It’s been a bit of time now since Brigitte burst into the scene and made quite an impact in the competitive ladder. Her release has caused a bit of a stir in the community and she has been, for the most part, very divisive. Right now, she’s in a pretty decent spot, and her pick rate is fairly high across the board. With that said, here are a couple of tips to help you get started!

TEAM COMPS

Ideally, you’d want to have something like a deathball comp for Brigitte. Due to her lack of range and mobility and with her slow healing aura, she works well beside the likes of Reinhardt and Zarya. If your team is comfortable with such an arrangement, you can even run triple support (Zenyatta for the Discord/Transcendence and either Mercy or Moira for the main healer slot), which will let you play more aggressively as an off-tank.

In general, she counters most dive heroes, especially DPS flankers like Tracer and Genji, who she can easily shut down on her own. She also somewhat works with a dive comp, though it’ll require a bit more coordination since you’ll most likely be running a regular 2-2-2 in ladder. I personally wouldn’t recommend picking her with a dive comp if you’re solo queuing, mostly due to how your dives could end up being uncoordinated and unpredictable, which really isn’t an ideal situation for Brigitte.

Ironically, one of the best ways counter to a Brigitte deathball is to run a mirror comp. Her ability to stun Reinhardt (and an enemy Brigitte) through his shield makes her quite an asset against deathball comps, and it mostly boils down to which team can run it better.

For the most part, you’d probably want to avoid picking her in maps/phases with a lot of high ground and open space. She immediately loses a lot of value if she can barely reach the other team, and a team playing the high ground will shred through your barrier before you can even get close enough to activate your healing aura (and Repair Pack will hardly be enough for your team). This is especially true if you’re facing a Pharah or Junkrat.

SHIELD BASH COMBO

This one’s pretty straightforward. In case you didn’t know yet, Brigitte has the ability to dish out around 155 to 190 damage with a single combo. How it works is that you chain Shield Bash with a quick swing and Whip Shot. If you do it right, you can instantly kill a tracer before she can get the chance to blink or recall away. Against enemies without a lot of escape mechanisms, you can start the combo off by swinging first to deal an extra 35 damage.

WHIP SHOT

Whip Shot is essentially a long-range Lucio boop, and it makes for a decent displacement tool. It’s pretty self-explanatory, just use it to knock away things like engaging/ulting players, Reinhardt (by either stunning him first or sneaking up to his side), Roadhogs after they hook someone, etc. If you’re facing a team perched up on high ground, you can also use it to simply activate Inspire or knock someone back for a bit, though this might leave you even more vulnerable than you already are.

USING RALLY

Brigitte’s ult provides armor over time to everyone within range for a few seconds, and it’s best used pre-fight or immediately after a fight starts. It doesn’t have the same clutch potential as Lucio or Zen’s ult, so you should avoid using it when a team wipe is imminent (e.g. a Graviton combo) and your team either has no other ults or just wants to conserve theirs for the next fight.

This requires a bit of prediction on your part, so most of this boils down to your game sense. First of all, you need to make sure that your teammates (or at least most of them) are close to you, because Rally has a very short range and people won’t always flock towards you when you use it.

Second, depending on whether you’re attacking or defending, you need to communicate with your team that you intend to fight shortly after you pop your ult. This is because Rally can easily be wasted by using it pre-fight only for the other team to simply back off and chip away at the armor you’re generating before reengaging. As a defender, this mostly boils down to predicting when the other team will engage, so try your best to be aware of the other team’s ult statuses and react accordingly.

CONCLUSION

Brigitte’s existence let us deviate a bit from the typical dive vs dive matches, and I find her to be really fun to use. She’s currently tearing it up on the competitive ladder, and I feel like she’ll do fine for the next couple of seasons. What do you think? Is she too good right now or is she just fine? Let us know in the comments below!

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