I am doing pretty find on Ana but when I get on Widowmaker I honestly feel like absolute trash and contribute very little.
Either I over or undershoot people and landing headshots is a pipedream. Where on Ana I can easily take out people…
How do I improve on Widowmkaer?
I got better at Widowmaker by playing Deathmatch and those headshot only custom games. I’m not great at her but there was improvement in that I feel like I can actually hit things with some degree of accuracy now. Maybe that might help you as well? Gives a bit of a no stress environment to practice since you don’t have a team to care about how well you are doing.
If you can’t land them, don’t aim for em. Go for body shots where you can still deal damage. Every bit of damage counts. Go into games like Widow HS only and practice getting them, it helped me quite a bit for Widow vs. Widow. If they have a good Winston, Genji, Sombra, or Tracer, you may need to swap, as they’ll screw you, but practice avoiding them if they aren’t too good. It’s mostly just positioning, aiming, and timing with her. Master those, you’re set.
One thing that helped me is that I stopped aiming for heads. I aim for uppertorso/neck area now. Reason being that if I miss the head I hit the body. If they jump I hit the body. If they crouch I hit the head.
Not to mention the head hitbox’s are very forgiving in the neck area.
Common misconception. Widow hs lobbiesrent very effective since everyone is moving at a snails pace and there is very little vertical movement. It’s only helpful for developing flicking, but even that’s not effective since you’re only flicking horizontally majority of the time.
First step pick widow every QP match like every one else. Drink the salty tears of all the team mates you caused to lose.
But realistically realize she’s not good all the time. Single to double shield is very common right now, your not doing anything if your plinking shots off a shield. It’s one of those sad thing where you have to be amazing at widow to justify the pick.
To get amazing you kind of have to throw hundreds of matches to practice.
that is terrible advise. you can’t aim them? still go for them. challenging yourself is importent to improve
Landing a 120 damage body that converts to a kill assist is better than going for the one-shot and missing for zero damage.
Sure, you want to get better at clicking heads by going for it, but you have to weigh skill-ups versus actually getting things done.
Eat,sleep, and drink her. I’ve been doing this and I went from 1000 to 1100 Sr over the span of two years.
This topic is called how do I get better at widow. Not how am i useful as widow
This. Practice versus real people, even if you are completely horrible at first.
play widow only head shots only instant respwns, and when you start playing her in comp and what not always go back and warm in in that game mode.
spend 1 month in Widow Head shot custom games. Thank me later.
Honestly aim for upper center mass, pretty standard advice for any aim. That way you almost always hit but if it strays up a bit you have a chance for head shots.
Flickshots and positioning. Learn those. That’s all you need. Most people don’t have the mechanical skill to flick shot consistently well with her, and many who do don’t have the positional awareness to keep good sightlines and stay alive. Idk man, it’s kind of a trait you can’t teach if it’s mechanical aim. You just have to practice it a lot.
Positioning is the most important thing, knowing where a fight will take place and where you can see it from relative safety is key. I’d say this is even more important that aim as it will let you get many more shots off.
Learn the different styles of aiming and the situations they are best in. Generally try to predict enemy movement, adjust with small flicks when you have to, and drag-aim against AD spammers. Consistent damage will always get more done than large fancy flicks.
Prioritize flankers before they get to you, if there is nobody alive who can deal with Widow the enemy team will rage and you’ll just win.
I have always want to use this.
And yeah, you are going to miss, and miss a lot. But that is ok, it is all in the learning process.
My tip is not to get panic when you miss and try to correct yourself. It won’t work. So literally take small breath, and boom, headshot.
Another benefit I’ll add about doing body shots is well doing dmg doesn’t get you put in the kill cam. Lets face it most low ranked players have no idea where shots come from, tracer round trials or not. If you kill people they will instantly know where you are, and maybe tell their team.
If you body shot them to 80hp or less and another team mate kills them they might never even know you were there.
You either do or you don’t.
Know yourself first. Know what you play and what is most effective.
Do not force it for you may have nothing there. Find you and your playstyle first. The hero comes last after you figure that out.
dragshot…
but also, don’t purposefully go for headshots all the time, try hitting more bodyshots whenever you can or even just shooting that shield that’s preventing your team from dealing damage, at least if you are being ignored…
Ah and I forgot, be patient… not like you’ll get better over time, no, be literally patient with your shots, a lot of the times you don’t really need to aim, just move to a general direction where the enemy will eventually move into and keep your cursor still, as soon as they step into the center, shoot
