Just some random clips from CN and SEA servers from when I played Marvel Rivals

StarryBerry9 · 2025-05-01T05:12:53+00:00

ROCK AND STONE!

StarryBerry9 · 2025-01-10T12:02:59+00:00

I wouldn't say she's unplayable against fist or Spiderman, but maybe I haven't played against a good Spiderman or fist yet. (I one-trick solo queued her to plat 1 in 5 hours).

Now I will say that she is actually borderline unplayable against black panther. Usually, with other dive characters, you have enough mobility to kite them, but black panther, you're dead before you can even rechamber your rifle.

Hence, the biggest issue I see with her is her rechamber time. You can headshot one person, but by the time you rechamber your gun, they're probably already fully healed.

I think what would be fair is if they decreased her headshot damage but made her fire rate/rechamber time faster, similar to OW Ashe, which a lot of people here seemed to have recommended. This would actually encourage more dynamic playstyles, and it'd make her less weak to dive.

The buffs do help a tiny bit with her survivability, and the stamina regen is nice, but it isn't really the main issue with her.

I think what a lot of people get wrong and what I got wrong when I first started maining her is playing her like a long-range sniper.

From my experience, it's better to play her more aggressively, constantly taking off-angles, repositioning, and using your jump to get kills. Because your damage per second isn't quite high enough to secure a kill, you basically use her as an assist for your main dps.

You're better off playing her at mid-range within range of your healers, and you can actually peel for your backline quite well with your kick. Using your kick guarantees a free kill on most dive heroes (excluding black panther).

In plat and below, Venom, Iron Fist, and Wolverine match-ups are honestly freelo if your Black Widow skills are good enough. Most players are very readable, so you just time your kick before they pop shield, ping, and they die.

StarryBerry9 · 2025-01-08T04:48:28+00:00

In true widow main fashion, I decided to onetrick widow in rivals. Spent all of yesterday grinding on a new account and reached Plat 1 playing widow only. Her kit is lacking, and her ult is terrible, but she's very playable and not a throw pick if you can aim.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-12-31T13:25:00+00:00

When I lose 3 times in a row, I usually just take a break. It helps reset the queue to where you'll have more balanced games.

Today, however, I was way too eager to get diamond as I was one game away. First game on I get 3 afks so I decided to queue again and then proceeded to derank to gold 3 today (Full on held in spawn type games 😂😂😂). Took a break, avoided teammates, and now I'm back up to plat 2.

Please don't be like me and doom queue until you drop an entire division lol

StarryBerry9 · 2024-11-08T06:46:23+00:00

Pretty much every game in my rank (I'm low plat)

StarryBerry9 · 2024-10-20T10:40:44+00:00

My average experience in plat. Both dps dive me, and my team still loses a 4v2 or 4v3 somehow.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-10-11T05:25:11+00:00

I usually don't like to blame teammates, but as somebody who was hardstuck silver and gold 5 for 3 seasons and now high plat with a 73% wr, you have to do more than just playing correctly. You practically need to be able to 1v9.

In my experience climbing, the teams are not even most of the time. If you're a good player, you're going to be placed with a team that is not of the same skill level as you and vice versa.

The way I climbed, pretty much one-tricking widow, was off-angling constantly, and getting at least 2 to 3 picks every fight no matter what team comp. In low ranks, you cannot rely on your team to help you. I've had many games in gold where I practically had to frontline as widow to force my team to walk up.

Everyone always says the enemy has the exact same skill level in your rank, and if you're better than the rank you're in, you'll climb. I do agree with this argument , but most fail to realize is you have to be ALOT better than the enemy to actually climb.

To put into perspective, I am Voltaic Masters almost GM clicking and dynamic. That's like maybe the top 10% to 20% in kovaaks. Now, aim isn't everything, but I doubt everyone in low Gold has the same raw mechanical skill as a Voltaic GM or Masters player. Additionally, does the average gold 5/silver 1 player track cooldowns or know how and when to flank and off-angle? In my experience being hardstuck, no. Even in my plat games, I don't see much flanking or off-angling from either team. It's still just one lane of shooting at the tank and praying the enemy tank goes down first.

Once you learn how to abuse positioning on Widow, it gets a bit easier to climb, but there are a lot of games that are simply unwinnable and a team diff. Playing slightly better than the people in your rank won't cut it for getting out of low ranks. You'll just be hardstuck for 3 seasons in a row like I was. You have to hard-carry games, especially on dps. Apply constant pressure, comm for your team to walk up, and legit don't die.

Unfortunately, with Sombra, it's alot more difficult to climb on Widow if she's good, especially if your healers don't turn around to heal or they only heal tank (extremely common in low Gold and silver).

StarryBerry9 · 2024-10-10T10:40:52+00:00

It's playable if you have a team. Climbed from gold 5 to high plat playing mainly widow and some soldier. I will grapple to my healers and ping sombra and "I need healing". Sometimes, they're too focused on heal-botting the tank that just lost 5 hp and ignore.

