"If fighting is to result in victory, then we must play the OBJECTIVE! Genji said that. And I think he knows a little more about fighting then you do pal, because he invented it. Then he took 2 of every hero on Earth, herded them onto a payload and then beat the living c**p out of every single one. And that's why anytime a push happens on Escort it's called Getjin On The Payload! Unless you're playing Control." - Pharrah 2016, pre-round pep-talk after discovering hats.
95% of the time if my team's support is on there and they were actively supporting, they get my vote. Overwatch's card system is a fantastic way to single out the support players for credit.
+Experiencing Lag if I remember correctly, 5 gives you a higher chance for more blue and purple drops, and 10 gives you a higher chance of purple and gold/yellow/orange.
I was watching your videos for 2 weeks waiting for the game to come out. Thanks for helping the wait be more bearable while teaching me how to play. Also thanks for having an accent.
I've got something you can try out. Use your rocket jump to position yourself diagonally up and behind the team when the're grouped together capturing the objective. Because of this, the opposing team has to split their damage and attention in multiple directions. This works especially well against Reinhardt, since he won't be able to keep up with you while guarding, making him an easy kill. I've saved capture points on overtime this way. Tanks can't do much about you anyway if you're very high up in the air.
Ultimate Use Tip: Always keep an eye out for a character like DVa when you use your ult, as she can negate nearly all of your damage output with her projectile block abil
I've seen a lot of DVas just rocketing into the face of an ulting Pharah, so that Pharah kills herself due to the splash-damage. In most cases the DVa even survived. Kind regards, Meta Custom Computers
In between her long 10 seconds cooldown for jump boosts, you can use a rocket jump (jump + shoot at your own feet) for 40 HP, it can save your life. Coming from TF2, Pharah is actually easier than TF2's Soldier. Pharah's rocket splash isn't as big but she has extremely strong air control. Once you play the game a bit more and are able to predict player movement, Pharah becomes easy.
Concussive blast is extremely useful to disengage when you're out of fuel and hitting the ground, often someone like mei or reaper will try to intercept you on descent and the concussive blast denies that.
Dude! We have ran into each other playing this game a couple days ago. You totally kicked my bum as Widow Maker. I didn't realize it was you until I saw your screen name in this video.
In your description, I think you mean "high learning curve." "Initial high skill ceiling" is an oxymoron, because skill ceiling is referring to how quickly your ability to do well with the character tops out/hits the ceiling. A low skill ceiling means that even the best will be about as good as someone who's only put in a moderate amount of time. For example, the world's best cowbell player could easily be upstaged by someone who's willing to put in a couple of months of serious practice. This is fortunate, because if there's one thing the world needs, it's more cowbell.
Much of the art of playing as Pharah involves staying airborne *as little as possible*. Instead you use her to reach high roofs and ledges and execute pop-out snipes down on the fight below. When you're in the air as Pharah you are super-vulnerable. Essentially treat her as having really high jumps, not as a character who flies.
KingKaitain I think that depends on how good your aim with her rockets is. I've seen players with really good rocket accuracy decimate enemy teams from the air because she kills everything before it can kill her. Pharahs that stay on the ground are easy prey for McCree, Tracer, Reaper, and Roadhog.
Not if they're in hard-to-reach high locations, they aren't. And Pharah can usually escape very rapidly. I'm saying that in my experience Pharah is best used as a kind of rocket sniper rather than as an airborne soldier.
Since the beta I fell in love with Pharah, I have a video using her differently... depending on the map I tend to switch my gameplay. I posted a video of my own, be a assassin with her and don't be afraid to push on the ground either...
Firing rockets at the ground is certainly a good strat if you start out with Pharah. But generally you are better off if you can hit people. It's actually not that hard as you make it out to be. If you have played shooters like UT, DOOM or Quake it pretty much feels like the rocket launcher from those games. The projectile is a tad slower maybe. The reason is, that you kill stuff a lot faster and have less downtime, bc her "mag size" is rather small and her reload speed is slow too.
I've given Pharah a try and she's my go to damage (well the only damage I'll play). Unfortunately I'm quickly losing the motivation to play Overwatch, it's a bit of a balance mess.
I should probably reword it. People are going nuts with the OP combos. It's mostly stacking two of a certain hero (ie Bastion that gets the team built around supporting them etc). Honestly, I wouldn't complain if they implemented a no duplicate characters per team thing... but you know.
