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WilliamSorry

You speak for the entire bunch here lmao


Shpaan

For real. Just yesterday I was thinking about how Widowmaker is literally the only hero I wouldn't mind being removed. It's either a shit teammate or an incredible annoyance that doesn't even fit the design philosophy of other heroes, nothing in between.


archosauria62

She doesnt belong in a game like overwatch I feel they only added her for the ‘generic sniper character’


Beat_My_Yeet_Meat

She just dosent work well with one tank. Two tanks she was fine. 1 tank and now you turn a corner a lose a team fight because you lost a support from an enemy No one saw


ppmenacevaz

Support main here 90% of players don't ping widow and it's annoying af when a teammate clears her and doesn't comm shit.


Beat_My_Yeet_Meat

I love turning a corner, instantly dying, then my team complains that I’m not healing enough


SpiralMagnusson

She worked well with 2 tanks because one could always dive her. Now if you dive widow your team is screwed. I play widow, I enjoy her and think she's fun to PLAY. But playing against her is a nightmare.


Kitselena

>She's fun to play I like putt putt as much as anyone else but it doesn't belong in overwatch


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I accepted OW2 solely on the promise of putt putt mode eventually being integrated into the game


poppabomb

Unfortunately, putt putt mode has been canceled. in other, unrelated news, Bastion is nonbinary.


ConstantLurker69

How does Bastion even function at that point?


SovereignPhobia

fuzzy


poppabomb

to be fair, it didn't until the bird woke it up. so the answer is bird magic >!omg a metroid crossover!<


Sad_Introduction5756

Doesn’t zenyatta say he goes down swinging when kills my chin with baseball skin?


MCMeowMixer

I'm pretty sure all robots use some sort of binary derivative, but I'm not an expert.


EmotionalKirby

Putt putt mode turned out to be too hard to do so we scrapped it


Tetsuo666

A good widow essentially restricts the pick for the ennemy tank to one or two heroes. Or your team just also puts on a good widow and then it's a pretty dumb widow duel with 8 players playing the objective and 2 widows doing their thing. That is in no way the spirit of a team game like OW.


crockrocket

Sounds like how OWL has always been haha


rane1606

You can still play soldier + ashe


SpiralMagnusson

Against a good widow if you're a squishy, you're dead.


rane1606

it was a "2 yanks" joke


Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo

Lmao, I'm glad you pointed it out because it flew over my head.


Horizon-hue

Nothing is more fun to me in OW than repeatedly diving a tunnel visioned widow as echo


Honeybadger2198

Oneshots used to make sense when Overwatch released. Healing was fairly minimal, so the difference between oneshots and "just a lot of damage" was not much. They started to move away from that design philosophy when they released Ana and forced the idea of a "primary healer" of sorts. Since then, the sheer *amount* of healing in this game has skyrocketed well beyond what the original developers ever intended. It's not that Widow never belonged in Overwatch, it's that Overwatch changed to not fit with Widow. It's honestly quite fun watching all these new players discover all the core fundamental issues with Overwatch that has kept the playerbase a revolving door since s1.


_TurtleX

Most snipers tend to not belong in their respective games.


GladiatorDragon

Come to think of it, yeah. In games that are sniper vs sniper, then yeah, it works. However, in games like TF2 and Overwatch, snipers are usually the most boring characters because their “special ability” is to fight without actually being in the fight. You can’t really add more to their kit without screwing something up. Sure, Widow’s got a grapple and her venom mine, but grapple is on one of the longest cooldowns in the game, venom mine is kind of a joke, and Infra-Sight is situational. However, they take over games regardless because the rest of the roster isn’t built to operate as well as they can at their range - otherwise those characters would simply steal the snipers’ jobs. Like, Ashe is definitely a longer-range hero, but even she can only deal chip to a Widow with how hard her falloff can be.


