200 hp widow that can still one shot any dps with 300hp is going to be overpowered in this meta and with anti heal being attached to her venom mine it’s pretty much gg for any non shield team
500+ hour widows rejoice
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sombra will still straight up delete her still but yea i think at the highest levels again she will still be the same or a bit better?
rest of the ranks i think its a nerf or maybe neutral since you hit that body shot or headshot but are too far away that target can still have a chance to die with low health because of the healing debuff… or however it will work
so we dont know really, a lot of streamers are saying she is gonna be a throw pick so that doesnt sound cool if your a widow main either.
for me i dont care, im gonna be playing widow even moreso now if she is a throw pick just so stats can show, hey maybe do something about the widow
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Well the sombra vs widow will be more fair, instead of having one shot chance you’ll live a little longer to possibly win, still an uphill though
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its a bit better but not as good as it use to be before sombra got reworked. still yea we’ll find out how good or i will since ill play into sombra more now lol
I say she gets some kind of nerf to her projectile size before the midseason patch.
Place your bets.
Balancing often works like a pendulum.
The more OP something gets, the bigger the inevitable nerf hammer later.
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Honestly, I don’t think she’ll change that much from this patch. At really high ranks, sure that might be a problem. But Widow is still an average or below average pick on most maps for the bottom 75% of ranked.
Also, what’s the alternative? That Widow can only 2 shot people if one of the shots is a head shot? Forget the bottom ranks, she’d be a throw pick at all ranks then, because why not just pick Sojourn? If she can’t one shot, then what does Widow do well? Why have her on your team when we have others who can also 2 shot people and don’t have all the drawbacks that Widow does?
Not even that. her Range gets reduced from 53 to 46 m and she needs to charge longer. In GM she wasnt really good outside of her maps, and now shes even weaker on those. So i would say she overall got a nerf and will be Weaker.
Hanzo becomes a Counter to her, as he can still oneshot her at any range, but she cant.
Uh… sustained damage will be FAR better than slow spike damage as you will be able to absolutely melt targets. Tracer, Soldier, Sojorn, BASTION, etc
There will be shield tank metas anyway, with the new dps passive.
Sombra will still hunt her down, at least I will.
Tracer will be like a passive proc bot, not a melting assassin, at least not after the hp changes
i already see this patch ideas end up being reverted they are honestly bad
Team 4 and reverting a bad Idea? good joke.
Team 4 has a pretty long track record of bad ideas they never reverted or if they revert something it took ages to do so. If the Patch is bad, they will try to make it work and battle the symptoms instead of fixing the problem.
They (Blizzard) are too proud to admit a failure.
i wish we players could force aaron keller to resign i fele getting rid of him would be a start to fixing some problems with the game
Sure will be a funny week until people realize dive is still the way to go.
Until then, have fun.
I would not make Aaron the scapegoat. that Problem of “We know better than you” and “You do not know, what you want” is a Blizzard Problem.
Will she be able to 1-shot still? I was under the impression she wouldn’t be able to, unless boosted.
This. This is my biggest fear. Picking burst damage is going to be perceived to be throwing after this patch.
It might be better to rock with Hanzo with the DPS passive his storm arrow is going put way more pressure on a tank to chip them down while mitigating heals.
Now pair him withe a Soldier or Sojourn and with a dash of Zen in the mix and we might be looking at of meta of why even heal?
It will be interesting. Start of season 9 I’ll be testing out bigger projectile Zen with discord and snipers on my squad
Not really an anti-heal, but a 20% heal-nerf. Still, it will be nice having a 200hp widow in game again. 175hp made her Sombra-fodder if the supports were slow to react.
Yes widow deals 300 damage headshot without mercy pocket, sojourn deals 195 and has much longer charge time