greatly increased effective range and tighter bullet spread. ADS whenever possible.
• Range, accuracy, and movement speed make Emre extremely good at medium to long-range poke fights.

[SHIFT]: Siphon Blaster

Tips for Siphon Blaster

• Survival tool. Primarily use Siphon Blaster for survive enemy attacks. You become move evasive with increased jump and movement speed, and all damage deal with the blaster generates life steal.
• The increased mobility is not burst mobility or a dash. It’s similar to Bap Jump or Juno glide, and not like Echo, Winston, or Anran’s SHIFT.
• Blaster is semi-automatic, so you need to rapid tap fire.
• Cools off faster if you burst fire, pause, burst fire, pause, just before overheating.

[E]: Cyber Frag

Tips for Cyber Frag

• Great for initiating your attack. Throw the nade first, then start firing so that the explosion hits as your bullets start hitting for big burst damage.
• • Decent AoE damage, but best used for bursting down a single target.
• Can nade jump, including additional jump speed when combining nade jump with Siphon Blaster.

Ultimate: Override Protocol

Tips for Override Protocol

• Start by firing a heavy round. There is a cooldown before you can fire another, so spam light rounds until you can fire another heavy.
• Heavy rounds have greatly increased direct hit and AoE damage.
• Heavy rounds can be used for a super-fast rocket jump by shooting the ground or a wall and jumping during the self-knockback.
• Extremely vulnerable while flying during ult. Make sure you either have a Support directly healing you or position behind a barrier. Otherwise, you’ll need to use vertical cover and be a bit more passive with its use.

Minor Perks

Suppressive Security

• Makes Emre’s Ult more lethal by making it easier to land follow-up shots.
• Slow the enemy with light rounds, then finish them off with a heavy round.
• Enemies will be more hesitant to challenge your ult, thus making ulting a bit safer.
• Recommended Minor Perk

Enhanced Agility

• Decent for escaping and evading while Siphon Blaster cools off.
• Since the blaster is constantly overheating, there are many moments when you’ll need to not fire. 
• The 20% increased movement speed doesn’t feel very impactful, considering Emre already has good movespeed during Siphon Blaster, and attacking slows you down.

Major Perks

Heat Sink

• Fire more shots for more total time. Also results in greater life steal. If you are confident in aiming Siphon Blaster, this is a great Perk. Allows you to play more aggressively.
• Pick when you need the extra sustain.

Cyber Adhesion

• Transforms Cyber Frag into a cyber semtex.
• Sneak up on an enemy, throw the nade to stick, and immediately ADS headshot. You’ll delete DPS and Supports.

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