Melee and beam weapons are usually incapable of dealing headshots. Positioning, gamesense and being at the right place at the right time. General Discussion. Spend lots of time in Widowmaker headshot-only custom games. 0x; Comments: Just kind of a matter of time before they do Widow nerfs, after doing Sojourn nerfs. ago. Widowmaker’s weapon specializes in ranged combat; when scoped, it can be charged to increase damage. Genji's HP is incorrectly noted as 150 in the guide. Genji is a Damage hero in Overwatch. But when Widowmaker headshots a support, chat lights up with hatred. the reason she does 300 damage is because her body shots do 120 and her headshots are a 2. Flats shot at an opposing. As a sidenote, I find Sombra a particularly good counter to him. What you need to know. In comparison, every other attack currently available in the game offers up a standard 2x headshot damage multiplier. 50% minimum (like bare minimum) would be considered acceptable for Widow IMO. !In the story of Overwatch, 'Widowmaker' is the alias of Amélie Lacroix ( née Guillard), a French ballerina -turned- sleeper agent for the terrorist organization Talon, who after killing her husband becomes a high-profile sniper assassin. 120 full charged, 300 headshot. Widow would do 150 damage headshot which is a huge chunk of health from squishies, and if she hits a headshot she instantly gets another fully charged shot. The official Everything of the Mortal Kombat 1 board. Zooming in on Widow is usually a bad idea, as a good Widow will quickly headshot you. Her venom mine deals a little less damage, but whoever gets hit by it receives double damage by Widowmaker. 32 Likes. A guide explaining how to do the widowmaker grappling hook shot in overwatchSubscribe here:. It’s called venting it’s good for you. CryptoThe only exception to the headshot multiplier applies to Widowmaker, as she has a x2. A fully charged headshot could bleed for an infinite amount of damage, with any healing instantly ending the effect. Kiriko plays well. Toupher-21319 July 19, 2018, 5:27pm #55. 11 Nerves of Steel x2: Increases headshot damage with Tech Sniper Rifles by 15%. Join. Yeah she can hook away, but most dive/disrupt heroes can easily follow her which still takes away her value. Krisp-11594 August 7, 2018, 6:50pm #6. With 44% scope charge a headshot does 151. •. 5 crit multiplier. You must now also wait for the unscoping animation to finish. There's no real reason to aim for headshots with the current layout, which is extremely disappointing. Make it a Beam Attack. All damage and damage boosts needs looked at due to significantly less shields. 500hp tank will die to charged headshot and charged bodyshot (510 damage). Released on 15 November 2016, she is the 23rd hero added to the game. My issue is widow maker, my favorite hero and I have way too many hours with her but over time she has become so useless, and you keep making her worse. While you are charging up shots, you must be zoomed in (the default key for this is the Right Mouse Button ), and to shoot you will use the Left Mouse Button . More important as a sniper is a combination of final blows, solo kills and eliminations. Widowmaker has also been changed: Her sniper fire base damage has been reduced from 15 to 12, the headshot multiplier bumped from 2 to 2. 33. In the game options, Widowmaker has two options that affect her Widow's Kiss: + The headshot damage remains unchanged + Many Widowmaker s have been eliminated from the game, since they dont succeed anymore which makes the game less static and gives you as a Widowmaker more often an uncontested reign over the heights of a map + Challenging Widowmaker s will now need to hit the head instead of two fast bodyshots in order to eliminate you before you can react. As explained by EeveeA on Twitter, Kiriko’s throwable Kunai is the first attack in Overwatch (and Overwatch 2) to offer up a 3x headshot damage multiplier – without any sort of falloff, we might add. Maybe something like dealing half of the enemies remaining health per second until fully expended? Maybe just a flat 50 damage per second? There's more than one option. Just always remember to let each shot charge before firing for. With the first two damage heroes out of the way, the rest of the list consists of heroes that are all decent picks, although some of them are much better than others. -Not really a one shot but damage boosted ashe dynamite will kill widow if detonated. And yes, many other skills can do more damage but you can stick the pulse bomb, does AoE damage and you can triple blink and recall. How to counter Soldier: 76SMG deals 13 damage per bullet. 