Well, for starters I havent had enough play time as her or even game time against her to say this, but we all can speculate. So, my speculation might be wrong and thats where you guys who has enough play time on her come in to correct me if Im wrong.
My main issue with her is not her as a single character but its more to do with what she can do for others.
I know she counters D.Va, Tracer and possibly reaper as well due her being able to give amour and all. But I think on the flip side she makes these heroes scary OP as well when on own team.
The main issue is her ULT imo and the fact that it gives the whole team permanent amour that stacks on top of other health bar buffs including her own ‘E’ ability. I feel this would kinda break the game especially on 2 CP maps.
We all knew the bully D.Va back in the day with 400 Amour and 200 HP, who was able to 1 vs 1 Reapers with no issues. Now with her ult, you would be effectively fighting a 400 HP 425 Amour with a whooping 825 effective HP D.Va’s in a 2 CP team fight.
All she has to do is kinda keep pressing ‘E’ every 6 seconds on D.Va or tracer and she kinda will carry the game. Not to mention her ult will give permanent 150 HP in amour to everyone in team making tanks super tanks and dps with tank like HP’s.
Yes, support ults are meant to be like that, but the problem is its different from sound barrier and transcendence. When enemy zen or lucio ults you can just back away for few seconds possibly giving them 1 tick on the point and then come back after its about to go off and come all gunz blazing at them.
But with Brigitte, you cannot do that.
What yall think ? I know its too early to tell and im not asking for any buffs or nerfs, but this just crossed my mind, so I just wanted to ask out what yall think.
Personally, she is not Op. Unpopular personal opinion, she might be too niche for her own good.
Rally is kind of tricky, it doesnt hold the value of transcendence or sound barrier. This two can negate many dps ults, Brigitte rally cant reliably do it. Sound barrier starts strong and becomes weak with the time, rally is the opposite. A sound barrier can protect from a graviton combo rally can`t. Rally works better to sustain the fight than exchanging an ult, and if you use it before the fight to give up armor to your team, then you are losing part of the value. So again, is very tricky.
No. If anything she feels UP. I definitely suck with her but I haven’t noticed any Brigs on the other team that would make me feel like she is OP nor have I had any on mine.
It’s hard to tell right now since she’s new and not in comp.
Well unlike other shields in the game, hers is only the same width as her and directly only covering her front so no, you can flashbang her with ease for example. If you’re close enough that she can charge you then that’s on you.
She can hold her own against Tracer and Genji but she gets absolutely wrecked by Junkrat and Pharah. (the latter of which she can’t touch unless Pharah is flying close enough to be hit by whip shot)
I think she’s a lot of fun and is sure as hell not OP considered she literally can only heal 150HP every 6 seconds if she can’t get in safe range to melee.
I see her utility as overly concentrated in an ultimate that isnt very strong. She is a bit like prebuff Sombra, but her ultimate isnt a fight closer like EMP is.
TBH I dont see how she would fit in a decent team composition. Especially since you are sacrificing an off support (looks at Zenyatta) for her.
I’m sure there are comps where she’ll feel like she breaks the game. The shield bash feels a little too lenient imo. But she also has the feel of a niche pick.
I’m worried she won’t be too useful in solo q and will mostly only be useful in 4-6 stacks at higher ranks.
I can see her replacing Zen as well on a Dive comp and teaming up with Lucio.
With lucio you can have that speed boost to get her closer to enemey where she can swing her flail to get that area healing and lucio himself can do that.
She can initiate the Dive attack with her ULT, so winston and D.Va would have enough HP and amour to withstand even reapers.
Perhaps thats why Geoff mentioned they are looking closely at her ULT and how its going to affect the game. He also mentioned that they are expecting tank heavy comps and buffing reaper and mei next PTR patch to give people an option to counter it.
I think with this new addition of amouring up, they probably should make reaper guns ignore the damage reduction on amour and perhaps mei freeze as well.
You dont replace Zenyatta in the dive. Dive is all about bursting the enemy team down as fast as you can. The sustain that Brigitte could provide to the dive is less valuable than Zenyattas discord orb. Discord is what allows the dive to enter and rush in, also you are losing transcendence, which is more valuable than rally. It`s more possible to exchange a Lucio for Brigitte, but even then you are losing speed boost and sound barrier, things that give more value to the dive better than what Brigitte can offer. The only time dive exchanged one of their pillar healers was Mercy, because Mercy was more powerful than the dive.
I personally feel like she’s UP.
I’m still trying to get the hang of her and I don’t always get to lock her in first. She seems really weak on maps like Gibraltar, Anubis (first point), Numbani, Eichenwalde (payload phase) and Route 66. So basically every map where there is lots of high ground which the enemy can take. She’s completely useless if they do that.
She’s strong on 2cp, especially second point but Mei, Doomfist, Mercy, Moira, Lucio, Winston are also really strong there because of their stalling potential.
Junkrat, Pharah, Widow, Hanzo and Reaper seem to be the bane of Brigitte… Her shield does not protect her from splash damage and scattuh and Reaper simply outdamages you at close range. Any tank has the upper hand against her (except Winston). If you’re good, you can bait the shieldbash (just like deflect, you have to predict).
I can imagine her being played a lot on 2CP and a bit on Koth, otherwise she’s just too weak.
I think she’s fine because she has plenty of counterplay and even if the armor does empower certain characters, it also makes THEIR job a lot harder too.
Brigitte is by no means OP. Her stuns can be annoying, but she is only effective at close range. She has to get close to the enemy in order to do any consistent healing, so it only makes sense that she is able to stun.
She is also the Tracer counter we’ve needed for such a long time. Anyone with decently high APM can use their Primary fire > Shield bash > Whip to delete Tracers who get too close.
I’ve seen a lot of people try to run Brigitte as a main healer, which for the most part just doesn’t work. The very nature of her kit makes it impossible to be the main source of healing for her team.