Hey everyone. Today's suggestion is by
@BuggyDClown. I personally haven't played this spider much but I've heard some mixed reviews. I'm just gonna get some OJ and get this champ write-up going! (All stats will be based off of a 5* r5 with no suicides unless otherwise stated)
Every attack Bwdo uses (except first hit of heavy and first hit of sp1): Deal energy damage (great for Korg) and has a 40% chance to inflict a shock debuff, dealing 1827.75 energy damage over 4.5 seconds
Awakened ability: Increase the damage done by sabotage by 50-120% depending on sig. At max sig, sabotage now deals 107 damage. Increase the duration of sabotage by 20-80%. Also, now landing hits while insight is active pauses insight debuffs for .5 seconds regardless of sig. This awakened ability is very unimportant and gives a minimal damage bump. Although it does help keep sabotage up, even with sabotage Bwdo only reduces defensive ability accuracy by 90% max (medium attacks in insight and sabotage). So she isn't reliable for daar.
Widow's insight (2 parts):
How to enter: Bwdo gains a Widow's insight passive for .85 seconds while the opponent is dashing forward (plain ol' intercepts), recovering from a special attack (special intercepting), or recovering from a heavy attack (heavy countering). Widow's insight is refreshed while smacking the opponent, and is unaffected by aar.
Benefits of being in Widow's insight: Each hit Bwdo does while in insight increases her insight counter by 1, to a max of 50. When the max is reached, the counter won't go up, but Bwdo still gains her insight benefits. Light attacks have a 100% chance to inflict shock, and medium attacks reduce the opponent's defensive ability accuracy by 70%. The second hit of her heavy attack inflicts stun for 1.75 seconds (enough time to dash back in after using a heavy attack in widow's insight). Ending a combo has a 100% chance to grant a precision buff giving 286 critical rating over 24 seconds.
Counter attack evade: When caused to miss, gain a passive evade giving Bwdo a 100% chance to evade attacks for the next 8 seconds. After evading this passive is removed. (This is an evade where if you evade, you can dash into the opponent like Elsa's evade/non contact parry) When evading as Bwdo, inflict a 6 second sabotage debuff. This evade makes Bwdo a prime candidate for Tunnel vision. If you do a mlll combo after parrying, your 4th light will miss, causing Bwdo to evade, giving you an opening. Then mll, evade, mll, evade, etc.
Sabotage debuff: Reduce the opponent's defensive ability accuracy by 20%. Sabotage deals 48.78 direct damage whenever the opponent's abilities fail.
Sp1: The last hit inflicts shock, dealing 2437 energy damage over 13 seconds. This special attack gives Bwdo her passive evade for 6 seconds as well. This attack is useless, so don't use it.
Sp2: The damage dealer. This attack pauses widow's insight, and every hit that lands while the opponent is shocked deals a burst of 4630 energy damage. That's a combined total of 23,150 burst energy damage. Also, if widow's insight is active, all hits of this attack reduce defensive ability accuracy by 70%.
Sp3: Inflict a 16 second sabotage debuff. For every 5 stacks of Widow's insight to her max (50), gain a cruelty passive increasing critical damage by 430. (At 50 insight, that's 21500 critical damage rating. Combined with a couple precisions, now even Bwdo's basic attacks start putting up serious numbers)
How I would play Bwdo: Intercept as much as possible to have insight up as long as possible, and bait out sp1s so you can punish those and stay in insight as well. I prefer light intercepts for minimal risk. In smaller healthpools, throwing 1-2 sp2s will get the job done. In larger healthpools, throw a sp2 at max insight then build to a sp2. Always intercept.
Saquon's review: I guess I'm doing this now. Bwdo has some great damage potential and is very fun to play. She also has some niche utility with her miss-evade mechanic, and inflicting shocks. However, she lacks general utility due to having 0 immunities, daar only reaching at max 90%, and being on the squishier side. Her tricky playstyle also makes her a risky champ.
Well, that's it! This was my first write-up on a champ I haven't really used much before. Hope this was helpful, and if you'd like another writeup, give me a champ and I'll consider taking a crack at them.
Sorry for any typos
-Saquon.
