I don’t know if this is just a me issue or what, but I can’t seem to figure out how to make Rein or Brig do their melee. I have rebound my melee key from its default to F, and I haven’t really seen much of an impact, these two are the only exception it seems. Upon pressing the melee key, they instead do a basic Left Click attack. I don’t know if I did something wrong in my settings or the devs messed something up, but I wanted to know if anyone else is having this issue.
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Brigitte doesn’t have one. It’s all her primary fire. I’m pretty sure that applies to Rein too.
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So they don’t even have a melee? I can’t imagine it would be too hard to add an animation of them punching. But even then it’s odd that the melee key triggers a left click instead of doing nothing, maybe an oversight on devs part.
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It was less of an oversight and more just their design philosophy since they already have melee weapons.
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they dont have a melee
Because they are melee
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Like they have close range weapons, but sometimes I just need that little bit of damage instantly, instead of having to wait for the windup into another swing, it would be nicer to have.
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Exactly. They don’t have a quick melee because they ALREADY have melees. Reins is a upgraded like wide sweep hammer. Brig does 35 dmg instead of 30 with better aoe range and effect. All a melee would do would be less dmg for them. Ramatra is one of the only exceptions with a melee for his melee form.
I can’t speak for Rein but it wouldn’t make much sense with Brigitte given her ability to do burst damage with the right combo. Her primary attack is a BIT slower compared to attack then an instant melee but that’s offset by the range of her primary attack (Plus the fact it hits multiples per swing)
But even then ramattra mostly fires projectiles from the punches rather than punching himself
Lololol. Uhm you might need to re visit melee school for that one.
Um they don’t have a "quick"melee. But they are balanced around their primary fires being melee.
And thats basically /thread
Ok, so they don’t have melee attacks, that’s outa the way. But why does the melee attack key trigger a left click instead of just doing nothing? I’m pretty sure there’s nothing wrong with my keybinds.
Probably because Rein and Brig (but less) can hit you through walls, just a bit. So they don’t get a quick melee. And why would you when the regular attack can hit multiple?
“but sometimes I just need that little bit of damage instantly, instead of having to wait for the windup into another swing” - My Earlier Reply
This is why
This is why it is not
Melee characters would feel very B+X+R.
Which is pretty much, attack until it’s in melee kill range by landing one of your other moves (brig’s flail into shield boop, to one swing into quick melee)
Rein lands a firestrike, plus one melee and the squish is already in quick melee. But I feel it breaks brig more, as rein has a bit more reach with his swing.
Nope! The 2 melee only heroes do not have melee attacks! 
They also don’t need to reload, the punishment for not having to reload is having no melee to avoid giving them that little bit of instant dmg every other hero has for free
the thing about rein and brigitte is that i was never able to make a basketball hoop in the pregame lobby on that overwatch space ship thingie
So Brigitte is holding something in both hands… I have found it awkward with her melee being her primary but unless they did like a Zenyatta kick kinda thing or something like how Reaper has guns that appear and disappear under his cloak… I can’t really imagine her dropping her weapons just to melee as her flail already is a melee weapon… As for Rein his shield does come out of his left arm and at that moment he is able to hold his heavy hammer in 1 hand… hmm so maybe a melee with his left had could be viable like Ram’s punch melee, but I think it all does come down to balance…