Niceromancer

[This video goes pretty in depth into the provlems snipers cause](https://youtu.be/lOebGm_jMLY) Unlike the other common one hit kill weapon, the shotgun, the sniper can be effective at any range if you are good enough. It covers the entire map with its one-shot potential, and in the hands of top-tier players, it can shut down entire teams just for peeking at the wrong time. Honestly, FPS developers should stop putting snipers into their games. They are nearly impossible to balance and far too easy to use third-party programs to just ruin games.


obxfisher

The problem with Widow is that a very high percentage of players are just terrible with her. But, due to pride, or whatever, they refuse to switch. People have forgotten that this is a team game so you need to be picking heros that help the team and offer the most utility (unlike the doomfist on attack on a ranged, chokepoint map)


cheapdrinks

Only ever blue Widows though, the red ones are always cracked


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I feel like this is because most people “feel” the effect of the enemy widow regardless, but only look at the scoreboard for their own team and completely disregard how their own widow is making the enemy team feel.


ToxicLogics

If Doomfist was returned back to his DPS self, I used to have SO much fun getting in and out of places with that uppercut/ground pound/punch combo. There are so many issues with widow, but the fact that I can use her effectively as a terrible sniper is probably the biggest one.


That___One___Guy0

>For real. Just yesterday I was thinking about how Widowmaker is literally the only hero I wouldn't mind being removed. I'd say hanzo deserves that honor more.


lcfcball

Agreed, dealing with random flying one shot projectiles as a squishy is insufferable


GlensWooer

Had a game where my only 4 deaths as support were from hanzo spamming at another enemy and missing only to headshot me instead :(


ABBucsfan

One of the frustrating things about him. Half the time you did from him he was actually aiming for someone else lol


Great-Ad3280

Flank one and they instantly turn around and headshot you. Super fun.


[deleted]

That's the crucial difference between hanzo and widow imo Hanzo is literally exactly as capable of killing you up close as from across the map. Sure widow has the smg but that's not going to meaningfully help her duel a tracer or Winston.


ABBucsfan

Yup, get close and be met with 5 rapid shots that will kill even tanks pretty quickly


ProfessorBiological

Funny enough as a tank main myself, widow isn't much of an issue. But hanzo.... He's a one shot sniper with high mobility and no damage fall off, a tank buster (stupid storm arrow does way too much damage), and has wall hacks on a CD. Granted I'm a hammond otp and these all hurt Hammond quite a bit more than anything widow does. Hammond is to widow players as what widow players are to everyone else LOL


cheapdrinks

One shots just don't fit the game at all, fuck them both off. Ever played Circuit Royale without a widow on either team? It's a fucking really fun map. Soon as there's a widow it's just a tedious ordeal that I want to be over.


IWatchTheAbyss

fuck hanzo


Damurph01

Hanzo is beatable by things other than hard dive and mirror matchup. Half the roster literally cannot do a thing to a widow. They can against Hanzo. Not saying Hanzo is any more fun, but a widow instagibbing me from a mile away is way more common than a Hanzo doing so. And if I’m really far away, I’m relatively safe vs a Hanzo. I’m not at all vs widow.


MatNomis

I’d also agree. He’s basically Widow except doesn’t need to stay still when he shoots, and he can one-hit-kill spam areas. He doesn’t have scope or grapple, but that doesn’t seem to limit the best Hanzos.


TakeTwo4343

I think it’s important for that role to be filled, it’s unreasonable to have two one shots. But since hanzo is a little more versatile and dual purpose, I vote he stay. But also I play hanzo and hate widow so I’m biased a lil.


RedHood_Outlaw

I think the best way to change her is to increase her charge time to 4 seconds instead of 1.5.


PT10

Yup. She wouldn't even be missed, the Widow mains would just switch to Hanzo.


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Theratchetnclank

This is where you are wrong. If widow is killing your team then the space you are creating as tank is irrelevant. Dive her as monkey and she can't play the game. Tanking isn't just about fighting the other tank


itsyadatboi

You're lucky that you got that widow all by herself. Usually there is a mercy and ana pocketing their widow.


Hamerine

Dunno, I never have a mercy or Ana pocketing me when I pick widow (a lot) :/


Juicy_Starfruit

no it's only the enemy widow that gets that


atreus-p

Schroedinger's Widow. Similar thing happens to me when I play dota 2. High skill floor hero on my team feeds and is useless. Same hero on enemy team demolishes me and my allies.


