Tad late, but I dont' think the ship has sailed. Also <3 jozu, unfortunately the whole hour things is right. The guy in front of me is just roughly 5-10 hours ahead, whenever the website decides to update. I watched his stream, and hes not really that good at Hanzo. Not saying i'm better, but we're completely different in how we play.. I just find how he plays trash.
Its the same as people using AWPs, just gotta adapt
Iunno if that is a good analogy, but I know where you're going. It's too much though, its not so much her damage but the lack of error and forgiveness her kit gives her.
If she hits you with a body shot, generally you're okay but because of her shot timer she can follow up with an immediate shot right after. It's a highly effective double tap.. to the point where its way too effective and she can drop entire teams by herself. She's easily the most dominate character in the game as it stands. I don't have an issue w/ her charge rate, just the fact she can double tap way too fucking fast. As I told Crone when playing with him after getting really sad about not landing nearly as many Hanzo shots as I should, I swapped w/ widow and it was just a yawnfest in comparison. He ended up leaving, but to get the bad juju out of me I won three straight games w/ Widow. It literally is like "oh, I didn't hit you in the head, well let me just make sure you're dead because you should be."
I couldn't tell you how many times i've cut off life support to a team by killing their back line, moving forward past the tank and objective then proceeding to make sure their back line doesn't move forward anymore. Some make it through, i'm not a god, but when you lose a constant 3+ people to a widow knocking out your spawning backline, their front line is soon to fall to your 5 other teammates.
I know people argue -counter- but she really doesn't struggle nearly that much as you'd expect. Her kit allows her to space herself really well to the point where being that Winston or Reaper is actually rather hard to accomplish getting to that point. Really depends on what point in the map you are in or what position but you can literally take a charging Winston down below half before he even gets past mid-field. I never really struggle with Reapers unless i'm trying to be in the cut and they're flanking or going aggro in cqc, which a widow shouldn't be in the first place.
Genji is a bit of a different story, but any smart play all you have to do is mind game the shit out of him. If he really does get on you, more than likely he used his dash to get to you to begin with.. all you do is set your trap, jump, he follows, use your hook to return and kill. With any counter, your machine gun is still rather insane ontop of being able to do all of the initial damage w/ your scope shots.
The only real counter to a widow, is another widow.. or a mercy because you didn't kill the mercy, scrub.
