My dream Brigitte patchnotes

General Discussion
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If you like this please upvote so the devs see it :slight_smile:

Brigitte

  • Barriers no longer block Shield Bash
  • Increased Shield Bash damage from 5 to 40
  • Replaced Shield Bash’s stun with a 1,5 second cripple that disables movement abilities and slows the enemy movement speed by 30%
  • Inspire healing reduced from 16 to 14
  • Inspire self-healing reduced from 16 to 12
  • Rally armor generation from 15 every 0.5 seconds to 12
  • After Rallys duration has ended the armor degenerates at the same speed it generated

Developers note:
“Brigitte was always meant to hold her ground against high mobility heros with a combination of durability and Crowd Control abilities. However, her ability to stun not only countered elusive enemys such as Tracer or Genji but also generally anyone who got in range of it. Although smart positioning matters it isnt always an option to avoid her entirely and in those moments she can feel incredibly frustrating to play against. With the new cripple she will still be strong against mobile heros while removing her oppressive nature against those who cannot avoid fighting in Shield Bash’s range. Also, her healing/armor output has proven to be easiely abusable in very tank-heavy compositions. We hope the slightly reduced numbers will weaken the effectiveness of those line-ups and open up other options.”

Abilities that are disabled by cripple:

  • D.va: Boosters
  • Reinhardt: Charge
  • Winston: Jump Pack
  • Hammond: Hammond cannot go into Roll form and if he already is he gets forced out of it
  • Doomfist: Rocket Punch, Rising Uppercut and Seismic Slam
  • Genji: Double Jump, Wallclimb and Dash (although the cooldown is still reset if he gets a kill while crippled)
  • Hanzo: Wallclimb and Lunge
  • McCree: Combat Roll
  • Phara: Jump Jet and Hover Jets (still recharges while under the cripple effect)
  • Reaper: Shadow Step and (maybe!) Wraith Form
  • Soldier: Sprint
  • Sombra: Stealth and Translocator (placing, deleting and using it)
  • Tracer: Blink and Recall
  • Widowmaker: Grappling Hook
  • Brigitte: Shield Bash
  • Lúcio: Wall Ride and Crossfade (if Crossfade is on speed it gets changed to healing and if healing is already activated it cannot be changed to speed during the cripple effect)
  • Mercy: Guardian Angel and Angelic Descent
  • Moira: Fade

Important mentions and sidenotes:

  • While Trobjörns Overload, Brigittes Rally, Moiras Coalescence and Zenyattas Transcendence all have a speed boost aspect to them I do not consider them movement abilities
  • Pharas Concussive Blast is excluded because its a projectile with a knockback effect (like Junkrats mines) and not inherently based on moving the user
  • I think simlarly about Ashes Coach Gun although I can see an argument being made for it to also be disabled by cripple
  • Lúcios Crossfade interaction with cripple might play out a little wonky and therefore gets removed later on
  • Symmetras Teleporter isnt a direct movement ability and isnt disabled by Graviton (which applies a cripple effect) either so Blizz seems to not count it as a movement ability
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What if the Brigitte nerf buffs GOATS?
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Haven’t been paying attention to patches is this a real nerf? Because I like it.

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The real question is does this include Ashes coach gun?

Edit: I really like this, and to be honest, the passive for teammates should stay at 16, she is a support after all.

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Oddly enough, the patches that crippled Brigitte were not even this bad… :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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I would say no. Same as Pharas concussive shot for example. I could make a list.

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Hey, this ain’t bad. Although I’m not sure about that 40hp shield bash. It would need to be on a longer cooldown, I think, to balance it.

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Brigitte needs a burst combo to truly be effective against flankers (especially Tracer). However, I also dont think her combo should straight-up oneshot Tracer. So if Shield Bash deals 40 damage the whole combo deals 145 dmg. Not entirely enough to oneshot Tracer but certainly enough to force her to retreat.

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She makes them borderline useless by just existing. Armor almost completely negases any damage they do.

No need to solo em too

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Thats why we dont give her the ability to do just that …

If Shield Bash only deals 40 damage Brigitte will need an extra hit with her flail to kill a Tracer. Giving Tracer the ability to recall or blink to safety. Albeit I havent exactly done the numbers if 1,5 seconds is enough to do the entire combo with an additional flail hit. In that case maybe her left-click speed needs to be slightly lowered.

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What if the team isn’t mobility based? Why would you decrease her already low healing? In fact she actually gains more CC

No offense but this is extremely bad. Glad you arent a dev because this wouldnt work

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Thank God you’re not writing the patch notes. You should be buffing her healing and lowering her damage. She is a Support after all

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Honestly this alone would fix a lot of the problems with her.

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She might suffer more with these changes sure it buffs her tank half but cripple ain’t good and since there was no cooldown changes its still on a 7 sec cooldown which is still a while

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Many heros still have some kind of mobility, even if they arent 100% reliant on it. Also, dont forget it slows for 30%. And a slowed target is an easier target.

In reality its her healing that enables GOATS, not her stun. So if you buff her healing GOATS will be even stronger. And if we dont slightly nerf it GOATS will stay just as strong as it is right now. The other part why GOATS is so strong is tanks being able to deal DPS levels of damage, so theres no reason to have a DPS in the first place.

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Then there wouldn’t be as big a need to pick Brigitte and you could run more poke-orientated comps like double snipers, Rein + Zarya and hybrids that make use of McCree, Hanzo, Soldier etc.

It removes the potential to completely take control away from a player and in return gives her an ability that can completely shut down high mobility characters without hindering the tank roster and low mobility characters as much.

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Why should it disable Symmetra’s Teleporter? The ability only places it.

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i really like this, can u add a “pls upvote so that the devs see it”

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I think Blizzard will put her ultimate on her E and give her a new ult which enhances her abilities and grants her charges of shieldbash.
That’s how they ruined Heroes in 2017 - so why not today?

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Patch notes-
All barriers block Shield Bash
Bash damage is 5
Bash stun time is 0.7 sec
Bash CD is 8 sec
Inspire healing to 20 hp/s
Inspire self healing is 10 hp/s
Rally armor generation at 10/0.5s
Rally degenerates at 5/s
Rally speedboost applies to entire team
Whipshot damage reduced to 35 from 70
Armor Pack is a 40 health autotargeted instaheal that stores up to 4 charges, each charge is a 2 second regen

There. Balanced.

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But the stun is very short, a 1.5 second slow is extremely unfun. Imagine hitting that on a mercy while she rezzes??? She would be unable to move for 1.5 seconds