Champion Spotlight - Black Widow (Deadly Origin)

MCOC Team · April 24

About Black Widow (Deadly Origin)
Recruited into the KGB at an early age and trained in the Red Room, Natasha Alianovna Romanoff developed into one of the world's greatest and most ruthless assassins. After drawing the attention of Nick Fury, she was recruited to join S.H.I.E.L.D. at Clint Barton's recommendation, even going on to become a founding member of The Avengers. Following the events of The Avengers Civil War, Romanoff is forced to confront the darkness of her past in the Red Room and the possibility of future generations of Black Widow assassins.

Black Widow (Deadly Origin)’s Mechanics

BASE STATS & ABILITIES

	Health	Attack	PI (Max Signature)
3-Star	5639	485	2000
4-Star	14140	1216	5017
5-Star	28350	2437	10620
6-Star (Rank 3, Level 45)	36530	3140	13660

Character Class: Skill
Basic Abilities: Widow’s Insight, Shock, Precision, Evade, Sabotage, Cruelty

STRENGTHS:

High Sustained Damage
By utilizing Widow’s Insight and Black Widow’s Shock Debuffs, players can consistently sustain high amounts of damage. This is possible only if the player consistently strikes the opponent while Widow’s Insight is active.
Evading Misses
Black Widow’s Evade ability is unique in that it is activated after she Misses an attack. This is a useful countermeasure against champions such as Invisible Woman and Guillotine 2099 as it allows her to Evade away from danger immediately after Missing a strike.
Defensive Ability Counter - Sabotage
This ability dramatically increases the damage Black Widow can dish out versus champions with Defensive Abilities such as Thing’s Rock Stacks and Hulk’s Fury Buff.

WEAKNESSES:

Shock Immune Champions
A large portion of Black Widow’s damage comes from Shock Damage, and any champions that are Immune to Shock will shut down a large portion of her damage.
True Strike and True Accuracy
Black Widow is not able to rely on her Evade if her Opponent has a reliable True Strike or True Accuracy ability.
Damage Over Time Effects
Black Widow does not have an immediate ability to Purify debuffs, nor regenerate health. This makes her very susceptible to Damage Over Time effects such as a Bleed and Incinerate.

ABILITIES:
The following Stats and Abilities are based on a Rank 5, Level 65, 5-Star Champion

Passive:

Baton Hits deal Energy Damage instead of Physical and have a 40% chance to inflict a Shock Debuff dealing 1827.75 Energy Damage for 3.65 seconds.

Widow’s Insight - Max 50 Stacks:

Black Widow’s covert assassin training kicks in whenever the perfect opportunity to strike presents itself. Gain Widow’s Insight for 0.85 seconds whenever the Opponent is dashing forward or recovering from a Heavy, Special, or Combo ending Attack.
This ability refreshes its duration when successfully landing hits.
Widow’s Insight is not affected by Ability Accuracy.

Developer’s Note: This ability allows Black Widow to capitalize on the opponent's mistakes. The window to use this ability is quite narrow in some cases, but players can use the Dexterity Mastery to trigger this ability more consistently. High skill players may already be familiar with this type of playstyle and will be able to make the most use out of Black Widow.

While Widow’s Insight is Active:

Light Hits: Increase Shock Ability Accuracy by a flat 60%.
Medium Hits: Reduce Defensive Ability Accuracy by 70%.
Heavy Hits: 100% chance to inflict a Stun Debuff for 1.75 seconds.
Ending a Combo has 100% chance to grant a Precision Buff increasing Critical Rating by 286.36 for 24 seconds. Max 8 Stacks.

Developer’s Note: Players can opt to perform two Medium attacks in their combo in match-ups versus tricky Defensive Champions such as Thing or Luke Cage. Making use of the Defensive Ability Accuracy reduction is key to countering powerful Defensive abilities.

Counter-Attack Evade

When caused to Miss, gain a Passive Evade granting 100% chance to Evade the next Basic Attack for 8 seconds. After triggering an Evade this effect is removed. Evade does not trigger while holding Block.
When triggering an Evade, Black Widow Counter-Attacks with a Flashbang. This attack cannot Miss and does not generate Power
When triggering an Evade through any of Black Widow’s personal Evade abilities, inflict a Sabotage Debuff reducing Defensive Ability Accuracy by 20% for 6 seconds. Sabotage deals 48.74 Direct Damage whenever an Opponent’s Defensive Abilities fail to trigger.

Developer’s Note: Fighting Champions such as Invisible Woman and Guillotine 2099 lets Black Widow ignore the effects of their Miss abilities. Players are also able to activate this Evade by using the Special Attack 1.

