Yes, she was, and they fixed that several nerfs in. Now, however, they’ve gone too far and over-nerfed her to Doomfist levels of useless.
Let’s call it payback since Brig ruined them.
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She was ruined since she was released.
Terrible hero design.
55% winrate by the way
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checks overbuff
2.19% pickrate
55% winrate(something the vast majority of dps could only dream of)
still strong even after the 9th nerf
Oh, the irony 
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i fully agree
The only thing really keeping her viable still is GOATS tho
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she still has a high winrate in the tiers where goats is never seen
gold: 55% winrate
plat: 56% winrate
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Considering Brig has to get into a 6 metre range with little to no mobility to get a kill, I’d say that sentence is not ironic.
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Gold maybe so, but in plat there is goats, atleast to an extent
and as soon as goats dies in higher levels of play, a new meta comes along which will be implemented in lower ranks to an extent, making her less used in general.
since goats became a thing, dive died in lower elos aswell, zarya, rein, dva, brig, lucio and moira all got a boost in their pickrates and winrates
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they ruined the characters that ruined the game
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Lol Genji icon. Yeah, everyone can see the real reason Brig was trashed. Goldenboy and girl must be allowed to wipe the floor with everyone else.
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Ofc, they have to cater to whiny kids that have access to their parents credit cards.
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I like this thread, it’s like a whining fight.
It’s because they realized they screwed up big time with brig. Her kit can’t be balanced. Im sure they’re planning to rework big but for now they need to nerf her into the ground.
In all honesty, Brigitte was overpowered and she created two metas. Graviton + Dragon Strike Meta which killed people through Transcendence. Was used to win nearly ever single team fight like in Season 11.
Then there was the Sniper Meta which actually happened. People used to hate Hanzo and he was a troll pick but then he became a must pick to win games.
Brigitte however was also the cause of these metas in happening as well.
I will say that Brigitte was overnerfed. Some nerfs were needed, but somethings need to be reverted.
Brig has not been overpowered for a long time, a fact that statistics will prove quite easily as she has been at best the second least picked support in all ranks except master and grandmaster where she sits at a respectful 4th most picked hero. This is over the last 6 months.
Before you go: “Oh but she has such a high winrate!!!”
Any time any hero reaches a niche level of play their winrates rise. Sym, Torb and Bastion all sit at a 55-56% winrate after all but most people consider them trollpicks. This is either due to a level of commitment to the hero from the player or it becomes unusual to deal with said character and as such you don’t grasp how to deal with them effectively.
Brig enabling goats is a bit wrong as well. Brig isn’t quite what makes goats work. Lucio is. Goats without the speed boost doesn’t exist. Brig functions more as the final piece of that 1000 piece puzzle and completes the picture, she’s just not the whole picture. Lucio would be at least 700 of those pieces alone.
Brig exists in goats to ward off dive, the one factor that has a small chance to deal with the second big issue with goats.
The healing.
Goats would also not exist without the aoe healing that lucio and sure. Brig also provides. And as the healing just stacks ontop of eachother without any sort of penalty we now have tank teams that can always make use of that aoe healing.
Now I’m not just trying to defend Brig. She’s not the problem, but she is a symptom of Blizzards inability to understand their own game and the mechanical skill involved in it.
Creating a single hero to counter one thing so well that it can’t be used. Well that’s bad. People were getting sick of dive and that’s why we have Brig.
We all know this is the truth but people like to pretend that everyone was happy about dive.
Now what Blizzard probably should have done. Not just with the dive issue but with all their issues is that they need to push changes onto ptr and let people try them out and see what happens. The PTR needs an extra added level of incentment to play seriously. Something like actually listening to feedback and communicating that perhaps some feedback isnt gonna work or is gonna work but wont see use because x, y or z. And they need to sometimes not push things live if they see an immense amount of pushback on their changes. Some system could be put in place to allow/not allow ptr feedback without quite a lot of play first being put in.
This won’t happen of course but it’d be nice right?
Anywho, we should have probably seen some mobility changes before Brig was created, seen some abilities shift use and the likes but blizzard balances things with a machete rather than a scalpel.
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The nerfs Mercy got is no way comparable to Brig nerf. Her toes were barely stepped on while Brig got smashed with a Sledgehammer
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Toodles, ciao, au revoir, salut, bye,
They can say the same somewhat, that " Brigitte ruined our game ".
Somewhat, she did create a bad stigma on the game to be quite honest.
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