If you don’t have Pharah, you need at least 2 ppl to focus on Brigitte to actually do something. Except for Pharah she doesn’t have a real counter in the game with 25+ characters roster. She is the definition of annoying!
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Uhhh…I guess Junkrat doesn’t exist…
And against Pharah, any hitscan will do.
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Pharah is pretty detrimental to the enjoyment of the game, since really she just forces you to pick a hitscan hero. In every other scenario, she’s either getting instantly headshot, or you’re hardstuck in silver on console and you can’t do anything. I feel like a rework would only cause more trouble than it’s worth, though.
Your aim is not the best on Pharah counters.
Isn’t reaper counter her?
Any character can counter Brigitte if they can fight at range. Pharah just happens to be one of the best at that, especially since splash damage will largely bypass the shield. Junkrat is also a Brig counter, especially for disrupting her tighly-knit team. Soldier counters Brig so long as he doesn’t use sprint to go rush down Brig for a hug and actually makes use of his distance. McCree counters her with range plus the ability to stun around her shield. Widowmaker. Hanzo. Even Doomfist is a good Brig counter if you’re allergic to being more then ten meters away from Brigitte and absolutely HAVE to play with her in your face.
And yeah Pharah getting countered too is part of the design. Widowmaker counters Pharah, and Winston counters Widowmaker, and Reaper counters Winston, and McCree counters Reaper, and-- yeah. This game is all about counters, not sure what else you could really expect. Sometimes you’re just gonna have to outplay your opponent even when they have one advantage.
If Junkrat can keep his distance from the Brigitte, he can usually melt her. His mines aren’t a great escape option against a Brigitte, though, so he usually gets melted whenever she gets in range. Which is a lot, since Junkrat is also a pretty close quarters hero.
McCree, Soldier: 76, Sombra (Kinda), Bastion (Kinda), Hanzo, Torb (Kinda), Widowmaker, D.Va, Hog (If u can hit the hook), and Ana all say hi
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He did specify “real counter”. Out of all of those, only three of them are hard counters.
yeah three is still a lot though
I’ve shot more than enough pharahs down to disagree
His mines work just fine for escaping or knocking Brigette around if you’re having that much trouble with Brigitte as junkrat listen for Brigitte coming and put a trap right next to you in her direction she won’t be able to do anything against the trap with out dropping shield
i think it all just depends on the factors at play. i dont really have too much trouble killing brigitte as tracer, its pretty easy to kite her.
what you dont do is head into a team fight with everyone clustered in and expect and complain when brigitte stuns you in a crowd and u die.
i think it really comes down to who the better player is. if the brig is bad its easy enough to kill her as tracer, if the brigitte is good , she’ll try to bait out all the blinks or recall. its much like genji vs mcree, mind games to bring out either the flashbang or the deflect and who will do it first etc. ive also seen battle mercy with valk out, pretty easy kill brigitte.
pharah can be killed by anyone skilled enough with any hero, ive seen tracer stick a pulse bomb on pharah. (i have not managed to do this yet because im not a god). so if ur good anything is possible.
i think alot of these posts are just made by people who get rekt by said character and arent good enough with another character to counter or just didnt have the game sense to do so.
just my opinion tho , no insults intended.
She has counters, Pharah probably being the best one but the thing is that it’s very easy for the teams with Brigitte to shutdown her counters and sometimes they might not even need to swap. For instance Widow being very common in Brigitte comps.
what if she walks around the trap
Also, I’m mostly speaking from personal experience whenever I pick Brigitte. I don’t pick Junkrat anymore unless it’s Dorado or Junkertown, in which case I can keep my distance relatively well on those maps anyways.
Don’t stand next to the trap so you still have room to escape I play junk quite a bit and destroy Brigettes if you have good game sense it will be really easy taking care of her watch for her and listen for flankers it isn’t hard
ahem
- Bastion
- Pharah
- Junkrat
- Doomfist
- Sombra
- Mei
- Hanzo
- Widowmaker
- Smart Torbjorn players
- New Symmetra
- Any tank except DVa with a healer helping them
- Ana’s made or Zenyatta’s Discord ruins Brigitte’s day
- Smart Tracer players who now how to stay out of range of Bash
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