That it’s not like u have to counter only her.
There only 2 viable counter’s right now: Junkrat and Pharah
Pharah is bad hero without mercy, and even with mercy, what if enemy team have 2 hitscan aswell?
Junkrat good at some points, but on the most of them he isn’t.
Some may say pick reaper: But he is getting destroyed by brigette, i dont know why people ever consider him as her counter. He get booped away when he goes in, and when he come back he got stunned, than booped again and this is until he dies. If anything she can hide behind shield until cd on cc is gone(it’s not hard to jump-spam with shield, so reaper wont be able destroy shield fast enought expc consider shield hitbox is smaller than his spray) and again what if enemy have 2 hitscans? U gonna play reaper?
And dont even talk about doomfist, this is not even funny.
Cree? He can’t stun her faster than she stuns him. I tried it a lot, and we just stun each other, with exception her stun last’s longer.
So in order to counter brig u have to play 2 heroes:pharah and junkrat and hope enemy team not counter u aswell.
And even if brig get “countered” she dont have to switch honestly. She is support, she destroying any tank, so it’s not her job to deal with her counters.
And her ultimate… I dont even know how to play against that. She just press q on spawn, and tracer has 300 hp. How are you gonna to deal with 300 hp tracer? Any decent tracer player with a little help of team gonna destroy ur entire team, unless u have brig at your own.
So i think she is gonna be must pick on the both teams, atleast because of her ultimate.
Can blizzard please consider do something about her? I dont want to see again how one hero dominate the ladder for the half of year.
People are woefully overestimating her stun. It lasts one second, not the duration of its cooldown. Her damage is also largely garbage, only picking up on her cooldowns. Tanks generally muck with her - Reinhardt is actually devastating against her. Roadhog mauls her. D.va should have no problems keeping on top of her.
And if you pull that “but her team…” schtick, remember, you have a team too.
Rein getting one shotted most of the times for the duration of cree stun(0.7), and other heroes not better. Maybe hog gonna survive, not sure.
The thing is if u are forced to counter the SUPPORT u not gonna be able to counter the DPS enemy team have, even with ur team, and most likely u will just end up having brig aswell.
Just like old mercy, when u actually was in able to put 6 ppl on countering her, but much better option was just run mercy at your own, which has secured her must pick slot for half of the year
Riddle me this - why nobody eber picked Tracer, Torb and Symmetra together? You can have a 300 HP Tracer for most of the match which apparently gives your team about 99% chance of winning…
If Reinhardt can’t afford to EVER drop his shield lest he be killed in an instant, Brigitte isn’t the reason he’s dying, it’s because the enemy team woefully out matches his team. The shield just delays the inevitable at that point.
Don’t set up vacuum scenarios of the worst possible situation and think that is the norm when it really isn’t. Any Reinhardt main that hasn’t been on a stomp losing streak for 50+ games would know that dying within a second of dropping his shield isn’t the norm for Reinhardt.
If we talking about pro play and scrims - because this comp gonna get rolled until symmetra ever get’s her shield gen, and torbjorn armor.
And in ranked this strat working pretty decently on certain points, which is proven by high torb/sym winrate, even tho these statistics not with tracer in every match.
? Stun+Hook combo is super easy/not risky to pull off. Meanwhile cree have to risk and outplay rein in order to get stun.
Rh one of my main heroes and i’m know what i’m talking about? He dead every single time cree outplays him and stuns him
How about when you play Mccree (or soldier) you shoot Brigitte from a distance. When she gets closer you can run and roll away from her.
Or take high ground and watch as Brigitte runs away from you while you shoot at her. She can’t do anything against range heroes especially when they are on high ground.
My tracer and rein both gm? Mccree is not outplaying me most of the times, because but when he does i’m dead most of the times. But a lot of times when he walks up to me he end up be dead on his own. This is not gonna be the case with brig.
