My tip to counter widowmaker from a widow main

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Play her yourself and see what you struggle with the most. I guarantee a lot of you will stop walking in straight lines when you see how much of a free kill that makes you vs someone that will adada strafe you.

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Or just go Sombra and 1 clip her head point blank as she scoped in.

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Yeah the 175hp can be rough vs sombra and ball.

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Most times when i get killed by widow is she moved to a different location and i didnt know she was there

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I don’t play WM much, but when I do I am getting killed by 3 things, Better Widows, Sombras assassinating me, and Ball. Oh and the occasional Reddit Lucio.

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Vs ball I just switch. Its a throwpick. I barely encountered sombra but I didnt play much last 2 seasons.

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3 headshots in a single teamfight was my experirlence. Picked her up again for a second gane. Got most damage.

Whike I’m mostly getting bodyshots. Mostly unoptimal, I know, the shots still downs a tank easily with the 300 damage fully charge.

It’s been day two and I already got all the achievements with her excluding the grapple shot one.

Spidemine is not as useless people make it out be, ya know? Ended up raking in a few kills with it off some cheeky flankers which included Reaper/Genji/Tracer. Still working on the timing for that Reaper shadowwalk headshot though. My suggestion for that is to just lay a mine and follow the pro tip of “stop trying to headshot at close range with her and use your SMG.”

Fyi the SMG hits like a dang truck if you can manage to hit all shots its dps is equal to Zen’s orb shots, no discord orb of course.

All of this effective value after watching one guide and never touching her.

Then again I am a player whose played years of OW1. Too easy.

Would still drop her for a Sombra and slmething else that actually puts up a fight.

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Just shoot the ball. The style versus Sombra and Ball is to get your kill and swap your angle. Hard match up yes, but save your CDs to really chunk both. They need to go deep in your backline to get you, unless you are dumb and never eait for your team to engage to get your shots off.