Widow still having a 1-shot defeats the purpose the changes

I’m still hitting 70% accuracy often, it’s kinda wonky the shouldn’t give hitbox to hitscan.

I really am not that good with widow in s8 if I hit 45% and 15% crit that was a really good match for me.

Currently she is purely balanced by dive being meta like in ow2 launch.

But don’t start your remove one shot rhetoric though.

Hit box revert for hitscans then see how it goes from there.

Ya it’s annoying you can’t shoot mei on the left side easily

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This is the #1 change I’d like to see. This and the reintroduction of Soldier’s spread.

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I’d say that rhetoric is more “Give a way to deal with oneshots that’s available to almost any hero” that isn’t hiding behind a wall, wiggling around, or swapping to a different hero.

Pharah main git gud or swap to sombra :relieved::joy:

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I’m just asking for something that’s a standard feature in every other modern PVP FPS game.

No its not. Snipers in Other games are far stronger and have less counterplay than widow ever was and had.
How do you fight a Sniper in Titanfall 2, Battlefield, COD, Planetside 2, Pubg etc if the Sniper is hundreds of meters away, maybe he has even a Gilli or invisibility, killing you with one shot to the body? You either countersnipe or get close, thats it

OW2 has far more options (and some take next to no skill to effectively use it) in EVERY Class. Tanks? Use shields to prevent Widow to get value or use mobile tanks to kill the Widow or force her to retreat.
DPS? Go Widow or Hanzo to counter snipe, Go Genji, Tracer, Venture (or Reaper) to flank her. Go Pharah or Echo to dive bomb her from the Sky. Go Sojourn as a mix of counter sniping and flanking. Go Torb or Bastion to not get Oneshot or let Sombra do her thing and relax.
Support? Go Lucio, Kiriko (or Moira) to flank her (Kiriko can also counter snipe), Go Ana or Zen if you have aim and counter snipe. Or go Battle Mercy.

Play Widow and see for yourself how “uncounterable” Widow is. (Spoiler: she is pretty easy to deny her value and counter her, Just use one of the many options the game has)

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People asking for widow to lose her 1shot is a clear sign to me that pvp as a genre is dying with the current players we have . Why are some of you even playing pvps at this point ?

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I’ve noticed this too. I’m very adept at hitting jumping targets but jumping kirikos that are spamming kunai are notoriously hard for me to flick to unless I remember to flick slightly above her head because the arm hitboxes get in the way.

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