Hello dear Blizzard Forum,
I expect to probably get alot of hate for this, but ill do it anyways.
I love the Brigitte Meta. Im part of the minority, that plays competitive in primarily in organised 6-Stacks and to us, Brigitte is exactly what the Game currently needed.
The new stun and CC-based Meta invites to have interesting new compositions and counterstrategies, especially on offense. Strategies that, even in our Gold-Diamon tier of play do not translate to “who has the better Tracer smurf”?
The accusation, Brigitte could easily defeat enemy tanks is just ridiculous. Im a Main-Tank player and i win every single confrontation with her as Reinhardt or Orisa easily. I have literally not even once been threatened by a Brigitte as theese characters, as long as her ult wasnt in full swing, and even then i would usually grind her armor down faster then she recharged it. Especially Orisa is a to deal with as Brigitte, because she can deny Brigittes healing 90% of the Time and the other 10% she uses fortify to make swedish Cheese of her.
Of course, winston does have some problems with her, but surprise, surprise this is elementary part of who and what she hardcounters. According to the other players on my team, all Roadhog, Dva and Zarya have an easy time dealing with her.
We played several days with, without and against Brigitte and we find her meta defining, but pretty balanced. Triple-Support meta is now a good strategy to play against Brgitte Deathball combs, since Brigitte needs a lack of healing in the enemy team to even deal damage. Orisa-Road has proven the most succesful combo in dealing with her CC-Abilitys, even though a pocketed Reinhardt/Dva comb usually works just as well. Phara and Junkrat both have pretty dominant DPS roles now, along with Hanzo, Solider, Reaper and McCree. Especially the latter has now become a Smurf favorite, as we were playing against level 25-100 McCree gods in 2 of our ten placement matches. Tracers and Genjis have become rarer, and especially in organised play, they switch pretty quickly now, if the enemy has a Brigitte, which I find absolutely beautiful in itself already.
Brigitte is designed to replace Dive meta with a CC-Meta and i absolutely love it. Suddenly the Ranked matches are not anymore “who has the better Tracer/Genji”, but “who has the better Team composition?”. We spend alot of time 6-Stacking in quickplay the past month to be able to predict strategies for the upcoming Brigitte Meta and were rewarded with relatively easy 8/10 placement match win, as we were one of the few teams who knew how to play and how to counter this character. The variations, in which combs appear and dominate other teams have changed drastically. For example, a Brigitte-Comb looses insanely badly against Quad-Tank on defense and looses against Spam-Comb on offense. Spam comb on the other hand still looses against Dive on most maps, while Brigitte deathball takes down Dive.
this has led to some interesting paper-rock-scissor games, in which we completly overhauled a teamcomposition sometimes 2-3 times in a match, playing almost all Tanks and Supports at some point and playing many different DPS.
Conclusion: Brigitte did something, that the Community hates, she changed the game, which is, according to my humble opinion, something great. Just 3 days ago, there were 2 mobility Heros in the game who could theoretically eliminate every single opposing heros without ANY repercussions, while now Overwatch has entered a state of almost absolute counter-play and composition switching. “invincible” high-skill cieling characters are finally a thing of the past, which allows for other, pretty underappreciated DPS to be played more often.
Brigitte highly enhanced by gameplay experience for overwatch.
Thank you for this Hero, Blizzard.
And to everyone who doesnt want Dive to go away, doesnt want the game to change at all and doesnt like that a healer can defend herself:
This is the game now. Adapt to it or die out.
how dare you.