3/25/2025
- Base health increased from 200 to 225 HP.
2/18/2025
Scoped Efficiency
- Scoped shots cost 3 ammo instead of 5.
Focused Aim
- Scoped shots charge 50% faster during Infra-sight.
Escape Plan
- Scoped shot hits reduce Grappling Hook’s cooldown by up to 4 seconds.
Deadly Deux
- Venom Mine gains 50% increased damage and a second charge, enabling 2 active mines at a time.
1/7/2025
Widow's Kiss
- Scoped shots no longer benefit from global projectile size increases.
12/17/2024
- Base health increased from 200 to 225.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Hooks + Headshot = Parkour
Grappling Hook
- Now has 3 charges.
- Getting a critical hit with Widow’s Kiss’s secondary fire replenishes one charge of the ability.
2/20/2024
Widow's Kiss
- Now uses the smaller 0.05 meter hitscan projectile size modifier. Total projectile size is now 0.05 meters.
- Scoped shot damage falloff min-max range increased from 40-60 to 50-70 meters.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 175 to 200.
10/31/2023
Developer comments: Recon Visor is taking a long time to charge on average relative to other ultimate abilities so we're reducing the cost. Widowmaker is also at a more severe disadvantage against Sombra with the recent rework and these changes will add more counterplay.
Widow's Kiss
- Unscoped shots to reach maximum spread increased from 3 to 7.
Infra-Sight
- Ultimate cost reduced 10%.
6/13/2023
Developer Comment: These changes to Widowmaker's weapon falloff are intended to reduce her one-shot capabilities on maps with extremely long sightlines. The average range to still eliminate a 200 health hero at full charge is around 50 meters. A fully-charged critical shot will still eliminate 150 health targets regardless of range.
Widow's Kiss
- Scoped shot damage falloff min-max range reduced from 70-100 to 40-60 meters.
- Scoped shot maximum damage falloff scalar increased from 30 to 50%
2/7/2023
Developer Comment: We experimented with Widowmaker at 200 health for a while due to concerns that the increased power of tanks made her too vulnerable to them. Ultimately she gains more advantages from 5v5 than she loses so we're returning her back to 175 HP to better enable more heroes to contest her lethal ranged capabilities.
- Base health reduced from 200 to 175