Can someone explain Brigette's kit to me?

[Nero]

It doesn't make sense. Lshift pushes away the enemy from you. E has super long CD. You're supposed to heal via damaging enemies, so pushing them away is utterly awful. But in spite of her HAVING to go super close to be a healer, she's extremely squishy. 200 HP and 250 HP shield. You cannot even dash if your shield gets broken. Her kit doesn't make sense to me. I want to like her as someone who mained tank in OW1 who doesn't like being the sole tank, but she doesn't feel like she excels at anything AND isn't just ok at everything. She's plainly bad at everything, unless the entire team plays around you, which good luck achieving in lobbies with randoms. She feels like a character who was good once, who got nerfed into the ground and feels unplayable as a soloQ player.

I'm completely open to the idea I simply don't understand her kit. Can someone explain it to me?

[Dylan]

brigitte is anti-dive. shes supposed to defend her backline from genji, tracer, moira, doom, etc. her shift can keep people off your team (rein charge, doom jump), proc your aoe heal, and finish off people youre chasing. if youre trying to fight the enemy team front to back youre probably gonna get dunked on

[Nero]

Originally posted by Literally ____:

brigitte is anti-dive. shes supposed to defend her backline from genji, tracer, moira, doom, etc. her shift can keep people off your team (rein charge, doom jump), proc your aoe heal, and well as finish off people youre chasing. if youre trying to fight the enemy team front to back youre probably gonna get dunked on

So I'm not supposed to go in and instead just stay back?

[Dylan]

Originally posted by oeldritch ttv:

Originally posted by Literally ____:

brigitte is anti-dive. shes supposed to defend her backline from genji, tracer, moira, doom, etc. her shift can keep people off your team (rein charge, doom jump), proc your aoe heal, and well as finish off people youre chasing. if youre trying to fight the enemy team front to back youre probably gonna get dunked on

So I'm not supposed to go in and instead just stay back?

brigitte works best when the enemy comes to you and is in your face, so pretty much, yes.

[Dylan]

blind picking brigitte feels pretty troll to me since any poke comp will dunk on you easily. i would say to save brigitte for when you see an annoying genji on the other team.

[ViridianZe]

her mace ability that pushes enemies away is mostly used to finish enemies trying to run away from you on low apart from that it makes distance for escape

[KOS-MOS]

I usually use her to peel on my second heal and my dps. I don't play frontline with her, I stay in the back and keep an eye on the ennemy divers

[IblisFlare]

You don't play Brig to be charging in and doing damage to heal with inspire. You play Brig to guard your backline. Now, this doesn't mean don't ever charge in and do damage if the timing is right for it, but Brig is anti dive through and through and that should be what you do first and foremost. Just make sure your using the boop every so often to proc inspire. The boop has deceptively long reach.

[El Padrino]

Originally posted by oeldritch ttv:

Originally posted by Literally ____:

brigitte is anti-dive. shes supposed to defend her backline from genji, tracer, moira, doom, etc. her shift can keep people off your team (rein charge, doom jump), proc your aoe heal, and well as finish off people youre chasing. if youre trying to fight the enemy team front to back youre probably gonna get dunked on

So I'm not supposed to go in and instead just stay back?

imma screenshot this and show it to all low sr players. YES. You keep your other support alive basically. Your knockback also triggers your healing ability. and it has a wider range than lucios healing, and whatever the timer is on that. Shield bash is really meant for the sudden movement or damage to an enemy etc etc
OG brig only was a frontline because she literally could not die. The amount of armor and healing output she had was insane. And her armor worked differently back then (especially coming out of her ult). Now if you frontline as brig you are just throwing at that point.