Shield Bash -> 6 second cooldown

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I get that Brig needed a nerf, but the current changes are a pretty massive nerf.

Does a single-target stun that can’t go through barriers and deals 5 damage really need to be on a 7-second cooldown? I don’t think it would be terrible to dial the cooldown back to 6 seconds, especially since Brigitte can’t stun people through barriers anymore. Maybe even have Shield Bash trigger Inspire as well.

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Expect Brigitte haters here telling you to adapt

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How about we see if her winrate drops below what’s normal for other supports.

(I highly doubt it will)

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I think it will hit her hard, she will be much weaker as a front line opener, and much weaker at back line defense, she is over tuned currently, but the current PTR will hit her very very hard from all angles of play.

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Nerfing the crap out of somthing and only giving compensation when their winrate drops isn’t the right way to handle things.

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That’s patch 1.27 :thinking:

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True, but if you check brig winrate currently is pretty much the same.

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Idk how to check it out. I really never knew where you all found those pictures xD

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Go here
Hero Statistics - Overbuff - Overwatch 2 Statistics

Click this week, then click through Bronze through GM.

And you’ll see her winrates are really high across all skill tiers.

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She’s oppressive, well deserved, brig quislings that are still defending her should just stop.

She is completely unfun to play against, if a hero is anti fun they need to be nerfed or reworked. You can’t have anti fun in a game which is supposed to be fun.

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Unfun is fine.

Unfun and Unfair is a problem.

Example: Getting instant killed across the map by a Widow headshot isn’t fun.

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But that picture in specific. In the website it has a blue background

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What’s so unfair about someone being able to burst 200 hp in 2 seconds with 0 mechanical skill while self healing with 250 hp and having a 500 hp shield oh wait

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Ah yeah that’s from

http://www.omnicmeta.com/p/home.html

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But Brigitte should also be fun to play. She needed a small nerf, not to be hit with a truck and left in the ditch.

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Have you seen flash bangs cool down? How inconsistent it is? How it’s CD is much longer despite Brig being a “support” and the duration of the stun being longer?

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As long as it’s the only Instant stun in the game it will always be an extremely strong tool.
Any other CC can be denied by zarya bubbles or matrix reactively (you’d need to be ready for it, but you can bubble as you see cree throwing his grenade. Or matrix as Ana shoots her sleep).
These things won’t work on a good brig, as she can wait out defensive abilities.

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Widow is both unfun and unfair though, literally the only interaction you can have in that situation is don’t enter her infinite range line of site, thats it. The only thing preventing her from killing you undeserved is if they are terrible, or there is a shield to hide behind.

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I’d say she’s unfun, but extremely fair.

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Fair assumes there is counter play, the opposing widows skill level isn’t counter play. The reason people hate CC is there is no counter play.