Ok, so I wanted to withhold judgement until after Brigitte had been out for a bit and even so, I was unwilling to acknowledge too many of her design flaws at first as I chose to do the same with Moira and she turned out to be relatively fine. However, here we are and I just have to ask… has the design team gone insane?! A stun that’s better than McCree’s on an even shorter cool-down?! A damage combo that alone - coupled with her enormous self-sustain - is enough to take down most anyone (that is also not including her teammates that will surely be nearby dealing damage as well)?!
While there may be a few other smaller things, I think these mechanics I have mentioned are a main source of frustration for all and why she’s well on her way to being considered a “cheap/cheesy pick” and nobody wants that. Like I said, I usually don’t post things like this often; I wanted to have confidence she would be fixed as we got closer to competitive release and/or the next PTR update, but all she has to show is an extremely slight nerf to her stun cone of effect. Please, if anyone is listening, she doesn’t need much, just a minor adjustment to what I’ve mentioned above! Thank you for your time and consideration.
Always a fan,
Cs
lol, you said enormous self sustain.
Hairy nip said “enormous self sustain”
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Yeah, she’s terrible. She’s so incredibly hated that I think her mostly likely trajectory is just nerf after nerf after nerf until she’s F tier. And everyone will breathe a sign of relief.
Perhaps I may have gotten a bit carried away. 
Allow me to explain: with her bit of armor at the top of her health pool she takes reduced damage of course. With her self-healing during a fight, it can be very difficult to damage her enough to stand a chance during a fight, thus I may have over exaggerated on that bit. That doesn’t even include the other damage that will be coming in from her fellow teammates, which makes things worse off for whoever she’s attacking. She’s also supposed to be a support and not necessarily a DPS, which is something to keep in mind. Just my thoughts.
McCree’s bad stun is his own problem, not Brig’s.
155 damage is a fair chunk, but not “enough to take down most anyone.” She combos out Tracer, and knocks most down to critical health and out of her immediate range thanks to her knockback.
You getting outnumbered is not a fault with Brigitte.
She has the worst damage output in the game. Her passive healing is less than Lucios, she can give temporary armor. Those things in her kit are alright. Her shield bash is fine apart form going through a rein shield.
I think she’s a solid Hero apart from going through reins shield is all.
Brig has a number of problems:
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The stun is far too effective for how easy and safe it is to use, makes a number of heroes essentially impossible to play into her, and basically deletes several ults from the game.
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Her 600 hp shield can give a team a mountain of shield health with no downside, essentially forcing the other team into a spammy shieldbreaker comp.
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Her ult makes her nearly invulnerable without any of the downsides other invulnerability ults have.
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McCree’s stun isn’t actually bad. It can be very powerful when used correctly or leave you in a pinch if you miss or use it unwisely. That’s the thing, you have to be smart in order to get value out of such a key ability. With Brigitte, she has no consequences to using hers as her shield is even up while using it. Plus, it is on a very low cool-down, which allows her to use it over and over and over. She is not a DPS hero is my point.
With her combo, being that most of her cool-downs are so low, she can perform it again and again in a very short amount of time, and all it takes is for her to aim her booping ability correctly to not allow them to get too much distance to allow her the space to perform it again a few seconds later. Read my other post about how her self heal plays into it as well.
Focus is the name of the game in Overwatch. It’s how teams are supposed to play, so imagine the damage she does while also being damaged by other true DPS heros.