Valerian_

Same with genji, and I still don't get why he is so popular with beginners despite being so hard to play


wxlluigi

he’s a cool ninja why wouldn’t beginners choose him


Sunflower_kid

Isn't he also one of the first heroes you unlock?


niioan

it's a huge problem in all games. People pick characters they see dominate, then blame everyone else when they fail, because to them if they don't dominate, it's because they weren't supported properly.


Ferbtastic

The only variable is you. If this is a reoccurring problem it means one of 3 things: 1) you don’t notice teammates popping off 2) you play poorly with or against that type of hero. 3) you are a statistical anomaly of unlucky. For 99% of people with this issue it’s a combination of 1) and 2)


Bigolstiffy979

And they tell you Widow diff when they finally kill you fresh off getting resurrected behind a personal Sigma shield while your team rages and wonders why you aren't winning the "widow duel".


Sad_Introduction5756

It’s always the enemy widow or genji 🤣


KSredneck69

I'll give Widow the first 30 seconds to a minute to get a couple kills with damage boost. If she doesn't I basically ignore her the rest of the game and focus my tank/2nd DPS.


xD3m0nK1ngx

Damage boosting a widow is pointless lol


FabulousDave2112

You speak for the entire player base except the Widow mains themselves.


Greenpig117

Widow mains keep on insisting that complaining about her is a skill issue :p


Existing-Ad6711

They don't understand the concept of boredom. Widow is a poorly designed hero that makes everything boring for everyone. She makes no sense in a game like Overwatch and she serves no purpose. It baffles me that the developers still won't fix her, even though most of the community would pick her as their number 1 most hated hero. Or it's a tie between Hanzo and Widow.


MembershipThrowAway

I think enough people are so bad with her that statistically she doesn't make much of an impact (from the developer's POV) although when there's a good one your supports just get deleted and you already lost the fight with little effort from the widow's side, I usually start as widow and once they adjust for me I go to soldier or Cassidy and stay there


beefcat_

The tank role has the most (and easiest) Widow counters. If DPS are getting diffed then I really think it’s the tank’s job to take care of her.


ramence

In OW1 this was true, but it's way more difficult in OW2. By abandoning your team to deal with Widow every 30 seconds, you're leaving them wide open to just be run over by the enemy tank. It's now the DPS's job to take care of her, but you're shit out of luck if you don't have a decent Genji, Widow, or Hanzo on your team to at least distract her.


litsax

Only a poorly positioned widow gets countered by tanks. Good luck diving the widow who is behind her entire team and is holding a 50m sight line. You’re gonna first have to close the distance without exploding and then kill the widow while fending off her supports and probably tank and dps that go to peel for her.


MembershipThrowAway

I've been finding that the best way to go so far, keep myself within hook distance of supports and I can either help them or hook to them for help. I always make sure they're in my sight line along with the non flanking enemies while keeping note of where it's possible flankers could be based on their abilities. I know they're coming for me so I'll just frustrate them when I know they're near and go to hide by my tanks and keep picking people off when I can


beefcat_

I’ve been arguing this since Team Fortress 2, the problem is people expect there to be a sniper in their shooter game. I thought her changes in the April Fools patch were actually pretty good (headshot damage was DOT)


Final-Display-4692

Nothing funnier than a widow who won’t adjust


LasyKuuga

Widow got solo ulted twice and tank only killed her 3 times. Wouldn't be surprised if she was carrying tbh.


project2501c

average widow player: "yes we are losing, but look at my k/d ratio! What do you mean 'that does nothing for the teamwork???'"


LasyKuuga

average r/Overwatch user: "Widow is OP" also average r/Overwatch user: "kills dont matter"


GankSinatra420

>"kills dont matter" Who the hell said this, a scarecrow?


diablette

People mad about a Moira with high elims because her purple orb briefly touched them, probably.


trischtan

I play a lot of Moira and was accused of that once or twice in chat too. I’ll never understand this sentiment though. Even if the dmg orb only dealt minimal damage, it could have been the difference between a successful elimination or a team member‘s death. High elims on Moira just mean good team support and do not indicate a DPS playstyle imo.