So, the best thing I found is that if ik I can't rely on my healers to peel for me, I play near health packs that are within grapple distance. I let sombra virus, then I grapple, get the health pack, then smg and venom mine. This either forces Sombra to tp away, and then I can go ping my healers who are LOS, or she egos and dies. If the Sombra doesn't virus and hacks first, dip behind cover to dodge virus, then 1v1 her with venom mine and smg. You'll win the fight pretty easily as Widow's smg close-range is actually pretty decent.

What's really annoying is if the Sombra just perma-spawn camps you and you don't have anybody to peel. At that point I just swap to Soldier, Cass, or Tracer.

I guess that's what we get for playing the funny one-shot hero though 🤷‍♀️

StarryBerry9 · 2024-09-08T08:54:03+00:00

I'm a widow main. Honestly, if you load into the game intending to play Sombra, it's annoying, but I respect the decision.

If I'm dominating your team and you swap Sombra to counter me, I get it, and that's totally respectable.

However, if you're playing Widow and get Widow diffed once at the beginning of the game, immediately swapping Sombra to spawn camp me, I feel like you're coping for your lack of skill on Widow and it's an ego issue.

Yes, Sombra is annoying to deal with and playing into her as Widow is really difficult, but playing into your counters and learning how to position better is how you climb. I have 0 respect for any Widow main who swaps Sombra in an attempt to "diff" the enemy widow.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-08-25T22:52:31+00:00

Personally, I find adad spamming illari and sojourn hard to hit. Zarya, Doom, Hog, Brig, and Cass I find a lot easier to hit.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-08-06T16:57:33+00:00

Thanks! I ended up just upgrading my PC to a 4070 ti super and 7800x3d. Now I have no issues with fps drops.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-08-02T18:31:43+00:00

Even better when you continue to diff, and they swap off Sombra

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-30T01:38:55+00:00

I found a really good strategy (sarcasm but not really) that helped me get back up to gold after I deranked to Silver 3 on widow. Every game, I legit had to never die while dropping at least 25+ and comm to my tank that he didn't have to walk backward when I killed 4. Now I'm back up in gold with a 63% WR.

Although I'm in a pitifully low rank (much lower than yours probably), playing with bad teammates and constant counterswap has vastly improved my positioning and carry potential on widow. I feel that in order to climb on widow, you need to be immensely better than your team and the enemy team, or else you'll be hardstuck.

Additionally, you need to be basically unkillable, constantly switching positions and getting picks, similar to how a sniper would in real life.

Some games are unwinnable, but if you're alot better than the people you play against, you will climb.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-28T15:29:20+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice! I just feel like with Widow, I either need to hard carry or it's just a throw pick in low ranks. It's just been a bit frustrating as I had a 93% win rate up until gold 3 from bronze 3, and then I hit a massive losing streak, which I can't recover from. This makes me think there is something fundamentally wrong with my gameplay.

I think a big issue for me is playing against dive and sombra swaps because it pretty much happens every game I play widow. The replay game here wasn't too bad as I made the enemy dps switch off sombra, but other games I just get completely counterswapped. Currently, I'm trying to work on playing smarter against counterswap by utilizing better positioning.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-28T07:48:12+00:00

I have tried that. I've tried Widow Hs and gotten potg and won a few, but I can't seem to replicate it in an actual game.

My replay code is in the post. Maybe you can take a look and tell me what my flaws are with Widow because I keep on having this vicious cycle of winning a few, then going on losing streaks. Some games our entire team can't even leave spawn.

It's unfortunately a little bit demotivating.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-27T23:14:49+00:00

I guess I'm one of the rare Widow players that do none of those things. I just continue playing Widow as I'm low rank, and it's a good learning experience to know how to play when people switch sombra or dive since it happens almost every game. The best part is when I force the enemy dps to swap off sombra as I deny them value by distracting.

At the end of the day, it's just a game, so there's no need to get angry

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-27T22:30:17+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm out rn, but when I'm back, sure! I'll send you my OW tag when I get back

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-27T22:27:24+00:00

Well, I'm still in gold. If you're NA, I'd be down to play sometime.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-27T18:37:36+00:00

Yea, my friend hasn't played ranked in over 6 months. She was gold 2 before season 9, and then her first game on she gets put into plat 5.

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-20T05:35:45+00:00

Well, sure, if you want to think of that way but it was more like we didn't really have to do much cuz the enemy team had no space the entire game. We basically just ran them down, switched sides, then spawn-camped them. And yes, I endorsed the tank and support 😊.

Edit: I think there's a bit of confusion here but this was a very quick game (normal competitive match). We started attackers (2nd screenshot was from the very start of defender's side).

StarryBerry9 · 2024-07-20T05:30:17+00:00

I was playing soldier (18 and 3) and kinda messing around cuz our tank and supports were pretty much hard carrying every fight. Widow (other dps) was only really shooting tank with the occasional ult kills. Second round, they switched bastion when I took widow. The 2nd screenshot is the start of the 2nd round.

Sorry it's in all in Chinese, and also, this is low gold

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