Widow buffs really?

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Can we all just acknowledge widow did not need ANY buffs this last patch? a good widow can solo lock down an entire team with ease, it’s such a joke. when you scope in you don’t even need to wait to hit 100% power to be able to 1 shot ALL support players and every dps player in the game is also now in 1 shot range at what 70m !?!? huh!?

Widow absolutely should need 100% power while scoped in to cause 1 shot damage

she needs her range reduced by 15-20m for fall off damage, not that it even matters for her cause I’ve done testing against her past her range by 15m and it’s still enough to cause 1 shot dmg to dps and support.

If blizzard is so horny to keep this in the game, head hit boxes of all hero’s should be reduced drastically while scoped in so that it actually requires skill to get a head shot and you can’t shoot 2m beside someone and it registers as a headshot.

sniper classes ruin this game. Sojurn also fits into this category with her rail gun charge being able to 1 shot every dps and support.

good job blizzard at nerfing hanzo’s ability to 1 shot hero’s, now just keep it trickling down the pipe to sojurn and widowmaker

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she didnt get any buffs specifically was a global wide buff and then they nerfed her after. all hitscans just scaled better than the rest of the dps, surprise i guess. i thought she would be terrible actually lol

kind of wish for a revert, she was still pretty strong last season but not as much as now

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They buffed her falloff range in the last patch.

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o yea forgot heh, that’ll probably be the thing they take away. still if i wanted a trade i rather go back to the old hitbox

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Blizz returned Widow’s kill range back to S8’s 53m up from S9’s original 46m. This was done because many long map lanes that exceeded 46m started inconsistent head shot kills. The net result was that Widow got a bigger 0.05m bullet but kept her old 53m kill range on top of +25 life.

Widow directly counters sustain, and S9’s primary focus was to obliterate sustain. Looks like that objective was met.

The larger Widow bullet does lower her skill floor, but there are still many players out there who cannot hit the broadside of a barn.

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don’t worry she is causing enough of a problem that they will nerf her into the ground and she will be worse off than before the patch

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Passive regen and larger head hitboxes benefits her playstyle more.

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Widow needs to be reworked so that she can’t oneshot outside of ults. Widow without the range nerfs is one of the most risk free dps to play

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As Winston she is my easiest kill and never lasts long before swapping to reaper or bastion :yum:

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Yea lol i usually go reaper as well or sojourn since i can get charge off shield

I hear bastion is very good against winton but i havnt played him in forever

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Was there a recent patch not in game yet?

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I think she should do a flat 250 damage

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I think her Grapple should have 30% less cooldown, but it breaks like Sombra hack when taking damage.

If a character is balanced around being dead when they get dived on, then they should be dead more often when they get dived on.

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OW2 is balanced around the highest tier game play, not the mundane metal ranks. In the latest T500 count, Tracers outnumber Widows over 3-1. This is pretty good indicator that Tracer will see the nerf bat before Widow. There are also enough Sombra and Genji players also keeping Widow in check.

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Guess who would reign if Tracer got nerfed? Sojourn, Ashe and Widowmaker. The only reason they’re not is because of Tracer’s prominence. The issue would still be there.

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She wasn’t buffed when you need to charge your shot more to secure the kill. Her TTK is slower.

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you don’t need to charge her shot AT ALL to 1 shot a dps or support in the game. you scope in and it’s an instant kill. She got a range increase, passive healing, bigger hit boxes on ALL characters. bro you blind AF if you think she didn’t get buffed.

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if that happens, then it’s the teams fault for letting her stand there and pick off targets. the thing about widow is, if you have 1 or 2 people take pot shots at her, it generally throws her accuracy all off and makes her move out of position. If you have a flanker…or a winston tank, you can take her out of the game entirely.

im going to go out on a ledge and say that Ashe is actually a better ‘sniper’ than widow is. Widow has movement decrease when scoped and has to wait for 100% power to secure kills. Ashe can strafe back and forth a couple times with more speed and land 2 headshots and you can kill most dps and supports.

But that’s just me… I guess maybe because i have better luck on ashe that it’s just how I personally feel. YMMV