I explained it in a long post above. Go look at it. She shuts down so much of what the meta heroes do, and enables the meta DPS really well.
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Not good in 2-2-2 according to dev comments and comment creators
She shuts meta heroes down so she’s good
Right…whatever man.
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There’s still people using the win rate with a stupidly low PICK RATE as a reason to why she is good?
Jesus Christ …
Dont think she is pathetic but she is vastly underwhelming compared to ANY other suport. Sure Zen is now bad in this meta but she has a kit that contradicts herself. The rework was in the “good direction” but its not even close to decent, let alone the word “good”.
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Imagine applying that logic to someone like Torb.
“Torb has the 5th highest winrate in GM rank, therefore he’s perfectly balanced!”
People are so stupid some times.
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If she was that good
They would have used her
In league.
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Good haiku… because its true.
Like who? Doomfist? ( her low survivability gets her clapped) reaper( if hes braindead then she can stun him out of ult sure but claped immediately after) mei(no), none of the tanks.
Brig counters doom.
Brig can 1v1 mei which is something few can do.
Brig can make reaper useless.
Birg is great against hammond, hog and dva. She can mostly ignore shields and is able to shutdown a lot of ults including moira.
Brig also turns dive characters into monters. Especially tracer and doomfist.
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You forgot to say “old brig”. she does not do any of thoses things anymore even youtubers like btc, stylosa, and coach jayne has said as much. If brig shuts down doom your bad, if she shuts you down as mei you are really bad and reaper well you get the point.
Hell they even gave tracer range as a final piss on brig so she really counters nobody and is useful to nobody. Zen counters tracer, reaper, mei, and doom way more then she does now.
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Counters doom? Counters mei? Makes reaper useless? Are you actually having a laugh? This is the dumbest thing I’ve read all day. Dear god.
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Also, to add onto this, even if she is able to reliably do those things, old Brig would be able to do that exact same thing, but her kit would actually work with itself. Right now, she has abilities and passives that encourage her to be in melee range but she doesn’t actually have the sustain to remain in melee range. They’re trying to take a melee support and put her in the mid or backline like the other supports. That’s just how it feels to me. If they buffed her sustain or her shield so that she could be in melee range longer than she can be now, then I might pick her up again. But as of right now, I see too many contradictions in her kit.
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Right? Why is she the only support to be so heavily melee based while having none of the survivability necessary to get in range in the first place? Blizzard is literally saying they want you to ignore half of her kit.
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Odd… I made diamond with brig… and others have made top 10… but sure brig sucks and cant do anything.
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I don’t hate where Brigitte is at right now, she is pretty fun and challenging to play, but can also be of high value with the subtleties she provides. The only change I could see is potentially more shield health, somewhere in the range of 300
BTC? Right… and Stylosa? Who is the comedian now?
Jayne has spent jackall time playing this season so his opinions on any one character isn’t that useful.
That train of logic doesnt fly anywhere mate, not even in real life.
So just because there are a couple of dudes that won the lottery, that means buying tickets its the best investment you can make with money? Cmon … I want to believe someone that writes that doesnt REALLY believe that flawed logic.
Anyone who get to T10 with Brig, would do 10x better with ANY other hero in the support roster, with the possible exception of Zen in this meta.
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Just relearn Brig
You no longer can invest your time purely on engagements like old Brig could.
Now you gotta get your attention more split, master Repair Pack distribution first, Whip Shot second, and her other abilities + engagements for the last part.
She’s an armor/healing distributor first.
A disruptor second and a brawler third and last.
You’re thinking about Overwatch as a game of 1v1’s. Brigitte doesn’t beat Doomfist or Reaper in a 1v1. She doesn’t do enough damage for that. But she CAN shut them down in a TEAM game.
Bopping or stunning a Doomfist can easily get the Doomfist killed if your team is paying attention. That includes when you stun a Doomfist right after his ult. Will Brigitte secure those kills on her own? No. But can she consistently make plays that allow her team to kill a Doomfist they’d not otherwise have killed? Yes.
Same with Reaper. She can boop him away from her team when he’s in his effective range. She can boop him into her team for a quick kill. She can stun him when he’s getting low so he gets killed before he can use wraith form. And she can stun him out of his ult. You may say a good Reaper won’t get stunned out of their ult. But GM Brigitte players stun Reapers out of their ults fairly often. And even if they didn’t, the mere presence of Brig and the threat of her stun will prevent Reaper from getting some big ults he would’ve otherwise been able to pull off. It really limits Reaper’s options for ults, which limits his value.
A good Brigitte makes Doomfist’s and Reaper’s lives much much harder.
As for Mei, she’s not actually meta, at least on ladder. Her pick rate in GM is not high at all. Brigitte can stun her before she ice blocks and stun her out of her ult with good timing, but I wouldn’t say ability to counter Mei is important in this meta right now.
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Whipshot also puts Mei out of her useful range, because she can only use Meicicles outside 7 meters. Pretty much any hero you can think of that needs to be up close or in a brawl to be effective, Brigitte punishes.
She’s still lowkey broken but people see “can’t just mash my face into the other team anymore” and assume that means she’s bad.
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everyone with a brain who saw the way this character was released knew it was going to run overwatch as a brand into the ground and take a huge dump on it for the next year.
we also knew players would complain she was nerfed beyond recognition when she would eventually be fixed because none of these people are skilled and have no comprehension of how completely stupid and busted brigitte was as a hero on release.
i mean literally. these people would complain OOOHHH THIS HERO DOESN’T COUNTER TRACER ANYMORE BECAUSE COMBO CAN’T 1 SHOT ANYMORE while Tracer continued to be one of Overwatch’s worst performing heroes despite their keen sense of intuition and insightful observations.
I mean honestly
imagine being one of these people that are so stupid that they actually believed tracer was being countered by 40% shield bash accuracy and 27% whipshot accuracy, not the instant healing and massive amount of overheal her ultimate applied to friendly players which did not decay and nerfed tracer’s damage.
It actually disgusts me to know that these people think they know anything about game balance. They sit there and tell you that you need to git gud when they’ve never mirrored a widowmaker or decent tracer with any degree of success and can’t get out of silver because they are a DPS Moira.
And they still don’t know how to play brig because they play new brig and just turbo feed on cooldown trying to play her like doomfist with no movement abilities.
like lol imagine picking healer in a game and being mad you can’t do better DPS than DPS heroes and don’t have a 500 HP barrier with no deployment cooldown to justify some of the stupidest positioning anyone has ever seen in the history of Overwatch
it just goes to show what a poor state this game has been in for people to believe all of that was OK. They left her like that for so long people actually started to think it was normal LOL
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