If u will be shooting her shield all the fight, ur team gonna lose fight(unless u have brigette at your own, who also drag enemy attention on her shield)
Excluding the fact that McCree can dump one clip, roll, then dump half a clip to break the shield and if Brigitte is in range then flashbang her and double tap her.
Or how Soldier 76 can dump 1 clip and follow up with a helix rocket popping the shield AND getting free 80 damage on Brigitte so her armor layer is stripped off.
Or how Hanzo can fire one arrow in, then storm bow, then keep shooting her. He can even be cheeky and fire his Sonic Arrow into the top of the shield so when it falls its still active hitbox headshot’s brigitte.
Her shield is pretty small and while she points it towards you, someone 5 meters to the left or right can easily shoot past her shield.
Or let’s say you have a Soldier, a Junkrat and maybe an Orisa. How long do you think Brigittes shield will last when you shoot at her? Or how about junkrat deals with Brigitte and you shoot the other enemies?
She stuns him faster, and he needs atleast 3 or even 4 FTH in order to destroy her shield.
It wont destroy the shield aswell.
U need atleast 1.5 clip if all bullets gonna land in barrier, which is not gonna be the case consider how small her barrier is.
Meanwhile she walks on you and killing you.
Long enought to her be able to engage on your, expc if she have team aswell?
Orisa trounces on Brigitte - she can burn through Brigitte’s shield and health without needing to reload and Barrier and Fortify exceptionally counters Brigitte’s abilities, so does Reinhardt - shield piercing fire strike and a charge, as well as a hammer that swings double the damage and his health pool being twice as much
Tracer and Sombra can attack in her blind spot way out of shield bashing range, Reaper and McCree CAN beat Brigitte, the problem is you’re likely facing her head-on instead of in a blind spot or with a height advantage, remember her shield bash is horizontally linear, McCree’s flashbang can throw up and down, Doomfist can charge a rocket punch before Brigitte advances towards you for the shield bash.
The problem people have with countering Brigitte is that they want to 1v1 her face to face in close range without being CC’d, but that’s simply not how you fight her, you wouldn’t fight McCree, Mei or Reinhardt that way so don’t fight Brigitte that way
ERROR: in my example McCree has broken the shield. How can she stun if her stun is disabled by the shield being broken?
The shield was broken by abusing the range advantage and instant reload of the roll, which moves as far as shield bash letting McCree maintain range advantage. The flashbang was only IF she was in range.
It will leave the shield on exactly 5 HP, which means that any chip damage it had previously taken leaves it broken. If no chip damage was taken any Brigitte with a modicum of intelligence will drop the shield down so that it can get 100 HP back after 2 seconds of being down, as otherwise the first bullet it takes breaks it and leaves her without it for 3 seconds. Without her shield she has no mobility and more importantly no stun.
And her barrier is big enough that any Soldier 76 with trigger discipline is going to land every single shot. As she gets closer they wont even need that and can just full auto into the shield.
Furthermore while the shield is up she moves 30% slower dropping from 5.5m per second to 3.85m per second, and he gets a 9m per second sprint to maintain distance as needed.
Even if she did get into stun range and does her combo she wont do enough damage to kill him, letting him drop his healing and out healing the majority of her damage while she is at a range where he will barely have to aim. He would win the DPS war.
I think soldier is a good counter too. 600 hp shield and soldier 19 damage. If you take damage of 15 average dps from soldier (since you are not always gonna be fighting her at optimal tange), 600/15 = 40 so its basically 1 clip and a half (on average). Mccree can be good counter too with the flashbang over the shield and fth, sucks that she will just combo you and you are prolly either gonna die or be left with like 50 hp.
You can avoid that extra half clip by using Helix rocket, it does 120 direct hit damage to the shield and the splash does 80 damage (technically 75 due to armor reduction) to the Brigitte behind the shield.
I like to save the helix for direct damage not for shield breaking, I feel like its a waste if I just spam on shield lol. Also if your team is good mostly it will be just a 1 clip since another dps or something can damage the shiled too.