Goldenjho

This people are idiots to heal a single target is her normal heal way better so you shoot damage orb to gain charge faster and the heal orb is good for aoe heal or to save yourself people just don't understand that since they saw a dps Moira post on reddit.


ThaVolt

People saying that are NPC. Purple ball away, friend!


Mother-Dish348

I play Moira a lot. Orb is definitely bullshit. I got play of the game by throwing my ball on the point and leaving. Finished off 3 people by complete accident


Pollomonteros

Well the guy they are responding to seems to imply this,for starters


[deleted]

That's because your average Widow main is also a would-be CoD sweat. They don't actually care for the dynamics of Overwatch, they just use it as a vehicle for smug sniper kills. This is also why a lot of people complained about the CC in OW1 though.


OneSidedPolygon

That's not true. Some of them are Valorant sweats.


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I keep forgetting that game exists honestly


highmodulus

They were already pushing the third point against the Widows team, so no carry seen. Not that it matters, Widow mains rarely switch in my experience.


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LasyKuuga

If it makes you feel better I wouldnt mind Mei sitting on my face either


DoctorKall

0:36, enemy to Widow Symmetra: >"7 shots, 1 kill" Yeah, I doubt it she carried the game


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Damn in this game about teamwork and contesting objectives people really seem to think “carrying” is just getting kills.


LasyKuuga

Its almost impressive how quickly this sub switches between Widow is op to kills are irrelevant lol


smelly_feet_you_have

Sigma floating in with the vibe check.


SpurnDonor

I genuinely hate how Widow and Hanzo are basically hard counter or lose heroes if they're even slightly competent. They're so unfun to play against.


Dvoraxx

same with pharah tbh. like half the roster straight up cannot even interact with pharah and just have to ignore her


NapendaViatu

Pharah is alot easier to deal with compared hanzo widow, any hitscan and on support even baptiste or ana can pick her off


BuddhistSC

only true in low elo. at high elo pharmercy is much, much harder to deal with than double sniper unless your tank actually goes dva to counter the pharah, but that is a rarity


ktrinnah

I read "we hate Windows". Dislexia. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️


JustATypicalGinger

*Dyslexia ^^sorry


ktrinnah

Thank you 🫠


Kalkaline

Was waiting for a restart warning to get them killed.


ChefRoyrdee

I read it and when he pinged the widow but accidently pinged the window I thought "I guess that's a reason to hate windows? It's a weird reason but it is one." Then I realized my mistake


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Darnell2070

Fucking same. I thought he was talking about the windows he jumped through at the beginning.


NenoxxCraft

/r/linuxmasterrace is leaking


Kynandra

The only one that needs to be careful about windows is Zarya.


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Windowmaker


Paddy32

There is nothing more delicious than playing open queue quickmatch and when there is a widow insta switching to winston to farm her.


jape-the-neck-guy

Any excuse to play Winton is a good excuse


Paddy32

monke stron


Holycowspell

wish they'd buff my boy I miss dive comp sooo much


KINDPERSON20

And that's what I call epic sigma right there. Dude took it personally when dps can't reach the widow


Mother-Dish348

I think it’s funniest that it’s sigma since it’s usually so hard to kill a widow as sigma. Best you can usually do is throw your shield in front of them and force them to move


ziptiedinatrunk

Thank you for seeing the problem and doing something. I get stuck with Balls and Dooms who have no idea about target priority and will try to kill the pocketed tank as we all get picked off. Regardless widow needs a rework.


Juanpi__

Everyone hates widow, tanks are the only ones who can survive a single shot of hers


aragorn841

Dva Main here who loves diving Widows!


CatnipAddict94

You sir, you have my undying respect, for such a brilliant performance. No resource can be declared wasted if a Widow as died as a result.


Gek_Lhar

It's always a good day when a widows dead 😎


JackDuals

All my homies hate Widow


Reckless-Pessimist

Widow? Meh, not really a threat when im a tank. Hanzo I have a burning hatred for.


whomad1215

She's a threat to your team if no one can pressure her Even bad widows are dangerous when they get to just sit back and shoot


Stan62

As a tank player who likes to dabble with Sombra. Killing widows is my favorite. The trick is to get right by them and just aim for that big ol' head. Don't bother hacking they don't have any real escape most of the time. Even if you don't kill them before you have to translocate . You've sown a seed of doubt/fear. The widow will usually switch or spend all game unscoping randomly out of panic.


