Is Brig broken?

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This question has probably been discussed a lot, but I thought I’d post my opinion and get feedback on why I think Brig is a broken character.

I play quite a lot of Brig because I think she’s fun, her actual design is neat, she’s like a mini tank (but I play her as a support role don’t worry, I don’t actually tank with her)… or at least that’s how I see her with the armour and shield, but her stats just don’t add up for me, and I find her completely flawed…

Abilities
She’s quite versatile, and has a range of abilities which allow her to stun, knockback, heal (area + direct), and deal damage. However, most characters have some sort of speciality, whereas I can’t work out Brig’s? If you want to area heal you’d be better off with Lucio because his is constant AND slightly better than Brig’s. If you want knockback you’re better off with Ashe because at least that way you can create a bit of meaningful distance when things get too hot to handle. For stunning you’re better off with McCree since it deals more damage, lasts longer, and can be thrown above shields to consistently stun the likes of Rein. For direct heals you’re better off with anyone but Lucio. And regarding damage, she’s rather weak at that too and you’d be able to achieve higher damage with most other support characters assuming you can aim fairly well. So what’s the selling point for Brig? For me, I simply play her because she’s fun and I like the versatility, but it makes her rather useless and I know when I pick Brig I’m doing it at the detriment of the rest of my team who would appreciate a better support character alongside them.

Survivability
Seeing Brig’s big impressive armour (skin), and shield, I thought perhaps her purpose was survivability? But to be honest this doesn’t seem to be the case either, she has about the worst survivability of all characters and really makes you wonder why she’s in anyway related to Rein. Her armour doesn’t do much for her, her healing only activates when you’re in a fight, so if you’re low of health already you can’t heal yourself because as soon as you engage an enemy you’ll die before your healing kicks in (I’ve started calling Brig “Shrodinger’s cat” because once you’re in a state of low health, far from a health pack, and with your only chance of survival being to attack the enemy to heal yourself, you’re most certainly dead anyway, attacking the enemy would be like opening that box and killing the cat).

Also, I consider her shield nothing but a hindrance? It can be bursted down so quickly that it effectively does nothing. Perhaps if she could shield without the speed penalty it would allow her to escape sticky situations, but since you receive the speed penality, you’re only delaying the inevitable for a fraction of a second. Also, her shield is so small, that unless you’re facing a single enemy face-to-face then it’s completely pointless. It’s as easy to flank a Brig as it is to blink your eyelids. At least back in the good ol’ days she was one of the few squishy’s to survive a Roadhog hook, now I don’t think she can boast that either. You’d be far better off hiding behind a wall as Zen and waiting for your health shield to regen, fade away as Moira, fly away as Mercy, speed away as Lucio, or jump away/immortality as Bap.

And considering Brig is one of the few support heroes that actively needs to engage in battles to provide healing, she really isn’t suited to it. I feel useless as Brig, because as soon as I engage, a good opposing team would know to focus the healers first, and I’d be dead after a few seconds - little healing provided, no further support provided.

I really see Brig’s role as being a temporary punching bag for your team, the one that rushes back from spawn after dying for the 10th time so that your team mates may die a few seconds later than they were originally going to. And if you didn’t die first, your team likely will because Brig’s healing is so inconsiquential that it doesn’t turn the tide of battle at all, and then you’re the last person to die instead because all your team is gone and you’re back to being in the Shrodinger’s cat situation.

Possible solutions?
Well, I think survivability is key for brig. She needs more armour, more shield health, or background healing like Mercy receives. I’m okay with Brig’s healing and damage being the worst of all supports, but if that’s the case, at least make her good for something. No, she shouldn’t be as strong and unkillable as a tank, but she’s probably the closest thing to a tank (alongside Mei perhaps?).

Honestly, I think improving her shield would be the best bet for brig. Make it bigger so she can’t get hooked from a hog standing 1 degree off center from you, make it stronger, and remove the speed penalty so she can walk just as quickly. As it stands, the shield literally is a hinderance and nothing else, I honestly see it as being worse for Brig, it makes you a sitting duck with the -30% move speed.

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i play a lot of brig and agree with some of your assessments, but im a bit confused why you compare her stun and boop to DPS heroes. shes a support, so those heroes arent an option.
if you look at the other supports, shes the only one who has access to all those things at the same time. shes the only support who has a boop AND a stun. shes the only support who has access to frequent ranged AND aoe heals. also her ult is just really good.

i too am not 100% happy with where she is right now, but she is definitely unique and has her advantages over other supports. thats what counts. not comparing her to heroes outside her own class,that doesnt make sense. you can actually free up the mccree slot for example by picking brig, so your DPS can pick a different hero to counter something specific. just an example.

