Brigitte getting nerfed at all before comp?

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im aware you can easily counter her by taking to the skies with pharah. but she’s disgusting in a duel with any hero. she just feels horrible to play against as a DPS. i’m curious if she is getting any nerfs at all, does anyone know

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Why would she? How does balancing her for a casual game mode and custom games make sense when you translate it to actual coordinated gameplay?

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This community will probably attack you and just label you a clueless DPS main, but I agree she needs to be toned down.

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nope shes fine … :slight_smile:

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i’m not a DPS main, it’s not like i’m terrible at it but DPS is my offrole.
but honestly her rate of fire, and range are a bit much. she can 1v1 any hero in the game for the most part.

edit: i’m a support main so. i mean. i’ve played her a lot and would play her in comp, but even i know she is disgusting.

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… in melee range. An excruciatingly important detail.

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A support hero can one versus one 90 percent of the roster and win with a CC on a 5 second cooldown. Sounds a bit too strong for me as a gm player.
I forgot with little to no skill.

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yeah in melee range, but there are many cases in the game where you have to be in melee range to accomplish the objective. people seem to forget that it’s an objective game. add in the fact that from long range her shield lasts all day without a junkrat, add any more shields on top of it and you pretty much will never kill her unless pharah or junkrat/both are on your team. and i’m sorry but a n overwatch where junkrat is 100% meta is not an overwatch that sounds fun at all.

then think she’s a HEALER. tank hybrid. so why does she do so much damage so fast? she doesn’t do much damage, but she swings so fast it adds up quickly. her range is also pretty long for a melee. i was playing her earlier and surprised how far away i could actually slap people with that flail.

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… And as a GM player, you ought to realize that she can’t actually 1v1 90% of the roster effortlessly, and she’s actually incredibly vulnerable if her shield is burned down, splashed through, or stunned by every other character that has similar abilities.

You mean… 200 damage over 2ish seconds? Every 5+ seconds or so? … to a single target? That’s hilariously slow DPS and outhealed by every healer aside from Zenyatta. And since you wanted to scream HEALER. She has the weakest heals in the game. Her DPS outside of that combo is also the weakest in the game.

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But you don’t even use her shield much anyway. It’s just to use her broken CC ability. Yes, she can effortlessly as she takes such a small amount of skill to kill someone. It’s just hold right click, left click, left click, dead. It’s not hard and it’s quick death for the enemy.

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lol she sh1ts on most every hero in the game 1v1. doesnt matter if you’re GM or not. it’s true.

and why would they balance something according to a GM player, most people in this game are not GM. pretty sure most in the game are gold actually

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So let’s balance around gold.
In accordance with that we’d nerf Symmetra.

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i didn’t say balance the game around gold, i was just pointing that out. you should not balance it around any one elo. unless you plan to balance it on every elo separately. and sym is not OP in gold, more like bronze lol. but brigitte is too strong no matter where you put her. for a healer.

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I mean she can’t. Not unless you’re also arguing that Zenyatta can 1v1 100% of the cast and win.

In any case the game isn’t balanced around 1v1, nor FFA DM. In an actual coordinated environment where there’s a goal beyond fragging out, Brigitte has a ton of weaknesses that are super easy to exploit.

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You don’t think she’ll be worse in coordinated gameplay and be a must pick? Have you play her in uncoordinated and coordinated play? It’s ridiculous, a support shouldn’t be able to easily 1v1 every other class of hero with ease. They need to do something to her attack the way she heals something. The main thing that needs to happen is a longer cool down on her shield bash and it shouldn’t go through reins shield. You want to talk game physics he is a giant Metal dude in armor who is by the lore battle hardened. I’m pretty sure he could eat Briggites shield bash. She has no real punishment to anything about her kit besides cool down and even that isn’t bad. She is a poor addition that promotes mediocre play and it’s kind of said.

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She’s not fine, stuns need to be baited out not spammed every 5 seconds.

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? zenyatta moves insanely slow. and takes forever to start regaining health. sure he can pump out more dmg if he hit all headshots with discord. but not every one can do that. and that takes skill. brigitte takes no skill, and she recharges her health while doing damage, doesnt need to aim, and has 250 health? pretty sure. her skills are all easy to land, and all CC.

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I think the bigger issue is you being around every time the cooldown is done. lol

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I think her heals are underwhelming and she makes herself a massive target if she actually goes out of her way to do these heroic deeds people are screeching about to anything other than an out of position Tracer or Genji. Would it make you feel better if we stopped calling her a support? Roadhog can heal himself more than Brigitte can.

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Sounds like someone has to learn how to position himself against a melee based hero!

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