Nobody else knows how bad it feels (aside from Mercy players) to get a new hero you fell in love with, then have them reduce in power, effectiveness, survivability, damage output, and ult power month after month after month, double nerfs in most of the months. They even took away her shiny pink weapon for Spark if you had golden equipped…
With this latest double monthly nerf, she’s truly a trash pick. She used to have a good ult, but now that’s gone. She used to be able to actually kill things, but now that’s gone. She used to actually provide armor to counter tracer, but now that’s virtually gone.
She has no mobility. She has no ranged main attack. She has nothing but melee spam and a slow af healing pack that often is so slow at flying that your team mate dies before it reaches them.
Even if she was in an overpowered state at launch, after the most nerfs in the game that anyone has ever received she’s now the worst possible pick for a healer and she really needs something changed for the better.
Reaper hasn’t. Mostly cause he’s already a trash pick and nerfing him would make him even more of a trash pick. No, the buffs to his life steal aren’t enough to fix that.
please tell me how you can look at any single one of her abilities in a vacuum when she is a jack of all trades and is a must pick in the most overpowered composition in history, and that pros unanimously say she is still overpowered post-patch.
also tell me how 35+5+70=75.
also let me know how any of the nerfs you are referencing are even slightly relevant considering brig used to be IMMENSELY overpowered and is slowly becoming more balanced but still has a fair way to go.
I think they need to give her 600 shield health back, 5 seconds shield bash back (from the current 7), and a max of 150 rally armor back (currently 100) after the recent rally nerf. These changes would put her in a much better spot. They keep adding nerfs that are completely different and unnecessary when paired with old nerfs that take her in a totally new direction, so some old changes need to be undone.
who actually cares if she is only good in goats if goats is all that is played in high rank? like what is actually your point? and why is her arbitrary role in the hero select screen relevant at all? that’s like saying genji is only played in 2-2-2, and he is bad in single healer comps. like, what is actually your point? yeah, she doesn’t provide enough healing to run her only alongside one other hero. brig + 2 other healers is absolutely abundant throughout the game. it’s certainly not only in goats where brig+2healers is run. brig is an insanely good pick in ANY comp.
I tried her out in AI to see how it feels, she certainly does feel different when it comes to Rally, you feel the nerf. Feels underwhelming other than that her kit still feels effective. I do think she should at least get her original shield health back.
My point? my point is that you’re not using any kind of logic.
If the same character has been blamed continuously for a problem comp, and has been nerfed continuously until they can only be used in the problem comp and nowhere else, how the heck does that mean they are the “insanely good” one?
brig + 2 healer is largely defined as goats in the first place.
so what you are doing is completely undermining your original point. it’s like me saying genji is only good in 2-2-2. imagine me saying old mega OP mercy was balanced because she could only be played in double healer comps. It is completely meaningless. Brigitte is overpowered in 3 healer comps. That is how she is played. She is not run in 2 healer comps because that is just like running solo heals and wondering why you’re doing badly.
I main Brigitte and I still don’t think she needs a buff or another nerf.
She can still be viable against squishes and since armor nerf she could have an increase chance of killing armor heroes.
Only change I want to see is a fix to her shield. There’s some weird lag while deploying shield. Could just be my internet and it’s rare to encounter.
It feels so dumb when a team mate is spamming “I need healing” and I spam “Acknowledged” and we both stand around staring at each other for 6 seconds while I wait for my repair back to come off c/d
GOATS is 3 Tanks 3 Supports. That’s how it always has been. Even before Brig was in it.
GOATS is good because you can death ball using 2 aoe heals. You have 2 teamwide ccs. You have the armor already provided to you and the burst healing you need. You have shielding. You have the damage. You have the speed.
You know why Brig is a mustpick in that comp? Because she’s the only hero with AoE and Armor
But guess what
Lucio is the only hero with team speed and aoe heals
Rein is the only hero with a moveable flexible protective shield
D.va is the only high health bruiser who can gain vertical mobility quickly
Zarya is one of the only characters with a teleporting shield and teamwide cc.
Ana/Moira are the only heroes with such high consistent burst healing.
That’s what happens when you have such high amounts of utility.
So yes. Continue to blame Brigitte for something that is so very apparent to not just be “all her fault”. She is garbage. Garbage can still be stuck in team comps. Pirate Ship exists.
You fell in love with her cause she was op af and you could win with minimal effort because brig provided tremendous value just for existing. You literally had 9 months to face roll your way up to gm, now her value is equal to skill required, deal with it. And everybody knows how it feels to get their hero nerfed over and over. Road mains know, dva mains know, Ana mains know. The difference is we don’t need to rely on cheap mechanics to win games, we just main someone else.