I’m not talking about them nerfing her ultimate and tweaking her secondary fighter. I mean completely changing her abilities. I’m not sure what she was like in OW1, but this is OW2 and people still complain when someone who practiced for 100 hours to hit consistent headshots, hits one.
To go into detail on each ability, compared to other heroes, it’s like nothing in her kit does anything for the team and doesn’t contribute to her damage.
Assault Rifle - has a lot of spread and absolutely awful to fire. Unlike Hanzo clicking his Storm Arrows to blast your ass. Unless Widow is near their team, they’re going to need to learn how to trick shot you with her sniper at close range or die.
Grappling Hook - Just a reposition on long ass cooldown; why not allow it to attach to enemies for some damage too? If they want her to have a lower range make it do some thing else.
Venom Mine - it can be destroyed and placing it behind you or on a wall to shield you from a snipe or bullet; you just lose out on damage if you’re not constantly shooting it out.
Infra-sight - Why is this ability still in the game? Hanzo has a similar vision ability on a low CD btw. I just don’t understand why she has this dog shit ult holding her back. When Widow is not picked, nobody is crying about how they have no vision, so why the fuck has this not been changed to either boost Widow’s damage or just turn into something else.
Oh and that’s all her abilities and secondary fire. Unlike other champions with 5+ abilities/traits, all of which boost the character and are useful at all times. Widow gets basically a hook and shit mine. Just learn to trick shot with your sniper at close range BRO. What it takes to play, contribute and enjoy Widowmaker has literally no positive benefit. You’ll probably do far more in less time as another hero. Sure if you play for fun who cares, but what if you play comp? Last time I saw OWL nobody was playing her either.
It’s sad because Paladins seems to handle their snipers far better and you can at least blame your POS flank with 3+ movement and self heals for not killing them.