For the longest time, people have been asking why Doomfist couldn’t get a personal shield, and why he was saddled with the crappy shotgun and couldn’t just swing away with the MASSIVE FIST he’s got.
Well, Brigitte and her kit is the answer. She’s basically displaced any chance Doomfist had at being a decent melee brawler. Her left and right clicks are basically what Doomfist SHOULD have had.
So now, just like how Reaper’s Wraith and Teleport can never be heavily reworked and made effective because Moira and Sombra ripped off his abilities and did them better, any hope for Doomfist is DEAD and he can take a seat next to Reaper in the Dumpster of Awkward Kludgy Kits.
And the developers were laughing at Doomfist players the whole time. FML.
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Doomfist is getting more buffs and maybe all of his bugs fixed in March or April.
What I want for him to have his Rocket Punch increase to 50%, let him keep his shields, increase Meteor Strike damage, and all of his bugs fixed
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I see the point, though. Doomfist was presented as a melee character. In his introduction he punches, and blocks with the gauntlet. His actual kit has essentially nothing to do with the way he was presented, or most people expected. He should have had a melee left click, and a defensive right click, rather than the knuckle-duster and rocket punch. That’s not to say that he’s not moving in the right direction, just that he has never (and never will) live up to the conception.
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Well, not only that but brig also got the coveted shield bash that rein players wanted.
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I disagree, Doomfist remains great. From what I’ve tried of Brigitte her damage seems low and there is nothing she can do that Doomfist cannot. Doomfist can both Stunt and Knockback while doing enormous damages using only one ability, Brigitte is nowhere near that.
Also DF’s shotgun is more like a tool to add more damages once you got close with your abilities. You shouldn’t engage with his left click
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I might be the only one thinking this, but if “The Mighty Doomfist” has gameplay centered around hiding behind a shield and half-baked sissy slapping people who got near, it’d just feel… wrong.
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If anything doomfist is a counter to brig… she cant block his punch…
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She will be able to break up his combo, shield slam stun, left click to push him away.
If anything I think she will be a counter to him
with her 5 meter shield charge vs dooms 25ish meter distance? mehh. we’ll have to see i suppose
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Doomfist moves 20 meters at most, not 25.
~30 meters if you count jump punching.
Actually, i think Brigitte got all the stuff that people wanted Sym to have.
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At any rate, I’ve got a list of ideas for doomfist that would place him where he should be–in a state that allows him to be a proper brawler without being reliant on the bugs that give him more movement options.
“Doomfist community patch” is the name of the thread if anyone wants to check it out.
When Doomfist tries to start the combo with his Slam all she needs to do is keep a shield up, then he is in range to start his combo which she can inerupt with a shield slam stun , and left click him away.
Hopefully a sound effect “COMMBOO BREAKER” plays when this happens
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Saying he can never be fixed… what? have you no imagination?
She can brawl. She’s a brawler and Doomfist isn’t. Doomfist NOT being a brawler is the problematic part of that.
Her melee attack doesn’t go on a cooldown and force her to use a crappy shotgun. She can attack someone right in front of her at melee range WITHOUT REQUIRING A MASSIVELY TELEGRAPHED ATTACK. She can do it repeatedly. She doesn’t launch across the map, screaming like an idiot and she isn’t reliant on combos from bugged abilities that frequently don’t hit and leave you completely put out when they do. She doesn’t feel frail like Doomfist.
Attack wise, she’s a more brawly version of Reinhardt. Compare with Doomfist who is more akin to a crappier version of Genji.
I’m not saying she infringes on what Doomfist is. Doomfist is a kludgy, frail, all-in RNG, high mobility piece of garbage. She displaces what he SHOULD have been. What he COULD have been…until they wedged Brigitte partially in that niche.
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Doom punch is a stun… uppercut is a stun. pew pew. dead
You’re joking, right?
She’s a zero mobility hero who’s one wall-kiss away from being one-shotted. The only way she survives against a good doomfist is with perfect positioning that puts her squarely in the line of fire against ranged heroes, or her ultimate. Doomfist is going to take her apart.
Uppercut isn’t a stun… at all. It locks their movement so that they can’t airstrafe and that’s it.
Uppercut is not a stun, engaging her with a Rocketpunch could be effective if she is not aware that she is getting targeted by it, otherwise all she needs to do is wait to see him release rocket punch and shield slam, my money would be that the interaction would knock down both her and doomfist like when 2 dooms punch eachother or when rocket punch meets Rein charge