SPECIAL ATTACKS

Special 1: Flight of the Arachnid - Black Widow (Deadly Origin) strikes with a full turn kick and baton combo before delivering a shocking surprise.

The last hit inflicts a Shock Debuff dealing 2437 Energy Damage over 13 seconds.
At the end of this Special Attack gain a Passive Evade granting 100% chance to Evade any Basic Attack for 6 seconds. After triggering this Evade the effect is removed. Evade will not trigger while Blocking.

Special 2: Spider Bite Combination - Black Widow (Deadly Origin) displays her graceful baton work in a flurry of electrifying strikes.

Deal 4630.3 as a burst of Shock Damage when striking Shocked Opponents.
If Widow’s Insight is active: All hits reduce Defensive Ability Accuracy by 70%.

Developer’s Note: Players will have to activate their Special Attacks immediately after finishing their combos to fully make use of this attack. The damage of this attack can be enhanced further if the opponent is suffering from a Sabotage Debuff and has a Defensive Ability that triggers when Struck.

Special 3: Dance of the Elusive Black Widow - Black Widow (Deadly Origin) forms her batons into electrified whips before she gracefully loads her opponent with voltage.

Inflict a Sabotage Debuff reducing Defensive Ability Accuracy by 20% for 16 seconds and dealing 48.74 Direct damage when the Opponent’s Defensive Abilities fail to trigger.
For every 5 stacks of Widow’s Insight gained since last activating this Special Attack, create a Passive Cruelty increasing Critical Damage Rating by 430.12 for 30 seconds. Widow’s Insight is reset to 0 after launching this Special Attack.

Developer’s Note: The Critical Damage Rating boost on this attack is better utilized in longer fights as building up stacks of Widow’s Insight will also gradually build up your chance to deal Critical hits through Precision Buffs. This combination should greatly increase your damage output.

Signature Ability - Red Room Training

Increase the potency of Sabotage Debuffs, increasing Direct damage done when abilities fail to trigger by 120%.
Increase the duration of Sabotage Debuffs by 80%.
Landing hits while Widow’s Insight is active pauses Sabotage Debuffs for 0.50 seconds.

Developer’s Note: Sabotage will also trigger when certain Quest Buffs (Adaptive, Soft Guard, etc.) are present allowing Black Widow (Deadly Origin) to output even more damage versus these Defensive buffs.

SYNERGY BONUSES
Family Reunion - Unique Synergy

Black Widow (Deadly Origin): Black Widow starts the fight with her Passive Evade active until triggered.
Red Guardian: While charging a Heavy Attack, become Passively Unstoppable for 0.6 seconds. Cooldown: 10 seconds.

Remember Me - Unique Synergy

Black Widow (Deadly Origin): Each time Black Widow strikes with Widow’s Insight active she gains 2% of a Bar of Power.
Taskmaster: Each time he Exploits a Weakness, Taskmaster has a 30% chance to inflict a Sabotage Debuff for 10 seconds, reducing Defensive Ability Accuracy by 20% for 10 seconds and dealing 10% of Attack as direct Damage when Abilities fail to trigger.

Remembering Budapest - Unique Synergy

Black Widow (Deadly Origin): Reduce the potency of incoming Bleed Debuffs by 10%. Reduce the potency by an additional 10% if either Ronin or Hawkeye is Dead.
Ronin, Hawkeye: Increase the duration of Bleed and Disorient Debuffs by 10%. Gain an additional 30% Duration if Black Widow (Deadly Origin) is Dead.

Covert Expertise - Unique Synergy

Captain America, Iron Man, Falcon, Black Panther: When the opponent starts a Dash Attack or is recovering from a Heavy, Special, or combo ending attack, gain Widow’s Insight for 0.85 seconds. Ending a combo with Widow’s Insight active grants a Cruelty Buff increasing Critical Damage Rating by 450 for 12 seconds.

Rivals with Gamora, Psylocke, Elektra

All Champions gain +115 Critical Damage Rating.

It’s Complicated with Hulk, Hulk Ragnarok

All Champions gain +60 Armor Rating & 3% Power Gain.

RECOMMENDED MASTERIES
Liquid Courage / Double Edge

The Shock damage that Black Widow can output is very strong, but can still be boosted with these Masteries. If players bring the Remembering Budapest Synergy, Black Widow will take significantly less damage from the Bleed portion of Double Edge.

Willpower

Since Black Widow is susceptible to Damage over Time Effects, Willpower offers players a method to offset the damage she would take from these sources.

Cruelty / Precision

Black Widow is capable of high levels of Critical Hit Damage once she is able to get consistent combos in a fight. Adding Cruelty and Precision Masteries on top of Black Widow’s Critical Hit boosts will only boost her damage further.

