If you’re not dying a lot as widow… either you’re super popping off or doing nothing enough to where they won’t commit like a sombra or certain dive on you to take pressure off your squad
i think there's absolutely merit to the idea of "don't waste your first shot on the tank and give away your position," but if the other team knows where you are and the tank is the only person you can shoot at you might as well try to drop them to half health or put a good dent into their armor pool
or if the other team isn't peeking your angle, but the tank is. Sometimes you just have to do what you can instead of focusing on doing what's theoretically best. Shooting a tank when its the only target is fine. Just play smart and avoid repeeking once they get some help.
I’m PokeDig1 in this video! I’m a fan of the show and love the advice that’s given. This was one of my early games after placements! I’m not that good but I love playing OW and always try my best 😊
if feels almost like rage bait- someone figuring this is a good way to 'stand out' from the standard "hey I feel stuck and I'm not sure what's wrong" requests
Losing all 15 games at some point u gotta realize its you. It was like this guy had no map awareness or sound with how the enemy would just walk up to them in melee range and kill them.
In OW2 this season, no... And I wish it were but no it is the RNG of teammates. I had a game in Silver as Tank against a Cardboard Tier Tank. I lost against them because I had 1 and a half DPS that only knew how to feed. I ended up as Support for that Cardboard Tier Rein and they reported me for throwing because they couldn't counter a Zaria. They mostly kept their shield up then instantly died. Never got a single Elim while I as Support tried to heal, got several elims and did more DPS than my Tank because they never positioned well and never made a play. Yet they reported ME for throwing because I was in their last game against them. You know what that tells the algorithm??? This game is doomed...
@@Adventist1997 even if all your teammates were complete garbage, I’m 100% sure you made mistakes that didn’t help. We all do. The point isn’t that your teammates are bad or good. You can only control yourself so what’s the point in blaming your team every single game. Focus on the mistakes you made and you’ll be the one carrying the team
The biggest thing with this Widow is positioning. It's literally atrocious. Also, the tunnel vision is incredible. My biggest two tips are be aware of the enemy and be ready to reposition. And this tip goes out to Ana players as well who play too close. Your character has a rifle, play like it.
He plays as if he was invisible. He stays shooting in the same spot for ages until he gets picked off. He's basically the sniper guy that's holding a power position in any war movie 😂
I don't know how my friend always think "just keep walking the tank" (keep sitting behind and follow tank) as Ana is one of a great play 😂 I have a nightmare watching her playing Ana because sometimes she always so close to the enemy cause she following behind the tank, if the tank is protecting her, I don't mind, but imagine the tank that didn't protect her, I would just watch 😂🤣
This is why I hate the Widowmaker Character in General, it's really easy for players to basically do nothing and feel good about themselves, there's SOOO many widow mains and a lot of them do very little for the team as a whole. Hanzo, Ash, Cassidy, Zenyatta, Illari, Ana, and even Mei & Kiriko are all nice long range shooters that do a lot more for their teams.
I play a lot of Hanzo and I never understood why it felt better than Widow and then I realized that it's cause I feel more integrated with the team...He snipes but also can do midrange and that's why I feel so much better...This comment let me realize that more so thanks
I play Ashe a lot and I agree it’s more engaging as some widow mains shoo I can probably do widows job better if wanted to and If I do your job for you mind as well switch. 😂😂 but not saying that’s what I usually would do but I do pretty good as Ashe I see better results with other dps that you named.
@@atlas3556 storm arrow is way more valuable at tank busting than it actually seems at first, as well as of course being able to pump out headshots faster than Widow on a tank so being more lethal if you got their number for sure
sombra and widow players fail to realise how much of an impact the presence of a body affects a team fight, you may be disrupting but one less body on cart or touching a point results in a loss, its not a kills game, its an objective game
They didn’t shoot at the tank that often because the amount of effort they have to put into killing them, they can’t kill 2-3 other people. They are elim farming instead of actually trying to win the game.
Especially against some of the "stand there tanks" like Mauga, Hog, Orisa when she's used gold - they've got big ol head hitboxes and 300 hp is still a massive chunk of damage. That fight where "HE'S ONE!!!" and ducks into cover just in time? Yeah, with an extra -300 hp it ain't in time.
This video can be summarized using 3 points. (1) Buy a new headset to hear someone stomping towards you (2) Improve map awareness for positioning (3) Aim better
You can tell he plays all the time which got him to Plat (good mechanics). I think if he pays attention to this video and understand team play/positioning he'll do really well. Also wonder what it looks like when he doesn't pick a vid where he got kills...
My husband is a high plat Widow main, with a very high crit acc. That player is unfortunately not anywhere near that. There aren't even any instant counter swaps to Sombra, Winston, DVa or anything at all. That would be a roll for him
this is a console thing, a lot of low rank players don't use headphones. the amount of times there was an actual threat near them and they didn't even bother to check is concerning
Real as hell. I've been accused of walling before because console Cass players don't seem to realise how loud his footsteps are while they're flanking to set up a High Noon. Forget paying for coaching, getting a faster modem, or anything else to give you an edge. Just buy a decent headset, and you're already at an advantage compared to a large chunk of console players.
