>>535686347
>The sniper rifle is not some far off departure from her character.

She is not known for being a "sniper" as her defining aspect. When people think of Marvel sniper characters, they do not think of Black Widow. Black Widow is a sniper because china looked at Widowmaker from Overwatch, that's it.

Black Widow is known for being a super-spy, martial artist, acrobat/dancer, using all manner of guns and melee weapons like batons.
Trying to make a long ranged sniper also have melee weapons and melee ranged skills, wanting the player to go from ranged sniping ot melee is incredibly retarded.

Black Widow should've either been a flanker along the lines of Psylocke or a mid-to-close range hero that constantly wants to jump back and forth between ranged and melee, with each having synergy (like shooting someone marks them (for assassination), then you jump in to deal melee damage with marked targets taking extra damage).

Instead what we got was by far the worst designed kit in the entire game.