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Author: NubianSatyress

Apr 9th 2018 at 3:17:09 PM

* ''Videogame/{{Overwatch}}'': Before she was released, Brigitte Lindholm was stated by Jeff Kaplan, the head of the development team, to be "meta-changing". Specifically, Brigitte is a Support/Tank Hybrid character that is built to counter the dominant "Dive Meta" which had taken over the game since early 2017.[[note]]"Dive" Meta is a team composition which is extremely mobile and aggressive, capable of pouncing over an enemy's defenses and breaking their formation into chaos. Most characters in this composition are either {{Fragile Speedster}}s or otherwise rely on speed and flanking.[[/note]] Brigitte's kit allows her to stun an enemy in one shot and her weapon is a flail that sweeps a wide area and is difficult to dodge, thus allowing FragileSpeedster heroes to be taken down easily. Said flail also allows has a long-distance attack that deals heavy {{Knockback}}, preventing diving Tanks from landing on the target they wish to kill. And to top it off, she also has healing abilities built into her Flail attacks as well as the ability to fortify one ally's health. These abilities are designed (in theory) to make a Dive composition less dominant and make room for slower, or more long-distance, compositions.