A hero who can one shot you half way across the map and there is nothing you can do about it… What a joke lol. I’m not at all tilted and have given very much thought to this and others agree. Widowmaker is probably thee most over powered hero in the game in my opinion. Let’s go over the reasons why.
-Her hit box is extremely tiny and her skins are almost all dark which makes her very hard to see.
-When she is standing still and scoped in, she makes zero noise to give you any hint she is nearby. You could simply walk around a corner thinking its safe and before you can click a button, you’re dead.
-She’s an carry or throw hero. Let’s be honest, there is no in between widow. Your widow either hits her shots or she doesn’t. If you don’t hit head shots, go mccree for more utility or you’re just gonna be throwing. If you hit your head shots, then congrats, the enemy team can’t do anything about it.
-She has ZERO counters. I know what you’re thinking, Winston, D.va, Genji, or just dive in general. But a good widow knows when to retreat to her team and then you’re the one caught out of position. There is no direct counter to widowmaker except hoping you have a better widow on your team.
-No other hero is like her. Yes we have other one shot heroes, but they all have conditions that need to be met in order to one shot. Doomfist needs to no have cooldown, full charge punch, and hit a wall. Hanzo needs to pre load and predict the enemies movements.
Most people argue that you just need to be able to hit your shots, but no hero (besides another widowmaker) can kill a good widowmaker. A mccree would need to peak and hit two shots in order to kill her, widow only needs to hit one. I get it, shes a very skill demanding hero, but it’s the fact that you can get killed half way across the map, and just sit there like “What was I supposed to do against that?”. It’s just plain obnoxious that a widow can fire three shots and you lose the team fight. So many games, we got a pick and we are pushing in, and then (and even with her position called) we lose two people from across the map one shots.
I mean if you don’t believe me, just think in overwatch league, Widowmaker is one of the heroes who is almost always played every season.
What would I change about her? Make her so if she headshots you, it brings you down to 1 hp, this way you at least have a chance to escape or fight back.
EDIT: To all the people who are saying dive the widow, you obviously didn’t read carefully enough and don’t play against good widowmakers. If you dive widow, she will grapple to a place that will make you out of position or a place that her team can help her. Look at kepprii, Winston got headshot once diving him, she grappled away and there was a stand off. He jumped again and got headshot again and died. Sorry but dive does not work that simply.
“Just go dive”. Kephrii's Insane Flick on Winston "F*cking Test Me Dude" - Overwatch - YouTube
Plenty more videos just like this, just go watch overwatch league. Reason I linked this video is cause this is normally what happens. Tank dives widow, widow hits tank and grapples back, widow waits for team to support her or for tank to make a move again. If you don’t believe me, why is it that XQC uses his 180 Winston jump to avoid being headshot?