Even thou I'm bad at widow cause Im not good with sniper, I never stop shooting or just walking/standing around for minutes, I make sure to stand on a place where I could see the enemy, a place where they have hard time getting me and continue putting pressure by shooting at them And somehow eventually, I will get some kills even thou I'm so bad at aiming.
I feel like this widow might play with music on, or with sound low. So many flanks could've been avoided if they were able to hear the loud abilities/footsteps and react. Situational awareness and positional fluidity are good skills to work on. Good shots tho.
Oh boy. 7 minutes in and I can say this is the kind of player I would avoid. It seems like this player doesn’t know where they are most of the time. Hard to believe they were plat. Could be that they never played Widow before and do better on other heroes. But this is 100% on them. Their team is playing a 4v5. If they keep playing this way they will struggle to stay in Silver. - My advice is this. Don’t play Widow in comp right now. Play Widow in quick play and learn what angles to take on every map. Pay attention to your quick play win rate on Widow. It will likely be under 50%. Keep at it until your win rate is above 55%. Build that awareness and confidence on the character. Review the quick play games. Ask yourself if you are taking the optimal angle. If not, make adjustments. Play comp again once you’ve done that. And continue to review games and ask yourself if you could have taken a better angle AND if you are rotating your position as you don’t want to stay in one place for too long.
not hard to believe. So much of the rankings is rng it seems. I see completely terrible players in diamond all the time. And I see god tier dps players stuck down in low gold as well. But if you get lucky with really good teams or a really good friend you can be carried super high, and if you are unlucky you can get nightmare teammates who don't even have thumbs. I've maybe had 1 game every with a negative kd as dps, and I'm not even good. But then I see guys who are masters players in my games going 1-15 as genji or sombra. It just makes no sense. And in many of those games you still manage a win so those guys keep ranking up despite being terrible.
@@dash4800 That seems to be the case worse than ever this season. I'm stuck Silver like this dude, but I legit feel like I have Bronze teammates. If I'm Juno trying to do DPS and heal to get my Tank in the fight, I get called a thrower. Why? Because I was doing so much DPS instead of healing... I had more damage than my Tank but they wouldn't push up unless their shield broke. I can't out heal the entire team blasting them, and our Moira could heal quicker because Juno takes forever for lock on, while Moira can just toss an orb and heal everyone. I can't skill my way up with a bad team that blames me for their bad choices.
@@Adventist1997 If you have good mechanics, you can off angle and kill enemy supports and dps yourself. Easy to do on Kiriko because you have Suzu and teleport to cover up mistakes. Harder to do with Juno because your escape isn't instant like Kiriko, but you still have good movement. You'll get blamed/flamed on metal ranks whether you DPS or not. You can have 3k or 12k and will still get blamed. Callouts are braindead useless below plat or even diamond most of the time. Mute text chat and don't join voice. Don't let them get into your head. Play your own game. Heal priority people who are actually fighting. Keep an eye on criticals and try to save people. If you can off angle you can create space by distracting the enemy, or you can kill their supports and just by that you will out heal them. You win fights by killing enemy supports first. -- Kill the supports before your tank(s) throw.
GODDAMN!! A brotha must look inwards before blaming his teammates! I played with a widow like this recently, played in the enemy backline the whole game nd blamed our tank for losing us the game when we basically played a 4v5
Ok Im half way through and its only gotten worse, look I know Im not that good at dmg, but if this guy this he's winning any string of games in the future he's huffing paint, Ill report back if I have nay more thoughts
Ok Ive watched this man do I think 3 shots that were of value so far, what is he looking at? Like someone crosses your HITSCAN HEROS crosshair and you wair for them to get behind cover to shoot at them? Best widow plays of all time!
SO I finally finished the game, this guy is just in his own head and thinks he's great bc he can hit a few lucky shots sometimes, whoopty do. What he needs to understand is hitting a few lucky shots is not the same as being good at widow. PRACTICE! I played a lot of cod and got good at sniping so Im confident in my shot but Im not amazing, if you want to be competitive with widow you need to be more consistent with your shot ant take better spots that ill help you and your team succeed. Please don't play on my team if this isn't fixed I cannot have another widow who doesn't know what they are doing this week😂
As others have said, Ashe would've been a much better pick for them. But I can't help but think that Junkrat did the best thing possible. Make flanks and cause chaos. Widow's positioning was so bad, Junk got them a lot of the time, and it could've been avoided so easily.
The unused ult at the end of the game could actually have been a game changer ult. If Widow had gotten on high ground and just used the ult then they would have killed the Junk way earlier and provided preassure so that the other teammates might not have died. I'm not going to say that the rest of the team was perfect, but they played like silver players which is the most you can expect in a silver game. At that point if you're really better than silver you have to be the one that stands out
i'm 99% sure this dude is either stoned or playing without headphones. His awareness is basically zero. Which player ignores the loud ass Junkrat steps right next to them and rather tries to shoot the illari behind a wall?
I immediately disregard any Widow player who is saying "My team isn't pulling their weight, that's why I lost OMG" Playing the character where you legitimately hardly brush shoulders with your own teammates and end up most times picked off or dove on because you're in some abstract place that NOBODY is gonna be able to reach in time to lend you a hand and then proceed to blame everyone else for the problem. This is why I can't stand Widowmakers 99% of the time lmao.
