Is even when they’re justified, the community will always blame the DPS players. I can already see it happening, the countless threads blaming Tracer and Genji mains if Brigitte’s stun hitbox gets nerfed, even though the tanks are the ones who get hit by it the most.
It happend with Ana.
It happend with Mercy.
It happend with Zen even.
And it will happen again.
In the meantime, we’re hating Genji for Deflect’s hitbox, but we’re okay with Brigitte’s stun having the size of the moon. We’re hypocrites.
Yeah, should we make widowmaker’s shots as easy to hit as Brigitte’s stun then?
I mean, it wouldn’t affect tanks much wouldn’t it? They’re already big.
/s
Something having a completely broken hitbox is never okay. We need to stop being such hypocrites.
We hate Genji for deflect’s hitbox, yet we are fine with a stun that has twice the size of deflect’s hitbox.
You dont get to claim that you are benefiting tanks when you are tabling a nerf that doesnt benefit them. Of all the nerfs you could have picked you chose the one that benefits tanks the least, all while claiming that you are helping the tanks.
And the Widowmaker example is silly. You can miss a tank’s head hitbox, unless you meant bodyshots, then you are still beating up low mobility squishies more than high mobility ones. And I think we can all agree that Reaper and Mei dont need any more indirect nerfs.
The majority of threads I see demanding support nerfs are often people who have never touched support for any significant period of time.
Lots and lots of flanker DPS mains were screaming from the mountain tops that Moira is going to end them, and now we got budget reinhardt being touted as the next tracer/genji destroyer and of course those who main genji and tracer are rallying for nerfs.
You simply can’t have a support in this game who aren’t free kills for genji and tracer without DPS mains demanding they be nerfed into the ground
I play Genji a lot(but I’m not being bias d when I say this cause I don’t have problems with Brigette like that) but her shield bash is crazy. I watched a kill cam and I was double jumping and she killed me as I was basically jumping all the way over her…
Most of them were definitely crying about the rework. Not the nerf. In fact most Mercy mains would agree that the nerfs were mostly justified. That is to say, from 2.0 down to current state.
Tanks are the main targets of this ability in particular, so naturally, the tank/flex players are complaining about it the most (and rightfully so btw) Yet the community will proceed to blame the DPS players anyway.
To propose a counter question, why DOES it need to be THAT big if tanks are ALREADY easy to hit? Why does it need to be THAT painfully easy? It even bypasses barriers.
If you seriously think the hitbox should be THIS big, just for the smaller targets… Then what about the immobile heroes who can’t actually bait it or kite Brigitte?
McCree, Symmetra and Zenyatta can’t do anything about it. You know who can?
TRACER AND GENJI CAN…They can kite Brigitte as they are highly mobile. They can keep distance even around payloads and on objectives.
But whatever, keep blaming the 2 who are the best at working around it.
It’s not like i can stop anyone from doing so.
On the contrary tanks were never the intended target for this. At least not frontline tanks. Its the dive tanks and the flankers.
Since it is going for those guys, who are going to be flying around at breakneck speeds, in which latency can result in ghost shots missing when they should hit (hi Doomfist).
As for slow moving characters, nerfing the hitbox isnt gonna help unless you make it absurdly small (hi Doomfist!). You would do better looking into changing other aspects of shield bash than the hitbox. Otherwise you would legitimately just making it better for Tracer and Genji and not really anyone else.
In short, if you think it is too strong, the last thing you should be calling for atm is nerfs to the hitbox, because it does nothing to reduce its strength against the people who suffer from it the most.
Also she needs buffs in the healing and util departments if you are gonna nerf shield bash.
If you think the ability was meant to be used against flankers rather than immobile heroes and tanks, then isn’t the ability a failure to begin with?
Flankers can work around her barrier.
Flankers can work around her stun range.
Flankers can escape and engage at their leissure.
If anything, she’s countered by flankers.
Again, flankers have the tools to work around her stun range. Many other heroes don’t. How does shield bash counter Tracer any harder than Symmetra?
Because the combo deals 155 damage? It doesn’t matter how much damage it deals if she can’t get Tracer in range. Because that would be like saying a Widow who can’t ever hit her shots being a counter to Tracer because she could, in theory deal 300 damage per shot. Tracer players are already adapting, and they’re working around the stun with the tools they were provided.
Tracer is one of the heroes i’m actually killing the least because of her mobility.
What can Symmetra do other than just running away because she just can’t win the duel?
What can McCree do other than hoping her barrier will burst and she will goof out in the open long enough?
What can Soldier do other than hoping her barrier will burst and she will goof out in the open long enough?
What can Zenyatta do other than hoping her barrier will burst and she will goof out in the open long enough?
If any of the afore mentioned heroes get on the objective, they’re risking the stun. Once she closes in on them, the engagement is over. They stick around and die, or they retreat and lose the point.
If only Brigitte wasn’t so paaaaaaaaaainfully easy to play.
We complain about Genji’s hitbox because he doesn’t deserve to deflect something outside of the visual hitbox, yet we’re fine with this broken mess.
You realize that the same argument about large hitboxes being necessary for consistency can be made for Genji when it comes to Deflect, right?
Also, Brigitte is mainly on the frontline dealing with Tanks. If Tanks can’t push past the choke because they’re constantly getting CC’d to death, then you’ve lost.
It also happened with Sombra, even though the main people who were getting wrecked by her Hack were Tanks.
I don’t think the community cares about Tanks as much as they claim so much as Tank-Mains are good ways to swing arguments in one’s favor and garnering support from the majority.
Mind you, I’m an Ana-Main/Flex player who notices the hypocrisy and it bothers me to no end.