Talk:Black Widow (Original)/@comment-24652537-20140606131547/@comment-67.61.203.104-20140608205708

Black Widow Original isn't really overpowered. If anything, her strength and heavy use comes from being a full complement to most red/yellow/green matchups (like Ares, Thor, and Wolverine, as well as the 3-star versions of the latter two and Sentry) that make full use of her Aggressive Recons and healing potential outside of Spiderman Classic.

Your problem might come from poor strategy and not utilizing her weaknesses.

For one, she has really low HP. She should be targetted first in almost all situations. Since she is a 2-star, she is also heavily vulnerable to teams that are higher level than her, especially those 86+

Second, any character can be blocked simply by matching tiles for the moves that are most dangerous. Matching blues and purples before Widow can and filling your team with characters who use those colors, like another Widow, can make it so she goes down long before she causes a problem.

Magneto NOW is a powerful counter to use when battling her, especially with a Polarity Shift/Iron Hammer combination, or Wind Storm if you do the popular Magneto/Storm Classic pairing. The stun and heavy team damage take her and her friends out of commission pretty quick in the 2-star only circuit.

Next up, she has no real power on her own. Sure, Espionage is a double attack at level 4 and 5, but besides that, she can only steal AP, heal herself, and stall countdowns.

To deal with her healing, a good method would be to stash and save up one color of AP for one attack ability used multiple times to take out the rest of her HP in one turn instead of reducing her HP with attacks to be healed next turn, while targetting her the entire match. That nullifies the healing done on the rest of her team with full HP, and she could end up wasting it by overhealing herself. Then when you have enough to knock her out, you just attack until she's down. If she has enough Blue AP to heal twice for some reason, maybe a large chain, let the AI use it all until you return to fighting full force.

If her Aggressive Recon is flashing on one turn, use your next match to store more in a color you already have 4 AP in or an Environment tile match so you don't pad the AP she steals from you.

Lastly, remember that the game is luck-based overall, and a good cascade from any group of opponents can devastate any good setup. Just blame it on the randomness if the enemy teams gets a lot of extra AP and turns from match-4's and 5's and not necessarily this one character.