I hope the widow learns that its okay to hit body shots. You don't ALWAYS have to wait and aim for a headshot. Yeah, ofc you want to aim for the head but yk its okay to hit the body as well. I noticed the Widow waited for the perfect shot and ended up not doing anything for a bit.
As a diamond one trick widow I can say the fact that the enemy team dps or support didn’t counter swap him once shows that he wasn’t really doing much for his team in diamond the entire team counter swaps me after I get 3 kills the first two team fights. I will also say that only playing widow in ranked is never a good idea unless your aim is cracked out of this world even I had to pickup Ashe sojourn and echo after hitting gold bc after I got kicked off of widow I was a sitting duck. You will know how good you are if you start seeing more than just one person counter swap you after each team fight you provide a great impact.
Worst player on the team blaming teammates, check that on the bingo card. If you're a plat player that drops to silver and you're still losing you are beyond the point of no return of throwing away your ego to figure out what's wrong. Though I will say it anyway ...dump the ego, YOU are the problem. I did not see a plat player rolling silvers. I saw someone SMGing the final 20hp on clean up kills with a few scoped in shots. Sombra is everywhere these days and the enemy team did not see the need to swap to Sombra. That should tell you how scared they were of you. A plat widow should be the server admin in a silver lobby.
im 4mins in "the one shot trick" he said idk what his talking about the way he shoot and react is sooo dam slow like bruhh how can you even on plat?? ahaha
How do we submit videos btw i'd love to get advice on how to be better with genji and other characters edit: in the discord i shouldve waited to ask my question
hello this is my replay and i appreciate the tips you gave me throughout the video. i definitely should’ve been more specific in my explanation, especially about the uneventful first half. i actually just play on my tv which explains a lot of the missed audio cues. i do see where i went wrong and where i can improve. i actually started winning my games and ranking up after my girlfriend pointed out that my position could be better (she was the one who told me to go on the bridge at that second point). i’m almost gold 5 now. thanks again for the tips, i really enjoyed the video 🫡
First thing is headphones. You basically didn't react to very obvious things going on around you. Also, don't be afraid to move. You have a habit of waiting too long while you're being shot.
I’m pokedig1 in this, the Mei, Sorojurn, and Symm. Good playing with you, you got some nice shots on me! Cool seeing some gameplay that I’ve been in posted
Said it before and I'll keep saying it- doesn't matter if you get 3 kills after the fight is already lost. Now if you can 5v1 that's a whole other story... but not a lot of Widows can do it.
He lost the last 15 games. The only common denominator in that would be himself. That was a hard pill for me to swallow. Sure, it might feel like my teammates aren’t doing anything, but I had to realize that part of the issue was with me. I was doing something wrong to go on that big of a losing streak.
Though im not good at widow by any form, im stunned they waited until 3rd point to use their ult instead of when they were trying to find out where the mei was and as their team was respawning??? To just sit there is appalling.
Had a Widow in my placement match yesterday. They were doing decent, but we really just needed more frontline pressure. When asked to switch they just instantly said no :/ Unfortunately Widow mains usually have a big ego, so I tend to avoid them as teammates... its so rare they actually turn the tides or do anything helpful. Remember, this was supposed to be an ego vod. What does this widow even do this game? :/
Snipers are my favorite characters in FPS games, but I understand that every map isn’t a sniper map, every team comp can’t be easily picked off, and I can’t play perfect every game. Switching is a core part of this game, refusing to do so, even on non widow characters, is just silly.
As someone with 216+ hours on widow, I can tell you that if the enemy team does not even swap to a sombra, genji, tracer, winston, or widow, you are doing something wrong. Seeing someone play like this, lose 15 games in a row, and then blame their teammate is so embarassing. It looks like this guy only sees widowmakers playing in mid range and thinks that they can do that too, not understanding that they lack the mechanical skill those widow's do to play in such a range. Also this guy needs to invest in some headphones. Dying to junktire twice on a map that has little to no flank routes should tell you that maybe, just maybe, widow is not for you.
I'm not sure if it shows up in-game -- it might just be a replay viewer bug -- but what seems to be happening is that the dead heroes' models are being rendered again as corpses (we know the player model doesn't move right away because a dead player can spectate the area around their body) in preparation for teleporting them to spawn all at once in their "wave"
hey emongg! sorry if this is completely off topic, just noticed you looked a little unwell in the promo part of this video? couldnt properly tell otherwise as i cant load videos in too high a quality, and im not sure when the promo was filmed but hope you're doing okay! if you're sick or unwell at all, i wish you the best and hope that you get well soon. side note, love watching your spectating videos! wish i could join streams but im unable to unfortunately, sending all my support regardless
I’m watching with headphones only on my left, and I can confidently say they have failed to react to everything I didn’t hear. That said they also didn’t hear the Moira fade on their left, they might just have hella low audio
@@Adventist1997 I have my audio set to mono cause I almost have no hearing in my left ear. Overwatch has pretty good sound design that even if it's mono I can hear pretty well where people are coming from. I think it's more of they have their audio set really low or they have some music on. Or well.. they just tunnel vision really badly. Edit: I scrolled down comments a bit more and the submitter said they play on their tv. The missed cues make more sense now c:
Even onetricks need to be able to play more than one character you can still call yourself a onetrick but widow is the worst to one trick for low ranked players because they dont really know much about good positioning, poke points, tracking, and target acquisition one tricking other characters on the roster could give you a far better impact in silver because with widow it’s either you shoot to kill or your team will lose every team fight if they can’t carry your dead weight
And I have the highest level widow on console trust me one tricking her all season is like selling your soul I didn’t hit diamond until i learned others characters yet I still got diamond with 90% widow playing other characters helps a ton
8:10 - 8:15 Like just look at the AA lock on bruhhhh... OW has such a hard AA & I absolutely hate it. Shit does not need to be that strong. It's SO annoying when a GOOD widow has AA & the shit just locks on. I wish I could turn off cross play when I play QP cause its just AA gamer after AA gamer & it triggers me so much 😭 Or just not have AA be so aggressively strong 💀
I don't know how someone can be so delusional to think they aren't the issue whatsoever... On top of that, being a console player and seeing how blatant the aim assist is, it's shocking that they even miss.
