Brigitte is how the devs want her to be

[pooch-11428]

@Fritz-11233

The devs literally stated their opinion on Brigitte in the Support balance changes post. They want her to be hard to take down and aren’t considering weakening her defenses. She’s a TANK/SUPPORT hybrid deal with it. She’s not a DPS btw EVERY tank does more damage than Brigitte without exception

@GeoffGoodman

We’ve talked about possibly reducing her defense somewhere, such as reducing her barrier health. However, her tank-hybrid nature is a core part of her kit and we want to make sure she maintains that feeling of being a difficult target to take down.

Check mate sweethearts go complain about something else

You are quite fearful of another Brigitte nerf, aren’t you?

[Dust-12351]

This post is illegal.

[Mitrovarr-1405]

all the rally cry of the forums

“Help me Poppa Jeff. Help me.”

It’s literally the only thing you can do.

[Mxiter-2447]

Her normal movement speed with shields up simply giver her ability to play too agressively for a support/tank hybrid.

She’s supposed to be hard to kill? ok, but not leading the charge, nor getting such strong control on the battlefield.

Her shield bash is also too hard to miss compared to Mc Cree FB.

[Kelvan-2147]

She does not negate Reinhardt or Orisa, those two tanks can deal with her with a proper teamplay. Especially Rein, who can deal with her on his own, I must laugh every time someone spreads false information that a Brig “negates” Rein. Go as Brig against someone who can actually play Rein and see what happens.

[OWSaint-1218]

Continuing the discussion from [ALL] Overwatch Patch Notes – May 3, 2018:

@TomPowers

Brigitte

Shield Bash

• Cone angle reduced from 90 to 60

Developers Comment: When fighting against Brigitte, it often felt like Shield Bash was able to hit players who felt like they were out of its range and should have dodged it. On the flip side, when playing as Brigitte sometimes players would hit the wrong enemy in the middle of a fight. With the cone being reduced, the ability is more accurate to its visual representation.

Continuing the discussion from [ALL] Overwatch Patch Notes – MAY 22, 2018:

@TomPowers

Brigitte

Rally

• Maximum armor per player reduced from 150 to 100

Shield Bash

• Cooldown increased from 5 to 6 seconds

Developer Comments: Brigitte’s ultimate is very powerful, especially when it gets stacked up to its maximum value on many allies. This change will reduce the maximum armor value of Rally, but does not reduce the overall amount of armor given by the ability over its duration. This means when used in combat while her allies are taking damage, it should feel about the same, but the lingering effects of the armor should have less of an impact. Her Shield Bash is a very strong ability on a fairly short cooldown, making it difficult for her opponents to play around. Increasing this cooldown allows for more options when battling against her.

@GeoffGoodman

In the next patch we’re reviewing the current state of support heroes and are making some changes to nearly all of them to keep them competitive with each other. I’ll start by just listing the changes below:

Brigitte

• Shield Bash cooldown increased from 6 to 7 seconds.

@GeoffGoodman

Brigitte

Shield Bash is Brigitte’s strongest ability, and its short cooldown makes it very difficult to play around. We’d like to keep her Shield Bash and subsequent melee combos powerful and effective, while just allowing a little more counter-play against it. We’ve talked about possibly reducing her defense somewhere, such as reducing her barrier health. However, her tank-hybrid nature is a core part of her kit and we want to make sure she maintains that feeling of being a difficult target to take down. Overall Brigitte’s win rate is still the highest of any support, despite dishing out the lowest amount of raw healing per second. This speaks volumes to how powerful her kit can be outside of her direct healing numbers.

Blizzard cannot hold the players hands forever. They cannot keep making changes just because players die and they get their feelings hurt

They cannot make changes based on player perception of skill because in the most skill group her pick rates are dropping and they have no problems with her.

They cannot keep making changes based on the Crying of, “She is unfun to play against” Every player finds smehing unfun to play against.

[DeadlyAztec-1521]

I don’t mean in a 1v1.

Both teams face off against each other Reinhardt to Reinhardt. Having Brigitte with one of them gives a massive advantage to one side. More than a Lucio or Zenyatta would.

That’s what I’m talking about.

[Felhelen-1952]

And yet they are still nerfing her

[OWSaint-1218]

proof?

(Your pool of tears do not count as proof)

[Felhelen-1952]

The one where momentum things stun her as well? like charge +bash= both lying down? Please don’t make me get it.

[OWSaint-1218]

go get where the Devs said another nerf is coming. I will wait. i have another 5 hours easy of sitting here

[Excella-11653]

The only thing that annoys me is you can’t walk in front of her shield to shoot her like you can with Rein. So the only way is to break her shield(lol), the Brigette screwed up by putting down her shield when she has almost no speed penalty with it up or you play heroes that ignores her shield entirely.

[Mitrovarr-1405]

Brigitte leads the next highest support by 5% in winrate over all ranks.

She. is. freaking. OP.

For reference there is less than 5% from the next highest support to Mercy.

[Felhelen-1952]

20 chars of mumbling obscenities

@JoshEngen

• Shield Bash

• Now knocks down and gets knocked down by other charging targets (e.g Reinhardt and Doomfist)

[OWSaint-1218]

great now you can stop crying, she is getting nerfed

[Felhelen-1952]

Post says brig is where devs want her, I replied. No complaints yet,l just replying to OP’s assumption.

[SidewaysGts-1926]

Check mate sweethearts go complain about something else

Checkmate to those who complain she’s too hard to kill*

Now for other complaints…

[ShadowDragon-154595]

yknow, they probably oughta keep that a secret

[OWSaint-1218]

Yeah i am really glad the collision fix is coming

What they need to do is fix the bug that makes anyone one who faces brigitte lose 1000 skill points

[sourmoth-1880]

No matter if you’re for or against Brig, it doesn’t matter. Devs don’t consult the forums for rework/balancing guidance. That’s why they have a whole team of gameplay designers