Widow Does too Much Damage

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300 hitscan damage across an entire map is simply way too rewarding in a game with very little counterplay for that range viability. She either needs to be made even more squishy, or have her damage nerfed to match the level of skill needed to hide behind the map and spam hitscan rounds that don’t even have damage falloff.

Barriers don’t answer her because they aren’t a counterplay option, but only protect from her wrath until she flanks again, assuming she doesn’t get a free kill off someone that couldn’t hide behind the Rein, or Rein drops his shield for half a second to Fire Strike…

Dive heroes don’t work unless you want to roll the dice in a 1v6 situation. Which only leaves you with literally a full dive comp as the only consistent counterplay option, which means she’s broken if an entire team comp is what it takes to make sure she doesn’t do literally whatever she wants.

Countering literally every DPS and support in the game with one shot simply isn’t fair, it’s a Hog 1.0 Hook with infinite range on a tiny hero.

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Forums next target is widow now great…

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i’ve seen other games recently nerfing snipe guns down, so that the more “tanky” dps and healers won’t get one shot, but most of the cast still do.

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Sniping isn’t fun to play against, it’s just instant death with no real interaction on either end.

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Maaaybe you should use this OP trick: Staying out of line of sight.

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You mean don’t play the game at all? How would you feel if I said that about Bastion when his damage resistance was 35%? Not a very fair solution, is it?

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So you can’t play the game if you need to stay out of line of sight? Seriously, there are a million obstacles in Overwatch you can use, including other players.

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I think both snipers need balance adjustments.

Widowmaker is good but I think as someone who only needs to line a shot up and hit fire, her ultimate is too useful for her.

Hanzo on the other hand. Hanzo needs so many changes (imo) he needs storm arrow nerfed (duration or amount of arrows either way nerf it) and remove headshot during storm arrow.

His ultimate needs to have it’s charge increased meaning it takes longer to charge because for the power it posesses it is seen far to often and is far too much.

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Ashe pushed him out pretty effectively, actually. It’s just an issue of a hitscan sniper in a game with no other long ranged hitscan.

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As a squishy support, I don’t care that she can snipe me, she’s supposed to be THE sniper. Plus like she’s the best counter to Pharah

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And none of them are capable of killing EVERY non-tank in a single hit.

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Move unpredictably so it’s harder for your targets to hit you~

there’s a bunch of tank shields to protect you, flanker DPS who can get her, or even something like Ana or Moira could tickle her to death if they really wanted

If you’re not like one of those 50% of the heroes to do the job then I guess you just have to be lucky to have at least one of other 5 people on your team to do something

oh yeah Dva can also Bully widow. thanks for that DrClan

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This post makes me question my guess that D.va or Sombra would be the next heroes to be witch hunted.

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If they just allowed you to take cover to avoid his ult then it would be ok. I have a problem with ults that go through everything like Hanzo’s and Doomfist’s, especially when Sombra’s EMP that should be able to go through almost anything instead is blocked by everything.

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OH god another “pro” player got dominated by a widow…

God forbid he admit the widow player might just be a better player… nope… so obviously the only options are
#1 the widow was cheating
#2 widow is op

people need to stop crying OP/hacks… and just accept there are players out there that a better than they are… instead of living in this delusion that they are “pro” players and anytime something doesnt go there way… its because someone was cheating or the hero is OP.

Widow is an example of a well designed hero generally speaking… If you cant hit your shots your a waste of a hero slot… if you can your extremely dangerous… Widow is a prime example of a hero that rewards skill …

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but its super funny suddenly spawning and seeing a giant dragon come at your face and panicking before realizing it can’t hurt you

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So being better means being an unstoppable god with a delete button on the other side of the map? Not really how the game was intended to be played. People are actually supposed to be countered by other heroes.

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I know it may be hard to accept, but as long as you live in delusion that your “pro” and cant accept there are players better than you out there, going as far as whining,making excuses, or blaming…

All your really accomplishing is, hindering or preventing yourself from growing as a player

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hmm idk… Wrecking ball / tracer/ sombra her real damage comes from headshots… she cant do crap to shields…

Your inablity/refusal to learn and better yourself as a player. does not make other heros OP…

it was more than likely a smurf as widow mains love to smurf when they get counter picked into the ground

im not trying to be hateful here… but if widow being played by a skilled player… yes shes very strong… but in the hands of a bad player you might as well be playing 5v6

as such i cant see this as anything but… you wanting to make excuses instead of taking the experience and using it to learn and grow as a player…

Because of that… all i can say is, it really looks like you are your own problem :confused:

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I don’t think you know how playing Widowmaker works…

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