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[e][h]WidowmakerGeneral InformationReal Name:Amélie LacroixCountry: FranceRole:DamageRelease Date:2015-10-27Age:35Occupation:AssassinBase of Operations: Annecy, FranceAffiliation:TalonVoice Actor(s):Chloé Hollings

Amélie "Widowmaker" Lacroix is a Damage class hero in Overwatch.

Contents

• 1 Abilities
• 2 Perks
• 3 Lore
• 4 Trivia
• 5 Version History
• 6 Notable Players
• 7 References

Abilities[edit]

Widow's Kiss (Assault)

	Ability: Weapon Affects: Enemies Widowmaker’s versatile sniper rifle is ideal for scope-aimed shots at distant targets. Should targets close to medium range, the rifle can also be fired in fully-automatic mode.
M1  Damage: 3.9-13 Ammo: 35 Reload Time: 1.5 Seconds Fire Rate: .1 seconds

Widow's Kiss (Sniper)

	Ability: Weapon Affects: Enemies Widowmaker’s versatile sniper rifle is ideal for scope-aimed shots at distant targets. Should targets close to medium range, the rifle can also be fired in fully-automatic mode.
M2  Damage: 12-125 Headshot Multiplier: 2.5x Full Charge Time: 0.9 Seconds Ammo: 35 (5 used per shot) Reload Time: 1.5 Seconds Fire Rate: 1 Round per Second Falloff Damage: Up to 50% damage falloff from 60-85 meters

Grappling Hook

	Ability: Cooldown Affects: Self Widowmaker launches a grappling hook towards the location she’s aiming at – when the hook connects with a scalable surface, she’s quickly drawn towards it, allowing her to expand her view of the battlefield and evade or flank targets.
SHIFT  12 seconds Cancel Range: Bounces off a surface if the distance between you and the hook is under 2 meters, canceling the hook and not costing any cooldown. Max. Range: 20 meters

Venom Mine

	Ability: Cooldown Affects: Enemies Widowmaker adheres a swiftly-arming venom mine to nearly any surface. When a target wanders within range of the mine’s motion trigger, it explodes, delivering poison gas to any enemies in the vicinity.
E  15 seconds Damage: 15 per second Duration: 5 seconds Stackable: No

Infra-Sight

	Ability: Ultimate Affects: Self Widowmaker’s recon visor allows her to see the heat signatures and health bars of her targets through walls and objects for a moderate amount of time. This enhanced vision is shared with her allies, however the effect stops if Widowmaker dies during her ultimate.
Q  Duration: 15 seconds

Perks[edit]

Scoped Efficiency

Ability: Minor Perk Scoped shots cost 3 ammo instead of 5.

Focused Aim

Ability: Minor Perk Scoped shots charge 50% faster during Infra-sight.

Escape Plan

Ability: Major Perk Scoped shot hits reduce Grappling Hook’s cooldown by up to 4 seconds.

Deadly Deux

Ability: Major Perk Venom Mine gains 50% increased damage and a second charge, enabling 2 active mines at a time.

Lore[edit]

In her former life, Amélie Lacroix loved only two things: her husband and ballet. Growing up in her family’s ancestral seat of Chateau Guillard in rural France, dance became Amélie’s only escape from the crumbling manor and her conservative family, who had always urged her to follow the aristocracy’s tenets of decorum and tradition.

Her path would take a more interesting turn when she married the great love of her life, Gérard Lacroix, an Overwatch agent spearheading operations against the Talon terrorist organization. Amélie gave little thought to her husband’s career outside the interesting topic it made for dinner parties; she could hardly have guessed at the danger his job put her in.

After several unsuccessful attempts to eliminate Gérard, Talon decided to change its focus to his wife. In the dead of night, Talon operatives kidnapped Amélie and subjected her to an intense program of neural reconditioning, in effect creating a sleeper agent. Gerard devoted Overwatch’s every resource to recovering his bride, and it wasn’t long before the operation produced results. His agents saved Amélie, and a medical and psychological evaluation after the kidnapping found her to be apparently no worse for wear. Their official assessment proved fatally inaccurate two weeks later . . . when they discovered she had killed Gérard in his sleep.

Overwatch had never truly rescued Amélie Lacroix. They had merely delivered Widowmaker to her first victim.

Afterward, Amélie was hunted by police and Overwatch alike, but more than that, she was haunted by the way murdering her husband had made her feel. The moment of the kill was the most alive Amélie had ever felt.

With few other options left, Amélie returned to Talon, chasing the high that had both thrilled and terrified her. At her behest, she was given extensive training in the covert arts and agreed to participate in an experimental marksman program. Talon’s geneticist, Moira O’Deorain, altered Amélie’s physiology to improve her aim, drastically slowing her heart, which turned her skin cold and blue, and numbed her ability to experience human emotion. It dulled the pain of what she’d done, while heightening the charge she felt on the hunt.

Now as Widowmaker, she is Talon's most effective assassin. She shot (and had presumably killed) Captain Ana Amari—then the second in command of Overwatch—during a mission in Poland. Shortly after, she assisted the Reaper and Sombra in securing Dr. Siebren de Kuiper for Talon’s ends. More recently she was sighted at the Overwatch Museum in New York, attempting to steal the Doomfist gauntlet; in Russia, at the near-assassination of the head of Volskaya Industries; and in Venice, where her handiwork was apparent amid the murders of Augusto Vialli and his associates.

But Widowmaker is perhaps most notorious for her assassination of the Shambali leader, Tekhartha Mondatta at a rally for peace in King’s Row. Though she was intercepted by former Overwatch agent, Tracer, even the hero couldn’t keep Widowmaker from claiming her prize.

An unstoppable killer, Widowmaker’s crosshairs are perhaps the most dangerous place in the world.

Trivia[edit]

• Voiced by Chloe Hollings

Version History[edit]

Balance Patch History
Patch Version	Balance Changes
June 14, 2016 Patch [note 1]
	Widow’s Kiss Alternate Fire (Scoped Shot) Base damage decreased from 15 to 12 Note: Scoped shot damage multiplier remains unchanged Headshot damage multiplier increased from 2x to 2.5x Players must now wait for the unscoping animation to completely finish before scoping Infra-Sight Ultimate cost increased by 10%
April 6, 2016 Patch
	Fixed an issue where Widowmaker’s scope graphic wasn’t rendering when scoped in
November 20, 2015 Patch
	Widow's Kiss Scoped shot damage has been slightly reduced Scoped shots will now consume 3 bullets instead of 1
November 9, 2015 Patch
	Infra-Sight Widowmaker can no longer gain ultimate charge while Infra-Sight is active
↑ Developer Comments: In the right hands, Widowmaker can often feel unstoppable—even when just landing body shots instead of critical heads shots. The changes to her alternate fire weaken body shot damage while leaving her headshot damage unchanged. Additionally, we felt her Ultimate ability, Infra-Sight, was coming up a little too frequently, especially considering its impact on the game.

Notable Players[edit]

LIP

MER1T

ANS

birdring (Retired)

Kai

This list shows the top 5 Widowmaker players by earnings. For a full list of Widowmaker players, click here.

References[edit]

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