No.
Leave Widowmaker alone and get better at the game.
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How about this, rather than heroes nerf and buff or rework, we can rework the maps to “nerf widow”
As someone who lives in the gold-plat range, ya no she still is a problem down here.
At that range while they dont 1v5 constantly, they land enough where they are still a problem.
The reason she isnt talked about as often is for every complain about widow there is a complaint about ball, or doomfist or sombra.
Widow still is a issue and common complaint in the lower ranks, she just doesnt dominate the discussion.
Hanzo, less headshot damage at long range
Widow, all healing received, reduced by half.
If she’s going to be a glass cannon, she needs to really be glass.
I would rather see one-shots removed but c’est la vie. If they must say, make it so that Widow is even more fragile. She needs to crumble very quickly.
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Split the damage in 2 portions, one as burst and the complementary one as dot. That or her scoped damage as dot. That way you could have counterplay and still land oneshots if the opponent doesn’t have help or go for health pack
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Let me tell you why ur healing nerf does not work, you first have to understand the higher ur rank the more team fights happens
U nerf widow healing received by half no one will play widow , Sombra will eat widow for breakfast lunch and dinner. Now u get another issue of widow players complaining about counterplay against Sombra.
Your opinion matters but don’t disguise yourself as a game developer you don’t even know 90% of what goes into balancing heroes
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The point is to lower Widow, so you can also lower Sombra and Dive Tanks.
I’m looking at the whole system.
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Huh Sombra problem is not related to widow? Dive tanks too? In fact Sombra players and dive players wants to take out the support?
Holy christ none of those matters if she HITS THE SHOT. What is difficult to comprehend?
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Lol, that’s adorable.
You can’t figure that out, huh?
So your saying once widow gets removed and nerfed magically all the issues with Sombra and tanks disappears?
Strange how come I still see Sombra in my games without widow?
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Yeah, it allows for a systematic de-escalation, because Sombra and Dive Tanks have their burst damage geared to be able to deal with Widow.
Which should be obvious.
Judging by this post alone, you definitely have not played overwatch enough. Pssst dive had always existed even in overwatch 1 where Widowmaker was not even tht prominent
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If I may give some advice : ignore 
! it’s not worth your time.
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At this point, true haizz
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I’ve guessed roughly a third of the major balance and systems changes to Overwatch, before it happened.
Which is better than everybody in Top500 combined.
Could the oneshot debacle be somewhat fixed if Widow’s hitscan was removed and replaced with an extremely fast projectile instead? Say, 0.3s delay on shots, so similar to Hanzo.
Her ultimate would bring hitscan back, of course.
Just food for thought. I’m not a game designer.
Grappling hook should also be reduced. It is only 3 seconds shorter than Suzu, which has an infinite more value.
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Honestly it would but I don’t think widows would be happy for that change XD
The issue is that bad players would rather circumvent difficulty that comes with a PVP game by asking hardnerfs or entire heroes to be ruined instead of simply… learning the game… ?
It’s not the first time and even if we remove the entire identity of Widowmaker by removing her oneshoot (that is only based on the player’s skill), those players would then pick on another hero they hate or don’t want to learn to counter.
It’s a PVP game, not some kindergarten game where everyone gets to win, just because “losing too much is unfair”. I don’t even know how this OW community manages to stoop so low (some vocal minority, aka the same people posting thousands of threads about it, if we’re being fair but still…).
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