I don’t think Black Widow needs a full rework. I think she just needs a few targeted buffs, I've been playing her a lot recently and I do fairly well.

1. Increase rifle damage from 120 → 125

That gives her a perfect 250 headshot. With all the over shield in this game this wouldn't be broken. Right now she feels like she has to work harder than other poke for less payoff. A small damage buff would make her sniper feel more rewarding.

2. Fleet Foot: increase stamina

Every role has one fast movement character with infinite Stamina. (Not counting spiderman cause those are cooldowns)

Vanguard has Captain America,

Strategist has Luna,

Duelist should have Widow as the infinite Stamina character, or at least a larger increase.

3.Reduce Edge Dancer cooldown to 10-12 seconds

Her kick is her main peel tool, but the cooldown is too long considering how she only has 3 abilities. Dropping it to 10-12 seconds would help her be far more engaging against dive.

I have about 15 hour on Widow at the moment, and I think these are fair buffs, I know some people are against a complete rework and after learning the character, I get it.. Spending all those hours getting used to her aim, and playstyle only for her to become a completely different character would be annoying.

TL;DR buffs:

Red Room Rifle damage: +5

Fleet Foot stamina increased

Edge Dancer cooldown: 15s → 10s - 12s

Did a content creator make a video about Peni or something? What's going...? At the beginning of the season peni wasn't banned at all in my games I had free reign. Now all of a sudden even if the enemy team is on defense they're banning her.

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I dont think its target bans but i put my profile on one of those leaderboard tracker sites recently so idk if that factors into it...

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For context this is GM2 lobbies ive been hovering between gm3 and c3 all season so its not like there was a rank change...

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Maybe I've just been getting lucky at the beginning of the season.