5 headshot multiplier, meaning a 120 damage body shot will deal 300 headshot damage, instead of 240. Weak Against Reaper: The most difficult counter for Widowmaker due to his high damage output at short range. 33 meters. hello, I am currently writting a guide and since I cant play the beta I would like to know if bastion can survive a fully charged headshot. Widowmaker will inflict 2. For instance, switch to Pharah or Junkrat to take out static defenses like Torb turrets and sentry-mode Bastions. 5x to 2. 25 HP nerf doesn’t change the amount of heroes that Widowmaker can one-shot, nor does it change her effective distance. Tracer pulse bomb =widowmaker headshot. It is. Your ability to get headshots is always advisable since it's more damage. Egyptian goddess>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Wakanda Guard #34. It can eliminate all Damage and Support heroes in a single fully charged headshot making it one of the most lethal weapons in all of Overwatch 2. Widowmaker is a feast or famine. 2. technically enables quickscoping but it has a few seconds cooldown. He stands out from the other. Business, Economics, and Finance. In my experience there are a ton of plat widowmaker that aim better than me, even though I am 3900 DPS. July 19, 2018, 3:22pm #51. So I was thinking keep the 120 damage, but make the multiplier be 2. "So balanced" but thanks for the advice. This is absurdly strong against lower health heroes such as damage heroes as one headshot. It's important to note that landing a headshot/ critical damage will triple Kunai's damage to 120 instead. Dropped by Nash in Ghost Town Quest. If she blinks into melee range, ALWAYS go for the headshot + melee on her. It is an instant pure evil smile that will overtake your face and make you feel like a god among men. She reappeared in the Overwatch conflict as Widowmaker, the modern-day threat. 5× headshot multiplier, the absolute highest increase from the original damage would be 875%. With instant respawns enabled, this mode offers a dynamic environment for players to hone their aiming and accuracy skills. Make it a Beam Attack. She can throw protection suzu to her allies, or kunai against her enemies. I can almost swear some shots go through enemies and deal no damage. Getting bodyshots isn't punished enough (Headshots are only nescessary to kill tanks, every other class bodyshots will do just fine), or even missing shots completely is pretty much completely unpunished. Instead of Widow's grounded headshots just being a one shot, it enables her allies to capitalize and get ult charge. Headshots in Overwatch deal double damage (so 300 damage in the case of Widowmaker). It fires two projectiles per shot and has the chance to deal poison damage when shots are charged up. I don't usually db widowmaker unless there's no better target around, but I will go mercy just to pocket a hanzo for sure. This is. 5x; Players must now wait for the unscoping. Widowmaker players need game sense to know where to position, but most of the value from Widowmaker’s kit comes from being able to land headshots with her primary fire. Any 135+ damage damage boosted will now one shot widowmaker. Yeah the damage drop off really hurt her but I think she’s still in a pretty good spot. 9. So an uncharged headshot is 30 damage. With a fully charged headshot damage of 252. 5x damage multiplier, and can quickly eliminate even the strongest of foes at full charge. Ashe quickly fires her rifle from the hip or uses her weapon’s aim-down sights to line up a high damage shot at the. 9x)/10) = DMG x represents scope charge With 82% scope charge a headshot does 251. Widowmaker will inflict 2. Where the rest of the roster has a 2. 