Change my mind, if you think she is that overpowered then play her, I invite you. You’re defending Brigitte, a hero that needs less than an hour to understand it’s mechanics and be good with her, and Widowmaker which needs 80+ hours and lots of daily practice to be good with her. You CAN’T nerf skill.
EDIT: Also, it’s not Widowmakers problem, it’s the current meta that makes her “so strong”, because of the tons of shields and the disappearance of Genji and Tracer because of BRIGITTE
This is the same forum that complained that Beyblade Meta was too strong and was then surprised that Tanks were dominating the game after it was nerfed. This is the same forum that complained for months that Dive heroes were dominating the game and is now noticing that, without Dive heroes keeping them in check, snipers are rising in strength.
Why Do you bother, Is the question.
She’s good in good hands and bad in bad hands. Like all characters.
I totally agree. Widow is one of the only heroes who are solidly based off of mechanical skill, which is a great option for certain players. Don’t take that away.
I just find it extremely weird that people start complaining about her NOW, when she’s always been considered perfectly balanced and in some cases even underpowered. She fits into the current meta; learn to counter it.
A hero with near infinite skill cap is never good idea. I personally think hitscan snipers will always end of problematic in an arena shooter. Alas, she is here to stay.
You can’t nerf skill but you can nerf grappling hooks. +2 seconds please and thank you.
I doubt she will ever be nerfed again.
completely agree. for the longest time widow has been lauded as a high skill, high reward character that people either 1. hated because bad player or 2. hated because enemy player is so good. it’s taking people too long to realize the current meta allows her to be a bit stronger than usual.
funny how after brigitte and moira come out, a storm of “overwatch is a no skill no aim casual catering game!!! where is the skill!!!” takes over the forums. and then widow enters the meta, and now we suddenly have an issue with her, arguably the highest skilled character in the game. the forum populace won’t be happy until they destroy her mobility (assuming they cave into demands), and in a few weeks after that, we’ll encounter another “where did all the skill heroes go 
” phase.
I think her hook should be on a 10 sec cooldown. Otherwise yeah she is fine.
On the other hand, the characters that preform better than everyone else should get nerfed, but whatever.
and winston and dva.
No. She’s great in good hands and trash in bad hands. Most other heroes can find some use in a bad player’s hands, but Widow is exceptionally useless if you can’t aim.
WIDOWMAKER ISN’T OP, YOU CAN’T NERF SKILL
People used to say the same about Tracer. “She can’t be OP, she just scales infinite with skill, that’s the perfect balance”. Guess what. Turns out she was OP and that you could balance her. Funny that.
I don’t agree that widowmaker is OP.
You can’t nerf widow, the only way you can nerf widowmaker is by nerfing the player.
Indirect nerfs can be done, but direct nerfs to her kit will literally break the hero.
You can cap skill. It only takes a new character to make Widow suck again.
Doing well on a weak hero is skill. Doing well on an op hero, not so much.
“You can’t nerf skill”? Tell that to the Genji and Tracer mains that got directly countered by the introduction of Baguette. IMO all widowmaker needs is a nerf to her grapple hook cooldown. You can be high long range damage, or high mobility and good close-range damage, not both. OW tries to have everything both ways too often.
Widowmaker is free only because Hanzo’s damage can hurt the tanks that can dive and counter her 1 on 1.
Widowmaker doesn’t need to be touched. Powercreep needs to be nerfed so counters can do their job or they buff tanks armor for more creep since each patch they take a wrong buff direction
C’mere (cracks knuckles, pats tire iron in palm of hand) Hold your hands out, I’ll show you how you nerf skill!
(cackles menacingly)
Yh - she’s balanced around aim, and no character should ever be balanced around aim seeing as how broken you can become. Also with the 8 second cd it’s so difficult to kill her if you don’t have a mobile kit.
FeelsBadMan.
Delete Widow esketit 
