stop telling me about those moments where u headshot the Winston that jumps on you… all of those arent consistant… I mean, you dont headshot a Winston every time he jumps on you… and its not only because of Winston… 10 seconds hook will make Widow in the position where she will be dead everytime something jumps on her.
I am a Master Widow with a lot more experience on Widow than all those GMs u were talking about. I play Widow in almost every situation and I know how hard is to use her and be consistant with her. I want to see urself headshoting a Mercy that spams crocuh and moving right to left while spamming shots on u, I want u to consistantly get headshots on Mei while she spams her 150 headshot dmg projectiles… u can counter Widow with many heros and u dont even have to kill her to stop her doing what she supposed to do.
dont sound ridiculous pls, Widow was fine and balanced for 4 seasons, they buffed her to the position where shes not an instant dead target when a dive hero jumps on her. they buffed her to the position where shes a viable dps pick.
so why after 4 seasons of 100% silence people start talking about how OP she is?
1 reason -> Brigitte. Brigitte in game? no dive heros are allowed to do their job since they get stuned to death… that means, why would u push with the team and get stunned to death while u can stand behind everything and snipe people?!
thats mostly the ONLY reason Widow started to dominte… BUT Blizzard is getting rid of it already by nerfing Brigitte, adding Wrecking Ball, buffing some other heros… so this 2 seconds nerf isnt even needed Widow wont be meta next patch even with 8 seconds hook.
what I see is that Widow is back to be a throw pick, means… shes a DPS, she can carry, she can do her job… but shes not that viable since she will get counter A LOT easier… its not only dive and shields… its the fact that other heros can dmg her better now.
Overwatch isnt OWL… u dont have a 6 team of pro players that plays together and build combos together and practice a lot before a match… this is a game where u queue with random players… when you play Widow and people play Lucio Ana as healers… you already know that u gotta be abit more safe since ure not going to get a lot of heals as Widow. in OWL when you play Widow, your support player will for sure pick Mercy… simply like when you play Phara…
we are not OWL players, we are simple players that play unmeta… some of us like Symmetra, others like Sombra… some like Widow… most of us will get banned for playing the heros we like just because of the multiple reports we get for playing those heros…
the people who reports u for playing unmeta heros are probably toxic players but… I can understand them! they simply dont want us to use a dps hero that isnt that viable and gets countered easy without doing his job that well. Hanzo was one of the most hated hero because of the randomnes of his scatter arrow… but now, he is perfect and even op.
Widow with 8 seconds hook isnt op with the next changes. her hook will back to be 8 seconds in 2 or 3 seasons when she will become the new torb in attack.
McCree will be the new Widow next Season.