4M subscribers in the Overwatch community. Overwatch 2 is being very generous with its hitboxes. Armed with his Peacekeeper revolver, Cassidy takes out targets with deadeye precision and dives out of danger with eagle-like speed. Stealth and debilitating attacks make Sombra a powerful infiltrator. Hitting consecutive headshots as Widowmaker is one of the most satisfying feelings in all of Overwatch 2, but you might need to practice a bit before you get there consistently. Details: This is an interesting one. Positioning, gamesense and being at the right place at the right time. mccree and soldier just do the same dmg but with little le3ss dropoff. This way, healers can react quickly to save a victim of Widow, and it gives Widow. Previously, a fully charged headshot with the Widow’s Kiss would always deal exactly 300 damage. Ashe quickly fires her rifle from the hip or uses her weapon’s aim-down sights to line up a high damage shot at the. 3 seconds. View community ranking. Fires single shots that deal high damage when fully charged. Since Widowmaker is a hitscan hero she is a lot better suited for this kind of play (compare what is easier between having to predict where the. This is because there's a lot of walls that you think you'd be able to utilize, but can't because the game. Certain attacks can overwhelm this with crazy one-shot, or ‘burst’, damage, such as a Widowmaker headshot or ults like a Tracer or D. Now that a bs is 120 damage, give her 150 HP. Headshot everyone. The highest damage dealt value is 330% and the highest damage taken value is 130%. Widowmaker does 300 damage on a headshot. Simply put, she is too overpowered. A high amount of precision damage is what her focus is. Yeah 5v5 may make her a lot stronger, especially with lack of barriers, but she isn’t by any means centralizing to the meta. Especially if she has support from literally. +50% Headshot. With WidowMaker I cannot get even bodyshots, let alone headshots. basically any hero with fast movements. Toupher-21319 2018-07-19 17:27:36 UTC #55. Go to Overwatch. Put your crosshair as close to where you think their head will appear, then a small flick or no flick if you're spot on. I honestly feel bad for dps players because a good portion of. Widow's Kiss sniper fire is deadly, with a fully charged headshot delivering 300 damage -- enough to take down any non-tank instantly. the reason she does 300 damage is because her body shots do 120 and her headshots are a 2. A partner of the Overwatch League’s Florida Mayhem, Flats tweeted a video on November 15 of Kiriko blocking headshot damage with her arm by looking up at the sun. She is the leader of the Deadlock Gang and a rebellious gunslinger who's not afraid to get her hands dirty. You both have razor thin bullshit hit boxes. A DOT would fit very well into both her kit and her lore. The changes combined to make Widowmaker’s fully charged body shots deal 120 damage instead of 150 damage, while a fully charged headshot will do the same as it did pre-nerf, 300 damage. 15. He is one of the 21 heroes included in the game's release on 24 May 2016. Widow max headshot damage reduced to 175, but the remaining 125 damage is dealt as DOT venom, similar to venom mine. Place the crosshair on an enemy's body without filling the entire area if the dot is small. with a 100% charged body shot she can one shot 16 of 21 heroes. But Reaper can do 280 max with a headshot but that is fine though? That’s about the same as Widowmaker, then add self-healing,. Armed with her sniper rifle, she is a powerful DPS hero capable of dealing devastating damage from long range. Base damage increased from 120 to 125. Therefore, she will deal 30 headshot damage at 0% charge and 300 headshot damage at 100%. Compared to the other dps ults, widows is lackluster. If it were calculated with multiplicative damage boost, it would be 877. By aiming down sights with her Widow's Kiss rifle, she can transform it from a fairly basic automatic weapon to a long-ranged sniper capable of one-shotting smaller enemies with. I think that the server just fails to register the movements of the target correctly, so the position of the target that you see on screen is not its actual position in the game when its movements are too fast, and that's why the shot is not registered. Use actual counters to turrets instead of someone who was overtuned. When not in sniper mode, her weapon works good up close with rapid automatic fire. the moment you realize that tracer pulse bomb is just directly worse widowmaker bullet blizzard - “tracer bomb can destroy tanks” meenwhile widowmaker can 2 shot the majority of the tanks sounds fair. Beesǃ-2610 December 1, 2020, 9:13pm #8. Widowmaker can shoot every . The high amount of damage a widow is able to put out is just bad game design. winston, dva. 5x on her scoped shots. If she lands the second shot as a headshot it deals 300. Va and Winston perform could curtail how effective Widowmaker can be in the future. Widow's damage will falloff will be from 40-60 meters, instead of the current 70-100 