If hes the singular tank, wouldn’t it make sense if his entire shielding gimmick is better than the wet toilet paper he has now?
It wasn’t an issue in Overwatch 1 for nearly 4 years, and that was WITH an additional tank.
Would it really hurt to give Reinhardt something like this? Especially in a 5v5 setting?
And let him charge with shield up
That might be a touch too far, but I suppose I wouldn’t mind that much.
If Reinhardt was released after launch I don’t doubt that he would have been able to do that, as well as have the OW2 instant charge-cancel feature on top of it.
That would probably be too much for lower ranks, and it would encourage a shieldbotting playstyle, which isn’t that fun to play or play against. I do wish Rein got some kind of buff eventually, though.
id rather give him more armor to sustain himself better. if he really needs more shield health, then increase it to 1500 or 1600
1600 sounds good to me
He needs more armor, buffing barrier just encourages shield botting which is how you should not be playing Reinhardt.
He had 1600 at the end of ow1, where there was another person to dmg the barrier. Hell no on 2k.
That other guy wasnt damaging the barrier, I hate to break it to you
The idea was to make all the tanks brawlers (which anyone with a functioning brain would have guessed that it won’t work)
if they buff rein’s shield they will have to do the same for all other tanks.
Oh yea? The other tank did no dmg to the barrier? You must be right, the other close range hero would never be doing dmg to a barrier.
Armor has nothing to do with shield. If Rein had more armor, a shieldbotting playstyle would be less inclined because he would be able to have more aggressive plays.
shield bot rein is no fun
he need his health converted to armor more, like maybe 100 more armor for start
They were too busy trying to walk through it to deal damage to the double pocketed Reiner. 
I feel like it would encourage low rank players to try different playstyles to approach a shield rather than headbutting against a wall, like playing Genji, Sombra, Tracer
I feel like it encourages healthy hero swapping
In low ranks, either everyone knows how to swap or no one does. Bumping up his shield health wouldn’t do much in my opinion. A good Rein player doesn’t need to rely on his shield too much anyways.
There is now 1 less player shooting the shield, that player being a tank that outputs lots of close-range damage.
His current shield makes tight choke maps pretty boring when he sticks his shield in there and you have little choice but to shoot it, over and over again.
I’d rather they reworked him not to rely so much on his shield then lower the HP on it back to 1200.
I’m surprised he’s gotten nothing, feel so bad bullying reins
Rein is a dive tank. More shield encourages bad playstyle. The shield is for small rotations or leaving a dive. The shield is for yourself mostly. No need to burn it prefight.