Since apparently Brigitte is still an unkillable monster after being nerfed in literally every patch since her release, here’s a list of heroes with a favorable matchup against Brigitte. I’ve played Brigitte against these heroes a lot and I’ve played these heroes against Brigitte a lot. Please try to listen instead of immediately commenting that Brigitte is OP and has no counters. Thanks.
Bastion. It simply isn’t possible for a Brigitte to kill a Bastion by herself. He MELTS through her shield and self heal like it’s nothing while usually having a Teammate’s shield and self heal of his own. Brigitte doesn’t deal enough meaningful damage to Bastion in a 1v1.
Mei. Freeze forces Brigitte to play passively with her Shield up during teamfights, it can be used to virtually back her into a corner. Ice Wall is fantastic for punishing Brigitte’s aggressive playstyle by separating her from the team. Also, Mei’s icicles are high burst damage so they’re minimally affected by armor.
Junkrat. For all the sustain people claim Brigitte has. She gets absolutely melted by Junkrat in close range. The self heal and armor don’t do much at all against his high burst damage. And even at long range Brigitte struggles healing his poke damage and making it through chokes with an intact shield. Riptire HARD COUNTERS Rally because Brigitte doesn’t have the burst to kill the tire and her team tends to group up around her when she uses it (making multi-kills common).
Pharah. Brigitte doesn’t have the range to deal with Pharah. Her shield can’t block the splash damage from the rockets. Armor isn’t effective against the high burst. And it’s near impossible for a Brigitte to survive Rocket Barrage as her barrier breaks within the first second.
Reaper. Good Reapers can bait the Shield Bash with Wraith and after that the duel is over. Reaper can melt Brigitte’s shield and virtually ignore her self heal with his high damage weapon. Brigitte is good at countering his death blossom, however.
McCree. McCree is the best duelist in the game and Brigitte is no expection. Flashbang is rather easy to land on her even with her shield up. Burst damage is most effective against armor, which McCree has. Brigitte is good at countering High Noon, however.
Orisa. Orisa has stun immunity, a shield that stays up nearly 24/7, the ability to spam down Brigitte’s shield from range and the ability to single out a Brigitte from her team with Halt!. And because of Orisa’s wide spread, she deals a surprisingly high amount of damage to a Brigitte in her face with headshots.
Ana. Sleep Dart and Anti-Nade are a death sentence for Brigitte and Brigitte’s hitbox is deceptively large. If Brigitte is playing agressive, she’ll have her shield down, making her a prime target. Ana is the only support hero that can mess up a Brigitte (aside from Zenyatta, but a good Zen can wreck just about any hero).
Hanzo. Storm arrow can delete Brigitte’s shield on demand. Hanzo’s high burst is very strong against Brigitte’s armor. Lunge can get Hanzo out of Brigitte’s range very quickly (although he shouldn’t ever but in a scenario where he’s playing remotely near her since she’s a sniper).
Sombra. With infinite stealth, Sombra can chose her engagements very carefully and easily out position the Brigitte. Hack and EMP are VERY STRONG against Brigitte and greatly help your team focus her down. Brigitte’s self heal is rather low and she relies almost entirely on her abilities to keep people away.
Doomfist. Brigitte feels almost helpless against a good Doomfist. Many of his abilities go through shields and his self sustain passive prevents her from dealing meaningful damage to him. A good Doomfist will pretty much keep an aggressive Brigitte in spawn.
There you have it. 11/27 heroes have pretty favorable matchups against Brigitte. Did you notice something? A lot of these heroes are off-meta and not very popular. It’s almost like Brigitte was meant to make niche heroes (i.e. Orisa, Doomfist, Mei, Bastion, Reaper, Sombra) relevant and people think she’s OP because they keep playing the staple picks she was designed to counter
Out of those heroes only widowmaker and hanzo are viable picks right now. Thats why people think she’s OP.
You pick pharah, a dps to counter a support, and guess what the enemy team still has 2 more dps slots to just pick even 2 hitscans to make pharah’s life totally missarable.
You pick junkrat and you are just feeding the enemy Zarya charge, and they can just as well go pharah and mop you up. All this to counter a support.
Reaper is just completely trash because of how much CC this game has. This game isnt just 1 vs 1 brigitte.
The reason she is badly designed is the fact that you have to counter pick a support hero using a valuable dps slot of your own.
Counter picking a dps with a dps of your own is fine, as it gives both teams the same amount of flexibility.
Then again another ignorant topic have been created.
Bastion
Reaper
Junkrat
literally garbage characters who have been in the trash being the worsts DPS since months ago, like honestly how you even add to the list Reaper against a character that pulls armor ? did you even know how bad is Reaper against armored targets? also Shield bash deletes any attempts to death blossom.
Mei? what? Mei needs to stay on almost melee range in order to freeze someone while she gets locked in to brig combo who deals almost 190 HP in 2 seconds, Brigitte has a shield that counters Mei weapon completely also if she even gets close there is always flail whip to push Mei out of range.
Phara is the only viable counter if the enemy team have 0 hitscans and Brigitte is alone.
And seriously Bastion? I play this game almost every day and I have never seen something like "HEY GUYS PICK BASTION THEY HAVE BRIGITTE "
This post is absurdly braindead and an insult to everyone’s intelligence.
Mei is a counter how? Brigitte literally just needs to land her standard 190-damage combo and bam, Mei is now outside of freeze range and Brigitte has her passive heal going.
BASTION is a counter? Excuse me what the fork? In all my 900 levels of playing Overwatch I have never heard “Pick Bastion please they have a Brigitte”. Now that Ana is in the meta, it’s even less likely you will ever hear that. Any suggestions like this is literally placing Overwatch in a 1v1 context and that’s not how the game works
And did you actually just put REAPER into the list of Brigitte counters? Are you blind or deluded or simply lying to yourself?
Reaper does half the damage against armor.
Reaper of all people is forced to operate at point blank–Brigitte’s range.
Reaper is forced to retreat instantly from a single 190-damage combo, assuming he doesn’t die from focus fire while being stunned for 1 second.
Shield bash absolutely annihilates Death Blossom, and even if it doesn’t, you can simply tank it with your shield or run away.
Busting down the shield? Good one. Brigitte shield is so small it’s difficult to land all pellets on it unless you are point blank, at which point you get instantly stunned. Even if you bust down her shield, which takes around 2 seconds, she only needs to strafe around for 3 seconds for it to be up again.
Even if Brigitte misses the stun, guess what, she still has a knockback ability that denies Reaper entirely. While we’re at that, let’s give the entire team armor with Rally so Reaper doesn’t just suck against Brigitte but her entire team!
This is an absolute insult to Reaper players around the forums
THIS is exactly why I hate Brigitte supporters–a good portion of them are so blinded by the dive/flanker hate that they can just justify Brigitte being OP with whatever reason they like. Even if the reason just doesn’t make sense. Even if they have no idea what they are saying.
That sounds pretty nice and dandy and all, but I’m the best Overwatch player of all time. I’ve done what no other Overwatch player has managed to do: I beat Overwatch.
I one shot every hero in the game through any defense they had all at the same time by uninstalling.
The world’s rank 1 Reaper SpiritOW has already stated that Brigitte counters Reaper and Reaper in no way counters Brigitte. You must be a very good Reaper to think so. Ever played Reaper in comp at all?