meters, and will be increased from a 30% damage drop off to 50%. Widowmaker's scoped headshot damage can be explained using this function, 2. With Hanzo, it always feels like there was no skill involved. Additionally, her Ultimate now takes slightly longer to build up. A battle-hardened combat medic, he is just as capable of saving lives as he is taking out the enemy. As such, she’s capable of bopping characters with an average health pool with a fully charged headshot. She is one of the 21 heroes included in the game's release on 24 May 2016. Using Widowmaker's 2. Armed with her sniper rifle, she is a powerful DPS hero capable of dealing devastating damage from long range. You should pick up either ball or winston. Arguably heroes like Ashe and Sojourn rely more on headshot criticals. According to one Overwatch subreddit commenter this means Widowmaker's headshot damage now is exactly the same as it was (300 damage). 0075 seconds. That means no Head-Shot Damage whatsoever, but it can Penetrate Defence Matrix, Deflect, Kinetic Grasp, and Spear Spin. 2 headshots will still do 210 damage. Ashe is a Damage hero in Overwatch. The precise. Supports first, then DPS, then tanks. 25 seconds to fully charge and does 120 damage x the headshot multiplier of 2. Ashe is a crackshot mid-range damage hero that excels at dishing out heavy damage with headshots. So if you have two Reins shielding a Junkrat and a Widowmaker respectively, the one with the Widowmaker has his shield break first. This means that she will no longer be able to one-shot headshot past 50 meters. It's why support isn't fun to play. If you don't kill Nash, you can get this weapon later off of bodies toward the end of the Queen of the Highway quest. Details. This means that she will no longer kill Zenyatta and Tracer from full health in a single body shot. Different heroes have different sized heads, making headshots easier to perform on certain heroes compared to others. Using Widowmaker's 2. Sojourn’s Railgun is a One-Shot. The skillcap for this character is so astronomically low just because she can 1 shot Zenyatta and Tracer. The core of Widowmaker's kit is her rifle, which allows her to deal devastating amounts of damage while scoped-in and fully-charged, particularly with a headshot. Widowmaker might be the only sniper in a videogame that doesn't rely on aim. 5 damage modifier. Don't do the tap shot thing, it's a bad habit I think. No Damage Falloff: Damage falloff is off by default. There is a reason every owl or worldcup team is playing with a widowmaker. Zenyatta calls upon orbs of harmony and discord to heal his teammates and weaken his opponents, all while pursuing a transcendent state of immunity to damage. You get wall hacks and can shoot through the walls! Wtf!. General Discussion. 0x damage multiplier on landing shots to the head, Widowmaker is the sole exception of having 2. Using Widowmaker's 2. The reason why hanzo is at 250 is because he has one of the highest damage outputs in the game, with storm arrow, faster charge time and dragon strike. Be the top Widowmaker and score 50 kills to win. Playing at a high rank is awful due to Widowmaker. Just so you know, most weapons can get headshots, and all headshots do double damage. People think Ashe is the hitscan with the best range after Widowmaker, but she used to have the exact same damage fall off ranges as Cassidy for her hipfire shots and as Soldier: 76. The toxicity of Widowmaker is that her basic concept is the overall issue. How much damage does a 100 Widowmaker headshot do? Widowmaker will inflict 2. Widow’s sniper rifle firerate cap is 1 shot every 0. Her hacking can disrupt her enemies, ensuring they're easier to take. While scoped in, her projectiles are hitscan and cannot be deflected by Genji. • 3 days ago. Widowmaker has all the necessary abilities that any sniper would need. Base damage. Widowmaker does 300 damage on a headshot. Toupher-21319 2018-07-19 17:27:36 UTC #55. Join NOW! for -25% OFF to Learn from Top 500 Pros and carry your games!This Overwatch pro Widowmaker guide by Top 500 GM Pray. Flats shot at an opposing. Widowmaker Role: Damage | Origin: Annecy, France | First appearance: Overwatch 1. In sniper mode, she can fire rapidly or do charged shots for more damage. As explained by EeveeA on Twitter, Kiriko’s throwable Kunai is the first attack in Overwatch (and Overwatch 2) to offer up a 3x headshot damage multiplier – without any sort of falloff, we might add. 10 10. 