Widowmaker should just be removed from the game. I mean, not really, but that's how I mostly feel. If you want to one-note sniper, go play fucking Battlefield or Counter Strike. Everytime there's a good widow I just go Winston and it's game over for them. I may even lose the game, but they're not getting any more free kills. Usually I type "No Widow Zone" and they get super angry and leave or go reaper/hog. That's fine, usually they're shit reapers and I just stay Winston and bubble dance them to death.
Widow needs like a beam sniper or something. Like a Spartan laser type weapon would be badass. Long charge up and visibile indicator. Otherwise it's just a super range McCree except McCree has to be mobile and Widow can be hit by like 3 characters in the entire game for more than 20 damage at her max ranges.
3 of my last 10-15games, we have started out with a perfectly reasonable team in rd 1 and did very, very well. RD2 each time usually the guy tanking switches to widowmaker, leaving us with nothing but a D.va for tank.
One time we lost the match because of this on Gibralter. We barely need to move to payload agt all to win, just win one fight on the payload essentially. So of course my team leaves nothing but A Moira (myself) to heal, and D.va (Who does nothing but ineffectively flank, since she doesn't advance to close enough range for the her cannons to do enough damage) as the "tank," and picks Hanzo, Widowmaker, and two other characters that also don't right on the point, thus basically throwing the match. Of course when i told the guys our comp was awful to the point it was virtually throwing i was told "Widow is good on this map" But we only need to fight in the very first area... If we simply fight on the payload we will force our opponets to do the same and abandon the high ground as the goal is so close...
Yesterday had another similar match, we take both points super fast on Anubis with a conventional team. So Reinhart switches to Widowmaker ( i did not see him get a single kill with widow). We still won, but it was very close as i had to swap to Orisa and leave us with only Mercy as a healer. It happened essentially the same thing in Kingsrow a few days ago also so we again turned an easy win into a loss this way.
Sure you get idiots that move to/won't move off other limited chars .But it does seem widow attracts a certain type of person. The type that totally ignores how they are not any good...
I get this is a bit of a coincidence but the state of the competitive game is basically thru: If you have a good team comp you will likely win, get 5 DPS mains and one Brigitte instalocker (or a million other lousy combo's) you will likely lose.. Game badly needs a role Queue since the amount of ways competitive game teams are effectively sabotaged before/during the match is already far too high at all levels without one. The lack of a queue just exaggerates this problem, hence most comp games tend to be won/lost before the first round begins.
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