Arham1 · April 24

Black Widow seems to have awesome abilities. Will have another Arena Grind for her soon.

SpideyFunko · April 24

Time to prep for an arena grind here.

hankenar77 · April 24

So Quake's synergy with classic BW will be updated with this version of BW? I mean with both widows, I hope it will.

issamaf80 · April 24

hankenar77 said:
So Quake's synergy with classic BW will be updated with this version of BW? I mean with both widows, I hope it will.

nope

LPH_337 · April 24

Bummer her counter attack doesn't apply to auto block as well. I dunno, so far its a pass for me

DRTO · April 24

No synergy with the OG Black Widow or BWCV? Where's the logic in that?

DrZola · April 25

No OG BW synergy. That’s a tremendous missed opportunity (unless it would have been like the Captain Marvel synergy).

Dr. Zola

JhovannaCoen · April 25

HYPE

winterthur · April 25

Was wondering why white costume. So, it is already in comics.

MaxtheSilent · April 26

DrZola said:
No OG BW synergy. That’s a tremendous missed opportunity (unless it would have been like the Captain Marvel synergy).

Dr. Zola

Yeah, if we are going to get a new version of a champ, which is understandable and fine actually, then a slight synergy buff to the OG character really should be done. Maybe give OG BW a shock on well timed blocks or something if she has the unique synergy.

DarkEternity · April 29

Ghost, Corvus, practically any champ can probably knock this girl hard... going to be an easy EQ match!

Magrailothos · April 30

MCOC Team said:

Widow’s Insight - Max 50 Stacks:
Black Widow’s covert assassin training kicks in whenever the perfect opportunity to strike presents itself. Gain Widow’s Insight for 0.85 seconds whenever the Opponent is dashing forward or recovering from a Heavy, Special, or Combo ending Attack.

So, does this only trigger when then opponent is recovering from a Heavy attack? Or does it apply to an opponent charging/preparing a Heavy attack as well? If so, it sounds like it could be really useful on a Heavy counter-attack; especially if the same ability applied to the Covert Expertise synergy.

Xand123_456 · May 1

She’s Looking VERY NICE!!! Great job KABAM

Warpath19 · May 5

When will she be available

Zuko_ILC · May 5

So far CCP gameplay is very underwhelming. She will definitely need a buff.

Turtle200000 · May 13

Black widow wont need a buff the content from seatin shows that she is still good at lower levels.

KDSuperFlash10 · May 13

Turtle200000 said:
Black widow wont need a buff the content from seatin shows that she is still good at lower levels.

She will need a damage buff.

Chovner · May 21

Why does her Sabotage Debuff inflict only a small direct damage amount (up to 48.74), but the REMEMBER ME synergy with Taskmaster gives him a Sabotage Debuff direct damage of 10% of his attack (~230 for 5*r5)? Shouldn't they both get the same 10% attack?

TheRoyal9 · May 23

DRTO said:
No synergy with the OG Black Widow or BWCV? Where's the logic in that?

No logic at all!

Ultimatheory · May 26

She needs better access to her defensive ability accuracy reduction. Her damage is actually pretty decent it's just her utility is a bit lacking. AAR on all her hits rather than just mediums while Widow's insight is up would go a long way.

Gmonkey · June 16

So I got and duped her. She is now r4, she can do fairly good damage stacking her shocks. She is enjoyable to play the evade is nice and can save you. Her Sp3 does not have very good payoff she should get larger damage from it, found sp2 to be great with lots of damage.

Gmonkey · June 18

So have her at r5 not the absolute best champ but she is good.

Here she is vs winter soldier at r5.

HavokXFactor · August 27

Is she good for AW Defense?

Dingo2 · August 29

I have a 2-Star of the character. She plays fine.

Cboggie44 · September 2

When will she be added to the basic crystals?

Freedomsage · September 18

She actually is 0 point of utility. All her abilities aren’t working correctly.
Shock - are good enough but when fighting vs electro, thing, torch, havoc, ext it is not playable at all. Ok - mutans are ok to be bad opponents, but science? Really? Make the shock passive for science for example!
Ok fine... next
Shock immunity - emmm she has no damage without. NO DAMAGE.
Ok make her main point damage dealing - sabotage
Just need to redo 2 mechanics: shock dealing tactics or sabotage tactics if the opponent is immune. For the mutants - reduce the damage from sabotage or the amount Widow’s Insight.

Widow’s Insight - has no correlation with damage in fact.

Her counter not working either. Timing is bad. It should work like Elza

I think she must be rebalanced. 2 way of dealing damage: shock and sabotage (now it’s only shock actually)

There are to many op champs so why reduce all abilities to her? Make her more universal... playable!

Champion Spotlight - Black Widow (Deadly Origin)

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