I watched whole video on 1.75x speed so idk wtf was being said, but it looks this this guy missed 90% of his shots 😅😂 these really are the people calling their team useless
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GOOD WORK, EDITOR AND EMONGG.
i think it was super nice of emongg to review Flats' widow gameplay
It’s not tunnel vision, it’s “scope vision”. If the enemy isn’t visible when scoped in, then they don’t exist and they can’t hurt you.
One problem with that statement. I think me and you both know who I'm talking about
@@juniorvazquez9169do not utter her name…..
@@kismetasmr oh I won't, it's taboo
... *Visibly confused but also scared* what y'all said!
@@juniorvazquez9169A certain shadow...
If you’re not dying a lot as widow… either you’re super popping off or doing nothing enough to where they won’t commit like a sombra or certain dive on you to take pressure off your squad
this kinda remotivated me to play widow, huh.
thanks i guess
@@Yasha_Udon't.
Yous a god of theys trash😂
i think there's absolutely merit to the idea of "don't waste your first shot on the tank and give away your position," but if the other team knows where you are and the tank is the only person you can shoot at you might as well try to drop them to half health or put a good dent into their armor pool
or if the other team isn't peeking your angle, but the tank is. Sometimes you just have to do what you can instead of focusing on doing what's theoretically best. Shooting a tank when its the only target is fine. Just play smart and avoid repeeking once they get some help.
Shooting something is indeed better than not shooting anything
If you are dropping the enemy tank to half hp and a fight isn't properly happening, you just fed the enemy healers half a tank's hp in ult charge.
Just know if you're on widow and the enemy team doesnt make a single swap.
They just dont care about you
Fax
yep if you dont get swapped against as widow youre doin somethin wrong. nobody wants to play against a good uncontested widow.
0-15 in silver blaming others is delusional
Assuming this guy played widow in 15 matches. You see why people cant rank up and are stuck in their ranks.
rs bro
I’m PokeDig1 in this video! I’m a fan of the show and love the advice that’s given. This was one of my early games after placements!
I’m not that good but I love playing OW and always try my best 😊
five min into the vid and you've already done five times as much as this widow lmfao
@@Battleress2😂 thanks man
@@Lucid_helios may you climb uninhibited from now on. This game was triggering to watch 😂
This vod may be the biggest offender of the "DPS Take Accountability Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)" phenomenon I've observed in metal ranks
if feels almost like rage bait- someone figuring this is a good way to 'stand out' from the standard "hey I feel stuck and I'm not sure what's wrong" requests
@@claudiuspulcher2440feels like someone else submitted this making fun of them
This person is the reason why I stopped solo queuing as a support in silver.
Just climb out of silver man
Why can't the Widows in my ranked games be like this on the enemy team?
Losing all 15 games at some point u gotta realize its you. It was like this guy had no map awareness or sound with how the enemy would just walk up to them in melee range and kill them.
Melee widow sounds hilarious ngl
In OW2 this season, no... And I wish it were but no it is the RNG of teammates. I had a game in Silver as Tank against a Cardboard Tier Tank. I lost against them because I had 1 and a half DPS that only knew how to feed. I ended up as Support for that Cardboard Tier Rein and they reported me for throwing because they couldn't counter a Zaria. They mostly kept their shield up then instantly died. Never got a single Elim while I as Support tried to heal, got several elims and did more DPS than my Tank because they never positioned well and never made a play. Yet they reported ME for throwing because I was in their last game against them. You know what that tells the algorithm??? This game is doomed...
@@Adventist1997This a whole lot of cope
@@Adventist1997 even if all your teammates were complete garbage, I’m 100% sure you made mistakes that didn’t help. We all do. The point isn’t that your teammates are bad or good. You can only control yourself so what’s the point in blaming your team every single game. Focus on the mistakes you made and you’ll be the one carrying the team
I lose one game and beg the question “am I the problem?”
The biggest thing with this Widow is positioning. It's literally atrocious. Also, the tunnel vision is incredible. My biggest two tips are be aware of the enemy and be ready to reposition.
And this tip goes out to Ana players as well who play too close. Your character has a rifle, play like it.
It doesn't seem like they have headphones or speakers. 😂
He plays as if he was invisible. He stays shooting in the same spot for ages until he gets picked off.
