Is Black Widow a viable character after her buff?

[digstraightdown72]

I played a match using her and didn't do too bad (quickplay, convoy)

[minister of chlorine]

all characters are viable. remember when everyone said wolverine was bad?

[digstraightdown72]

true

[Gamefreak]

Originally posted by magnesium-based lifeform:

all characters are viable. remember when everyone said wolverine was bad?

He's only good at ratings where you actually get healed and where people pay attention. Black Widow is just completely useless and has no niche.

[Ruke (Soreasan)]

The sniper balance problem is to make them meta, you need one shots. And Even Tf2 and Overwatch realized a problem. A meta a sniper is meta means a meta a top 50 widow can snipe a t500 lobby, instakill the other top t213 widow, and make the game a "whatever sniper camps the other snipers kills the entire team without barriers" games.

Goats was dreaded but the first reason Ow2 and ow1 had gotten 2x 2000 hp shields in the first place was that tf2 spinbots were able to literally camp entire lobbies spinning with no literal counterplay. There should have been bot detection for constantly spinning, but nobody bothered.

Rn Black widow has like 1.5s times to kill when even hitscan healers have like 1.2s on headshots. But if she one shots, it goes down to 0s to kill.

The sniper paradox is even when a sniper is meta in top 500, the other t500 players hate playing with even gm snipers because it turns it from a fun game of jump and traverse the map and dive the mercy, to instadie when out of spawn while having a mercy pocket the t50 widowmaker who has a good time aiming, but everyone else is target practice.

They could probably do stuff like buff her sprint, combo, maybe firing speed, Maybe add a antiheal for 2s debuff on her shots if they want her semi lethal, then a storm or Cloak could let her finish targets.

But idk, snipers being meta tends to only be fun for the #1 sniper in a lobby. Even tf2 still has a fair sniper meta and it's just 2fort seeing lobbies of guys playing 8 hrs a day camping the pillars for 8 hrs a day as people eventually quit.

[Ruke (Soreasan)]

I mean, i think with bans, they say every hero has at least a single play of representation in t500.

Are the t500 widows often hacker mains who dont' know how the hawkeye ghost image work and lock on people through walls with cloak duos who kill everyone via the tickle? Sure.

But there's t500 representation for black widow already.

it's just mostly hackers.

[Astroyohan]

shes ok, but why would u not just play hawkeye? more damage and just overall better.
unless they change him she's forever gonna be in his shadow.

[digstraightdown72]

Originally posted by Astroyohan:

shes ok, but why would u not just play hawkeye? more damage and just overall better.
unless they change him she's forever gonna be in his shadow.

I think hawkeye got nerfed but I could be wrong (still better than black widow)

[Blazikasu]

Originally posted by digstraightdown72:

Originally posted by Astroyohan:

shes ok, but why would u not just play hawkeye? more damage and just overall better.
unless they change him she's forever gonna be in his shadow.

I think hawkeye got nerfed but I could be wrong (still better than black widow)

you're right, hawkeye got nerfed and he's still better

[flopaflop]

Yep gooning to her feels better now