Drops a Sweet Katana said:
As others have pointed out, she's fairly balanced in lower level play, since newer or less skilled players won't land those hit nearly reliably enough to be unbalanced.
Metalrocks said:
i play her a lot and is my favorite character, but i also got killed many times as well because its not always easy, even with a mouse, to hit your target. especially if you try to aim at hte head when they are moving all over the place, because they are engaged against others. its rewarding when you hit and kill them with one shot. if this gets nerfed, you rather get aggravated when your shot does hardly anything.
Ok I dunno if this is cos you're playing on consoles but this bs of "it's so hard to be good with widowmaker" needs to stop right the fuck now. In close to my 30 years of living to this world I have always been a sucky sniper, no worst then sucky, the worst sniper you will EVER see in your goddamned life.
I don't have the mentality for it, and can't aim with a mouse to save my life (grew up with consoles and controllers so keyboard+mouse still doesn't feel natural to me, id rather play with a controller), so I tend to gravitate towards inaccurate weapons and spray and pray tactics, high precision sniping is the anti frankster.
But Widowmaker? The first time I was forced to play her I got POTG (triple kill) and was just headshotting bitches' left and right all game. It was friggin obscene. You don't even have to actually hit your target!!!! You just have to mouse over them, have a little box that locks on like you're some sort of F-16 pilot firing heat seeking missiles, and bam, they are dead!
If they arent dead they are almost dead, and you just fire again, not like you have recoil affecting your aim and being shot at won't disturb you either. Wow! Such skill, such hardness!
Couple that with an easy to use escape and the wall hacks and this was the easiest sniper i've ever played in any game.
Usually to be a good sniper, you need to have godly aim, an extensive knowledge of the map to know most likely enemy routes and spots of counter snipers, and perfect positioning and timing.
With widowmaker you don't really need ANY of those above 3 to be effective. You don't need to know how to be a good shot with widow, imo it takes far more skill to land good rocket shots with Pharah , you don't need to worry about navigating terrain to get to a good snipe position thanks to your grapple, and your ulti allows you to never be surprised unless you have tunnel vision and stare into your scope all day.
Honestly I barely consider Widowmaker a "true" sniper because that lock on ability removes the element of skillful sniping, its like letting a car drive itself yet still consider the person seated at the wheel as driving.
Though snipers are often derided as being point and clickers, in widows case it is actually true. If you have a horrible widow in your game, then chances are it's because they are 12 years old or have the tactical acumen of a suicidal lemming, not because they can't shoot, because knowing how to shoot is not a requirement for widow
Widowmaker on pc is a sniper with training wheels, the tutorial for if you want to learn how to play a sniper in a competitive environment despite not having most of the skillset required to be a good sniper in other games.
In conclusion: skill ceiling for widow is the lowest of any sniper in any other fps game ever.
It is not hard to be semi competent with her, because a lot of the skills needed to be an amazingly OP sniper in other game, are automated or made trivial when playing widow.
