How do I play Brigitte?

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So, I’m a support player. And I’ve HATED Brig for as long as I can remember.

Buuut my coach wants me to learn her. ASAP. And although I feel uncomfortable playing her (especially in scrims), I recognize her as the broken armor rat she is and that I need to learn her as a main support.

If you could offer me some tips so I can get started on the right foot, it would be massively appreciated. So things like when to be aggressive/passive, Rally usage, positioning, heal usage, etc etc etc.

(inb4 brig ez just m1) < Please don’t leave comments like this, I genuinely need to learn her. Otherwise, thank you! : )

- M

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  • is a enemy playing doom? stun him asap as soon as he jumps into the team and call it out.

  • I personally see her rally like if a lucio is speed boosting you to grab a lot of kills but also where you use it as a thick engage with your teammates as you swing a lot and throw packs.

  • basically play her in a bubble of your teammates think of it like a lucio’s circle around her keep your teammates there at most times. at least that’s how i play her.

what exactly are you looking for tip wise give us some more information like are we talking you need the basics of the basics or what?

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Coach shouldn’t force you if you don’t like it.

If you want to learn her yourself checkout violet streams brig otp and generally talks about their engages.

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Don’t really know what tip would be useful since I’m learning her right now. But all I can say is her healing isn’t good for clutch.

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I think tips on when not to use her may be helpful.

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One thing I recommend if you need health and the other healer isn’t around, use whipshot as it will trigger inspire and you should get next to full health if not full health. I would also try to stick with you team as much as possible because of AOE heal. But like a Moira might do, if there is like a single person by themselves, you should go after them and don’t be afraid to use you shield even, like when you are shield bashing

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Simplest and best advice I can give is to position yourself at the SIDE of the fight. These forums are a holocaust graveyard of people saying ‘I don’t get it, I should be in the front or in the back’ the answer is NEITHER, you should be on the SIDE.

Which side, left or right, is something that will always be dependent on map situation. This is something you always need to be re-evaluating, as to whether you should be on the left side of the team or the right side. Too many variables to make this a simple Brig Lesson, you have to learn this over time.

However, from the SIDE, Brig can do three important things, all of which suit her kit.

A) you got a good view of what your team (ESPECIALLY YOUR DPS) are doing so you can toss dem packs correctly
B) if the enemy tries to flank on your side, you punish them hard
C) when your team tries to rotate, you can provide a safe spot for them to do so.

IN GENERAL, once your positioning is correct, I recommend you walk into each fight with these priorities.

#1 get those packs out to the correct people (again, usually DPS) what needs them
#2 monitor your spot and look for the whipshot to trigger your AOE healing
#3 IF you have done #1-#2 correctly it could be time to wade in and start bashing. If not, reset to #1.
#4 PROFIT

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bodygaurd your second support, always be in range to bash your second support, prioritize packing your DPS and keep one pack as often as you can for an emergency use, use rally to engage fights and during brawl phases of fights, use flail off cooldown

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Lol, the irony of not being able to be coached by your coach on how to play Brig.

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I play Brig like a very aggressively positioned Ana or Zen, constantly looking for opportunities to get big ability value without excessive risk, and preemptively positioning accordingly. Getting high bash/boop value is gonna be important.

Your packs won’t cut it in a sustained heal war, so you need to be able to land your whipshots to proc. In the grand scheme of things, you should be using M1 sparingly, simply due to risk management.

80% of the time, you want to rally about 2~4 seconds before you would normally Valk.

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Hold your shield up A LOT.

A normal stereotype of Brigitte is that she seems too overconfident and will always try to kill someone.

You can use this as an advantage.

When I’m fighting a road hog they shoot my shield and expect me to pull it down and stop shooting to activate hook. If you just keep holding your shield up, he won’t realize you’re not taking it down till seconds later.

Another tip is when you’re being attacked and you know you won’t win if you pull it down. Shield bash them, because once again, they will assume you’re gonna take your shield down after you shield bash to attack. Again, buying you some time.

Obviously try to shield dance but it’s a good tip just to constantly hold it up and save that 1 HP of shield for a burst attack and request backup before attacking.

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You have a bad coach if all he said was learn x hero then left it at that. He is the one who is supposed to fill you in on how to properly play said hero.

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What kind of coach do you have when he tells you what to play but you have to ask elsewhere to ask how to play it?

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Currently you should play her like a different version of Mercy. You are a pocket healer that follows teammates around, playing passive, reading the fight, keeping yourself alive, but instead of damage boost you offer some space control around your pocket with your melee damage and CC.

Close range enemies come close to your pocket? You shot call them for your pocket, bash them and melee them (expecting your pocket will follow up) or you whip shot them away.

On top of that you always try to keep inspire up with Whip Shot and throw some Repair Packs to some other teammates at range in need of it.

W+M1 when you Rally or W+M1 when your team already got some picks and you are in a clean up phase, but don’t go W+M1 on full health tanks being supported in any case, too risky.

I get that’s it. She has this more passive team reliant playstyle now, like a more aggressive Mercy, you know?

If you watch this video: It’s a Dafran’s video. From 5:00 he is on defense in Gibraltar.

Look at how Brig pockets him, follows him, shields him sometimes and she passively body guards him messing up with a Wrecking Ball that tries to disturb/disrupt him.