120 full charged, 300 headshot. Yeah just let her oneshot anyone with a bodyshot and buff the smg damage to be on par with soldier that’s goodSombra is a Damage hero in Overwatch. Details. Headshot everyone. When Tracer sticks a Pulse Bomb on an enemy it will do an immediate 5 damage (before the explosion). If she pockets you, go for body shots, unless you are hitting a tank, especially orisa or hog. Auto aim abilities (Zarya, Winston & Symmetra) cannot crit. Just always remember to let each shot charge before firing for. And it's even easier to score a kill with Widow's gun compared to scatter arrows which fly in all direction. The actual explosion cannot crit. Any Widow player will be well-off knowing these pros and cons. I am just as glad as everybody else that Widowmaker was nerfed today, although I feel like it still won't be enough. Tracer not having full HP vs kiriko is a huge disadvantage. No headshots required. A fully charged headshot could bleed for an infinite amount of damage, with any healing instantly ending the effect. He is one of the 21 heroes included in the game's release on 24 May 2016. You can have 10k damage with 70% accurancy, but 5 elims or 3k damage and 19 elims… Crit scoped accuracy more important in guess… My opinion, with over 330 hours on her is, focusing on crit shot accuracy alone is a trap players fall into. +20% Poison Chance. 2. He also possesses a rapid-fire ability and a. Feel free to take a look for yourself below: Nerfs to some one-shots are coming to #Overwatch2. 33x for 400 damage crits in order to maintain parity with new tank health pools. give her a new ability she can only use while scoped in. Minimum damage is always 12. Kiriko is a kunoichi healer who is aided by her kitsune spirit. Kind of like she’s marking her prey with the first shot, and if she lands the other one they’re dead because that’s actual skill. Widowmaker equips herself with whatever it takes to eliminate her targets, including mines that dispense poisonous gas, a visor that grants her squad infra-sight, and a powerful sniper rifle that can fire in fully-automatic mode. WIDOWMAKER. Therefore, she will deal 30 headshot damage at 0% charge and 300 headshot damage at 100%. Hanzo: *Damage reduced to 90 on fully charged arrows (180 damage on headshots) *Draw speed reduced by 25%. This made her a. Their pricing is as follows: 500 Overwatch Coin - 4. After that, Sombra's extra damage against hacked opponents should be more. Tracer pulse bomb =widowmaker headshot. Widowmaker's critical hit multiplier is 2. . Whatever we will have as meta, will be the same CTRL C CTRL V, we. Primary weapon: Widow's Kiss (sniper). Cassidy is a Damage hero in Overwatch. 4. To fully headshot anyone in TF2 even overhealed you need to be scoped for a full 3. This means that she can be out ranged by projectile heroes and Widowmaker. For example, at enough of a distance, Soldier’s fruitpunch puddle can turn it into a 3 headshot kill. When not scoped in, her. 5 times the bodyshot damage with a scoped-in headshot, rather than the standard 2-time multiplier of other weapons. (10 +. 32 Likes. Widowmaker's fellow damage hero could be a flanker or anyone with some quick burst damage potential, to quickly finish off the targets Widow sets up with a powerful shot from the ground. 5 seconds. So assuming you just get headshots spaming the trigger, you dont even out damage Hanzo(his arrows do 29 spamming trigger) when he isn't getting headshots. I finally reached GM (on support) after playing this game since 2017 and I’ve never had less fun in comp. 75 seconds which means 1% charge is . In my opinion, instant death ruins the flow of the game (junk combo, hog combo, widow headshot, amped sojourn (might as well be instant at high ranks)). By default, it does chemical damage, which is an expansion of current bullet damage. it instantly raises the max damage of the next headshot to the old 300. Symmetra. She is an assassin who possesses no emotion except for the satisfaction of her targets' elimination. Bodyshots do too much damage under any condition. Don't do the tap shot thing, it's a bad habit I think. simple math. After charging for 1. Sombra can force enemies to stop hiding, increasing Widowmaker’s chances of getting a Headshot. Hanzo's mobility is worse incombat, Widowmaker can just grapple out. Credit: Blizzard Entertainment Body shots are more survivable. Widowmaker should NOT be able to one shot a tank on her own. Don't need to be a headshots God on widow. Overwatch features heroes that deal damage in a variety of different ways. For some characters it is more important that others. Published Oct 10, 2022. Players should aim for an enemy's head. Damage Role Passive. Cassidy is a Damage hero in Overwatch. Between her ease of escape, her strength in close range combat, her mine that alerts her to flanks, she still has a completely overloaded kit, even if the numbers have been slightly. General Discussion. 