Couldn’t her shield be reduced to more of a defense ability?
She currently seems to use it for offense but I think a lot of her OP complaints could be resolved by making the shield either easily breakable or just on cool down so its used more wisely
imo she really does trump far too many heroes in 1v1
Shield is fine and her having a stun is fine. Just increase the shield bash cooldown and she can be left alone.
But how many times do you engage in 1v1s
Tracer is also a godly 1v1 hero, even the game tells you this,
I appreciate this thread because I also call her Baguette XD
I do think something has to give between her shield and shield bash. Could be just slightly less distance for the bash, or a longer cool down IMO
dm has 1 sec cd to prevent issues with latency (for your enemies) and to prevent you from shooting and using (repeatedly) it before they can react. she should have the same mechanic.
Her shield is already easily breakable…
I’m against any major Brigitte nerf but 600hp isn’t what most people would define as “easily breakable”. Zarya’s bubble is 200hp, Zarya bubble on a squishy is 400hp, Zarya’s hp with a bubble is 600hp.
That’s not exactly super easy to burn through for most characters.
Right? one and a half clips from solider alone is enough to break it. A clip and rockets can break it and if you hit your rockets right, damage her with splash.
I’ve had my shield get dropped in a few seconds because the enemy team simply focused it
even if it does require a change (which it doesn’t), it should not be based on peoples experiences playing her in quickplay lol
Making it easily breakable would only make her use it offensively, not defensively
Zarya’s bubble is also an invincibility bubble and covers your entire body, doesnt slow you while its on you, and is just a completely different design from the type of shield brigi has
Wish the shield reliably worked as a defense ability, though.
Just had a Sombra hack me through the shield from its front (I had my shield up for a couple seconds), a McCree stun my by throwing a flashbang at my shield (not the ground, not the sky, at the dead center of my shield), a Symmetra killing me through my shield with her primary (like what?), and well, Junk and Pharah.
From my experience, Brigitte tends to get focused. If you have many people shooting at you, it will only last a matter of seconds. Balance isn’t done around 1v1, which is what most people are complaining about.
Hp is hp. We’re talking about how quickly something can be burned down. 600hp by no stretch of the imagination is “easily breakable”. The amount of resources you invest in breaking something like that down on top of healing, a main tanks shield or other things is pretty substantial.
Step behind any tank and regen the shield or don’t use Brigitte as a main tank and her shield doesn’t really get burned down.
So… a few clarifying points
1- Her shield has 600 HP. This is tied for lowest among conventional shields in the game
2- Her shield doesn’t even fully protect her. Explosive damage to her sides will hurt her
3- She is built to excel at 1v1 brawling. She is designed to punish those that get in close to her without back up. Given that she has low DPS, low self-sustain, and poor range with a relatively underwhelming shield, she needs some kind of ability that makes her not only viable but threatening in those 1v1 situations
solider can break it in like 2 sec if he hits a full clip and rockets. have more than one person on it and it shouldnt take long
Edit: also if she is hiding behind an main tank’s shield then she probably isnt close enough to do any damage to you, besides the occasional whipshot
If you don’t understand why a Soldier wasting a full clip and rockets on burning down a support character’s shield isn’t optimal…
That is tanky, not “easily breakable”.
Except it’s hard to quantify the actual protection given by Zarya’s shield, because unlike Reinhardt or Orisa or Brigitte where you can just shoot their shield without consequence, Zarya’s shield punishes players for shooting at it by buffing Zarya’s offensive power. So yes, in literal terms it’s weaker than other shields in the game, but it’s a highly unconventional shielding ability in that it discourages players from shooting at the shielded target and so can’t be necessarily directly compared to shields like those on Winston or Brigitte
It takes 3 seconds for shield regen to start. I never play as a main tank and this still happens.
It’s not hard to quantify at all. If facing explosive or AOE damage it doesn’t shield her at all. If facing conventional hitscan damage it’s 600hp worth of damage to be burned down.
I’ve never had this problem unless it was a bad usage of shield or the tank comp didn’t facilitate play around Brigitte. In any brawly tank comp it’s going to be hard to choose between chasing the Brigitte that is backstepping behind the Reinhardt/Zarya/Pigman.