The fundamental problem with Brigitte

I do agree.

I play a lot of Zarya in competitive and don’t usually have that much of a problem with her.
But with Pharah, the abundance of snipers in the current meta make playing her very difficult.
And with Junkrat another good counter to her, would just be charging the enemy Zarya the whole game.

While Brig does have her counters, they’re just shut down by the meta with the exception of Zarya, and maybe Hanzo.

Actually, she tank-healer. Her job is to get in there and brawl so that her passive AoE healing keeps her team up. Think Roadhog, but a team player.

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Stop being sexist. She’s fine.
Females need characters they can play.

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Make so many DPS unusable, BUT DEM SALTY DPS MAINS AMIRITE
Enforce the sniper meta, BUT DON’T FORGET DAT DPS SALTFACTORY
Gravdragons Everywhere, LUL DPSALT

I wouldn’t care about your stupid little hero if she didn’t kill make half the Roster unusable and force a meta.

That’s a whole lot of hyperbole in one post. Brigitte hasn’t made anyone unusable. In fact, no hero has made any other hero unusable. Certain heroes are strong against others, but everybody’s got weaknesses. Junkrat is bad news for Briggite. Pharah is really bad news. Soldier holds up well. McCree with his stun is a pain. Ana’s Biotic Grenade is quite literally death.

Stop being salty and adapt.

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So what does it make for a hero to become a “brain dead” hero?

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Dude, look at the pickrates of the heroes she ruins. They’re nearly zero.

Yeah, you can play around her. You have to.

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We’re about to see four hours of non-Brigitte Overwatch. It seems like this new, secret, invincible hero is not fully understood. Maybe the Dragons need to hire you.

Dominance over Roadhog? Not sure what you’re smoking…

Not by herself, but a stunned Roadhog in a teamfight is dead meat.

I just created a way to balance Brig properly:

Exactly. The problem isn’t Brig, she’s just strong with this current meta. Wrecking Ball is gonna change the meta, which means we dunno how Brig will be. I.E. Does her shield slam stop his rolling, if so, does he un-transform or just stay a ball?

And considering she’s all about people staying together, which Wrecking Ball is all about breaking up, I’m willing to bet he will be added to a counter list for her. :slight_smile:

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Wrecking Ball is for sure going to change things up, he’ll be putting Hanzo and Widow in their place as well, so they won’t be as big an issue either when he goes live. Like right now Hanzo and Widow are in the same place as Brig, they’re strong regardless but the current meta allows them to run wild and just own games. Like Hanzo and Widow are my DPS mains and with the lack of dive I’m usually free to just snipe heads.

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If her shield broke when she stunned someone she would actually have to make a choice instead of being a mary sue who can do everything shy of hitscan. This would make her think of whether or not to use her stun rather then using it at every potential opportunity securing kills for her team on a very short cd.

Exactly. Hanzo’s re-work IS strong, but it isn’t why we’re feeling the heat. It’s because characters that would usually counter him (like Dive) are shut down in the current meta. That’s why they just feel so oppressive. Widow hasn’t even gotten any changes recently, and she’s always been ‘okay’ but with the current meta and nobody to contest her, she’s free to just pop head.

Those are bad Brig, and you can capitalize by baiting that slam she wants to live by, and then just ulting. Because a good Brig keeps her slam for a guaranteed kill, or an ult interrupt. It’s too easy to punish gung-ho Brigs. I know, I use to be one. :laughing:

I think the main problem of Brigitte are players who keep playing against her as heroes she supposed to counter. Thats it. She is a kind of melee, she wrecks divers and flankers. That is her role. Learn to deal with her from range, she is absolutely worthless against Pharah, Junkrat, Soldier, Orisa, Hanzo.

Also you will praise devs for adding Brigitte when Hammod will come into play.

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So I guess it just sucks to be you if you’d like to play as Winston, Reaper, Roadhog, etc.?

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I run with a Rein friend, and we just train the other Brig. Wait for the inevitable shield slam most open with, then I shield slam her and we both just focus her down. Easy peasy.

I actually had a Genji school me the other day, and I’m not a bad Brig at all–but the fact that he created his own strategy for dealing with me got an endorsement from me. Dude was on another level, haha.

In this meta? yeah.

Just like it sucked being a support main in Dive meta. xD

It was better then than now, you could actually play something other than Mercy!

I don’t main Mercy in this meta though? O_o

In literally 3 days Wrecking Ball drops. And then your Brig woes will be over. And then we’ll have all these forum posts from Hanzo’s, Brig’s, and others about how overpowered and oppressive he is.

It happens every meta. Dive was just around for a grip. But before that, with other meta changes, it was always the end of the world and everyone was always ‘super broken’ when they were meta.

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