Why did they add brigitte?

Not counter-play. It’s a hard-counter pick. The actual gameplay required is minimal. 90% value just by swapping to the hero.

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plat thread or silver

You can easily break her if you nerf her incorrectly so they decided a counter was necessary

sorry to disappoint in season 8 from bronze to masters tracer was never ever top 3 dps and genji was only top 3 dps in masters.

season 5,6,7,8 overall mecree and 76 were picked more.

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what dive? dive only existed really in GM

99% of the community played mcree,76 tracer and genji equally until season 8-9
99% of the community played dva,winston, roadhog and a main shield equally. most picked tank was dva until season 8-9.

For a Meta switch for the Top 4% of the playerbase. A meta switch because of a meta that wasn’t even dominant where it was prominent. They made her as easy as she is to use because of so many non-Dive meta rank players were anecdoting and complaining about “Not being able to do anything!” against a composition that they never actually played against.

So what we get is the easiest character in the game to get value out of having all of the tools required to counter a 6 man strategy consisting of characters that are all much more difficult to play as than Brigitte.

tl;dr - Whiners whined about stuff they had no business whining about (Dive, which was the one Meta that DIDNT trickle down in any form), and mixed with those whiners were people who couldn’t aim or learn to play, so they made Brigitte’s kit the way it is while making her as easy as she is to pick up and master.

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what counter. tracers only performance well only in GM or Masters. even in masters on average she was picked the 4th most dps.

from diamond and below her pick rate gets worse and so does her performance.

They seem to do most of their balance from the top down.

buffing junkrat, which killed mecree and 76
giving dva burst damage and removing DM, essentially making sure dva countered her counter zarya.
brining out mercy 2.0 killing of other supports.
hanzo 2.0, do i need to say more.

how does this sounds like buffing towards the top and not pandering to the casual player.

Junkrat was underperforming at the top, not the bottom
Mercy 2.0 came after streamers complained about her
Hanzo 2.0 was to make him more viable against dive, a strategy only really relevant to the top.

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Also devs have stated they have a private discord with the pros. On a separate occasion they admitted they don’t read the forums a ton, and not only that but their readtime was displayed by a poster and it wasn’t impressive.

I think some of her cool downs are very generous and her shield should break upon slamming someone with it. I personally don’t care for her lack of skill expression but if someone finds her fun then fine.

nope junkrat was only doing well in bronze and silver. everywhere else he was under performing however the biggest complains came from the those playing gold, plat, diamond. if they listened to the top they would have only buffed his ultimate which every GM complained about as being too week.

nope mercy change was brought in because after her buff in s5 of having damage resistance. she shot up to n1 pick rate every where apart from GM and brought strategies which players did not like.

nope hanzo was mainly buffed to make him stop being seen as a troll pick, which he was known for since season 1. Especially for those that cant aim.

why read the forums when most ideas you see are regressive rather than progressive. why read posts where the style is similar to the ones you saw through out the period of season 3. cough cough revert dva. however most characters after blizzard did not listen turned out fine.
why shouldnt top players and streamers have discord, when the forums are bashing them the second they have their own opinion and not follow the sheeps.

dante the pro got blamed and hated on these forums when he said her buffs were too strong. however now he is their best friends for saying sombra is weak. jeeez if i was them i would also want to join discord.

Mercy was not a must pick until her rework. Hanzo’s buff is so blatantly designed around making him less vulnerable to dive that they could not have done more. Just because they agreed with the streamers and pros that JR needed buffs, that doesn’t mean that they had to follow specific advice from them.

You read the forum to understand how your casual audience feels about the state of the game. That they don’t do that, but have private meetings with pros is a strong indicator that they prioritize high level feedback

Any Hero with range >meleeX2 beats her. Boom.

Obviously. In most cases, if the enemy is in your combo, then it’s an easy kill. Obviously it is fun but un fun for the opposing.

shield bash is the worst designed ability in the game. the fact that it got out of ptr at all is a joke, even more of a joke is that it had a 5 second cooldown in the beginning.

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Hope this answers your question

Brigitte was added as a band-aid solution to Tracer and Genji’s excess slipperiness.

Unfortunately, the devs did not take the time needed to tailor the solution to the problem, and as a result, Brigitte just became a new problem.

Holy necro, Batman!