Black Widow is a high-skill, pick-oriented assassin who leverages stealth, scouting, and burst to dismantle enemy backlines. Her game plan revolves around information: tracking rotations, isolating targets, and striking when defensive cooldowns are down. Widow punishes sloppy positioning and thrives in map states where she can control the pace through constant threat of a pick. Optimal play blends patience with decisiveness. Establish off-angles, pre-plan escape routes, and coordinate with soft engage to force panic cooldowns. Widow’s true value isn’t just eliminations—it’s the pressure that warps enemy spacing and slows their setup. When teams must babysit backliners, your frontline gains room to claim objectives. Her counters bring reveal, mitigation, or layered displacement. Shield carriers soak burst and escort vulnerable allies; trickster duelists disrupt her setup; control mages punish her commits with snares and stuns. Widow is fragile and snowballs off good decisions—misreads are costly. In organized squads, she remains a surgical win-condition that turns any fight into a coin flip in your favor when she identifies and deletes the right target at the right time.