Your just afraid your zarya will get run over by brig truck.
It’s the way forward for her , the soul of brig is rubbing shoulders to rein and brawl.
She can be skilled while being brawl like rein.
The repair packs have to go for rebalance though.
No, it shows that the majority of the forums and player base doesn’t play in the ELO’s where Brig presents this problem. GM players have a tendency to forget they’re a very small % of the playerbase, as a result the game cannot solely be balanced for the top 3% of players while ignoring the bottom 97%.
In the other ELO’s where you can’t even guarantee people will group up, or even play heroes that have any synergy at all, Brig can be rough to play.
Really if they just deleted Brig along with the heroes she’s meant to keep in check Overwatch would be better for everyone.
I am not in favor of Brig receiving another nerf.
I hope for rework where Brig gains more independence and be more able to capitalize on her abilities.
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It wouldn’t be shocking, Brig is all but a must pick in dive-style comps. Blizz really messed up with her.
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I for one am disgusted at the idea of brig getting even more unnecessary nerfs.
Revert the shield nerfs.
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I agree her brawly meele combat style is what makes her fun, just please not another Anna.
The thing is if you are going to be a frontline character then you pretty much need good dps or you will be shredded up close and at range,.
Isnt if funny how brig was meant to end dive
And here we are, she ENABLES it more than most heroes
Considering Kaplan himself said in her introductory dev update that “she’s very powerful when you group up & build around her” this isn’t a surprise. This is inherent & intentional in her design.
She is already balanced in a way that is considerate to mid ranks if they group up as they’re supposed to. She can’t function really well both in grouped up teams & spread out teams or she leaves no room for other supports who are specifically strong with either grouped up teams (Moira/Bap/Lucio) or spread out teams (Ana/Mercy/Zen)
If mid ranks are choosing not to group up… I’m not sure what to tell you. Maybe voice comms?
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I think Brig’s issue is that, as long as she’s low risk and high reward in some capacity, people will hate her.
If she needs a nerf than time can only tell what D.va is going to get since she is higher in both and had double the pick rate of the 6th most played hero in Owl
Brig still a must pick in OWL and GM after 20+ nerfs. That character just needs a full rework, it clearly shows how her current kit is very problematic.
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She is third in gm and last at every other rank.
I think saying she’s doing “really good” is a vast exaggeration.
Even in GM, she’s been mediocre at best. 5th of 7 in pickrate and bottom 3 in winrate over the past month, last time I checked Overbuff. And that’s her BEST showing, she gets worse the further down the ladder you go.
It’s literally just OWL where she’s seeing heavy usage. Anywhere else, and she looks like she needs buffs, if anything.
This rework was a disaster.
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She has been needed another remake.
She can not be both a character with a simple kit and one of the most difficult heroes to get value out of.
She should be coordinated around offensively not turtle comps like right now. Brig should be an offensive brawler hero not a defensive Zoner. Whether you agree or not, absolutely no one enjoys playing against turtle comps at high Elo. No one.
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To do that she’s going to need a lot more mobility and reward for being offensive.
That’s not the problem with balancing around lower ranks problem is let’say Soldier is underperforming for a majority of players, at the same time Soldier is perfectly balanced in the top 5%, let’s assume that the reason is the majority of players cannot seem to land Helix rockets consistently enough to wear they get much damage out of it. So let’s say they give you a two capacity instead. In this case the majority of players will be enjoying a 50% increase in damage with Helix rockets at the very least now they can get some splash damage by spamming both and covering a slightly greater area. This will effect the entirety of the game.
Let’s start off with GM, you have now given GM players a highly mobile squishy deleter and now is Soldier has become OP. This is not ”OP" in the way that bastion is OP in the loweranks. Bastion appears to be OP when you don’t know how to deal with him, or your teammates fail to cooperate, however bastion can be overcome because he has a weakness and certain characters especially exploit that weakness. OP Soldier is different, he won’t look so cheap at first especially since it was adjusted to majority of players, however soldier will simply be the best DPS because he does not have a weakness like bastion he’ll be able to delete every DPS player hands down. Not even Genji’s reflect would help because you just shoot the rockets at the ground and either kill or severely him with splash damage.
This would in turn make it so that the secret to climbing every rank in DPS will be getting good with Soldier, and as you go up and rank up Soldier would be a required character and games will literally be won because of who had the better soldier and you will create a forever Meta. This wouldn’t be limited to Soldier, whatever character is not performing good for the average player will become bizaarely powerful in the higher ranks. So when you do eventually rank up, games will just get progressively worse and more unbalanced and cheap, and you will essentially be punished for getting better.
Tracer and ball being meta again. Tracer mostly though. Tracer is played in double barrier, winston dive and ball dive. Banning tracer in june joust caused brig to become the least played support. Mercy replaced her in both double barrier and winston dive, then lucio replaced her when reaper took tracer’s spot in dive/rush hybrid.
As long as tracer is best damage hero at the top and/or ball is doing well, brig will see a lot of play.
Owl already found the counter to ball/tracer comps recently though - it’s soldier 76. He does too much damage for zen and brig to heal through and he doesn’t even have 20 damage buff yet.
I hope they don’t nerf d.va because tracer’s insane pr in gm (better than most tanks and supports when she’s competing with 16 other heroes) is a big part of why d.va and brig’s pr are so high.
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2 things
- She can be used offensively, but her primary job is peeling.
- Why? Lucio exists, he’s the aggressive support for brawl because of speed boost. Also, her whole thing is “I will be your shield!” And she’s always been a peeler while Lucio is a very Press W hero
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