Besides the easy no brain answers like “just practice” or “get the right sensitivity”.
Well I have spent over 200 hours trying to improve my aim with Widowmaker and I am still garbage and even more unbelievably awful at aiming with other heroes. The skill does not transfer at all. So I’ve practiced. Either I “have been practicing wrong” and wasted all my time or I’m just unlucky and bound to be crap forever.
As for finding the right sensitivity, I don’t know how I’m supposed to know when I’ve found the right one.
I have mainly practiced in Deathmatch. I’ve tried aim practice workshops a bit too.
I’d also like to say that I don’t just want to be able to aim with Widowmaker. I was the skill to actually transfer over to other heroes.
Say whatever you want about aim not being important but when your aim is really bad like mine it is.
My sensitivity is 4 in game and 1600 dpi but sometimes I forget to hit the button and use 800 dpi.
Here is a game of me playing so you can get an idea of what I’m doing.
First game was some of my worst aim in a long time. I was trying to take things slow and think about my shots.
Second game is average.
Here is a comp game (second round I play Widow at 6:04)
If you are looking for a shortcut, you aren’t going to find it.
It takes time. Aiming is a skill learned through repetition.
Pick a sensitivity you can comfortably and CONSISTENTLY do a 180 with. Then just play the game as much as you can. That’s it. That is all there is to it.
Widow is a difficult hero to play. You’re not doing yourself or your teammates any favors by playing her in comp or qp. You’re better off playing sniper lobbies and deathmatch.
You’re gonna die a lot and you’re probably not going to have a lot of fun if you are not 100% focused on improving, but you have to crawl before you can walk.
Even when I was playing this game a lot and had an OK Widow from time to time, I didn’t play her every game. You need a lot of sight lines or a lot of skill to play Widowmaker for a full 5 minutes and to actually be productive.
I hate that mode because I just constantly get shot from behind no matter how I try to position myself and I won’t learn how to hit other hitboxes. Since I spend most of the time dead, I’m not really practicing anyway.
I was a Mercy one trick (1000hrs when I started playing Widow)
And in season 10 I started one tricking widow. My accuracy was garbage, 17-20% scoped crit, 30% accuracy.
And while watching myself aim and having others such as my coach look at it, I was able to improve. I got to gm without good aim either way, since there’s a lot more to Widowmaker than your flick accuracy, but now I’m 4k peak with a 33% scoped crit and 50% accuracy. (300hrs playtime)
Also, a lot of aiming is based around gamesense. OW isn’t as mechanically demanding as other games. Just think about this… you can kill multiple people in every fight without moving your crosshair.
Hitboxes, AD patterns, what you think they’re going to do. It’s all a part of it. It’ll take a long time, there’s no shortcut.
What other games have you played? I dont mean this in a rude way, but 200 hours is absolutely nothing. Many players who have good aim have literally grown up on shooters - tens of thousands of hours mastering their skill.
As a more general answer, it really does come down to practice and a good sensitivity that works for you. But you have to practice the right way. For example you dont want to start out trying to do hard stuff. If you arent a skilled aimer then you shouldnt be practicing half-screen flick shots. You’ll just miss again and again and again and that doesn’t build any useful muscle memory.
The most important aspect is starting slow and building accuracy. Go into the training range and just pick certain targets or certain points on the wall and practice nailing them. Again and again and again until you can do it again but faster. If you start missing targets, you’re going too fast.
This should improve your overall accuracy, but then the next step is developing a feel for how to hit moving targets. You need to start understanding and even predicting their movement properly. You need to make sure you time your shots well - dont just shoot as fast as you can. Sometimes you should wait for them to cross over your crosshair instead of trying to move the crosshair to them, for example. Be patient with your shots.
Earlier I tried hard to take time with my shots and didn’t really make a lot of flicks and I played the worst I’ve played in a long time. For example a McCree, Mei, or Moira was strafing in front of me so I kept my crosshair still, waiting for them to walk into it and then they stop strafing in that direction like they know that’s where I’m looking and kill me.
buy a private aimhack, pretend u track your enemy press the aimhack hotkey (preferably hotkey it on extra mouse button) then suddenly flick like superhuman douchebag
dont worry as far as i know blizz dont give a fk, since i meet tons of flicking superhuman on the league with the x-men, one even was aiming ana on the ground but suddenly flick to the sky and kill our pharah
not even the pro can do those 24/7 360 no scope teabag flick again and again, i rarely see flick on the league anyways but on qp and diamond match and up its happen again and again soo many undiscovered pros cough cough
oh to lower the heat on you, set your flick in 3 hotkey, one to the head, one to body, one to crotch for fun also again dont worry the league of flickgod kids will defend u by telling you its not cheating u only have good RGB headset and super gaming chair, they need to defend each other after all
I struggle with aim - but I will tell you this, there is more than “just practice”. Please, PLEASE watch all of IOStux’s videos on aiming… I assure you will discover things your doing wrong, and improve on technique. There’s more to it than just practicing, but thats the core but you need all the other information on it. Trigger discipline, crosshair placing, etc. even the impact of distance to be at effective distances, etc. There is far more to it than people think.
Mastering the basics is generally more important. Yes if you start out immediately trying to do all the trick shots you’ll get slightly better over time, but you also build up bad habits as well.
I’m not suggesting he should never attempt a flick shot. I’m just saying that trying to master flick shots before you’ve even mastered a basic level of precision is not wise and will probably actually make it harder for you.