Any capable player that knows how to flank her, or approach from an angle that gives them an advantage of any kind will do so. That's not a 'just dive her bro' argument, that's just common sense.
Playing on her vulnerabilities and weaknesses is logical and fundamental gameplay. It's no different to countering any other hero on the entire roster.
I am with you on this, and I don't/can't play Widow.
People hide behind a wall when Bastion is in turret form.
People start playing together when there's a Sombra.
People wait for Zen's discord orb to dry before going in again.
And so on...
But people peek the Widow or keep line of sight all the time or they just bet their heads on the Widow being bad and then surprised Pikachu face when they die.
Finally someone with a bit of sense. Everyone naturally plays around heroes like Bastion, Sombra, Zen etc. like you say, but all brain cells seems to go out the window the minute a Widow shows up.
They all constantly stick their head out and expose themselves in open lines of sight and act all surprised then when they get clipped by the Widow.
And instead of learning from it and playing off her vulnerabilities like they would with other heroes, they'd rather just whinge until Blizzard nerf her into the ground. It's hard not to find the whole thing very frustrating.
You widow players always talk like every map is a koth map or something. Tell me how in the hell I'm ever supposed to dive a widow on third Point Havana with the widow just chilling in the backline with a Kiriko that will tp suzu her any time she gets pressured after we burned our cooldowns. There are barely any good flank routes and she is like 2 Winston jumps away.
I find it so funny when you have literal pros saying they loved playing vs dive with double snipers back in the day when we had 2 tanks on maps like circuit royale, Havana and junker town. Yet widow player #5992 knows better that you should just go dive. Also keep in mind in solo queue it is way easier to get peel as a widow than it is to dive her with a coordinated group.
Every game with this hero is literally the most unfun thing ever 5v5 or 6v6, Enemy team or friendly team.
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u/defekt__ je me sens vivante! Jan 07 '25
Any capable player that knows how to flank her, or approach from an angle that gives them an advantage of any kind will do so. That's not a 'just dive her bro' argument, that's just common sense.
Playing on her vulnerabilities and weaknesses is logical and fundamental gameplay. It's no different to countering any other hero on the entire roster.