This isn’t a post to whine about nerfing snipers again, this is a genuine question. I just got back into Overwatch recently and one of the main reasons I had quit for a while was cause as a support I always felt so helpless with snipers everywhere, and while the nerfs definitely help I still feel like there’s nothing supports can do when a good widow is clicking heads all game. I can’t heal through one shots, and even if she’s not hitting them on my team she can zone me out of healing with the fear of getting capped if I peek. It doesn’t help that shield tanks aren’t picked as much too and natural cover is limited sometimes. So how do you think supports can play around them? The best answer I heard in the past was harass her as Lúcio but that feels really map dependent imo or just hoping she’s bad
Raise your hands in the air and scream bloody murder.
I’m about to go to bed so I can’t type out a long response, but one quick thing to try - pick Mercy, Ana, or Bap. I prefer Mercy myself, but that’s just me.
Heal from behind cover only. Mercy’s a bit more limited in range, but is still generally usable. And her utility is still functional from behind cover, unlike the other two. As long as you keep the connection, keep healing, boost when they’re at full health. Only move out from behind cover when you see the enemy sniper in the killfeed, or you hear the allied Winston land on top of her head.
Ana and Bap work strictly for healing but lack any utility output if they can’t face the fight. Bap can IF the corner and step out for a moment if you really need to…but then you just used your only utility to step out to see if you can offer the fight any utility.
everytime there is snipers i pick brig no further questions
Heal your tanks so they can dive the snipers
Zen discord. And volley.
Mainsupports (Mercy, Lucio, Brig):
All Mainsupport have good ways to avoid damage. 1 Tip for all Supports: DONT JUMP. If you Jump your movement is much more predictable then just spamming WASD, dont do it.
Mercy:
Mercy is able to hide 24/7 and can rez early long range pick if they died close to cover.
Jere you can see it very well how Moth is avoiding 2 Snipers: What makes Moth the best Mercy in the World (Coach Jake #9) - YouTube
If you rez try to superjump rez (pretty hard to do it consiatently right) and jigle your Head a lot.
Lucio:
Lucios speed reduces the time your Team has to stay in the LoS of the snipers. Your small hitbox + mobillity make you hard to hit, but you should still avoid taking the risk. Try to wallscimming, jigle with your head midair, spam shift to switch from healing to speed the whole time to make your movement unpredictable… overall try to improve your movement. In certain situations you can push the sniper on your own, flank with wallrides and try to primary+boop+melee combo the widow. Even if she grapples away, if you forced widow to use grapple she is forced to play passive the next 12 seconds, this is near so much value like killing her and makes her in a long run a non factor. Just try to show the widow "Iam Alpha and you are Beta!, if you did is your attempt to push her alone will make her scared and will force her to play very passive the whole match.
Brig:
Shield survives 3 hits from widow, after 2 hits you should stay in cover so your shield doesnt break.
Brig either gets played with Spam or Dive, becauce Brawl relies to much on Lucio. Dive is constant pressure for Widow and Spam usually has shields or Dive hereos in it and controls the lines very good, you dont have to do much against her as brig exept surviving. Try to callout her position, shield allows you to look around edges without peeking.
(Flex Supports added soon)
Lamp, Discord followed by volley and Sleep.
Otherwise go Moth mode and harass them.
Rez downed targets, and baps field your sniper.
What can any hero do against snipers? Hide around corners and behind shields.
What a FUN GAME.
If your team struggles to kill snipers or counter them, then depending on the map i pick zen, to shot at them and make them hide
Or
Mercy, to have great movilty and try to move fast and hide
reddit lucio
until they get a mercy pocket then give up
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so you prefer to be submissive? I got you hommie =)
I have an easier time dodging shots and displacing snipers with Orb on Moira but I’m also not very good at any other supports.
Ana is probably a better choice for counter-fire and range.
On Moira I can time/dodge shots pretty well… my adadcrouch spam is good and if I can get in range/clutch flank I can burn Widow down pretty easy but that’s pending her team and mine.
So, the question has to be opened up to total circumstance about what each team has going on; I don’t think there is a definite answer outside of the one you come up with during the fight.
Shoot them from an off angle. Counter snipe ops!
nice job i laughed :3
I go Ana and lob sleep darts at them.
If it’s Widow, it works 60 percent of the time. 
Go zen and double dink them.
Pick Mercy and res their picks around cover or picket your own sniper.
Pick Brig and avoid getting one shot with her shield.
To and extent u can also use Bap and duel them from angles.