Brigitte is the worst in my opinion currently.
It feels like all other support characters are twice as effective to kill other players and to keep group members alive like in 90% of all situations.
A healer which has to engage in melee range with only 200 Hitpoints (same as a high range dps supporter like Zen) and a shield that can be shot down within 1,5 seconds nowdays.
Low damage and a extremely laughable self-heal regeneration by attacking enemies in close range… and her heal being extremely situational.
And i never will understand why people thought that Brigitte was OP at release. She was totally fine as she was…
Currently i really dont know for what you would play her for… besides weakening your team with bad healing potential… having a shield made out of paper… and every other support character (maybe besides Moira) having better capabillities to kill other players. She is useless against a widow, soldier, mccree, bastion, torb …she is useless against a pharah, echo, she is useless against doomfist, reaper, reinhardt, roadhog etc.
I mean she is terrible at every discipline… her healing is VERY situational… she can block damage for like 1,5 seconds… and if she then still somehow manages to get close enough to the enemy she is shredded down by two hits of Reinhardt because of her low HP (which is a joke for a character engaging in melee range)… i mean… shouldnt it be like that: the more damage and higher attack range a support char has, the lower the HP should be and the other way around? Isnt that how basic balancing is supposed to be? If Brigitte is a melee character only, why on earth does she have the same HP amount like a zenyetta with high attack range and the highest support damage output?
for what is she good for if not for healing, blocking or killing players?
She annoying because of shield slam cancelling something. Also if happen to get hit going she got knock back. No he easily avoided unless happen sneak up on me
Please then eleborate what you do while encountering a pharah, an echo, a soldier, a widow, a hanzo, a torb with turret, a Reinhardt, a Roadhog etc.?
All of these can be killed easily by a zenyetta… but very less likely by a Brigitte… i mean if you dare to attack a Reinhardt in melee combat in 1vs1 he kills you within two hits…
Because as a melee attacker which Brigitte is… of course you have the same amount of HP like a zenyetta who can attack safely from the distance.
he kills u within 2 hits if you let him lol don’t forget you have a stun and a whip shot which you can use to stall the fight for like 10 seconds if you use them correctly
These are some of the reasons I can remember off the top of my head:
-250 HP
-Rally gave 150 Armor instead of 100, and also gave speed boost to every ally within range
-5 second cooldown Shield Bash with longer stun and 50 damage, also went through barriers and didn’t stun Brig when she used SB against a punching Doomfist or charging Rein
-Repair pack healed instantly and gave extra armor if target was at full or almost had full health (completely broken on dive heroes)
-600 hp shield
-Long jump glitch that allowed her to travel nearly triple the distance of Shield Bash
Inspire might have been better back then too, these are just the ones I can remember. She was without a doubt OP when she released, the big amount of nerfs she got after happened for a reason.
Oh wow… a stun will kill reinhardt instantly… typical Tracer player roflmao… ouuh there is someone with stun… nerf it… of course a character with 150 hp isnt that big of a problem like other characters are…
Hello. Avid Brig player here! I understand your resentment but release Brig was super broken… it’s just undeniable. There’s been plenty of talk since she came out about why release Brig was horrible and I agree.
The shield bash change is worrisome but if they’re removing cc in mass and carefully delegating which heroes have these crowd control abilities, then I wouldn’t be too worried. Think of her bash very similarly to Genji’s dash. Just without the vertical mobility and no resets.
Thats the thing… you expect that Brigitte has to “get away”… a zenyetta can kill Reinhardt, a mercy can kill reinhardt, a baptiste can kill a Reinhardt, a pharah, echo etc…
But Brigitte should “get away and get away” though her healing extremely relies on attacking? Search for the mistake…
She loses time to get into close range… in order to heal or attack… thats why all other support characters are better in like 90% of all situations.
that’s the thing while trying to "kill the rein there not going to get much value with it"while brig will get inspire with it and heal all her team at the same time while doing dmg to the rein if you want to 1v1 reins as a support lmao