I wish I could watch this game from the Brig player perspective.

As someone told me, she is an “interventionist”, she passively follows teammates, heals, reads the fight and waits for the right moments to intervene making it easier for teammates to punish enemies invading your space.

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It’s going to be a matter of engagement and positioning priority where you can get a hit on an enemy to maintain inspire procs and hugging corners so you always have some shield for moments when it’s needed.

Try to have all Repair fights going into a fight if possible which means the other support will usually be topping people off at times.

Get used to tracking ults and adjust positioning to be get close enough to shut them down. Also need to good shield management as you want that full health as possible to help with it.

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Can’t you ask your coach instead the forums of all places?
Like if you want real Brig tips - I suggest OverwatchUniversity subberid or Brigmains sub.

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To learn brig you need at first a basuc understanding if the game, things like map control, good positioning, how to use reccources, ult tracking, abillity tracking… You cant play Brig without knowing these things.
You also play Brig very different in different comps. In Brawl you play her as a 2. frontline and try to apply pressure, in splitted up comps you try to gain Map control over a small fragment of the map where your Zen or Ana stays, so they cant get flanked so easy. As Brig you have to look a lot on the enemy team comp and your teamcomp to know what to do.
Here are still some basic wrongs of many Brigs:
Dont shieldbash into enemys, shieldbash should get used to:

  1. Stun flankers in your backline

  2. Cancell abillitys (example: take a breather, Coalecence, kinetic grasp). Some abillitys can get “cancelled” despite having no casting time (Stun roadhhg after he hooks, so he cant onehit combo for example)

  3. As a mobillity tool. Jump at the end of the shieldbash animation to travel further.

  4. Combo it with Whipshot, if a target doesnt move it gets booped further, if you stun a target it stays still.

For your shield:
Dont hold your rightclick if you are out of position (in most cases, against high burst damage like widow for example you sometimes want to hold it) your movement speed is extremely small while shielding and going backwards, enemys will always outspeed you very fast if your not in position.
Try to shieldhop on long ranges and in close ranges cancel your melee with shield, so you do a lot of damage with a lot of protection.
This makes it easier to destroy your shield and gives Brig more time to heal herself, becauce if you shield before you even take damage means you dont get any selfhealing while shielding.
An advanced tip is to turn into the direction you move if your shield is down, you have to move your mouse a lot for this, but it makes your head harder to hit and increases your movement speed a bit

Whipshot:
Use it a lot and train your accuracy with it. Its not that hard to hit, but if you miss it its very hard to reactivate your inspire and without your selfhealing its more risky to activate it

If you stay on highground use it to boop things like Monkey or dva off highground. Lets take numbani as example: If you play against a Brig as Monkey on this map, Brig can boop you everytime off highground after you used jump, this means you have to get on highground without jump and this needs hours

Sorry if its to personal, but can you maybe tell us the first 3 characters of your teams name?

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Your goal is deny positions and protect teammates. It’s quite difficult to explain without examples so here’s a video. I’ve linked it so it starts at the part I would have explained, applying these principles to different maps is the goal with Brig.

In this video he doesn’t exactly talk about what to do, just watch the gameplay and the little text pop-up tips that explain the gameplay. I hope this helps

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Don’t play her like you used to before her rework.

It’s not her job, place, or capability to press W into the enemy team by herself.

Stick with your team, watch for targets to slap repair packs on, whipshot whenever you can unless you’re waiting for the enemy to engage on you, it triggers inspire.

Don’t use stun for no reason, it has a long enough cooldown that you should save it for key abilities. Roadhog heal, Earthshatter, Coalescence etc. But it is definitely worth using on mobile targets to burst them down with your team. Tracer, Genji, Ball, Monkey, Dva etc.

Use your shield behind cover to use 3rd person view for information, seeing where enemies are. Learn how to shield dance (having shield up, dropping it to swing & immediately bringing it back up). Also try to predict your enemy & when you should just keep swinging vs. shielding if they have an ability that will kill you

You’ll have to figure it out yourself, but there’s a mix of playing in the frontline with your tanks & staying in the mid/backline to peel for supports. There is no 1 or the other, you have to do both depending on the situation and it’s up to you to know when which is better.

You can pretty much take an enemy out of the fight by going for them in a brawl. You draw so much aggro because of your durability & can swing away while surviving with your shield & inspire.

Your #1 goal is to not die. If you live as Brig, your team usually does too.

You should not just be focused on the front line, you should be a space enforcer, looking around for flankers & peeling them off your team with whipshot & shield bash (just be sure not to turn your back to a sniper)

Rally with your team grouped up or it’s not that great of an ultimate. An entire team with 30 armor per second for 10 seconds is pretty nuts. Do not use it to survive ultimates like riptire/gravdrag, use it preemptively to take a fight, not to survive one.

I always keep 1 repair pack on deck unless it’s absolutely needed to keep a teammate alive. You don’t want to burn all 3 packs just to top off teammates at 80% hp. Your healing is gated behind a cooldown, so let your other healer do the work if they can. Sometimes the best thing to do is just trigger inspire & wait

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Responding to these just because they bother me a little to see: I’m asking for a start on the right foot here! I don’t want to go into playing Brigitte completely blind, otherwise a vod would be kinda pointless to me.

Otherwise, all, thank you for the helpful responses!

- M

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