He’s not dying, but he is suffering. Basically this, Briggy will help enable Rein on maps he is already good at; King’s Row, Nepal Village, Control Tower. You will also see him being run in a 3 support meta with a Lucio to speed boost onto capture points like 1st point Echenwalde and Volskya.
But the thing is, this is a niche strat that is built around Briggy.
And if the enemy has a Rein Briggy and you are running Rein with no Briggy, you are going to get rolled.
I think when people say Rein is dying, I think they really mean his bugs more than anything. Right now, Reinhardt has a Shield bug, Charge bug, and an Earthshatter bug. That is most of his kit. Here are the videos that show his bugs:
Earthshatter Bug:
https://giant.gfycat.com/AbandonedBreakableGrub.webm
Charge Bug:
the same bug but in game
Shield Bug:
And lastly if things couldn’t get any worse, there is a bug that will just kick you out of the game as Rein for inactivity; even when you a re being active:
Reinhardt Inactivity Kick’d out of game Bug:
https://d1playscdntv-a.akamaihd.net/video/HmwktPFxzuG/processed/480.mp4
So when you top everything, the bugs and the power creep that has entered the game… For details on the power creep see this thread:
You start to see a really bad pattern here of a hero that has been very neglected. Is he dying? No. His pickrate is still good because he is 1 of only 2 anchor tanks in the game, and he still commands a good ultimate when it doesn’t bug out. But at the higher ranks, Rein is more a liability.
He is not dying, but he is in a serious position where he could be if he doesn’t get his needed fixes.