I wanted to write this kind of post a while ago, when it became obvious that Brigitte will be nerfed to a pulp like Mercy…
Increasing shield bash cool down, reducing the shield’s health etc…
But reducing the damage by shield bash to a tenth is ridiculous. Mccree’s flash bang for example does now cause 5 times more damage.
Really - what are you smoking at Blizzard?
I’m not so sure whether I’ll continue playing Overwatch. I played Mercy after the nerf fest on January 30th much less. After the latest nerf even less. The ‘buff’ is so ridiculous - it does NOT make up for the nerf. I loved Symmetra 2.0 and Trollbjörn before the rework. Even Junkrat got nerfed. The only hero you did not wreck with a rework is Hanzo - a DPS. He got even more OP.
It’s pretty disgustingly obvious they specifically put bash down to 5 damage so her combo would only do 145, letting Tracer live and thus Brig can literally not kill anyone in the game if she expends all her cooldowns (AND gets a melee hit in).
(Cant even kill squishies if she gets TWO melee hits into the combo anymore…)
Leave it to Blizz to smash a 100ton nerf hammer into Brig then put a velvet pink bandaid on afterwards as a micro buff compensation
Sounds appropriate since McCree is a DPS and Brig is a healer. Are we forgetting to mention she also got a healing buff? You know the category she plays in. She isnt a DPS hero.
I have never understood the whole complaint about Mercy. She heals quick, her ultimate is amazing, and she can damage boost. She has good mobility and they still havent patched her hyper jump thing.
Because she has a close range stun. Any other hero that catches Tracer with their stun will almost always kill Tracer. (flashbang+Mcfan, Doom combo, Rein pin) Why should Brig’s be any different
She was specifically made to counter flankers like Tracer, I don’t see the logic in removing her ability to kill and just letting her 'gently boop Tracer away and letting her recall to get all her health back every single encounter…
doesn’t sound like countering to me, just sounds like you charging Tracer’s ult % for her
oh no the horror, she can’t one shot tracer anymore bliz don’t want tracer to be weak EXCEPT EVERYTHING IN BRIG’S KIT COUNTERS TRACER.
Armor halves tracer damage.
Brig can’t be one clipped.
Aoe heals slows her kills.
Stun is still deadly for a tracer.
Brig has an E that instantly heals 150 and can give up to 75 armor.
Literally everything brig does counters tracer, because her presence alone halves tracer’s potential.
Also, for the love of god, brig isn’t an issue just for tracer and genji, she pretty much invalidates EVERY dps but snipers and pharah (junk should counter her, but he’s too inconsistent to work).
Plus, she can bully tanks.
She can 1v1 easily a good 75% of the roster with little risk.
You have to admit at least, a sparkly firecracker tossed in front of someone’s path (flashbang) doing FIVE TIMES more damage than a giant metal rocket-propelled shield being rammed into their face is pretty ridiculous
Mei is balanced, have a hard CC, stupid survivability, and a ranged attack (unlike Brigitte).
Some heroes are good duelists. Those are the kind of heroes you do not want to engage in a 1v1 fight. If you are playing Genji against Mei, you don’t dash towards her to initiate a fight and expect to survive. Brigitte is the same.
I’m ok with the shield bash not going through barriers. But the damage reduction was ridiculous.
well, torb’s little dinky hammer used to do as much damage as rein’s mighty rocket hammer, so…
Or that pharah has an armor and has 200 health, while mei has a coat and 250 health.
It’s almost as like balance doesn’t always take into account logic.
ok, i needed to elaborate more.
The problem with brig is that she’s a great duelist AND is really tanky AND has high burst damage and low cd.
Mei is very strong in 1v1, but she needs to play smart with her abilities and she has long cooldowns.
Brig has 50 armor, an on dmand shield, constant self heal and plus she can heal teammates.
Brig’s kit is too much packed with valuable stuff. And their call was to lower the damage, as she’s supposed to be a tank/healer hybrid, not a duelist.
Mei at least is a dps, so she’s expected to be a good brawler.
Brig has too much value and too little negative traits to balance it. Her only real weakness is that she has short range.
Number of nerfs does not always equate being trash, it’s about the impact of those nerfs. For example, Mercy received more nerfs than Brig just a bit before the big support patch a while back, yet was still superior to Ana. Either way, Mercy is very balanced (coming from a player with more than 20 hours on her).
Comparing the kits of two heroes is an invalid argument, since you’re not considering their other weaknesses or strengths. And please give up the whole sad story of you leaving Overwatch. Emotion isn’t an argument to justify balance changes.
You liking certain heroes before nerfs, reworks, etc. is purely subjective, and isn’t a solid argument. Go back to Fortnite if you’d like that’s your choice, but no offence no one’s going to miss you.
-Her dmg is fine, and the only burst dmg she has is her combo that takes all her CDs.
-Symm was removed because her support side wasn’t good enough while brig does her work well.
Uhh… hmm… many characters have to work to kill things, why not Brig? Why should she who also is a tank that self-heals also get to effectively one-shot? The fact is she finally feels like she should have.
Over the last 4 days Brig’s win rate has stayed the same, but her pick rate has dropped and seems to have reached a leveling out possibly.
To me Brigitte is still pretty strong. Her ultimate is sufficiently good to win a team fight on top of her regular healing. Shield bash is still a strong move as it opens people up and enables other teammates to get KOs and it is far more reliable of an opening than flashbang.
She just can’t run rampant on her own trying to KO someone. She needs 2v1, but a very short 2v1 to KO people as you only need a little bit more damage. I think coordinated teams that used her well for her ability to support the front line will keep doing well and the people who played lone wolf will find her not very playable.
It is not a skill shot, it is a low-risk and high-reward combo. Reason being is because Brigitte is protected by her 500 hp shield, has high sustainability, requires minimal aim, and moves relatively fast with her shield deployed. Just because it is fast or there is the chance of you missing doesn’t make it a “skill shot”. Those are literally the risks of 99% of all moves and abilities in the game.
Yes Tracer has high mobility? That’s part of her kit. Doesn’t justify a reason to one shot her using a high reward low risk combo.
Against other fighters, yes. But in Brig’s case, her self-healing and armour negate a huge portion of damage by Tracers who fight at mid-range. That doesn’t even include the shield part of it.
