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Overwatch League Skin: How To Go The New Widowmaker Expect

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Widowmaker got a new Overwatch look ahead of the Overwatch League 1v1 tournament.

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The second Overwatch League tournament of the year is about to have place and, simply like terminal time, at that place's a special peel that's up for grabs for the next couple of weeks. Widowmaker is getting the legendary pare treatment this time around.

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Her Ange de la Mort skin, French for Angel of Expiry, is appropriately gloomy and it's almost as if Widow is giving her take on Reaper cosplay. (Side note: Team 4, please make skins of heroes cosplaying as each other.) It's blackness and grey with a skull on her waist and a headpiece that looks a little more similar Reinhardt's logo than her regular cowl. But this is still very much a Widow pare — her spider motif is placed prominently on her chest.

"We wanted to design i of the darkest skins in the game—the goal was to brand her feel lifeless, scary, dangerous, common cold, and lethal," Blizzard said." A bringer of death in the class of a cyborg from the future with a hint of fantastical element in her costume."

It's a cool pare and 1 that probably won't spark as much give-and-take as the controversial MM-Mei skin for May Melee.

Widowmaker was the obvious pick for this tournament cycle'due south skin. Just before the June Joust concluding gets underway on Saturday, the annual Widowmaker 1v1 tournament volition accept place, with legendary hitscan player Pine returning to represent Dallas Fuel.

The Widowmaker Ange de la Mort skin costs 200 Overwatch League tokens, which you can earn by watching alive matches on YouTube. Otherwise, you tin can purchase plenty tokens for effectually $10. You can purchase the pare in-game by selecting the Overwatch League menu and then the Overwatch League logo underneath all of the ones for individual teams.

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Remember that although cross-play is coming to Overwatch soon, cross-progression is not. Yous'll nevertheless need to buy the skin on every account where y'all'd like to take information technology.

If you don't quite have plenty tokens, you tin peak upward your rest by connecting your Battle.net account to YouTube and watching the June Joust tournament this weekend. Betwixt Th and Saturday, New York Excelsior, Shanghai Dragons, Dallas Fuel and Atlanta Reign volition knuckles it out for the June Joust title, $100,000 and three crucial Overwatch League points.

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