I am a Support main but have been playing more DPS in the last few seasons. I don’t know what to do against Widow. I’ve tried playing as Widow and get instadiffed. I try Tracer, but it’s hard do to lack of vertically. I try shadow step as Reaper and either get instashot or she grapples away. Sombra can’t really sneak up on her well now. Any character that needs to make a very obvious path to get to her can get 1 shot by her on the way. And god forbid a support starts healing her. I feel only tanks can deal with her now. (Dva, Winston, Ball, Doom).
I know a part of this is a “get good” situation. But HOW do I get good if I can’t out Widow her?
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Try Venture, just know that if you’re diving alone, chances are good you’ll die alone.
Or you can try Echo but use extreme caution on approach.
I haven’t really tried Venture. I guess I can take a look
Venture is a little fragile now, but if your sense of timing is good, you can engage with tunnel, spam some shots with your primary, drill dash out, and then tunnel to another location.
Also setup can be difficult since it may take you tunnel + drill dash to reach some really high spaces.
Tbh, I Hanzo into Widow the most. I don’t bother going Widow as I know I’m not good enough.
Stay out of sight, flank her, or go for her pockets. Team diving works too, but you need coordination from everyone.
Genji, Tracer, Ball, D.Va, Winston, Hanzo, Ashe… There’s a few things you can go, but to be completely fair about it… If the Widow is good, like real good, there isn’t going to be much you can do, outside of the entire team going against her.
Who said sombra cant get the job done? Am I the only person that easily adapted to the new sombra? If widow has a pocket, it’s a 2v1 so you need your team to even the odds. You guys cant singlehandedly take down a widow with a pocket, you need teamwork. I know it sounds crazy but this game is a team game, you can only go rogue and 1v1 a widow if she has no peel, otherwise, you need to work with other people. If thats not possible then your team was doomed to fail from the start. This is why dive is effective and people that cant dive often complain about widow. Im not sugarcoat it, widow has always been a problem but she still has counters, it just requires some brain cells.
I usually use Genji just because of deflect. I played against one of the better Widowmaker I have experienced just today and landed a sick instant deflect headshot on her. I immediately died because her tank was peeling her, but still… It felt good.
Main issue is basically no way to force Widow to use a Anti-Dive tool, without first Diving her.
5v5 doesn’t have 2x Dive Tanks, so you can’t just follow Grapple with 2x Dives.
i.e. “It should be less than 50/50 whether Widow escapes a “Counter””
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