Well lets face it: Brigitte is just poopfreaked OP rn
She has a stun that goes through shields, heals, can give armor, can knock you back and has good aoe dmg and insane 1v1 capabilities
Its literally the same as with ana before nano nerf back in s3 I believe and most recently: when mercy was completely overpowered in s6 or s7
She needs to get a nerf, like removing the stun of her shield bash.
She does too much way too good making almost all the other supports obsolete.
Its either pick or loose, the team without brigitte will loose no matter what.
Please Blizzard, dont wait too long like you did with Ana…
and Mercy
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Did I ever mention of removing the bash?
Im just saying that the stun should get removed, not the bash itself
Its ok if its a knockback like lucios boop but its not ok if it stuns for 1 sec, immobilizing you aswell as knocking you back on a 5 sec cd
And all of that goes through shields soooooo
All im asking for is to remove the stun entirely and replace it with a stronger boop, that would make her bearable.
If a support can literally deny 80% of the ultimates in the game with no major mechanics or skill required on a ultra short cd its broken,unfun and unfair
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Weird, that has not been my experience at all.
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Removing the stun from her shield bash makes no sense. She’s mean to counter dive so… yeah.
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I can see some tweaks to cooldowns or healing rates, but yeah, she was designed to fill a pretty specific gap right?
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She was designed to counter fast fights. Dive is fast paced. Does she counter rein? Yes. Rein can charge in and initiate a fight much like Winston used to do. So it makes sense that this would happen.
Out of all supports she has the weakest healing, making up for it with granting armor (which is getting nerfed). Also out of all the supports her damage is only equal to Lucio, but its held up by her combo.
Her stun goes through shields like all mobility skills and melee attacks go through shields. You would have to literally change the base mechanics of the game in order to affect this. Which would negatively affect all mobility in the game, or everyone being able to melee through shields, or even both.
She is a Hybrid Support/Tank that leans more heavily on Tank and her entire design is meant to counter Dive. Its why she has a stun (which is short range) and why she hands out armor at the cost of weaker healing.
Removing the stun on her shield bash would break her character overall though for its role of countering Dive. Which would just result in Blizzard designing something even worse then Brigitte to counter dive.
Which is why Brigitte was the “something even worse” when Moira failed to have an impact on Dive.
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Brig isnt op, people just want her to be a problem, so she became one.
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I’m sure Blizzard will incorporate your feedback and make the necessary adjustments over the course of the next six months.
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Currently I think she is op but people need to chill. Nerfs are already in ptr and personally I’m learning how to counter her better. You just need to play smart and only engage after she used shield bash. The stun through shields needs to go immediately though. Idk what blizzard is waiting for with that. No cc ability should go through shields.
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So do you think Rein’s charge should be stopped by shields, then?
She’s to strong right now. Nerfs are already on the way. They recognize she’s too strong right now. Wait and see how those play out.
Reins charge is 1. On a 10 second cooldown and 2. He makes himself vulnerable when charging to everyone who isn’t in the charge path. It’s completely different and not a direct stun. Cc abilities like Mei freeze, Ana sleep dart, mcree flash bang don’t penetrate shields and neither should Brigittes.
The main problem is that Blizzard need a month to test a 1 second cooldown change on a PTR. The game is wildly broken right now and we need to wait for half a season for them to actually push the updates
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Her shield bash needs to be increased to 7 or 8 seconds, and her shield needs to take damage from bashing so it actually becomes a skill to use it at the right moment.
Also, unpopular as it might be, her swing time needs to be increased to 1 second (up from 0.6).
At the moment it’s just a nightmare to come up against her and forces you get to get at least a Junkrat. Her shield is way too powerful given its small hitbox and that it’s more of a personal shield than actually blocking for your mates.
But knowing Blizzard they’ve probably fallen in love with her concept, and we all know how long it takes before they grudgingly change heroes when that’s the case. Just look at Hanzo, and fixing Genji bugs took them months.
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You remove her bash you’re making her useless people need to understand that she needs her bash on a small cooldown to catch high mobility heroes and to impose a threat to them.
No she does not… Brigitte’s healing is lackluster compared to other supports, her AoE healing is 16hp/s making it tied with non boosted Lucio and her heal ability heals for 150 or armor once full which goes away if not destroyed after a few seconds.
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a month for a meaningless change. 6sec stun with 1sec duration behind a 600hp shield. do ya think its gonna be op jeff?
Reinhardt’s charge is both a mobility skill and a stun. Just like shield bash is. In fact its stun duration is 1 sec if the target lives through the pin, but otherwise it has a dynamic stun length based on how long it took for Reinhardt to reach the wall.
But mechanically they are the same. Both move the character a distance, and both are melee and thus ignore barriers. Doomfist’s Rocket Punch is the same way.
To change Brigitte being able to stun through barriers means breaking either all mobility skills passing through barriers, or all melee ignoring barriers.
Shield Bash is not like projectile or beam based CCs. It is just like the existing melee based CCs.
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OMG its a Genji Main O.O … im shocked
Fret not. She isn’t being ignored. The nerfs are coming 
I mean, I agree with you for the greater good who want the nerf, but even as a Tracer main, I can easily tear her up like the Soviets tearing up Germany after the Battle of Stalingrad. It could bring more balance to her if the charge was gone.