He's basically the sniper guy that's holding a power position in any war movie 😂
I don't know how my friend always think "just keep walking the tank" (keep sitting behind and follow tank) as Ana is one of a great play 😂
I have a nightmare watching her playing Ana because sometimes she always so close to the enemy cause she following behind the tank, if the tank is protecting her, I don't mind, but imagine the tank that didn't protect her, I would just watch 😂🤣
To be fair when playing Ana if they’ve got flankers you’ve gotta play closer ish to your team but still use cover obv.
Does this count for a Zen just spamming charged volley's?
6 minutes in, they get 2 kills finally, and think they aren't the problem. Homie is trolling
This is why I hate the Widowmaker Character in General, it's really easy for players to basically do nothing and feel good about themselves, there's SOOO many widow mains and a lot of them do very little for the team as a whole. Hanzo, Ash, Cassidy, Zenyatta, Illari, Ana, and even Mei & Kiriko are all nice long range shooters that do a lot more for their teams.
I play a lot of Hanzo and I never understood why it felt better than Widow and then I realized that it's cause I feel more integrated with the team...He snipes but also can do midrange and that's why I feel so much better...This comment let me realize that more so thanks
I play Ashe a lot and I agree it’s more engaging as some widow mains shoo I can probably do widows job better if wanted to and If I do your job for you mind as well switch. 😂😂 but not saying that’s what I usually would do but I do pretty good as Ashe I see better results with other dps that you named.
@@DiceLegendaryWarrior also, Hanzo can be a potent tankbuster, and even Ashe can too. Mei of course is a pseudotank.
@@atlas3556 storm arrow is way more valuable at tank busting than it actually seems at first, as well as of course being able to pump out headshots faster than Widow on a tank so being more lethal if you got their number for sure
sombra and widow players fail to realise how much of an impact the presence of a body affects a team fight, you may be disrupting but one less body on cart or touching a point results in a loss, its not a kills game, its an objective game
Honestly this just shows me how bad this game needed a rank reset
0-15 is me with my first 15 Widow shots of the game
It’s my KD on first point any map
That's my K/D playing sniper in any game.
@@rustyrules1212 0 kills 15 deaths on first point??
@@azseal2669 0 kills 15 deaths?
sometimes its 15 shots 0 kills
They didn’t shoot at the tank that often because the amount of effort they have to put into killing them, they can’t kill 2-3 other people. They are elim farming instead of actually trying to win the game.
As widow you want to elim farm all game, but the elims you get need to be impactful and not when your team is already 3 people down.
Especially against some of the "stand there tanks" like Mauga, Hog, Orisa when she's used gold - they've got big ol head hitboxes and 300 hp is still a massive chunk of damage.
That fight where "HE'S ONE!!!" and ducks into cover just in time? Yeah, with an extra -300 hp it ain't in time.
This video can be summarized using 3 points.
(1) Buy a new headset to hear someone stomping towards you
(2) Improve map awareness for positioning
(3) Aim better
You can tell he plays all the time which got him to Plat (good mechanics). I think if he pays attention to this video and understand team play/positioning he'll do really well. Also wonder what it looks like when he doesn't pick a vid where he got kills...
14:59 Mauga. “We got em where we wa-aUUUUGHHH!” Gotta love Overwatch!
Dying when ulting will never not be funny 😂😂😂
@@TheShapingSickness And will never be fun for the ulting player
Reaper-“die die diUUUUgh..”
9/10 Wario impression by mauga. Love to see it
The rank reset tried to help this Widow because this is not a Plat Widow. A Gold Widow would poop all over this person.
They said they were in plat the rank rest dropped them to silver
Yeah, this is a silver Widow at best.
Another silver widow would eat of this widow too
Even as a rein main a I could do better
Id say bronze or iron cuz my friends arent even a widow main and their silver 2@@svnktmsecondchannel1105
If at any point this person was Plat then thank god for rank resets.
Someone get this dude on Ashe then he’d be fine IMO
Facts. If I was playing like him, I'd have been on Ash 😂
why
Of course he'd be fine if all he does is hide in a corner
@@stefanemanuel5606 ashe is a more mid range hero who is better playing a little closer, like he is
@@TheShapingSickness
Hide in a corner and toss out Bob...
My husband is a high plat Widow main, with a very high crit acc. That player is unfortunately not anywhere near that. There aren't even any instant counter swaps to Sombra, Winston, DVa or anything at all. That would be a roll for him
If there's one thing in my life I can always count on, it's the 11am EST Emongg video release.
I haven't yelled "shoot" at my monitor so many times in my life, that was rough to even watch
Alternative title...
"HOW TO BE AFK FOR AN ENTIRE GAME WITHOUT GETTING KICKED"
POGchamp
this is a console thing, a lot of low rank players don't use headphones. the amount of times there was an actual threat near them and they didn't even bother to check is concerning
Real as hell. I've been accused of walling before because console Cass players don't seem to realise how loud his footsteps are while they're flanking to set up a High Noon.
Forget paying for coaching, getting a faster modem, or anything else to give you an edge. Just buy a decent headset, and you're already at an advantage compared to a large chunk of console players.
Lol I look like a bot playing on console
Even thou I'm bad at widow cause Im not good with sniper, I never stop shooting or just walking/standing around for minutes, I make sure to stand on a place where I could see the enemy, a place where they have hard time getting me and continue putting pressure by shooting at them
And somehow eventually, I will get some kills even thou I'm so bad at aiming.
