Since the Devs cant think of any way to help him, I’ll do it myself. I’m not here to play games with peoples time, so lets get this DONE.
The ISSUE: Rein is undertuned. Theres no 2 ways about it. When psuedo brawl Tanks like orisa/doom can run over the OG brawl tank with relative ease without Rein being able to retaliate…theres an issue.
The changes below aim to amplify Reinhardt’s CQC strengths WHILE still keeping his tradtional weakness.
To start, we have to look at damage mitagation. As of now, the only damage mitagation Rein has is for the team. Once your shield is broken, if your team can’t secure those picks on YOUR resouces, then thats game.
The SOLUTION:
Barrier: grants Rein a ‘store’ mechanic that gives him a cap of 150 over health while blocking and damage reduction when the shield is broken.
Charge: is now Unstoppable and the collision radius increased. Cooldown is increased from 8 to 12. This is his one selfish abilty that will alow him to get in his threat range comfortably.
The Unstoppable charge then allows Rein to mount an offense and create opportunities when combating high CC comps like Doom/Orisa. This forces both the Allied and enemy Tank to use their abilities strategically.
Feel free to have open discourse about these ideas. Im just so sick of this counter meta. Its so cringe. Blizzard just ignores the fact that Rein in particular already struggles in his dedicated brawling range; the ONE area hes supposed to excel in when other Tanks can do it better. The man has a GIANT hammer for crying out loud. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!!
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Rein is fine. There’s no need to change something that already works.
You’re actually just wrong. Rein’s whole thing is his big ahh shield. The nerfed the shield health, literally his whole gimmick. Bro becomes a free kill when his shield is broken if the dps didn’t get picks/there’s no cover. My lil’ guy needs a nerf fr. There’s also the issue with his range. He gets countered by like half the roster.
Phara (always has been a counter so it’s okay).
Bastion melts him if the dps don’t kill him fast enough.
Encho is the same as Phara.
Orisa and Hog just deny Rein completely (especially Hog with his rework).
Reaper (obviously).
Sombra is the biggest middle finger given to Rein mains.
Winston and Doom can literally ignore him and go kill the healers.
Zarya mega walls rein.
Junkrat breaks the shield like a 1 ton metal ball hitting a 2 inches glass panel.
D.va flies away and blocks his fire strikes, even if Rein gets clsoe she can pierce his skull with her gatling shotgun, since rein can’t do headshots.
Mei is Mei.
Hanzo.
Everybody destroys him.
Please give Rein his shield back back or buff is charge, like OP said.
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Rein could use a buff, but I tend to say “nerf things before buffing other things”
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Let’s do some nerfs before buffing heroes who seem to be underperforming please and thank you. I dont want my favorite hero to become as problematic as the others.
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True, but you know blizzard is allergic to nerfing popular heroes, even if they do it takes them 12 billion years to do ‘‘Orisa’s beyblade mega knockback spear now lasts -0.00006% less time!!’’
Orisa’s spear really isn’t that bad. For a hero who doesn’t have a sheild, having the jav spin is fine. Her fortify is the biggest problem to me. Bring back golden headshots, then we’ll talk. Also, Orisa isn’t the main problem right now. She’s only played because she’s one of the few tanks that can survive the overabundance of Bastion and the absurdly overtuned supports like bap, kiri, ana, and illari
Yeah true, sorry i’m just kinda getting pissed off at all the knockback abilities.
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They should allow him to fly during charge like during the April fools mode. They did it for dva with call mech so why not.
If they wanted to throw a little more armor his way I certainly wouldn’t say no, but I think the only change he really needs is faster shield regen and/or more shield health to begin with.
He doesn’t need an overhealth, damage changes, or an uninterruptible charge.
And while I don’t think it’s necessary, or even a good idea, it might be funny to slightly increase his speed or damage when shield-broken. Either facilitate better escape or let him be biblically accurate reckless smashardt.
I think Rein is a pretty well balanced hero currently. Some of his counters may just need slight nerfs. If they DO want to change Rein, please just tweak his numbers. A rein rework would be disastrous imo
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Remember how you broke Sombra?
I think they should make his charge burn and boop anyone standing in hammers length behind him. It’s a big rocket after all.
Not for balance purposes. But for fun.