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She needs less healing and way more survivability imo

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That’s a fair assessment Juicy. Indeed perhaps versatility is the main selling point I’ve been struggling to see. I still stand by the fact that she has no speciality though, and making her able to stun and knockback is a nice but unnecessary touch if she doesn’t do either very well. I see Brig like a swiss army pocketknife, she can do all, but you’d be better off using the proper thing if you had it! I like your addition about McCree though.

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idk i think shes more than the sum of her parts.
she isnt just mediocre at everything, shes still very good at it all.

her boop is just as potent as lucios, has more range and damage.
her stun is the only actual stun in supports, sleep is different (not worse).

shes the only healer with armor and a barrier, providing damage prevention in addition to regular healing (only bap has something better in that regard).

shes also pretty capable of punishing tanks that try to play too aggro, especially dva and winston. no other healer can do it as easily as her. shes like an anchor, but instead of a tank shes a healer. thats very unique and i dont see any healer even remotely similar.

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Brigitte somehow works at OWL level in her current state, and so they leave her utter trash for 99.99% of the player base. Brigitte is the least picked support across the tiers as a whole by a large margin for a reason; she is weak atm compared to the other options.

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She does have a specialty but it’s to either support or defend against ball and tracer. That’s why she often times seems useless.

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oh and i forgot to reply to this part here because you seem to have a misconception.
her barrier is NOT meant to act like a tank barrier, that blocks all kinds of spam damage.
her barrier is meant to be used for things like: peeking corners to see where enemies are (you are in third person so you can actually see AROUND corners with her, very special again), or block burst damage like dva bomb or high noon, or to jump in front of a low health ally to buy them a few seconds to heal back up.

its meant to be sprinkled in at the right situations, because as you said it has a speed penalty and small size and low health. thats intentional, so you cant just be untouchable all game.

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With tracer banned I’m not sure we’ll see her much next month. There will be no ball most likely without tracer so no need for brig. We will probably see her get replaced with mercy.

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Brig :clap: Does :clap: Not :clap: Need :clap: More :clap: Sustain :clap:

Please, I play a lot of Brig, just shield dance. Violet does it, I do it, so can you.

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No. No she absolutely is not. Brig is probably the most balanced she’s ever been right now

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I have different opinion, I think Brig is more of a specialist than a generalist/versatile support. I mean, imo, her value heavily relies on what the enemy picks. Brig is the best support to deal directly with dive, and other than that, there’s not much that she can do against other team comps.

Also, most of her abilities are unique only to her in the support role, and they are specifically designed to fulfill a certain niche (I’ve played Brig against double sniper bunker and it was an absolute hell of boring when I did exactly nothing other than throwing repair packs).

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short answer imo
yes if played against and with the right heroes her kit is bloated and enables and shuts down divers too effectively

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I’m sorry, are you writing from 2018?

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im sorry are you playing brig properly?

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I am. I also know that the consensus among Brig players at high tier is that she doesn’t even effectively shut down Tracer now. She is meant to be anti-dive; she does this. But to say she “shuts it down” is a joke. Hardly. I am sorry you like dive but it sounds like you aren’t diving well.

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countering does not equal killing

this is a bad example but its still an example

brig can pack an ana for example while she is being dived and if the ana nades herself I bet she lives 9/10 times unless the whole team has dived onto her

so im just supposed to sit and wait for brig to blow her whip shot all 3 packs and her bash which a good brig will save for the dive?
I think you once again arent playing brig right you just camp your other support against a dive comp and you will probably carry the backline in a ranked game

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Whatever bro. Sorry I struck a nerve with you, but I really do not care what you post, I know when the top player on Brig makes statements on it, it trumps whatever the hell you post. Sorry, you get nothing, you lose. Good day sir.

You need to do more than strut around and tell people they aren’t playing right when the disagree, it just makes you look weak. But please, drone on.

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I said its a bad example :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

brig player sad that they cant just afk roll everything anymore :no_mouth:

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You are pathetic really. Attacking me because I disagree with your assessment and that of others more knowledgeable than you. But please, go on with posts with little faces as if that makes a point. FWIW I only ever played Brig 2.0, I refused to play 1.0.

Go on whining about failing at Dive, its entertaining.