Brigitte does not act like a support, she can chase down her targets very easily, and she doesn’t deal enough healing to even be played in the off-healer role, usually she ends up filling the off-tank or one of the dps roles, so here are some suggestions on how I think she could be balanced. (Edit: after reading comments I only stand by 1, 2, and 4)
Increase her ally healing, I don’t think she need more self healing but for people to consider her as an off-healer then she needs to be able to heal her allies a lot more than she currently does.
Add a visual for her healing radius, every other healing radius ability has one, even her ultimate has one and if you added this then people can be aware of when they leave it.
(Edit: after reading some comments this seems unreasonable) Take aware her shield lunge, at the moment Brigitte’s shield bash propels her forward which is a little unfair when you’re trying to run away from her.
Decrease her speed when she’s holding up her shield, similar to number 3 it feels a little unfair that when you’re running away from her she can keep her shield up and still catch up to you.
(Edit: after consideration this is an unreasonable request) Give her a cool down time before she can bring her shield up again after using it, If you’re fighting a Brigitte she can hold her shied up, hit you, hold her shield up, hit you and so on until you’re dead which makes it a lot harder to kill her, I think 3 or 4 seconds would be fair.
I you think these are fair, but if you disagree with any of them I would love to hear your side.
I’d say make her able to do smaller amounts of healing more frequently with her E. Right now it’s 150 healing every 6 seconds, which means she’s pretty bad at maintaining more than one squishy and it also feels sucky to do almost all of someone’s health only to have it completely replenished. I’d say make it do 50 healing on a 2 second cooldown. Full HP targets would get 50 armor over the limit.
Yes please.
Considering it’s on a 6 second cooldown, I think it’s fair. How would the ability work otherwise?
This would be great. She already is 30% slower, but I feel like making it 50% would make her feel less cheap to get flanked by.
3 or 4 seconds would ruin her. I think that since Rein can have it up whenever, she should have the same. Having it down for 1, maybe 2 seconds after using her bash though might be more fair.
Yea, If we look at OWL she’s inline, maybe a little overtuned. The meta there is super diverse atm, and the main difference is that it has old hanzo. He is the problem rn in ladder imo.
Although I like making her slower with shield up to make her more defensive and peel oriented
Brigitte probably needs a buff in my opinion. Once peeps work out that from any sort of distance she is a free kill you will see her win rate drop dramatically. Pharah, junkrat and even Rein totally counter her at any rank below diamond. Even in OW league she is not getting much play.
Suggestions 3 and 5 are completely absurd. Who are you playing that is so slow that Brigitte chases you down? McCree crouched?
Reason 3 feels inspired from someone who cannot avoid her shield bash. It’s McCree’s flashbang in disguise. Wait for it, make her miss and then attack. Keep note of when she uses it. The shield bash is a part of her kit. You offer nothing to compensate in return for it.
Reason 5 is also ridiculous. You believe it’s unfair that she can hold her shield up and walk? Then hit you? I may be mistaken, but there’s this hero in the game that could do that since release. You may have heard of him. Reinhardt? I’m sure the Rein mains would like to have this shield cooldown on their hero as well, because fair is fair and balance is balance.
Brigitte is balanced. Blizzard is doing pity nerfs for those of you who continue to whine instead of learning her function and weakness.
P.S. I’m not a Brigitte main. I’m a Tracer/Widow main. Which, says a lot considering that most of the players who dislike Brigitte’s stun are Tracer players who don’t seem to realize that you’re supposed to keep your distance from her until her bash is down. She’s really that simple.