Does reinhardt needs a buf?

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Hey guys,

I got a question… with all the anti-tank counter buffs do you guys think Reinhardt needs a buff?

With all the current stuns and especially with Brigitte being able to stun a charging Reinhardt and remove his shield every 4 seconds…

please give me your opinion!

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Yes, yes he does.

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Umm yeah… Rein is not in the best place right now at all. Just look through the Forums, that has been stated over and over. Unfortunaetly it appears that the developers do not believe that to be the case. They are fine with his Shield being destroyed in seconds, being stunned non stop and being whacked back and forth like a tennis ball for most of the match. So again, the answer is YES he does need a buff, but it appears the answer to him getting one is NO.

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Does a dog need water? Do I need a delicious burrito?

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Honestly, I don’t think so. He is pretty decent in my experience. Just because Reinhardt isn’t meta anymore does not mean they should be buffed.

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:yum: :burrito:Now I have to run out. ThNks man!

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No offense, but it says you have 8 hours on Reinhardt. How would you know if he needs a buff or not? He absolutely positively does!

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Since when is 8 hours “Only”? I don’t have to be a Reinhardt main to feel like he is fine. Can you tell me why he should?

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He does need a buff, but playing him solo is hard, playing him with one or two pals, makes things easier than most other tanks

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I’m not sure.
Looking at his pickrate and stats does he not seem to be in a bad space.

Maybe give him immunity to melee stuns like Brigitte’s bash and Doomfist downwards punch when he has his shield up.
There is currently a big request to make him immune to all CC but I think this is too much.

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I say harder than zarya because zarya is an off tank so doing not well on her own is kinda granted while rein is a main and he has more weight to handle
And I think I’m a decent rein I can play at my level without failing

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You gotta love Daniel bryan

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If not buffs, at least some damn bug fixes! Tired of
-earthshatter hitting people an entire floor above him and glitching both through shields and cc-immune abilities
-charge either grabbing people 10 feet away omnidirectionally or not grabbing someone right in front of him
-firestrike hitting people through walls and earthshatter hitting people behind him

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  1. Damage Creep. Rein has not been touched since launch, in the mean time damage has been increased on multiple characters, so his Shield is deleted pretty rapidly.

  2. Stuns. There are way to many stubs in the game now that make him ineffective at his main job. Between Brigitte, Doomfist, Mcree stuns and Mei Freeze, Pharah, Junkratrat, lucio knocking him out of position he can be made irellavant pretty easily.

  3. His bugs for ES and Charge

  4. his speed withbshield up. the fact people can just walk up and stick guns or mele throu his shield is ridiculous and give him no counter ability.

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Give Rein an ability pick-up someone and smash on the ground like in the movie how he did to the Bastion.

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He’s suffered a bit from power creep, since his only real competitor (Orisa) and his direct counters (Reaper, Sombra, Junkrat) were buffed, to the point where he can’t properly accomplish his goal thanks to how low his shield uptime is.

Either Orisa’s needs to be lowered (which probably won’t happen, people agree she’s in a good spot), or Rein will get a buff to improve his team protection capacity.

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No. He needs bugs fixing. Especially his buggy ult.

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  1. Reinhardt has a rechargeable shield, unless you are playing with only 1 tank (Why would you?), you should have enough time to recharge a bit to put it back up and save your team.

  2. Those are called counters… Brigitte and Doomfist are your main counters.

I also don’t understand your reasoning behind Mccree, Mei and Lucio, since Mccree has to be incredibly close to you to stun, which shouldn’t happen if your DPS are half-decent. Mei can only freeze your shield, which doesn’t even do anything. Lucio is the same as Mccree, as he has to go through your shield and turn around to boop you, which shouldn’t be the case if your DPS is half-decent (trust me, I would know).

  1. Sure, but I wouldn’t label that as a buff, but as a bug fix.

  2. Same case for Mccree, Mei, and Lucio: This wouldn’t happen if your DPS is half-decent.

Reinhardt is a character who HEAVILY relies on his teammates to do damage. Try grouping with some friends who are good DPS if people go through your shield.

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Which reminds me, Jeff did say they were planning to fix it in April:

Maybe the next PTR contains the fix?