The BIGGER problem is that people don't have enough sense to COUNTER double/triple bastions, etc. They'll just play tracer, and KEEP playing tracer (or whatever) regardless of what's happening on the map.
Hey Uni-Lost,you did a great job with this video ! one question : what mouse sensitivity are you using,especially for Pharah to land those direct hit rockets ? *(Sensitivity = Mouse-Dpi * Ingame Sensitivity)* ,for example "800 Dpi * 10 Ingame Sensitivity = 8000".
Guess by now we already know who's inspired by who. Tracer - L. Croft, Pharah - Samus Aran, Symmetra - Portal, McCree - Eastwood Western characters, Winston - King Kong...
A big part of Pharah is actually going for those direct hits. Direct hits do MUCH more damage than blast radius does. Also, being up in the air all the time is not something you want to be doing. Often, yes, but not as much as possible. In the air, you are the biggest target ever, and anybody with a medium/long range, fast projectile weapon will absolutely shred you.
+Benjamin Faulkner yea I'd probably subscribe to this guy but he's very full of himself. Yea he's good but he doesn't have to remind us 5 times every video
You forgot about using concussive blast to either single out a hero from a group such as a Reinhardt or a healer, get that reaper outta yer face, deny McCree's ult, deny Soldier's ult, disorientate Hanzo's ult, deny Reaper's ult, deny Roadhog's ult, temporarily disable Tranquility's usefulness, temporarily piss of a dragonblade, knock a hero away from a health pack. You can also attempt to get D.Va's self destructing mech out of the way. There's just so many uses and opportunities. Becareful tho, you don't want to accidentally knock a ultimate into your team.
Honestly i feel that for a push to work all you need is a good widow maker, a reinhardt who knows when to put down his shield to recharge, a competent healer and 3 damage dealing bros who knows what they are doing
Altough Parahs movement predictions os quite easy to track,she is still pickable at higher tiers if you know how to burst down your enemie faster than he would you,or befor he even spots you,combining your concussion with the rocket jump can even get you out of some of the worst or lost matchups(duels), Aniway Pharah is a sweet pick and still reliable,her ultimate has potential when you get your enemies out of position or combining ults(get dat wombo),despite her vulnerability during it,she isnt useless at all,i would just overthink your pick if the enemies go for too much hitscannering,or you don't have even in addiction to that,a good follow-up healer as mercy or zenyattas ranged sphere,she still keeps one of my favorite dps'es together with reaper, Soldier, genji and the so much missunderstood, and often bad played but so powerful sombra. I had some sweet and smooth Pharah matches,i didnt record the greatest matches,but some of the most pleasants are in,you can find them under my last videos,(lately i finished hanzo and genji recording with hexakill hanzoxD,triple or quadra with ults and two or respectively three solo picks,still need to upload this 2 tough^-^!)
You're videos are handy man but a replay of what you're explaining to what you are doing at the time would be handy too. I mean I know what you're talking about but I wanna see distance and stuff.
As a Shootmania player, and with some interview of pro player too, Pharah is a rlly enjoyable character. Hit sm1 in the air, good feelings :D and these Pro Shootmania player are saying the same things, coz it's pretty similar, and they are doing awsome job with her ! ^^
Pharah is by far my favourite hero to play, additional tip: If you want to get REALLY good, go for direct hits, you can 2 shot a lot of heroes. Also, don't get too distracted with pharah v pharah mid air duels, you'll be an easy pickoff for the enemies on the ground. Finally, Illios is your friend and Dorado your mum.
My conclusion after playing Phara was that everything in Overwatch moves bit slower than in tf2, because I can't usualy land direct hits there with soldier, but here I do more often than not.
something I do especially vs widow is drop down in elevation as i'm firing and strafing to try and make it harder to be hit. with this you can also stay in the air much longer. also she needs a shazzbot voice line.
But it's also an ult with one of the most devastating damages and little chance to avoid, so it's probably right that you have to use some skill to deploy it. Contrast that with e.g. Winston, who gets super-charged health while ulting but doesn't dish out all that much physical damage (it's disruption more than damage).
KingKaitain The damage is negated when spread out farther than 10 ft. Sure, it's devastating when focused, but I've had plenty of times when I deal little damage and get shot down right after.
She has a big handicap in consoles though.... because you have to hold the jump button to hover , you can't really aim with the right analog stick of a controller while doing that. So you have pre-aim to where you wanna shoot at before you jump-jet and hover, and most of the time, you can't adapt your aim while hovering :(
Back in my day we used to rocket jump.
at the cost of 40 health, you still can. Not as good as concussion blast though.
