We all know that Watchmen is a game with both fps and moba elements. In the game, in addition to marksmanship, we also know that we must take into account the output, auxiliary and heavy equipment to win. However, many people always ignore the importance of auxiliary in which.
Brigitta has more skills, and each skill can hit the right combos. However, in this post, Penguin will only talk about its importance in the lineup, so briefly describe the skills that need to be described to.
Brigitta's passive skill: Morale Boost. After hitting any enemy with her main attack pattern or shift skill, Brigitta and all friendly troops within ten meters are healed for 15 points per second, and the effect wears off after four seconds of not attacking any enemies.
Brigitta's secondary attack mode: Shield Bash. Requires the right mouse button to open the barrier and then clicking the left button to release it and quickly sprint forward a short distance, attacking the first target in range, stunning for one second and dealing five points of damage, and unavailable while the barrier is on cooldown.
Brigitta's E-Skill: Recovery Pack. You can aim the skill at any teammate within a 20 meter range, releasing an extremely fast trajectory recovery pack that quickly restores 150 life points to them, and if the target has full life, every two points of overflow life are converted into one point of armor, which disappears after ten seconds.
Brigitta's ultimate: Rallying Cry. This skill increases your movement speed by 30%, and adds fifteen points of armor per second to yourself and all your friends within a ten meter radius for ten seconds. Armor value has a maximum limit of 100 points, and disappears thirty seconds after the last armor stack.
These four skills are just part of Brigitta's skill set, and it may seem like the amount of healing and armor caused by her skills isn't that much, but if you stack them up, it's enough to make her the most terrifying presence in the game. In the dog lineup rise of that time, Brigitta's appearance directly with one person's power to extinguish the arrogance of the dog lineup. So how did Brigitta manage to change the environment so much?
Speaking of Brigitta, the reason why she was able to represent the auxiliary at one point, her own skills, the blood mechanism and the data involved is very much. So at the very beginning, we need to start with a little bit of science about the mechanics of armor value to start with.
In Overwatch, in addition to the normal amount of blood for each hero, there are two other life values with special effects - shield and armor - of which armor has the most utility. In the current version of armor, the effect is that when you take damage up to a single ten life points, the damage is halved, with a maximum cap of three points; if the damage exceeds ten life points, it is reduced by three points for each damage.
What does this mean? Taking the Reaper as an example, the Reaper's shotgun is designed to fire twenty shrapnel per shot, each of which deals seven points of damage when attacked at close range, with a maximum of 140-280 points of damage to the target. Can create their own armor, the ability to restrain greatly reduced, and in front of countless heavy and Brigitta's shield slam as a protection, the gods of death even touched the back row of the opportunity are not. It can be said that the Grim Reaper because Brigitta once became the laughing stock of the game, and even known as the "healing charging treasure", can be seen at the time of the tragic situation.
In previous articles, penguin has mentioned, some of the reason why the output can be on the top, is because although they cause the output is not high, but all can cause the effective output of the kill, such as the iron fist of doom and soldiers: 76 is a very obvious example of the comparison between. Iron Fist of Doom may not be half as good as Soldier:76 in terms of output stats, but with a set of moves, he can kill an enemy more efficiently than Soldier:76 can. And the same is true in support, maybe you heal a lot more than Brigitta as a support, but Brigitta can do efficient healing that saves lives and at some point will be a lot stronger than you.
So what effective healing can Brigitta cause? Penguin has tested and compared them using data, and has come up with the following conclusions.
Scenario 1: Recovery pack healing. Brigitta inflicts 150 points of healing when using Recovery Packs, which can instantly restore a bloodied friendly output to full lifesteal. And the extra armor value only needs to be one point to provide three points of damage reduction. In other words, in most cases, when the enemy is facing our output, the additional life value needed to consider knocking off is at least between 275-350 points. Even more was needed when considering armor value. This difference is directly equivalent to the fact that our output is likely to take one more life than the opposite side.
