It is my first post, but I have been playing the game for a while and I was finally motivated to write something. Unfortunately that motivation was to bash the design of Brigitte, the new PTR hero. Let us be frank here, her Inspire ability is completely out of place and kind of nonsensical.

Take a look at Reinhardt and Torbjorn, the two heroes she was essentially fashioned from. Do either of them heal? No, yet Brigitte can. And how? The inspiring way she swings her weapon radiates to nearby heroes? This stuff reminds me of bad twink stuff from my Furcadia role-playing days. Like, the only hero in the Overwatch universe who comes close to the same ability is Lucio with his healing music, but at least can make sense from a spiritual mind-over-body perspective. Are we supposed to believe that Brigitte is just as magical with her weapon swings? Why cannot Reinhardt or even Genji be graceful and beautiful enough with their melee weapons to heal as well? What is so special about Brigitte?

And then there is the lost opportunity of providing armor. No support provides armor except for Symmetra and she only does it as an ultimate. Brigitte looks like she is meant to be an armor hero, but her armor is tied to a single-target medium cooldown and her ultimate only. Inspire would make a TON more sense if Brigitte’s weapon swings knocked scrap off from foes that translates to AoE armor for her team, then we can at least believe the ability is something she got from Torbjorn. But, no, she heals…

I am just saying. Brigitte’s inspire ability does not belong to her character or the Overwatch universe, it is like it is tossed in to justify Brigitte as a support. And that does not even make sense because we already have Symmetra. Are the Symmetra changes that have been announced going to grant Symmetra healing then? Is it some new kind of rule that Supports MUST heal?

I am just confused by this ability Brigitte has and how it came to be.