She is under picked in all ranks and her kit feels like it can’t keep up with this meta(next meta either probably). She needs a new utility imo, like her hook can grapple for upwards mobility on a cd or something. A buff to her shield by like 25 hit points wouldn’t be terrible either. It seems to just melt and takes too long too regen.
Brig was my go-to on support this season. I made it to GM3 and have around 70% win with her. I don’t think she needs buffs. It’s just that there are only certain situations where she’s a good idea.
I only use her if there’s at least one dive DPS on my team (to benefit from ranged repair packs) and we’re not facing a full poke comp. Definitely don’t use her with a non-mit tank unless the other support is something with heavy single-target healing to cover them. She’s also obviously great vs dive. I use her to shut down Ball one-tricks.
I don’t think a little more shield HP would break her, but she’s very strong right now in the right situations.
The sub passive is a pretty good buff to her. It helps you against poke because you can use the shift to go behind cover and immideately start regen
One of the worst feelings as Brig is when you are at 10HP and have to go hide until your health gets to a decent level.
She needs to be able to stun again, the threat of that gave her more survivability. It’s exactly what made Mei so useless now, no longer being able to freeze made her a sitting duck. The deiveloper has no clue about such things though.
Meta not favoring her =/= brig needs buffs.
Brig is already good in her intended niche (bodyguarding her other support), buffing her just makes her broken in her intended niche.
The problem is poke being meta (thing she’s weak against) and dive being borderline horrid (thing she’s strong against).
Would be a great way to make the character immediately 10x more insufferable and break a hero who is already fine in her current state.
If anything, they should change her minors perks. You essentially get to choose between “heal slightly more” and “heal slightly more 2”.
She was so broken when she released, that the trauma that was created was so hard, that she is not allowed to be on a level, where everyone could pick her up and play her. I am sorry. So is the rule.
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That’s kinda the sad thing about Brig is that she has become this specialized tool you only use in certain situations. I don’t think any hero should be that specialized.
Also, Brig has been so warped from her original concept that she’s unintuitive now, what is on the tin is not what you get. So new players are probably just confused when they try her. Add to that most people, even some Brig players, don’t even understand how her healing really works. People who are being healed by her Inspire don’t even know it a lot of times and think Brig is doing nothing. She’s more like an unappreciated chore than something fun to play right now.
So if you really like Brig as a character and you only get to use her under certain circumstances (mostly dictated by what other players are doing) and even if you do get good at this unintuitive, specialist that you can only bring out under certain conditions, it just kinda sucks.
I only play brig if my other support is on ana and are constantly getting dove and needs someone to peel for her. Or if I’m playing in control maps like Lijiang Tower. Or if the enemy is on ball and constantly killing our backlines.
Brig is less flexible than supports like kiriko overall, but she’s still decent when you pick her in the right situations.
It’s hard for me to tell when brig is in a bad state, because of how much of a situational pick brig always has been for the most part in OW2.
The thing about Brig is that she’s one of two supports that can hold their own in close-quarter combat. The other being Lucio. As a result most comps will want one of the two, which has been true for all of OW2 and most of OW1.
Now sometimes this means that people overestimate Brig, and I think this is one of those times. Her pick rate is abysmal, even in high ranks. I counted 16 Brigs in top 500 this season in NA. Her win rate is abysmal, even at high ranks. With Mizuki coming out and occupying a very similar design space as her, she’s likely going to struggle even more next season.