Overwatch’s Brigitte hurts Ana, however there are not any plans for a buff

Health hurling, protect popping Brigitte can shut down the likes of Winston, and Tracer in a heartbeat, which has weakened Overwatch’s prevalent, and a bit tiresome, dive comps. Dive comps are outlined by cellular characters in a position to pounce on key enemy characters – sometimes their helps – earlier than they will react. 

Though this variation to the meta might be a very good factor, there’s nonetheless some concern Brigitte could also be too overpowered. Overwatch lead designer, Geoff Goodman, revealed Blizzard have a “watch list” for the most recent hero, to make sure that isn’t the case.

“This list is mostly a ‘this might be OP’ list,” Goodman wrote on the Overwatch forums. “But there are other things we really want to keep an eye on, such as making sure her Inspire passive feel useful and powerful, and making sure her ultimate is worth using in combat instead of only outside of combat for the lingering armor.”

Here’s what’s on the watch checklist for Brigitte:

• “Is there an excessive amount of max well being achieve potential now? Is Torb/Brigitte/Sym going to be some loopy factor the place you stack Tracer up with a lot well being she turns into almost unkillable for instance?
• Is her final too robust? The undeniable fact that half of it might probably linger indefinitely, and the way highly effective armor may be within the recreation, it’d simply be too robust total.
• Her stun burst combo. Even although she has pretty low DPS throughout the sport as a complete, she will be able to put out fairly a bit of injury in the event you protect bash, melee[then], whip shot, and it’s pretty protected since they will’t actually act till they’re flying away from you.”

Brigitte’s addition has additionally harm Ana, who has been struggling within the recreation’s outstanding dive meta. Ana has additionally turn out to be significantly much less efficient because the addition of Moira. Supports comparable to Moira, and Brigitte can merely sustain with their teammates higher, taking tanks on head-to-head. On the opposite hand Ana, as a sniper, wants to remain in the back of the comp, leaving her open to dive comp.

So have Blizzard acquired plans to buff Ana? Currently there’s nothing set in stone, however the workforce don’t really feel she requires huge changes to get her to a balanced place.

“We’ve talked about a number of things we could do for Ana but don’t have any firm plans just yet,” Goodman defined on the Overwatch forums. “I don’t think she is super far off, and she does bring a number of tools that no other healer has access to. Currently she is more a victim of the dive meta than anything else, as she doesn’t fit well in that environment.”

However, there are some who really feel the addition of Brigitte hasn’t completed sufficient to shake up Overwatch’s present dive meta. One fan commented on the Overwatch boards, saying that altering Overwatch’s meta is nearly not possible as a result of maps being designed for greater floor.

“We’ve actually gotten a lot of mixed feedback on her from all levels of play, as far as how powerful she is,” Goodman responded. “The level design stuff is something we’ve been looking at a lot recently as well, as we agree there are some maps that certainly lend themselves to dive. We don’t have a specific goal to kill dive all together, but we agree it would be nice to see more diversity in the meta in general.”

Brigitte is at the moment dwell on common Overwatch servers, however will not be available in competitive play until season 10.