Sigma and Brigitte are in need of hard tuning

It’s insane how these both heros are just destroying the whole core of Overwatch on it’s own.

Brigitte eliminates any flanker DPS to be played and basically forces long range heros as of hitscans. Brigitte covers Sigma by Doomfist and Reaper being played because of Sigma so they’re among the worst DPS heros you can play unless they’re not playing Brig for any reason and yet they’re still hard countered by McCree, Widow and other broken hitscan powercreep dps heros.
Also let’s not forget Sigma also somehow counters hitscan dps.

Sigma on it’s own is too much. strongest tank ultimate ingame, broken shield broken damage output with an stun on demand and an improved D.va metrix.

It’s way too much and he basically has no weaknesses I am in the humble opinon that jack of all trade heros are completely broken and should get weaknesses in certain areas. Since Sigma and Brigitte are both heros which are these kind of jack of all trade heros it’s better for the health of Overwatch to rework them to be specialists in certain areas and instead weaken them massively in other parts.

Example: nerf Sigma barrier massively but instead give him an compensation of having more personal survivability for example. Also remove his rock stun make it an knockback instead no need for it to stun.

These both heros are sitting at #1 and #2 at 10.5% pickrate with far distance to Ana’s 8% pickrate.
Jeff said himself they’re balancing after GM/OWL and Masters so I don’t care about what these heros are at lower ranks because these ranks is where balance matters.

It’s time to get away from support and tank bias and nerf these heros respectively to a decent state down from a broken overpowered state.

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I can’t duplicate stupid ~WildPants

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Considering DPS role almost being non important at higher rank gaming yes.

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Of course because genji, ashe and mccree don’t exist


I can’t duplicate stupid ~WildPants

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intresting how you were quiet while ana was on this level of pickrate

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Sigma dies before a teamfight.
McCree dies before a teamfight.

who will win it?

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Yeah since that will totally shift the DPS meta, right?

Brigitte is not the one causing the current meta, she is just doing really well in it.

Sigma however is part of the problem and so is Rein. Tank balance in general is completely garbage at the moment.

The supports are not the issue, if the tank meta shifts to more dive oriented heroes Brig will drop dead. She can’t counter dive like she used to, she can counter a few divers per match but not a whole comp (which is fair).

Also, destroying Brig won’t make other supports less trash, they will just replace her with Lucio again and everyone will just turn a blind eye on Ana and Lucio for another 8 months.

If you wanna shift support balance, you have to change supports in a way that let’s say Mercy or Moira is a better pick in ceryain scenarios than Ana.

But it is pretty much Ana Brig every match, cuz the other supports simply don’t hace enough to offer.

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How much you want a bet, without looking at stats, that op is a dps main.

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Sigma dies before a teamfight

Genji dies before teamfight with blade

Who wins?


I can’t duplicate stupid ~WildPants

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Love when diamond players talk about balance.
Guys, they have a dedicated team for that. It’s called “Balance Team”.
Also, there are OWL players which maybe can have something to say when it comes to balance, but not you, a diamond player.

They tried that and it only enforced the brawly playstyle of double shield. Either nerf his Grasp and keep the shield or remove the shield alltogether. Simply nerfing the shield then buffing grasp isn’t gonna go well.

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thats kinda rude

everyone should get a say, not just OWL players

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I know exactly what i talking about, just show your profile you not higher than 2200

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I privated my forum profile due to a certain streamer doxing another forumer. So I’d rather not. I can however tell you that the last time i played comp, i was at 3k.


I can’t duplicate stupid ~WildPants

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Your profile is private…

You really don’t have a point here.

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unlucky, only proofs gonna change my mind

That…isn’t true but if it was…that’s her job? Winston isn’t crying at reaper for countering him???

But…ana??? Is perfect???

Preach

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i dont talk about dps overpowered, when, in same time, they the most useless class in game

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Feel free to look me up on overbuff. I’m sure my stats are stored there. And besides you have a private profile as well so you don’t really have a right to be asking me this :slight_smile:


I can’t duplicate stupid ~WildPants

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I’m going to be 100% crystal clear with you and say that Echo has been such a worse impact as a whole and telling of the dev team’s thought process than Brig or Sigma ever was.

This is entirely debatable if not flat out wrong.

Shoot it or go around, it’s not even that big. With it’s cooldown it’s not nearly as spammable or actually broken as it used to be. Sigma players actually miss the cooldown because it makes the shield feel clunky now

His kill combo is gone though

I’m pretty sure out of everything in this game his stun has the highest windup time and other stuns still stun for a longer amount of time. They literally also nerfed it’s distance based stun, which was the only unique part about it.

It’s literally worse. But okay.

If Sigma does, so does every other tank with a barrier.

Play brig, rein, most heroes actually, walk into Sigma while holding primary fire. Unless he runs away you now have a dead sigma.

Sigma is versatile but absolutely not jack of all trades. Other tanks still do their jobs better than him. He simply cannot be hammond, for instance.

I’m not against this, for the record.

His barrier was already nerfed and he already has self-sustain in the form of kinetic grasp which is genuinely unreliable because it doesn’t immediately add shields as they happen.

The stun used to last long enough to matter, and now it’s even less so. I don’t think making it knockback instead is a BAD idea, i’d be fine with it, but I also don’t believe his stun is as broken as you think it is.

But tanks haven’t gotten ANYTHING, in awhile, having a ‘tank bias’ right now makes sense.

Sigma’s problem is that he’s only this bad when he’s paired with Orisa. I absolutely despise how metas can influence hero balances on their own. Instead of straight up nerfing Sigma or doing anything to Orisa the healthier choice is making it so that they are less reliant on eachother or don’t synergize as well.

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