Just look at the hard data that we have. Something’s been wrong for a long time. People are either too salty/hateful to admit she needs help, or too scared, or too indifferent.
She’s between dead last and 3rd lowest place AKA below average, for nearly every category in every rank for the past half year. The only anomaly is a spike up to slightly above average winrate in the lowest ranks, Bronze, and Silver.
That’s probably due to the much lower gamesense/reaction time in those ranks. But when we get past those, and into average games all the way up to the best of the best, she’s still the bottom of the barrel or slightly above bottom.
PC - COMPETITIVE - SUPPORTS - LAST 6 MONTHS
Bronze:
Pickrate: 7th place
Winrate: 3rd place
Silver:
Pickrate: 7th place
Winrate: 3rd place
Gold:
Pickrate: 7th place
Winrate: 5th place
Platinum:
Pickrate: 7th place
Winrate: 5th place
Diamond:
Pickrate: 6th place
Winrate: 7th place
Master:
Pickrate: 6th place
Winrate: 7th place
GM:
Pickrate: 5th place
Winrate: 6th place
ALL RANKS (OVERALL):
Pickrate: 7th place
Winrate: 5th place
And now for your burning responses to why she doesn’t need help:
“Overbuff doesn’t matter because I say so.”
“Overbuff stats are meaningless; they only show registered people. If we only have partial data on something, it’s useless. We can ONLY use data if 100% of players on earth are represented. Slices of data, the largest slices we possibly can have, are meaningless bro.”
“Overbuff is inaccurate because Sym is still in support category. Ha, owned you. Schooled you.”
Sym's presence on Overbuff does not matter.
She's dead last in pickrate for every rank, AKA 8th place. That means Brig is 7th place when Sym is on Overbuff stats, and Brig is still 7th place if Sym didn't exist.
Sym's presence on Overbuff does not matter.
For Winrate, Sym was skipped over, as she’s always 1st with a few exceptions where she’s 2nd. I still put Brig as “7th place” even though on the chart she is in 8th. I’m not dumb, I know how to adjust places to account for this 
“Streamer blablabooeygirl9000 got to top 10 with her, she’s fine”
“I personally one tricked Brig to (insert rank), she doesn’t need buffs. My subjective experience makes everything from the rest of playerbase invalid.”
“Guyz remember launch Brig from 3.5 years ago? She was so OP right?? (derailed thread)”
“Guyz remember GOATS? Lucio doesn’t exist, Brig solely caused GOATS, she made all my friends and favorite streamer quit OW, she ruined my credit score and made my Dog run away and crashed the economy of Croatia.”
“Brig has a 5 damage single target short range 0.75s stun that doesn’t go thru barriers and is being removed in OW2, she doesn’t need more buffs.”
"No other support has a shield that shatters in 0.1 sec of focus fire, she is fine. (ignores how nearly all other supports have some combination of self healing over time outside of combat, big mobility, or good ranged damage output)
“She has the best ult in the game (doubt)”
“She invalidates Tracer just by existing (hyper doubt)”
“She deserves to be last or close to last in everything bc she is braindead skill-less kit”
“You’re still trying to play her like launch Brig!”
“All these tens of thousands of people are playing her wrong bruh, I am a crystal ball seer and can see this with my spirit magic eyesight, that’s why she’s dead last or close to it in every rank in every stat for year(s) now. It can’t possibly be that she needs kit rework/buffs.”
“Here’s 92 youtube guides on Brig tips, you, Cake, are personally playing her wrong, (covers eyes and ears to the data and pretend like it doesn’t exist)”
Why did I make this topic when she’s getting reworked in OW2? Idk,
I guess I’m just afraid they’re doing the “remove stun, give 45 more damage and xtra range on bash, lower healing in-combat” and call her rework done
Or that they won’t touch her for the next year or two until OW2 comes out
I’m mainly tired of people ridiculing me for suggesting that she needs help or changes to her current kit. The data keeps piling up, more and more. It keeps showing across all ranks she sits at bottom or right above bottom.
It’s been like this for a long time, except a period last year where she was doing decent in GM, AKA the top 1% of players, therefore the 99% of others’ opinions on Brig don’t matter as Blizz only balances for the elite 1% and OWL. I’m just tired of it…
Some people’s minds are so invariably and permanently warped, they do so much mental gymnastics to attack anything and everything pro-brig written around here, that it’s baffling and hilarious. To them, because she was a monster almost 4 years ago, she deserves to be poopy until the end of time. That’s petty, childish, unhealthy way of looking at balance
Notice how I didn’t mention a single time my own subjective experiences or results playing Brig myself. I only brought forth data, the largest hard-data we have, that isn’t touched or altered by subjective experiences or opinions
That is, unless Blizz releases internal stats for Hero’s performances for the entire playerbase, but that’s never gonna happen