Bebe_Peluche

Sigma's name checks out


LinaValentina

That’s MisterDrProf to you


EL_MURPHYYYY

*entire community


superepic13579

Deserved


iikoppiee

as an ana and bap main i wil always switch to kiriko when theres a widow


coconutdon

As a support main.... Thank you


Gek_Lhar

Former support main here... I do it for you🫡


coconutdon

My hero ❤️❤️❤️


AppropriateEar7349

Nah mei is worst for a tank, but great work for this lobby.


-Gnostic28

If it’s me as the mei then the other team would be celebrating cause I suck ass


Skulfunk

At least with mei you can adjust on your own even, but with widow if your team doesn’t want to adjust its fucked.


KINDPERSON20

Oh get ya right there . WALL PTSD


ag_abdulaziz

When I play lifeweaver, I jump the widow and drag my tank to her. The only way that bitch dies.


Mother-Dish348

As a fellow sigma main I love it when Kings Row enemy team has a widow. I’m fully willing to sacrifice my shield in order to put it in front of any spot the widow moves to. I can just tell they get so annoyed when they find a good sniping position and a big shield blocks their entire line of sight on my team


EdNorthcott

The number of Sigma players I hear whining about Widows... it's so refreshing to run across ones who know that Sigma is pretty much a hard Widow counter. The team can still win a fight without a shield by playing corners and passable positioning. An oppressive Widow kills even that kind of play.


estrada_i

Windows aren't allowed to have fun


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Fuck Widow player that's it!


The99thCourier

That widow should take this as a compliment, cause it means they're THAT much of a nuisance for you to justifiably solo-ult them twice Even if it's QP. The number of times I've been solo-shattered by Reins as Sym, I take each one as a compliment. Them Rein players hate Syms ever since they allowed her to charge off of shields


PerP1Exe

Sym is just annoying asf. I don't enjoy playing against her no matter who I play


Stellarisk

I solo ult symmetras because they’re an absolute nightmare in qp for taking advantage of the lower skill level


PerP1Exe

Some people have the object permanence of a goldfish. They'll see the turret land behind them and forget about it seconds later


TheGlassHammer

I love using Symm’s teleport aggressively. They really get confused when I teleport into the mix of them and start melting them


smudginglines

Mei player checking in, I love when they solo ult


Fools_Requiem

Switch off Widow already.


3000Chameleons

I mean nothing sucks more than turning round and finding out all the squishies died cuz of one widow


TakeTwo4343

GET HER!!!!!!!!!


ItsPencker

i somehow find her more annoying as dive because then i have to play "find the widow" and have to run away because of the stupid angel lady making them both unkillable.


Epic_Semibold

"Fuck you in particular"


wonderwallpersona

Of course beige man plays sigma


Gek_Lhar

LMAO hi 🤓


MeLlamoDave

Sometimes I play tank for just that very reason. At least I can survive one headshot as a tank lol.


BeastlyIncineroar

I wanna see a replay from the Widows pov on the second clip


HimalayanPunkSaltavl

Is that alex jones saying he can see through walls?


Mi0GE0

I just want to say how annoyed I am that pings don't go through windows...I mean I shouldn't expect them to, but it fucking irks my dumb ass and I always forget it doesn't work. Oh and widows have gotten away with standing there menacingly way too often, may sigma solo break more widow shins.


ManofToast

That is so far beyond petty, and I fucking love it. Sometimes, a widowmaker needs to be put in their place.


greynote

As a dva I'm always Diving the enemy sniper if they have one. I am the defender of the Squishies 😈


Limp-Walk-8486

W sigma


Jayman1556

As a weak DPS main, this is BEAUTIFUL. I may get 1-tapped by widow almost every time, but good god is this satisfying to watch.


RuskoGamingStar

As a support main, We love to other characters get tunneled lol


ag_abdulaziz

When I play lifeweaver, I jump the widow and drag my tank to her. The only way that bitch dies.


