I think at this point it’s pretty obvious that Brigitte needs to be tweaked. I don’t think she needs a full on nerf that makes here completely un-usable, but her Shield Bash and Repair Pack abilities are overpowered, as well as having other very good traits such as her flail and her passive ability. I think as long as the cooldown on her Shield Bash is increased, and her Whip Shot damaged is slightly reduced, making her combo not guarantee kills on Tracer, Genji etc. would be fair enough, as well as maybe a slight decrease on the repair pack heal amount but that one is not as important as the other two.
As for when these changes are to come out I would hope they would be released before she is put into competitive but I can understand the issues with that. As long as she is tweaked in some way to make her weaker than what she is now, but still playable, I will probably be satisfied.
But what are your suggestions to Blizzard on how she should be fixed?
Edit: Keeping the Tracer kill confirm is fine, but I think her ability to kill Genji with the combo should be changed. Also, whether or not the Repair Pack needs to be changed at all is up for grabs, I don’t really know yet myself, I think when she is added to competitive a lot will be found out about what does and doesn’t need changes.
Personally I’m still not convinced that Brigitte is anything but a pubstomper. But playing the devils advocate, if I had to nerf anything about her, I’d do something like make her bonus armour decay rapidly if the target is out of her range.
Her combo is absolutely fine and it killing Tracer and forcing Genji to back-off (if not kill him too), is by design. Brigitte is supposed to be scary for those two.
Like I want to play these games where Brigitte is a real threat
Everytime I play her one person swaps to Pharah or Zarya and ruins my fun
I have never even seen her as a threat. If I’m playing Rein I just key up and tell my team “Hey the Brigitte is walking towards me, make sure to focus fire at her as she tries to stun”
okay fair changes time, her stun cooldown is 5 seconds currently, nerf that to 6, nerf her whip-shot cooldown to 5 seconds (from 4), and give her 2 charges of armor pack. (this allows her to heal alot more, while reducing her overall damage, and how much she can stun.)
Her overwhelmingly average or below-average stats suggest otherwise. Leave her alone. QP hasn’t shown she needs any kind of nerf, and unless Comp shows otherwise, she needs to be left as is for the time being.
Please no. I’d rather see her passive heal upped a bit over double armor pack. Burning through someones health twice is already a little tedious, I don’t want to have to do it three times. Or four if we’re lookin at Tracer
Her heal is pretty good actually if she is able to proc passive. It’s 150 instant burst healing every 6 seconds and 16 passive AoE healing. In total it’s 41 sustainable HPS on 1 target, which is more than Zen or Lucio can do.
You’re totally right. It’s never that a healer will be behind their team while Genji or Tracer are in your back line and you’re trying to kill them before they kill your healers. Better abandon them to take care of themselves while you go hunt down brigi.
yes, however outside of a fight she loses most of the healing, so after a teamfight her being the healer is much worse for topping people off than lucio.