Rocket jump over pools of lava
+Melon Soda 40 healt? That seems familiar...
"If fighting is to result in victory, then we must play the OBJECTIVE! Genji said that. And I think he knows a little more about fighting then you do pal, because he invented it. Then he took 2 of every hero on Earth, herded them onto a payload and then beat the living c**p out of every single one. And that's why anytime a push happens on Escort it's called Getjin On The Payload! Unless you're playing Control." - Pharrah 2016, pre-round pep-talk after discovering hats.
Rocket jump? That sounds dangerous...
I thought it was "Justice Rains From Ab-AHHH!"
I get it because ultimate is fucking shiiiiit
Not shit, it just has a big Achilles Heel. You can get around it by being careful, or using teamwork.
Plus Parah cant move while in the action making it easy for your snipers to take her out... Fast.
+Lúcio Correia dos Santos at first I thought that said 4 snipers and I was like hat diggity this iant 2fort!
You mean justice rains from ab-knsbsihbx
Just.. uhh... *
More like "JUS-"
+Feels Goodman *hears rocketpack* J... Ugh...
hears rocketpack Ugh....
+Theodor Björkman Worth it though. If you succeed and live POTG
Take what I said back about supports getting no love. Played my first game as Mercy and got 8 votes! Felt good!
yup, always upvote support
95% of the time if my team's support is on there and they were actively supporting, they get my vote. Overwatch's card system is a fantastic way to single out the support players for credit.
i got a 4 man revive and the people were screaming for joy at me
What does the vote do?
+Experiencing Lag if I remember correctly, 5 gives you a higher chance for more blue and purple drops, and 10 gives you a higher chance of purple and gold/yellow/orange.
"And remember, shoot at the ground for the area of effect."
*43 ROCKET DIRECT HITS*
This guy is quite impressed with himself. makes an entertaining watch
He's a cheeky lad, he is!
One thing interesting about Pharah is that she is kind of a good counter to mei, so if you think mei is bae, consider switching into pharah
to junkrat even more
Mei can't even reflect... I'm having flashbacks to older times...
( that was a joke about w+m1 Pyros in TF2 )
I know right? She's like a Phlog pyro with mmph pumping all the time.
... and get icicle in the face.
Or Tracer. If you do nice moves, she can't freeze ur ass or even hit your head.
You and the two you suggested are the best in explaining overwatch here in TH-cam!
That intro is the best part of these guides xD. Great stuff man! Love the videos!
I was watching your videos for 2 weeks waiting for the game to come out. Thanks for helping the wait be more bearable while teaching me how to play. Also thanks for having an accent.
That intro got me good Unit. Thank you once again for another nice Overwatch guide.
Pharah is one of my favorite heroes. This video was very helpful! Thanks!
I really appreciate the red alert 2 music for the intro and outro, one of my favorite games
Pharah is probably my favourite damage dealing hero. Great video! :)
Seagull is really good and entertaining to watch, glad you gave him a shout-out.
I've got something you can try out.
Use your rocket jump to position yourself diagonally up and behind the team when the're grouped together capturing the objective. Because of this, the opposing team has to split their damage and attention in multiple directions. This works especially well against Reinhardt, since he won't be able to keep up with you while guarding, making him an easy kill. I've saved capture points on overtime this way. Tanks can't do much about you anyway if you're very high up in the air.
Ultimate Use Tip: Always keep an eye out for a character like DVa when you use your ult, as she can negate nearly all of your damage output with her projectile block abil
and for road hog, I have seen people wait out his hook and then ult so he doesn't pull them out of the sky, which I thought was pretty tricky
+DatVocals! Or you could just chuck it to the ground.
I've seen a lot of DVas just rocketing into the face of an ulting Pharah, so that Pharah kills herself due to the splash-damage. In most cases the DVa even survived.
Kind regards,
Meta Custom Computers
yes I defense matrix'ed a Pharah's entire ult and it got me an achievement
Can't wait for you to cover Junkrat. He is my favorite character. I have taught myself a few tricks but want to see what you can do with him as well.
Just got to love the depth of the game and how you have to play the different characters in a style to get the best out of them
You can also use mouse 2 to use the hover as phara.
What am I doing here I'm not even getting the game.
lol k
idc
Same
Great video learned a couple of things.