Scenario 2: Brigitta's healing in a 303 lineup.
Brigitta's passive skill heals 15 points per second, but it's longer lasting, which is similar to Lucio. However, if you unleash Rallying Cry, it's a different story. The armor value given by Rallying Cry can exceed the blood volume limit by 100 points, if the team gets the benefit of Rallying Cry, our whole team will have 600-900 points more armor value than the opponent. Translated into Brigitta's healing, that's between 30 and 45 healing points per second for each friend at least.
What does this amount of healing equate to? If Brigitta heals along with Lucio, the healing per second will be 60 points per second, which is equivalent to each friendly being healed by an angel, while also stacking additional armor value. With the extra blood, and the fact that the 303 lineup features Reinhardt, Charia, and Winston with barrier protection of their own, the firepower your opponent needs to inflict simply won't be able to pose a threat.
If you want to beat the 303 lineup, your opponent will need to do more than 60 (healing per second) + 60 (average damage per second in a 303 teamfight) per second and 2.5x (the difference in blood between the heavies and the outputs) per second in order to win unless he's using the 303 lineup to fight. And that kind of damage has no counter to it unless it's a very high amount of spike skills or set fire. And this amount of damage doesn't even take into account the amount of healing Anna does, the healing boost, and the damage reduction and damage bonus caused by nanohormones.
It can be seen that Brigitta, as the only hero in the auxiliary hero can be stacked additional armor value of the hero, in the 303 lineup caused by almost all of the effective healing, which is other replenishment of the life value of the auxiliary nothing to do at all instead of the existence of the adhering to the principle of the fight but to join the principle of the Watchtower Pioneer League at one time all of the confrontation between the 303 lineups, a long time to appear to be There is no spectacle. So as we have seen, Brigitta in the subsequent version of the five consecutive significant weakening, 303 lineup only slightly decline.
In the description of the skills, Penguin said a key point: when Brigitta just joined the Watchtower, she was extremely restrained to release the dog lineup.
The reason is also very simple, the main point of the release dog lineup is to lie in the collective cut, and with efficient set fire to devour the opponent's back row. Generally speaking, the auxiliary position and the output position should be as the back row of the station exists, so most of the back row is facing the fate of being set on fire.
Brigitta's appearance changes this. Her own recovery packs and Shield Slam play a huge role against dog release lineups. Before Brigitta's nerf, Shield Bash did 50 points of damage. In the Dog Release lineup, Hunt is one of the core outputs, and once Brigitta catches Hunt's positioning errors, she can directly kill Hunt with a set of moves. This has subverted the image of the auxiliary in the mind of Huntung.
In addition, any cut into the back row of the enemy, Brigitta a shift skill can be directly knocked away, and at the same time with the recovery package to quickly heal friends. As Penguin already mentioned above, the presence of Recovery Packs makes it so that Brigitta's enemies need more damage volume to set up a fire, which drastically increases the difficulty of cutting through. There's one less back row to attack and it requires more effort to set fire, so I'm sure no one is going to do this kind of thing with half the effort. So, the release of the dog lineup so because of Brigitta and once disappeared, and Brigitta's win rate soared to more than 80%, close to the existence of invincible.
From this, Brigitte's appearance, once formed the auxiliary protection auxiliary, and even killed the output of the horror of the situation, which makes Brigitte become completely unafraid to cut, or can be said to be not a back row hero positioning. I believe that at that time Brigitta players did not feel that they have such a big role, but the data always do not lie.
The data above tells us how strong Brigitta is. So, is Brigitta still worth practicing today after the nerf? Penguin is responsible to tell you that not only is it worth it, but it is still moderately strong. Below, the penguin uses the real situation of the top 100 games to tell you the correct posture of Brigitta in the actual battle.
Brigitta as although as a support hero, but its control ability as well as healing ability is still strong, compared to other auxiliary heroes that need to stand in the back row, Brigitta can change their position to support and attack the front row.
