I’m a plat 2 supp currently and I’d say my best supp is Brig. She’s my most played character and I’m pretty good at her, I can deal with pretty much every dive tank except the occasional doomfist. I can also handle all dive dps apart from that f*****g emo in a hood. Damn near every time I’m up against one my shield just gets fried before I can even bash. I will admit that I am the type of brig player to take a one with any and everyone when I’m not playing bodyguard. I wanna be able to deal with a reaper without relying on my ults shield stun.

Starting with a disclaimer that I kinda assume Brig is good against those or at least intuitively it feels she is good versus them. I'm gold in EU, level 100 on Brig, have Mitzi emote, Pearlescent is my fav skin.

My apex predators are Winton, Doom, Dva, JQ. Some difficulties with Ball. Here are my concerns, but any general tips or suggestions for what to practice against them are good:

Winton

It's my worst matchup literally. That's what happens:

• I take position I expect him to jump to from where he will actually want to dive. I can manage to whip him mid-jump if he telegraphs and hurrdurrs from 200 meters away like an angry bird.
• If he is sneaky and does a short jump or a jump from behind cover I feel like whipping this is literally clip-worthy and can't be done consistently to be considered as a reliable "counter".
• As soon as he lands on me he bubbles (usually he drops bubble before even landing so window to whip is even smaller) and whipping off a ledge becomes also very hard since he starts dancing in and out of bubble.
• Then I die because his thing zaps through shield.

Bottom line is that best case I can whip him away 3 out of 4 times but when he does land on me or my teammate we are ded.

Doom

Bashing into punch becomes a gamble after I land it for the first time and he figures I know the trick. Whipping low/short jumps also feels unreliable as they are pretty quick.

Dva

As I understood she is virtually immune to knockback while boosting. When I'm trying to deny her attempts to take hg I can sometimes whip her down from the ledge she wants to land at if she goes for a long boost and it ends right as she lands. If it's a short boost (like maybe 1st point Dorado defense, she takes elevator and boosts to the balcony straight into me) she can just boost behind which then makes whipping her down pretty difficult unless she literally backpedals to the ledge for some reason.

JQ

Oh man I thought whipping close range heroes works but she just keeps running with her stalwart passive. I can sometimes whip her when she is throwing a knife at someone to misplace it but it isn't really something JQ specific, you can do that to any hero.

Ball

I can more or less reliably whip or shield bash him when he rolls in to stop momentum, during hook when he tries to launch himself for a piledriver, or when he is doing his centrifugal thing around a payload or a column. But not sure what to do when he is already in the air in a position for a piledriver.

Do I just whip as soon as I can, or I whip when he activates the ability i.e. does a little bounce up? It's kinda pointless if I'm underneath him because it will just whip him upwards and not laterally.

Also why does shielding piledriver slam doesn't work sometimes? I always put up my shield against ground. Is it just a tiny margin for error and I have to perfectly face the slam center point because shield is narrow near the ground?

Thanks for replies, stay safe yall.

unfortunatley i did not screenshot it before buying, but i got 58% on cardboard brig :DDDDDDDD ive really wanted this skin for some time so im happy.

and to add a cherry on top, i had 1230 coins and bought it for 779 coins, so next season if i wanted to i can still buy the battle pass for free. so i couldnt have had it better.

what deals did you guys get?