I've seen one of these Pharah's from planet mobility, she carried so hard xD
In between her long 10 seconds cooldown for jump boosts, you can use a rocket jump (jump + shoot at your own feet) for 40 HP, it can save your life. Coming from TF2, Pharah is actually easier than TF2's Soldier. Pharah's rocket splash isn't as big but she has extremely strong air control. Once you play the game a bit more and are able to predict player movement, Pharah becomes easy.
You've done it. Made me crack and bought it as soon as I've heard you can sort of Tribes around the map
Ah I miss Tribes, it was such a good game while the community supported it. If only Hi-Rez didn't abandon it.
I love Pharah and was already doing most of this but not all so the guide is great!
The concussion mine is also good to fire behind Reinhardt to bump him forward and expose his back to you and your team.
Thank You So Much, Just got a thunderbird skin and I decided to start polishing my skills with her much. Video much appreciated.
I got the Raindancer.
filthy muggles LOL
Concussive blast is extremely useful to disengage when you're out of fuel and hitting the ground, often someone like mei or reaper will try to intercept you on descent and the concussive blast denies that.
I can't wait to play this afternoon!! Thanks for tips I want to play her more
Dude! We have ran into each other playing this game a couple days ago. You totally kicked my bum as Widow Maker. I didn't realize it was you until I saw your screen name in this video.
Even though i am german, you're my favorite youtuber right now!
what does being german have to do with- Ohhhhhm you shouldn't give 2 shits about that. mistakes of the past.
+Aimanoo Gamer haha man i mean that not many germans watch english youtubers, not the past XD
''Precision German Engineering'' - Reinhardt (I'm german too :P)
I wish I'd see more plays of the game like that Reinharot one at the end, it was cool
One of the tips I've learned is to bind concussion blast to right mouse click. planning on trying that.
This takes me back to the good old days of jetpack flying and shooting people with the Disc Launcher in Tribes.
That shot on Widow was fantastic! :D
I played the Tribes series for years so playing Pharah is beautiful. I love her.
love the guides any chance of doing team comp guides. also pharah and mercy are pretty nasty together
Hey thanks for all the great tips! Do you think you will be doing a junkrat guide?
This is useful for me as I need to get better at this girl. She is in my mind one of the play-changing characters.
heya :3 oneamongsmany sent me here to check out your channel.The quality is amazing. I am glad he told me about you :D
Who here wants to be able to disenchant things?
Rt
Me :/
Nice guide. Learned a little bit, thanks!
In your description, I think you mean "high learning curve." "Initial high skill ceiling" is an oxymoron, because skill ceiling is referring to how quickly your ability to do well with the character tops out/hits the ceiling. A low skill ceiling means that even the best will be about as good as someone who's only put in a moderate amount of time. For example, the world's best cowbell player could easily be upstaged by someone who's willing to put in a couple of months of serious practice. This is fortunate, because if there's one thing the world needs, it's more cowbell.
(Watches video) IMMA GO KICK SOME ASS AS PHARAH! (Gets into game and gets destroyed) maybe I'll switch back to D.Va xD
Hahaha, this was exactly me a few hours ago. :P
That's pretty much me. I always seem to get matched up against the people who have really good aim as Mccree or Soldier 76 when I play Pharah.
Much of the art of playing as Pharah involves staying airborne *as little as possible*. Instead you use her to reach high roofs and ledges and execute pop-out snipes down on the fight below. When you're in the air as Pharah you are super-vulnerable.
Essentially treat her as having really high jumps, not as a character who flies.
KingKaitain I think that depends on how good your aim with her rockets is. I've seen players with really good rocket accuracy decimate enemy teams from the air because she kills everything before it can kill her. Pharahs that stay on the ground are easy prey for McCree, Tracer, Reaper, and Roadhog.
Not if they're in hard-to-reach high locations, they aren't. And Pharah can usually escape very rapidly. I'm saying that in my experience Pharah is best used as a kind of rocket sniper rather than as an airborne soldier.
Since the beta I fell in love with Pharah, I have a video using her differently... depending on the map I tend to switch my gameplay. I posted a video of my own, be a assassin with her and don't be afraid to push on the ground either...
Firing rockets at the ground is certainly a good strat if you start out with Pharah. But generally you are better off if you can hit people. It's actually not that hard as you make it out to be. If you have played shooters like UT, DOOM or Quake it pretty much feels like the rocket launcher from those games. The projectile is a tad slower maybe. The reason is, that you kill stuff a lot faster and have less downtime, bc her "mag size" is rather small and her reload speed is slow too.
