To all Widow mains who play her on every map, how?

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To all WidowMaker players I wanna know what’s the secret? I main her, I have over 300 hours and 300 hours is only 12 days. I see people who run Widow on maps like Lijang, Nepal, and even on the Push game mode, and they do fairly well, it makes me a bit jealous. I always think it’s because you have a good supporting team, that is giving the other team such a hard time, that you cannot get hard focused, or even be thought of.

I had a period of where I only ran Widow on every map on QuickPlay and it wasn’t too bad, except for those close quarters maps. I’m always getting hard focused, even if I am WAY in the back away from my teammates. I could be in a good position where I can see everybody, and somebody on the enemy team is just so determined to get rid of me. I honestly think I have the worst luck and RNG when it comes to not only getting maps I can be good at, but also my teammates.

(If you can help me address this issue I have I would appreciate it, it’s about my WidowMaker anxiety when I play her, which I will talk about).
So I spent months playing her, as it hasn’t been a full year yet, obviously there are better people than me, and obviously I’m better than other people out there. I have good and bad games. Sometimes I stress myself out, because I overthink and I care too much about what people think of me, and I stress myself out on feeling like I have to be perfect, because all everybody wants to do is win (which I understand). Always getting blamed and flames for being Widow is annoying, I’m trying my best, and I enjoy playing her, but people make it very hard to even wanna try. Between getting crapped on, insulted, told that I’m not good enough, etc, really gets to me, and it’s all I can think of when playing.

How can I get my confidence up, how can I better my sniping craft? How can I take small steps to fix my WidowMaker anxiety?

How do you Widow players run her on those close quarters combat maps??

P.S. I’m on console, in case you wanna talk about settings.

Thank you for reading!!

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This is all I can help you with and it is very generic advice… But you need to just ignore the criticism. You can leave chat to help with that, if necessary. All you need to focus on is landing shots. Other people’s opinions on your performance should not concern you.

That being said, even when I called myself “a Widow one trick” and played her mainly to piss everyone off, I never ran her on original King of the Hill except for the obvious ones such as Illios… Um, ruins? Sometimes Nepal village from high ground or inner sanctum, occasionally Lijang gardens.

Busan was a pretty good one for her in all sections. I never bothered with Oasis anything, myself. It is composition dependent though. This game has less barriers which were the biggest issue in Overwatch 1. The second was Ball. But now to go Ball, they have to commit as the only tank. So hypothetically as long as your aim is true, your biggest threats will be Genji and Sombra.

The easiest way would be to get a pocket. But if you are solo only, I highly recommend a secondary for when one of them makes it their life’s mission to harass you. Torbjorn is the best to reduce their flanking value. Sojourn is the best to fight them off (with the added benefit of practicing your long range one taps).

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I do not main Widow, I really love playing her sometimes but would not say I am good. Throwing that out as a disclaimer. With that said, I often enjoy watching a lot of good Widows and have played with many. From what I’ve seen and my perspective, I think to play against a lot of being dived on and shorter sight lines that leave you vulnerable, you need a lot of confidence in your aim. The only justification to staying Widow in those situations is knowing you will hit your shots. If you’re making enough trades before you die, why stay Widow ? If you are hitting shots though, you take them away from your team and maybe you die but you need to take at least one person with you that is more valuable than your life. That could be like taking out an enemy support because it helps secure a win to your team. I’ve seen Widows with 3 divers on them and they don’t even have a sense of panic. They just take the shot and it wins team fights. I think that is why higher ranks find her difficult to dive. The counter to Widow in my opinion is taking away her sight lines. If you can’t find a way to do that she will feel impossible to deal with.

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Yeah I don’t run her on maps like Illios, Oasis, etc, I have been running into a lot of Genji players who ruin my life and make it harder on me to enjoy my main.

Im happy Ball can’t just spend all his time committing to me because he is the only rank now.

I’m not bad as Widow, I love to snipe every FPS game I play and Widow is great. I’m just not like everybody else who is “cracked”.

I play her because I enjoy it.

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