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I mean her rework is nice but now I barely even play the game much anymore
They took the spark off her kit and now if I just play Hela then what’s gonna be the difference yk
I miss when she used to shoot slow but deliberate and impactful

I really dislike it because it’s too passive and often ruins the gameplay loop I love of his

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Please before attacking me remember that it’s my opinion. And I will use the ps5 controller buttons to explain the new mapping

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Now first her abilities will get an input remapping due to the return of her straight shooter in this rework

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first her hipfire in the red room rifle will have the last buff it got for the damage reverted so now it’s 40 damage and because the fire rate is unclear because the devs didn’t update her kit in the website I will consider it at 3, and the falloff will get another nerf where it’s going to start at 18 meters and at 30 meters the damage effectiveness is at 70%

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Next is her edge dancer which after it’s last nerf it became useless but also it’s gonna be cancerous to revert the nerf it got so it got a rework where it’s renamed to Spinning Kick: now it no longer has the second part of the ability but instead it has now increased knockback power and applies the interruption effect(like Jeff’s water shots on direct hits)and now it grounds enemies for 2 seconds and it has 55 damage instead of 35 and the cooldown is reduced from 15 to 10 seconds and is moved from her L1 to cirlce button

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These abilities will get changes for their buttons input remapped and some changes
1- fleet foot is moved from R1 L1 and has slight increased jump height
2- electro-plasma blast is moved from L2 to R1 and now it has an interaction with straight shooter where when you shoot it while aiming it will has increased projectile speed by 30%
3- Widow’s bite slam now can be activated by pressing the jump button while airborne and its cooldown is reduced from 15 to 12 seconds

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Widow’s bite batons are moved from her secondary weapon to the default melee weapon but the damage per hit is reduced to 35 and on the third hit there will be a slight knockback effect like Invisible Woman’s third melee hit

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Straight shooter is making its return with some differences:
1- the damage per shot is 95 and the fire rate is at 1.2
2-the ammo consumption is 2 bullets per shot
3- there’s now a falloff effect where it starts at 25 meters and at 50 meters the damage effectiveness is at 80%
3- the headshot multiplier is at 2x but when reaching max falloff range and further the headshot multiplier is increased to 2.35
4- the delay of aiming down sight is increased from 0.3 to 0.4 seconds
5- her team up interactions on straight shooter are different from the normal ones as in the Hawkeye team up headshots now will ricochet to the nearest enemy dealing 25% of the damage to them, and for the phoenix team up hitting enemies with the enhanced electro plasma blast while aiming down sight will deal burning damage to them(30 damage over 2 seconds)

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Finally her ult now has only 3 bullets and on 9 seconds durations but KOs refreshes the duration and restore all 3 bullets but eliminations restores only 1.5 ammo and refreshes 4 seconds of the duration, and now you don’t need to press on the ultimate button but instead by pressing L2(which’s the default button for straight shooter) you will get the ultimate sniper mode rather than the marksman rifle mode from normal straight shooter, all other stats of the ultimate are unchanged

As the title says I find the rework really fun,yes I am sad about what we lost and the changes I wrote before about are still something I wish to see but she’s generally fun

And her ult comes soo quickly and this ult is miles better than her plasma explosion ult

Well the title explains everything but I dunno I am not sure anymore if it’s bad

The last three days made me feel that they destroyed her because of my emotional connection to her current kit which blinded me to her new abilities and kit

I dunno I will give it a try tomorrow tho but I don’t think it’s the worst thing happened in this game imo

She surprisingly charges her ult fast as you get 2% on every body shot so you need to land 50 shots which won’t be hard much

Ult merchant widow good to go by me

Even in her ult she CANT ONESHOT!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE DEVS

Why just why they did this to widow

No one asked for whatever the hell is that in the suggested combo in her kit showcase in the game

So I made this a habit starting from last season where I am kinda afraid that they release the patch notes and rework widow into something I can’t recognise and I might hate it a lot

Widow is so much special in my heart yk, I am afraid that I can’t find fhe same joy after an uzis rework because people can’t aim

Even in widow’s first legendary they fuck it up more than how already a nothing burger it’s 🫩

Like her sprint is already limited and I need to do it again to stop the music

Widow is being actually played fr and not for throwing more than expected which’s nice imo, it will take the throwing persona off her if her win rate reaches something around 45~50% wr

Tbh I dunno i feel so burnt out of the game guys, yes I love widow and she’s the reason I am still in the game but it’s been more than a year and she’s still the same which’s boring after a while

I dunno but I don’t have any expectations for her in s9 and I guess it’s gonna be my last straw if they don’t buff her(which is like guaranteed to not happen)

And tbh her new skin is a huge nothingburger imo and I still prefer her s2 bp skin and lion’s heartbeat skin

So I am not sure if she should have 275 hp or stay at 250 hp with these changes

First is her batons which they get a small buff which’s increasing the hit speed from 2 to 3

And for her red room rifle and straight shooter:1-the rechambering effect is no longer mandatory but the animation and sounds of the rechambering stays to keep the same flow(so the fire rate doesn’t change but now you don’t get forced to rechamber if you got stunned and the rifle didn’t rechamber so this isn’t a buff but a QoL change) 2- now applies a 30% healing reduction effect on headshots(50% reduced on vanguards), the effect will only get refreshed but doesn’t stack the duration or effect) 3-hits now reduce the cooldown of edge dancer by 2 seconds per hit(doesn’t matter if bodyshots or headshots)

Fleet foot:1-increase the speed boost from 33% to 40% 2- it’s no longer tied to a stamina and now is infinite 3- power jump is now a sub-ability to it and it has 2 charges and 2 seconds cooldown per charge and now it got increased jump height and widow can climb the remaining of the wall if she’s near the edge of the high ground

Edge dancer: cooldown reduced from 15 to 12 seconds

Electro plasma explosion: 1-damage reduced from 120-170 to 100-140 2- enemies in the globules area will now get 20DoT 3- slow effects reduced from 55% to 45% 4- the vulnerability effect is now applied to anyone in the globules area instead of the explosion effect and it will remain on them till they leave the globules area 5- the vulnerability effect is only applyable for widow only and her allies can’t use it too

I suspect that Widow’s incoming skin won’t have a new weapon model. So we absolutely need to have a huge voice to make the devs add a weapon model if it doesn’t have one,and we need something respectable,literally all if her other skins(except for lion heartbeat and hellfire gala skins) don’t have weapon models

I mean it’s pride month after all so who knows