I feel like this widow might play with music on, or with sound low. So many flanks could've been avoided if they were able to hear the loud abilities/footsteps and react. Situational awareness and positional fluidity are good skills to work on. Good shots tho.
Oh boy. 7 minutes in and I can say this is the kind of player I would avoid. It seems like this player doesn’t know where they are most of the time. Hard to believe they were plat. Could be that they never played Widow before and do better on other heroes. But this is 100% on them. Their team is playing a 4v5. If they keep playing this way they will struggle to stay in Silver. - My advice is this. Don’t play Widow in comp right now. Play Widow in quick play and learn what angles to take on every map. Pay attention to your quick play win rate on Widow. It will likely be under 50%. Keep at it until your win rate is above 55%. Build that awareness and confidence on the character. Review the quick play games. Ask yourself if you are taking the optimal angle. If not, make adjustments. Play comp again once you’ve done that. And continue to review games and ask yourself if you could have taken a better angle AND if you are rotating your position as you don’t want to stay in one place for too long.
not hard to believe. So much of the rankings is rng it seems. I see completely terrible players in diamond all the time. And I see god tier dps players stuck down in low gold as well. But if you get lucky with really good teams or a really good friend you can be carried super high, and if you are unlucky you can get nightmare teammates who don't even have thumbs. I've maybe had 1 game every with a negative kd as dps, and I'm not even good. But then I see guys who are masters players in my games going 1-15 as genji or sombra. It just makes no sense. And in many of those games you still manage a win so those guys keep ranking up despite being terrible.
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That seems to be the case worse than ever this season. I'm stuck Silver like this dude, but I legit feel like I have Bronze teammates. If I'm Juno trying to do DPS and heal to get my Tank in the fight, I get called a thrower. Why? Because I was doing so much DPS instead of healing... I had more damage than my Tank but they wouldn't push up unless their shield broke. I can't out heal the entire team blasting them, and our Moira could heal quicker because Juno takes forever for lock on, while Moira can just toss an orb and heal everyone. I can't skill my way up with a bad team that blames me for their bad choices.
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@@Adventist1997 If you have good mechanics, you can off angle and kill enemy supports and dps yourself. Easy to do on Kiriko because you have Suzu and teleport to cover up mistakes. Harder to do with Juno because your escape isn't instant like Kiriko, but you still have good movement. You'll get blamed/flamed on metal ranks whether you DPS or not. You can have 3k or 12k and will still get blamed. Callouts are braindead useless below plat or even diamond most of the time. Mute text chat and don't join voice. Don't let them get into your head. Play your own game. Heal priority people who are actually fighting. Keep an eye on criticals and try to save people. If you can off angle you can create space by distracting the enemy, or you can kill their supports and just by that you will out heal them. You win fights by killing enemy supports first. -- Kill the supports before your tank(s) throw.
@@PersonaRandomNumbers lol yeah autocorrect fail. I edited the post.
i love that they keep peaking from the exact same spot
Closest ive seen emongg to being angry in one of these
Don't you love it when you have a mercy pocketed widow that cant hit shotson your team? Basically a 3v5 now. DoNt YoU jUsT LoVe ThAt???😂😂
That bingo video coming out tomorrow perchance Emongg? Perhaps next Friday?? Bingo Friday???
GODDAMN!! A brotha must look inwards before blaming his teammates! I played with a widow like this recently, played in the enemy backline the whole game nd blamed our tank for losing us the game when we basically played a 4v5
Ok Im half way through and its only gotten worse, look I know Im not that good at dmg, but if this guy this he's winning any string of games in the future he's huffing paint, Ill report back if I have nay more thoughts
Ok Ive watched this man do I think 3 shots that were of value so far, what is he looking at? Like someone crosses your HITSCAN HEROS crosshair and you wair for them to get behind cover to shoot at them? Best widow plays of all time!
SO I finally finished the game, this guy is just in his own head and thinks he's great bc he can hit a few lucky shots sometimes, whoopty do. What he needs to understand is hitting a few lucky shots is not the same as being good at widow. PRACTICE! I played a lot of cod and got good at sniping so Im confident in my shot but Im not amazing, if you want to be competitive with widow you need to be more consistent with your shot ant take better spots that ill help you and your team succeed. Please don't play on my team if this isn't fixed I cannot have another widow who doesn't know what they are doing this week😂
This dude gotta be trolling in this title lmao
As others have said, Ashe would've been a much better pick for them. But I can't help but think that Junkrat did the best thing possible. Make flanks and cause chaos. Widow's positioning was so bad, Junk got them a lot of the time, and it could've been avoided so easily.
The unused ult at the end of the game could actually have been a game changer ult. If Widow had gotten on high ground and just used the ult then they would have killed the Junk way earlier and provided preassure so that the other teammates might not have died.
I'm not going to say that the rest of the team was perfect, but they played like silver players which is the most you can expect in a silver game. At that point if you're really better than silver you have to be the one that stands out
Plat last season, probably the person everyone begs to change character to help the team and you don't
there is no way that widow was blaming his teammates has to be rage bait
4:36 i audibly gasped
To be fair, been there, sometimes the easiest shots are also the easiest to fuck up
i'm 99% sure this dude is either stoned or playing without headphones. His awareness is basically zero. Which player ignores the loud ass Junkrat steps right next to them and rather tries to shoot the illari behind a wall?