I've given Pharah a try and she's my go to damage (well the only damage I'll play). Unfortunately I'm quickly losing the motivation to play Overwatch, it's a bit of a balance mess.
How is it unbalanced?
I should probably reword it. People are going nuts with the OP combos. It's mostly stacking two of a certain hero (ie Bastion that gets the team built around supporting them etc). Honestly, I wouldn't complain if they implemented a no duplicate characters per team thing... but you know.
Its those teams that is one of the selling points of the game. Seriously, its on the box XD
Doesn't stop me hating double/triple bastion or double genji though.
The BIGGER problem is that people don't have enough sense to COUNTER double/triple bastions, etc. They'll just play tracer, and KEEP playing tracer (or whatever) regardless of what's happening on the map.
I love playing Pharah so much..I Overwatch my team from above..good scout good DD..and that ult..OMB.
definitely gonna main this one :D
reminds me of launcher gameplay in LOADOUT
lol just got overwatch yesterday and I love pharah! But I've been shooting straight at people instead of the ground! very helpful video! :D
thank you very much this improved my pharah play veeery much. i dont find pharah that hard to play though
Hey Uni-Lost,you did a great job with this video ! one question : what mouse sensitivity are you using,especially for Pharah to land those direct hit rockets ?
*(Sensitivity = Mouse-Dpi * Ingame Sensitivity)* ,for example "800 Dpi * 10 Ingame Sensitivity = 8000".
awesome overwatch channel! glad i found it :)
Guess by now we already know who's inspired by who. Tracer - L. Croft, Pharah - Samus Aran, Symmetra - Portal, McCree - Eastwood Western characters, Winston - King Kong...
A big part of Pharah is actually going for those direct hits. Direct hits do MUCH more damage than blast radius does. Also, being up in the air all the time is not something you want to be doing. Often, yes, but not as much as possible. In the air, you are the biggest target ever, and anybody with a medium/long range, fast projectile weapon will absolutely shred you.
You can also fly by pressing LT,L2, or left click. It helps me play better with Pharah.
Pharah is basically the gundam version of Soldier in Tf2. Found her very easy to play unless there's a turrent near.
Great guide! Thanks for the tips
Could you do some pure Gameplay videos, either with voice or commented over? Would love it!
reminds me of the old quake and UT plays where people would rain rocket launcher down after they use the jump boost node
What the hell Sty, you're already at 125,000 subs? See you in a week for the 200,000 subs video.
lol "thats an extremely hard rocket to hit" not really bro
Exactly what I thought, then looked for this comment.
+Benjamin Faulkner yea I'd probably subscribe to this guy but he's very full of himself. Yea he's good but he doesn't have to remind us 5 times every video
I thought its the other way around
Same
That was a great direct hit.
Pharah reminds me of playing tribes 2. shazzbot
Reminds me of air strike and base jumper soldier
You defend the vehicle, attack enemy team, around enemy base!!!
its based on tribes
yeah it's funny how much dueling another pharah reminds me of spinfusor dueling
Pharah versus Genji is very similar to Soldier versus Pyro, aiming where they cannot deflect your projectiles.
You forgot about using concussive blast to either single out a hero from a group such as a Reinhardt or a healer, get that reaper outta yer face, deny McCree's ult, deny Soldier's ult, disorientate Hanzo's ult, deny Reaper's ult, deny Roadhog's ult, temporarily disable Tranquility's usefulness, temporarily piss of a dragonblade, knock a hero away from a health pack. You can also attempt to get D.Va's self destructing mech out of the way. There's just so many uses and opportunities.
Becareful tho, you don't want to accidentally knock a ultimate into your team.
Pharah
Great Video, Tips Helped Out xD
Great guide, thanks!
Ilos, (something like that) is my favorite king of the hill map, the edges on that map are a-mei-zing
Definitely my favorite character!
Honestly i feel that for a push to work all you need is a good widow maker, a reinhardt who knows when to put down his shield to recharge, a competent healer and 3 damage dealing bros who knows what they are doing
heyy sty love your work mann, what do you use to record your gameplay?
I just got a legendary skin on loot box *sees it's a pharah skin* time to watch unit!