For example, in this matchup, we have Winston and D.va in our lineup, and for these two heroes who need to jump into the enemy lineup to hit the output, Brigitta's support for them is very necessary.
In the early stages of our defense, Winston is responsible for holding back the enemy in a small window, and Brigitta can be used as a support to give control skills when Winston is stuck with him, followed by a set of moves that can assist the front row to collect the head. The first thing you need to do is to get the control of the enemy, and you'll be able to save your life with the help of your opponent's healing.
In the ensuing group battle, as the opponents took out Roadblock and Orisa, a typical half-ground push lineup, Brigitta's support for our front row is even more important. Roadblock and Orisa can use the control skills in their hands to catch our front row's attacks, and when they attack, Brigitta can directly take control of Roadblock first and glue it. With Brigitta's support, all of Roadblock and Orisa's attention was drawn to them and pulled them into a position away from the shipping target. Winston managed to take out his opponent's back row.
The timing of the final ultimate is also a key point. With all of our side on the brink of death, Brigitta's armor and healing can be the last straw. In the point renewal battle, Brigitta was the first to enter the battlefield and open the rallying call, protecting our Winston and D.va in the dying state to maintain the point renewal time of more than twenty seconds. Within those twenty seconds, our back row could safely evacuate and revive the killed front row, preventing the next wave's tempo from collapsing. So here, the Rallying Cry is a combination of renewing points, restoring tempo, and supporting the front row, and it's a surefire way to make a profit.
In addition to supporting the front row, protecting the back row from being cut into is also one of Brigitta's priorities, which belongs to a more conventional way of playing. Brigitta's means of protecting the back row is aptly described as "guardian".
First and foremost, avoid the threat of Roadblock. Since our lineup has been using Winston and D.va's normal lineup to target the enemy's back row, we need Brigitta to protect the back row from the Road Warrior threat. During our attack, Roadblock was going to follow up and eat our back row, when Brigitta attracted attention again. Using the Flash Shield, the Roadblock was unable to attack Brigitta at the exact right moment, and at the same time, our back row took the opportunity to quickly retreat, and finally succeeded in protecting themselves and their other back row teammates by evacuating to a safe location.
And interrupting Roadblock's chain hook is also more important, here Roadblock in the attack process to find the time to attack our Hanzo, Brigitta in the Winston healing directly interrupt Roadblock's attack, and shift knocked back to a farther distance, so that his attack failed, but instead of being singled out by the set fire kills.
Finally, when the enemy attacked to the finish line, the other team's Genji found a chance to get Hormone Plus Blue Line Angel's ultimate in the middle of the group battle, and our Brigitta found the right time to interrupt the skill at the moment of its charge and knocked it back with shift. Genji can't cut into the back row because he doesn't have the skill. Brigitta's accurate maneuvering directly invalidated two of her opponent's ultimate skills and ensured that the battle was won.
With that, this concludes the guide on Brigitta. This article is the third installment of the Watchtower stats theory, which aims to introduce the role of supporting heroes in the lineup. Like Brigitta, the protagonist of this article, support heroes aren't really any different from heroes in other positions, the only difference being that their perspective is their teammates. Brigitta's strength as well as her raison d'être is to protect her teammates so that they have more power to face their enemies. I hope that after reading this article, you will have a new understanding of support heroes and try to change your perspective and incorporate them. Below, Penguin makes a final summary of the main points of this article.
1. Brigitta's previous strength was due to the armor's damage reduction mechanism, the armor that exceeded the blood cap, and the more efficient group blood lifting.
2. Brigitta's positioning is more flexible, and she can protect both the front and back rows depending on the situation, so there is a certain requirement for awareness.
3. There is no difference in the contribution of support heroes to the team compared to other positions, and the data tells us that only an efficient amount of healing can make your opponents need more damage to win group battles.