I find brigitte’s shield bash a bit too strong to my eyes. It is too easy for her to counter ultimate abilities : such as reaper, mcree, reinhardt, lucio, etc… I think that the cooldown should be higher, or she should not have as large of a stun zone. It has been very frustrating how she can push to the front line, bash, and walk back unpinished becasue of her shield. she should be able to use it as a defense ability, not an offense one… she is a support, not a dps…
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Yet her playstyle and abilities encourage aggressive frontline fighting?
Also any ultimate cancelled by Brigitte is perfectly fine. If a player is not keeping distance/focusing down-with your team-this somewhat difficult to kill support, then that’s on that player. It’s the same as a well timed earthshatter, flashbang, rocket punch, etc.
A lot of ultimates like you mentioned-high noon, earthshatter, death blossom-are very high risk high reward ultimates. While it can have a massive payoff, you have to position yourself in potentially dangerous places where you can easily be shut down when utilizing your ultimate abilities.
I would agree that her stun does feel slightly unbalanced, but personally, I think that the stun length just needs to be shortened ever so slightly as Brigitte can already quickly swap between abilities (as we’ve all seen with the 150 damage burst that Tracers despise).
To clarify, the time in which the stun lasts-in my opinion-could survive to be shortened slightly.
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I mean if you check the video in this thread-
http s://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/proof-brigittes-shield-bash-has-a-massively-broken-hitbox/49731/81
You can see the stun zone needs to be reduced. You can stun someone even when you miss them.
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Same way it’s easy for mccree or hog to cancel ultimates too ?
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Following up on my previous post, the shortened stun time would also make characters like Reinhardt-which Brigitte would supposedly work best with in team compositions-more viable, seeing as how a Reinhardt is very vulnerable when his barrier field drops.
Mcree is very vulnerable and he cant just push a reaper ult for example because he will instant die. Brigitte can walk up with the shield, bash, and walk away easily. And for hog the hook takes some aim and travel time, so its harder to use
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So nerf the flashbang of mcree.
Mcree, flash is balanced for me. So is hook. But shield bash isn’t
nobody cares about your eyes
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Other than Reaper what are those characters doing ulting so close to Brigitte?
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It’s brigitte that is in front line. And its normal for a rein to be front line.
Yes but I wouldn’t use my ult as Rein if I see Brigitte until I hear or see her use shield bash. It’s the same as when I play Zarya ready to ult and I look out for Genji or D.va.
I found Brigitte very frustrating to play against as Tracer or as any flanking heroes. I don’t know if it’s fair or balanced but it is frustrating to get one-shot or stunned every 5 seconds. When you compare this to a mccree flash, well it does one-shot but it does feels more fair because his flash has a longer cooldown.
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I agree, but her cooldown 5sec, seems very short and its very easy for a brigitte to shield bash your rein, until theirs put its shield up and your shatter moment is ruined
She is supposed to be frustrating for tracers and other flankers because she directly counters them
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And most of tank heroes ; she does counter them but does she have to be practically invulnerable ? I mean she is capable to recieve so much damage, in ult or not that I don’t know if it’s fair. When you compare this to mccree vs tracer, mccree has the ability to counter tracer by a flash one-shot but if it’s missed, well tracer can kill him afterwards, so it makes it fair, I guess. Whereas Brigitte, with her low cooldown and capacity to tank a lot of damage can avoid this dangerous fight or win them. This is my opinion, I can be wrong.
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But she is frustrating to everything that’s not Orisa.
She enables a 7m wide dead zone around her just like Symmetra but at least Symmetra is easily killable
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She is a low risk high reward hero
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I myself haven’t found her annoying to play against as a tank main, she really doesn’t counter me heavily. She mainly can be annoying but nothing too bad
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I’m a tank main and I feel frustrated by her a lot