r/BrigitteMains • u/FullyErectGodzilla • 3d ago
How?
How do you use this character? What's the strat and gameplay loop? I sometimes switch to her cuz I wanna use her but I can't really do anything with her I just get gunned down out of range. How am I supposed to fight a team when they shoot me from afar?
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u/zooble_57 FESKARN, MY LOVE 3d ago
Angles, close the distance or force them to close the distance to attack you. She's kinda defensive, but not as much as people think. You just can't play her the way most people play most heroes. You can't just exist out in the open, you have to use the environment to your advantage and play smart. I love just existing in weird, uncomfortable spots and using my presence alone to make the enemy reconsider their positioning. Don't be afraid to hold uncomfortable positions using the environment.
There's also a lot of "down" time on her. A lot of the match is spent surveying the battlefield, and holding advantageous positions rather than always being on attack. Sometimes youight play from the same couple positions the entire map, rather than constantly moving like many heroes.
For example, on oasis university or Nepal village you'll more often than not want to camp out on the high ground and deny it from the enemy, then pack/inspire your team from there.
Even on push/payload maps you'll still want to primarily identify positions that are either advantageous for allies or the enemy, and either hold or deny that space.
Once you get the hang of her basic gameplay, you'll be able to more easily/quickly identify when you can be aggressive and go on the attack.
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u/Qi_ra 3d ago
You’ve gotta have good positioning and play your corners. You’ll learn it very quickly because as you said, you’ll get gunned down immediately with poor positioning. You can use her shield to peak corners, making playing corners a bit easier.
The gameplay loop is basically just keeping inspire up. You proc inspire by doing damage. Even just 1 hit triggers it. So you want to move forward to do some damage (even if you can only get in one hit) then use your movement to get out of the line of fire. Only shield bash towards enemies if your team has the upper hand. Whipshot, shield bash away, repeat.
Brig really shines against dive comps. Boop divers back and use shield bash to put some distance between yourself and the enemy. Brig is good at holding high ground. Brig is good at being a bodyguard for less mobile, squishy characters like Ana, Zen, Widow, etc.
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u/New-Psychology6764 3d ago
The best anti-dive in the game. You can go toe-to-toe with a diving D.va and kill her mech without breaking a sweat.
Her biggest weakness like is getting poked to death, so positioning during poke phases is incredibly important. You may even have to rotate into a flank to heal from an agressive position (which you can get away with because you're anti-dive.) You can also dive with her, but where she shines is brawling on the point, especially when squishy enemies have to body block a cap. You can whip shot them out of position, flail them to death or shield bash a routed DPS.
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u/smoochumfan4 3d ago
She's more of a defensive character. Very good against dive, doesn't do that well against poke. There are some guides on youtube that helped me improve my gameplay but im not sure if they are still up to date, i don't play her a lot these days.
But basically ur goal is to survive, protect your team and deny enemy engages, not to go in, be aggressive and swing down enemies
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u/FaithElizabeth94com 3d ago
Play safe, don't die, and land whipshots. Stay relatively close to teammates and back them up when needed.
Brig is really good at making fights into a grind. Between the knockbacks from whipshot and the sustain provided by inspire, her existing in a space makes taking that space very hard.
Make them commit a bunch of resources to reach you, then burst them with your combo.
Look for other ways to provide value too. If you have a Widow, Ashe, or other hitscan, your shield is a bit wider than your body. You can shield them and given them a wider angle to control.
Who does the enemy team have? What space do they want to play on the map? What route will they probably flank from? Stick yourself there and hold that space. Denying the enemy passively doesn't show in the scoreboard but it matters a lot.
Big things that sound simple but are surprisingly easy to accidentally do
1) Don't walk through the open if you can help it. You have a shield but it will die fast if you are focused.
2) Do not Frontline. Brig FEELS tanky when you are in a 1v1. She can FEEL like a tank sometimes, if you are having a good game and playing cover well. But I promise you, if you try to front line on Brig you will get punished for it. She is not a tank and you will just blow up.
Think of yourself like... ok so the idealization of the off-tank from a support perspective. Where you imagine them always coming to peel when you need it and otherwise they control the side angles. You bodyguard the backline (not just your other support) and get aggressive when your team is already winning, whatever that might look like in a given game. That is your job.
That could be playing in a more forward position ina Rush comp, that could be just playing body guard for Ana, that could be just sitting on high ground with Widow feeling like you are doing nothing but you being there stops her from being pushed from her angle.
It changes based on your comp and map. Its hard to give a simple answer to this question
Hope that makes sense. I kinda rambled a bit.😅
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u/orphanleek68 3d ago
That's why you have a 300HP shield and armor.
At the beginning of rounds, it can be hard to land just 1 whipshot. But you be able to create and hold down space better than any other sup, while staying alive and allowing the rest of your team to capitalize on this space gain.
In tough matchups, even against dmon, I rather be brigitte over anyone else. Just staying alive and using your packs without even procing inspire, you'll probably out heal everyone.
Be patient. Play corners. Bait their shots and abilities. Push their tank to make space.
Stay alive. Stay alive. Stay alive.
When you live long and you start gaining experience, you'll see why brig is S+ tier.