Altough Parahs movement predictions os quite easy to track,she is still pickable at higher tiers if you know how to burst down your enemie faster than he would you,or befor he even spots you,combining your concussion with the rocket jump can even get you out of some of the worst or lost matchups(duels),
Aniway Pharah is a sweet pick and still reliable,her ultimate has potential when you get your enemies out of position or combining ults(get dat wombo),despite her vulnerability during it,she isnt useless at all,i would just overthink your pick if the enemies go for too much hitscannering,or you don't have even in addiction to that,a good follow-up healer as mercy or zenyattas ranged sphere,she still keeps one of my favorite dps'es together with reaper, Soldier, genji and the so much missunderstood, and often bad played but so powerful sombra.
I had some sweet and smooth Pharah matches,i didnt record the greatest matches,but some of the most pleasants are in,you can find them under my last videos,(lately i finished hanzo and genji recording with hexakill hanzoxD,triple or quadra with ults and two or respectively three solo picks,still need to upload this 2 tough^-^!)
Always telling me to go to the loo at the end of your videos, I'm fine man I can handle scheduling that myself, geez
How to play Phara? Like Soldier in TF2 except that you can't rocket jump and you have a jet-pack.
you can rocket jump if you use concussion blast
you can still rocket jump, at the cost of 40 health and you don't go as far as you would with concussion blast
wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Rocket_Jumper
*****
you don't need to use the rocket jumper to rocket jump
IPlayPCTooMuch
No damage penalty with rocket jumper...Well, that is if you don't take in account fal damage.
You're videos are handy man but a replay of what you're explaining to what you are doing at the time would be handy too. I mean I know what you're talking about but I wanna see distance and stuff.
As a Shootmania player, and with some interview of pro player too, Pharah is a rlly enjoyable character. Hit sm1 in the air, good feelings :D and these Pro Shootmania player are saying the same things, coz it's pretty similar, and they are doing awsome job with her ! ^^
Pharah is by far my favourite hero to play, additional tip: If you want to get REALLY good, go for direct hits, you can 2 shot a lot of heroes. Also, don't get too distracted with pharah v pharah mid air duels, you'll be an easy pickoff for the enemies on the ground. Finally, Illios is your friend and Dorado your mum.
My conclusion after playing Phara was that everything in Overwatch moves bit slower than in tf2, because I can't usualy land direct hits there with soldier, but here I do more often than not.
pro tip regular-jump look strait down concuss then jump-jet and hover forward its easier and you travel further
Dat Junkrat laugh at 4:13 !!
You can also use the jet pack by holding left click. Just so you know.
If you can direct hit people consistently, then do so. You can 2 shot 250hp heroes and under, easily dealing with a tank exterminator like Reaper.
I think proficient tf2 soldier players intuitively play pharah well due to weapon similarities and rocket jump movement planning.
Pharah probably has the fewest counters next to Zarya but her counters are the strongest counters, litterally a sub par 76 will make light work of you
I personally think Torbs turret is the hard-est Pharah counter cause it tracks SOOOO precisely, widow still takes skill
really helpful thanks mate
Well, I'm early this time :O Just don't rain any justice on me.
your intro sounds just like dota 2's bat rider... xD golden
I got knocked off the map one time with Lucio and was close enough to wall skate back up I was hype for the rest of the game and a few after lol
Another character you need to be aware of is McCree. He can relatively easily pick you off, and his ultimate is an instant death sentence for you.
Was thinking of trying her
If your confident with your aim as Pharah its worth noting you do more damage with direct hits.
JUSTICE RAINS FEMME A BARBE
That play of the game was hysterical. xD
something I do especially vs widow is drop down in elevation as i'm firing and strafing to try and make it harder to be hit. with this you can also stay in the air much longer.
also she needs a shazzbot voice line.
I personally feel that Pharah should get a temporary armor boost/shield when using Barrage; she's just shot down way too often when using it.
But it's also an ult with one of the most devastating damages and little chance to avoid, so it's probably right that you have to use some skill to deploy it. Contrast that with e.g. Winston, who gets super-charged health while ulting but doesn't dish out all that much physical damage (it's disruption more than damage).
KingKaitain The damage is negated when spread out farther than 10 ft. Sure, it's devastating when focused, but I've had plenty of times when I deal little damage and get shot down right after.
She has a big handicap in consoles though.... because you have to hold the jump button to hover , you can't really aim with the right analog stick of a controller while doing that. So you have pre-aim to where you wanna shoot at before you jump-jet and hover, and most of the time, you can't adapt your aim while hovering :(
You should map the buttons diffrently on console for her.
L2 (on PS4) also hovers, just like X does. No need to remap, and your aiming finger becomes free again.
Seems like Pharah comes a bit pre-nerfed. Still, she can do some awesome stuff, given some precision and prediction.