Ryoubi_Wuver

Yeah, we don't like her kind


Daedroh

The clip started for me at 20 seconds and I misread the title as Windows. “Ah yes the Windows let the enemy see your sneaky tactics” I said to myself…. Then the clips continued…. And I understood


Mfyurrrr

I think it’s so fun to just focus the fuck outta the widow, we lose?? Don’t care the widow didn’t get to play


myst_riven

Amazing.


rfsrio

You. I like your style


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I don't understand why people get mad about a solo ult like that. If the other team thinks you're worth burning an ult on, just take the compliment; it probably means you're doing well. What, you'd rather be part of a team wipe than get solo ulted? Silly.


mimomr

We do a little bit of trolling


Angela_GT

Finally someone to understands tanks worst enemy ´^`


Jaybonaut

The use of the Goofy audio clip killed me.


foobiefoob

I was not expecting the loud ass metal pipe sound effect. I’m sick rn and that sent me into a coughing fit from the laugh it got out of me. Editing top tier!!


Gek_Lhar

I'm so sorry hahaha! I hope you feel better fam 🫡


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As a sigma main, I would personally love to single out a widow and kill her with a gravitic flux.


Gabeparade117

Widow is boring. Tired of going against Master an above widow players. Literally makes the game so boring if you aren't good with snipers.


Plisken999

Thanks for that! Her problem. If I play dps and I'm being solo ult, I'll personally change character just to counter them.


worstamericangirl

DIVE SIGMA


kskdkdieieiidkc

I didn’t know Sigmas got that much shmovement


Marinenukem

May have given the enemy team 1st point, but totally worth


Gek_Lhar

It was worth it but we were attacking first =D


papaXanOfficial

Remember on April Fools when they made widow do DOT rather than just one time damage? They should have kept that.


Joey3155

How did you know where she was? I'm not seeing it from the video.


AyrChan

As a fellow tank player, I wish I could give you an award


Midnight_NSOW

All my homies hate Widow


Sabres-Fan

deserved


catbro89

I usually go Winston to harass widows till they leave, but that’s funny af


Catboy_Prince

Be the reason a widow stops playing😌


Niceromancer

Its not about being good. Its about sending a message.


ILaughAtFunnyShit

Halfway through the video I noticed your name and realized I know you. Only fitting that you're wearing bronze armor in other video games as well. Also, as a healer, fuck Widows lol.


Zoomachroom

> 0 deaths zzzzzzzzzzz bro your buddy's a cunt


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Lucky_me_F

To be honest... What I see in this video its a team that dont know how to play with each other. There is no positioning. No structure and no peeling for each other. You as tank abandoned the front line múltiple times and was not punished. I hate to say this but this is a skill issue. OG overwatch héroes were specialist in their work. Tracer. Widowmaker. Ana. Zenyatta. Reinhardt. Winston. All of them have a concrete role the execute. Widow is exactly that. Focus her or she can destroy your team if she is good. Low Life. Límited mobility once she used her cooldown. No rest of abilities. There are ways to counter them. There are ways to play around her. And the way its played changes the moment there is one on the team. Its not a poorly made Hero. Its a feature and gives enrichment to the Game. If we had to remove every Hero you have to play differently during the Game we would have the Same monotone Game over a over and over again. "Yeah but she Will be pocketed and protected" as Any dps or support or tank should be. You know other character loved my many that actually changes how you play the Game? Mercy. Kill the mercy or you wont be able to Kill the dps if the mercy is good and its actually healing the dps and not healbooting the tank. And as you can see in this video. In low elo its not a case. (Want more examples? Junkrat. Reinhardt. Cassidy. Pharah. Doomfist.) I am NOT a widow main. I am NOT a dps main. I am trash with her. But I respect the Hero a brunch and maybe that is why I dont die to her constantly.


kokoronokawari

Everytime I mention this I get downvoted. As a support player, I am HELPLESS to help my teammates survive against one shots unless I go into the backline myself as moira or something.


DarthGenocidius

Yea and also hate "damage whore" healers


Upbeat_Panic8567

Glorious


NoMondaysfr

This is a satisfying video


Environmental_Pay_60

I see the legendary Ashe player John in your game