Quote (Jolteown @ Oct 8 2013 12:04pm)
Also, widow is awful, for several reasons. The biggest reason is that you give up str bug in two of the match-ups where it is most important, why you would do that is beyond me. The "utility" that widow provides is not even comparable to the utility you lose by giving up str bug. Furthermore, widow has several fatal flaws that makes it really easy to combat and hardly a threat at all. For one they can just find the nearest wall/box and set up camp there, where widow will do shit, and with a limited amount of arrows you are definitely not going to win a war of attrition so widow is awful for long defense vs defense type duels. They don't even have to abuse terrain, GA is so easy to avoid on reaction and all it really does is forces them to reposition very slightly to get out of the way and they don't have to abandon their trapfield to do that, it's more of a minor annoyance than anything.
Another problem is that it gives a trapper/hammer player free pressure until you switch weapons, so even if you do for argument's sake "force them to chase you" you are just giving them good positioning/an advantage over you. Since you don't have multishot they can literally just teleport circles around you while firing off hammers/traps and GA won't even touch them, eventually you'll be forced to switch back so nothing is any different except you now have a hammer or trap field surrounding you...
tl;dr it's bad against defensive opponents and it's bad against offensive opponents, and you give up a lot to even wear it on switch, what's the point of even using it?
I'd like to add that even actual Amazons switch to Jav-Side Blocking/Fury when opponents get close