I immediately disregard any Widow player who is saying "My team isn't pulling their weight, that's why I lost OMG"
Playing the character where you legitimately hardly brush shoulders with your own teammates and end up most times picked off or dove on because you're in some abstract place that NOBODY is gonna be able to reach in time to lend you a hand and then proceed to blame everyone else for the problem.
This is why I can't stand Widowmakers 99% of the time lmao.
Thankfully the enemy team didn’t pull out a widow bc in the widow duel… i think this person would struggle.
Get that ad moolah buddy
If shes not flankin shes tankin.
I hope the widow learns that its okay to hit body shots. You don't ALWAYS have to wait and aim for a headshot. Yeah, ofc you want to aim for the head but yk its okay to hit the body as well. I noticed the Widow waited for the perfect shot and ended up not doing anything for a bit.
This guy takes billions lightyears to shoot a one bullet & he misses it too😂😂
As a diamond one trick widow I can say the fact that the enemy team dps or support didn’t counter swap him once shows that he wasn’t really doing much for his team in diamond the entire team counter swaps me after I get 3 kills the first two team fights. I will also say that only playing widow in ranked is never a good idea unless your aim is cracked out of this world even I had to pickup Ashe sojourn and echo after hitting gold bc after I got kicked off of widow I was a sitting duck. You will know how good you are if you start seeing more than just one person counter swap you after each team fight you provide a great impact.
- play well most games
- lose 15 games in a row
THE MATH DOES NOT ADD UP, AMIGO
YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE
My hatred for widow on either team burns with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns
Yeah, there are only 3 characters I'd prefer to not be on either team. Widowmaker, Sombra, and Genji.
@@SawyerFoolswhat did us genji players do 😢
@@Hylarchical idk but as a doom main i love diving with genji lol
@@zubair7283 i just like sneaking up on bastions and right when they turn into tank form jump infront of them
@@Hylarchical lool fr
Worst player on the team blaming teammates, check that on the bingo card.
If you're a plat player that drops to silver and you're still losing you are beyond the point of no return of throwing away your ego to figure out what's wrong. Though I will say it anyway ...dump the ego, YOU are the problem. I did not see a plat player rolling silvers. I saw someone SMGing the final 20hp on clean up kills with a few scoped in shots. Sombra is everywhere these days and the enemy team did not see the need to swap to Sombra. That should tell you how scared they were of you. A plat widow should be the server admin in a silver lobby.
Me: plays widow to have a good time
Me:gets 1 head shot start of the match
Enemy team: swaps to sombra tracer moira dva
Me: "oh.... ok" :(
Every time lol.
I just realized I’ve played with them recently, LOL
13:48 MOIRA! MOIRA PLEASE HELP! MOIRAAAA
Widow is like Sombra in which it is all too easy to get lost in the kills and trolling and lose sight of the team fight
This is a perfect example of elo hell
Being in gold-silver lobbies and this is tour teammate.
Might as well just stand in spawn and Q the next game.
im 4mins in "the one shot trick" he said idk what his talking about the way he shoot and react is sooo dam slow like bruhh how can you even on plat?? ahaha
Usually I can say, "I see the vision" but half this video has been "what the fuck are they even doing
When they're helping the team maybe gold, when they're face tanking tanks, bronze 5
every time you watch a widow I know it’s gonna be someone missing all their shots with a huge ego
How do we submit videos btw i'd love to get advice on how to be better with genji and other characters
edit: in the discord i shouldve waited to ask my question
these are the widows i get in my team…
fr. I never get the widow going 30-5 and demoralizing the entire enemy team.
the constant reloading is killing me 😂
Does it cost to submit and ask for advice? I have been stuck in gold ever since Ow2 came out and need to know how I can improve.
hello this is my replay and i appreciate the tips you gave me throughout the video. i definitely should’ve been more specific in my explanation, especially about the uneventful first half. i actually just play on my tv which explains a lot of the missed audio cues. i do see where i went wrong and where i can improve. i actually started winning my games and ranking up after my girlfriend pointed out that my position could be better (she was the one who told me to go on the bridge at that second point). i’m almost gold 5 now. thanks again for the tips, i really enjoyed the video 🫡
My friend you NEED headphones. Even if you get some cheap ones, it'll be better than nothing.
If you see me in a game, I'm Ruin. 😊
YOU ARE SO BADD!!!!! 1V1 ME ON WIDDOW!!!!
First thing is headphones. You basically didn't react to very obvious things going on around you. Also, don't be afraid to move. You have a habit of waiting too long while you're being shot.
I’m pokedig1 in this, the Mei, Sorojurn, and Symm. Good playing with you, you got some nice shots on me! Cool seeing some gameplay that I’ve been in posted
few questions. are you still doing videos for this unranked gameplay? can anyone put in videos? is the video submits in a discord?
It takes this dude 2-3 business days to shoot once he sees an enemy. Still, it's his team's fault.
Said it before and I'll keep saying it- doesn't matter if you get 3 kills after the fight is already lost. Now if you can 5v1 that's a whole other story... but not a lot of Widows can do it.
He lost the last 15 games. The only common denominator in that would be himself. That was a hard pill for me to swallow. Sure, it might feel like my teammates aren’t doing anything, but I had to realize that part of the issue was with me. I was doing something wrong to go on that big of a losing streak.