5 Damage off Lethal is basically a One-Shot, they could Sneeze too Hard and Explode. Add her sniper shots to her ultimate while changing her base kit to more of a vemous rifle build. Malorian Arms 3516 (Johnny's gun) Widow Maker. why don’t we buff rocket punch to do 300. You will often find yourself standing behind while your team tries. If you start reducing headshot multipliers, you will nerf a lot of damage in the game, which will make killing heroes harder. Overwatch has headshots. I get that in Open Queue tank stacking was a strat that was annoying to go up against. Now it really is common sense I know, but when put into motion you can decimate the entire team with just one Widowmaker and a few spot on headshots. A totally uncharged headshot does 34 damage. She is one of the 21 heroes included in the game's release on 24 May 2016. McCree’s Fan the Hammer ability will now be decidedly less deadly against tanks and require more accuracy against smaller targets. Ashe is a hero of Overwatch. Widowmaker's charged shot does more damage than Hanzo's (170) and only takes 1 second to fully charge the shot. 5 damage. Now that a bs is 120 damage, give her 150 HP. They’re pretty comparable given how little time you have to kill a widow and how far away she is. A fully charged headshot 1 shots anyone who. Widowmaker is definitely more effective if the player is actually good, but people complain about Hanzo because he consistent gets fluke kills through spamming arrows and with very very minimal precision required. 75 m / 5'9" Occupation:. It actually fires two projectiles per shot, as well as dealing Chemical damage that can lead to Poison. Damage Heroes with high mobility like Tracer, are best used in flanks, while Damage Heroes with a high ammunition and fire rate like Bastion are best used at the front. In depth about her Sniper. 12 Trench Warfare x2: Increases damage by 10% when shoot from behind the. King’s Row (Hybrid): One of the best Widow maps in the game. A place for in-depth discussions of Competitive Overwatch™ (the team-based shooter from… The only exception to the headshot multiplier applies to Widowmaker, as she has a x2. But Flats pointed out that there is a simple way to avoid these quick deaths. Widowmaker can often times snipe her as she flies through the air, as can. Descoping takes 0. x2 headshot damage with revolver, plus x2 headshot damage with silencer, plus high crit chance and probably some other damage increasing perks. Flanking as widow will even net you some easy picks. Heroes. They were showing that even with hitscan weapons the headshot hitboxes were extending out at the top and sides to make it. just changes breakpoints for a few heroes. 5=80 damage. A zen can be good if he stays in your los and pays attention to you. For example. Flats used Widowmaker to show precision in trying to headshot Kiriko's model. 5 = 300. In depth about her Sniper. Next up is Pharah. Widowmaker's real potential comes from the alternate fire mode, which converts her weapon into a sniper rifle. if it isn't a head shot then it shouldn't be a one shot. Headshots (crits) Deal double damage. Y'all can KEEP the 3x headshot multiplier! General Discussion. Memorizing the charge time is important for headshots because some times you don't need a full charge to kill a 200hp target. Widowmaker Quick Tips. A totally uncharged headshot does 34 damage. If you don't kill Nash, you can get this weapon later off of bodies toward the end of the Queen of the Highway quest. General tips:Don't need to be a headshots God on widow. Tracer pulse bomb =widowmaker headshot. Reach immortality with these Cyberpunk guides. overall it shouldnt impact her DPS a lot, but would make the absolute headshots reserved for the necessary occasions, instead of being able to. There is more to that character. Essentially people hate dying to people who aren't deserving of said kills. Widowmaker shouldn't do 150 damage bodyshots. Divided We Stand. Don't reward bad snipers.