To this day, he's still playing with widowmaker but hasn't figured out it is useless for winning. No help in team fights
Though im not good at widow by any form, im stunned they waited until 3rd point to use their ult instead of when they were trying to find out where the mei was and as their team was respawning??? To just sit there is appalling.
Had a Widow in my placement match yesterday. They were doing decent, but we really just needed more frontline pressure. When asked to switch they just instantly said no :/ Unfortunately Widow mains usually have a big ego, so I tend to avoid them as teammates... its so rare they actually turn the tides or do anything helpful. Remember, this was supposed to be an ego vod. What does this widow even do this game? :/
Snipers are my favorite characters in FPS games, but I understand that every map isn’t a sniper map, every team comp can’t be easily picked off, and I can’t play perfect every game. Switching is a core part of this game, refusing to do so, even on non widow characters, is just silly.
this gameplay brings back ptsd of my dps getting mad at me for not saving them when they frontline with me. against a jq too.
when an ana is having a poke battle with u as widow its prolly time to get off widow
Sure do love when my widow gives the team wall hacks lol
As someone with 216+ hours on widow, I can tell you that if the enemy team does not even swap to a sombra, genji, tracer, winston, or widow, you are doing something wrong. Seeing someone play like this, lose 15 games in a row, and then blame their teammate is so embarassing.
It looks like this guy only sees widowmakers playing in mid range and thinks that they can do that too, not understanding that they lack the mechanical skill those widow's do to play in such a range. Also this guy needs to invest in some headphones. Dying to junktire twice on a map that has little to no flank routes should tell you that maybe, just maybe, widow is not for you.
dont worry emongg we will watch your sponsor
13:37 is it normal for dead players health
bars to show up like that?
I'm not sure if it shows up in-game -- it might just be a replay viewer bug -- but what seems to be happening is that the dead heroes' models are being rendered again as corpses (we know the player model doesn't move right away because a dead player can spectate the area around their body) in preparation for teleporting them to spawn all at once in their "wave"
How did they GET to plat in the first place
It was when they boosted everyone's rank in season 3 i think
Probably extremely good RNG. Because they seem more like low Gold in terms of aim.
Because you can lie and say anything.
@@trav8787
I was low Plat to high Gold last season but I'm Silver now... I'm sure he isn't lying because it happened to me.
hey emongg! sorry if this is completely off topic, just noticed you looked a little unwell in the promo part of this video? couldnt properly tell otherwise as i cant load videos in too high a quality, and im not sure when the promo was filmed but hope you're doing okay! if you're sick or unwell at all, i wish you the best and hope that you get well soon.
side note, love watching your spectating videos! wish i could join streams but im unable to unfortunately, sending all my support regardless
Doing tricks on it
This player was reloading way too much when it wasn't necessary
I've played against this ReinFart guy before, they're awful lol. Also played against SneakyTurtle, they're actually a pretty good player
He didn’t even mention his cooldown usage…
Ten minutes in, is this player unable to hear on their right?
I’m watching with headphones only on my left, and I can confidently say they have failed to react to everything I didn’t hear. That said they also didn’t hear the Moira fade on their left, they might just have hella low audio
I don't think they have headphones on. Maybe they have audio set to mono
@@Adventist1997 I have my audio set to mono cause I almost have no hearing in my left ear. Overwatch has pretty good sound design that even if it's mono I can hear pretty well where people are coming from. I think it's more of they have their audio set really low or they have some music on. Or well.. they just tunnel vision really badly.
Edit: I scrolled down comments a bit more and the submitter said they play on their tv. The missed cues make more sense now c:
I'm not even wearing headphones and i could tell junk was on the right
Damn how did you get footage of the players I get on my team
This Widow has the reaction time of a slug stuck in sap. Aim assist seems to be lazing about when Widow is ADS.
Even onetricks need to be able to play more than one character you can still call yourself a onetrick but widow is the worst to one trick for low ranked players because they dont really know much about good positioning, poke points, tracking, and target acquisition one tricking other characters on the roster could give you a far better impact in silver because with widow it’s either you shoot to kill or your team will lose every team fight if they can’t carry your dead weight
And I have the highest level widow on console trust me one tricking her all season is like selling your soul I didn’t hit diamond until i learned others characters yet I still got diamond with 90% widow playing other characters helps a ton
Plat 5 was a fluke lucky streak of wins. You’re right where you should be. Practice up. You’ll climb.
I think they got about 3-5 solo elms the entire match
Not to be rude or anything but this doesnt seem like a plat widow.
8:10 - 8:15 Like just look at the AA lock on bruhhhh...
OW has such a hard AA & I absolutely hate it. Shit does not need to be that strong. It's SO annoying when a GOOD widow has AA & the shit just locks on.
I wish I could turn off cross play when I play QP cause its just AA gamer after AA gamer & it triggers me so much 😭
Or just not have AA be so aggressively strong 💀
emong what would it take for you to get your lashes done i swear to god it would be so funny
LMAOOO birdbrain widow
There’s no way this guy was plat😭
I don't know how someone can be so delusional to think they aren't the issue whatsoever... On top of that, being a console player and seeing how blatant the aim assist is, it's shocking that they even miss.
I watched whole video on 1.75x speed so idk wtf was being said, but it looks this this guy missed 90% of his shots 😅😂 these really are the people calling their team useless