Firestrike? One-shot. Charge? One-shot. You try to deal any damage or make any play? Hold right click.
20k damage mitigated every friggin round. I am just shooting shield all game, or getting oneshot. Is anyone else absolutely sick of this character? Rein is ruining any fun I used to have with this game mode.
Feels like other than JQ, all the other tanks get run over real easy by him unless the rein has no idea what he’s doing.
Depends which role and character you’re playing but there’s plenty you can do to win against a rein going full AP.
Please, I am open to any and all advice. Going full AP doesn’t stop his shield from mitigating my entire kit over and over and over again while he slings out 500 damage firestrikes.
Like I said it depends what you and your team are playing, usually the strat is to ignore him and kill his team or CC him to death.
Also don’t be scared to pick survival items if you get one shot.
How are you ignoring him? He’s a massive rectangle that stops all of your damage in a game mode where just about every engagement happens in tight chokes. You can’t even CC him unless you happened to counterpick Mei or Orisa into him.
You can flank on every single map.
For CC yeah it’s team comp dependant eventho everybody has access to healing reduction and slow.
Idk, if I see an AP rein I use cover 
You can’t ignore a rein going firestrike build. You need an orisa or dva to eat his firestrikes or a genji to deflect them. The moment you turn your head you have a fat firestrike coming your way that you’re not looking at.
As a rein player what makes it the hardest and most frustrating for me is a survival built deflecting orisa with low cd’s who is autistically hell bent on ruining my day.
Stuffing her face into me all game. When that happens i can still win but i have to play like I’m reinmouse running away from catrisa. Some orisas are like terminators. I see orisa charging toward me? I pin away so i can firestrike from somewhere else.
While I’m pinning away I’m getting shot at, or my team is.
Ive also 1hit killed a few too many teammates with orisa and genji deflect.
When orisa is in your face, and has her deflecting jav spin, waiting for you to firestrike to use it while she shooting at you in golden disgusting glory… you can’t do anything but pin away. And when you do she spears you out of it. So you have to keep a keen eye and pin away before she gets near you.
Also mei can wall you off and sometimes kill you. Firestrike build doesn’t have the sustain that WP lifesteal build does so a good wall and focus can kill him… especially if there’s an ana too.
Zarya i find is also a tough enemy sometimes. I don’t know what build she uses, or if it’s just the cruddy matchmaking. But shes sometimes tough.
If they have control of the point, flanking is a deathwish on most characters. Stadium is all about brawl. If you’re going off to look for an angle and the enemy team sees you, you’re dead, unless you’re Reaper.
I use cover too. Unfortunately, my character doesn’t have a spammable massive one-shot on a low cooldown that passes through multiple people, so it doesn’t really matter if I dodge one. He’ll just sit behind shield and completely cut us off from all damage and ult charge for a few seconds while waiting for the cooldown. Highest tank pickrate. Highest tank winrate.
Honestly, this is what I’m having to do. I’m having to go full counterwatch Orisa and Mei into him because otherwise he’s a complete menace to play against. It seems like a matchup that’s lost on character select if the Rein player is decent.
Both of you sound like you have a skill/build issue, idk what else to say.
I’m in Pro, so not the highest rank but definitely higher than average. Played a game with Seagull today. 
Literally anybody can reach pro if you grind long enough, I’ve seen plat players with like 40% WR in pro.
You can say that about any rank in any competitive game.
absolutely untrue, you need more than 50% WR to climb in other modes or past pro in stadium, actually I’m not even sure you need 50% even in pro since you lose 100 but earn 150 so you could technically get all stars by playing 50+ hours of stadium.
I’m pretty sure you need above 50% to get to Pro too. Losses count at Contender.
You lose 25 per loss in contender and earn like 150 per win lol
Anyway stadium ranks are meaningless except all stars and legend.
Fair enough. Reinhardt still has the highest winrate and pickrate though. I smell nerfs.
“While we want players to feel OP at times, we’ve already started to see some builds that have high burst potential with a relatively low skill floor. We believe that some of these have gone too far and will be looking into adjustments to them.” - Aaron Keller
Oh bless, they know.
How do you ignore Rein?
If he wants to firestrike you, and you want to not get hit by a random firestrike, you cannot ignore him. You have to have him in your mind constantly lest you get sniped.
That’s not a build or skill issue that’s an awareness requirement.
Now if you meant… know his position at all times and avoid him like the plague and ensure you always have cover between you and his firestrikes. And you shoot his teammates down while double checking where he is… That is completely different to ignoring him.
You aren’t ignoring him, you are intentfully avoiding him.
But how do you maintain that while intentfully shooting at someone else? You can and probably will still eat his firestrikes the moment you go to shoot someone else.
Rein’s speed hammer build makes him the strongest hero in the mode by far. If he’s using any other build, he’s terrible. You can always tell by his first power pick whether he’s going to win.
If he goes shield build for some reason, take the extra weapon damage and attack speed to barriers item. Any hero can make him irrelevant if he isn’t using the good aggressive build.
ignore him, avoid him, it’s semantics, my point is all the maps have flank routes you can use to go around him and kill his team, it’s not like he’s going to one shot before round like 4 or 5.
I’m just gonna list what you can do,
Dva : matrix
JQ : walk past his shield so he has no choice but to turn around and look at you
Zarya : Bubble + same as JQ
Orisa : Fortify and Javelin Spin
Rein AP : Ignore him and firestrike his team
Rein WP : pressure him into brawling
Ashe: No point being near him, use cover / highground
Cass : Power that negates all dmg during roll + machine gun right click or just click the heads of his teammates while flanking
Freja: She flies, hard to hit for rein
Genji: Deflect, wall climbing or flank
Mei: Wall and/or Coulder
Reaper: Shadowstep to flank and Wraith form with like the power to regen life and the item to fly even if you need it to flank
Soldier: Run and flank
Ana: Sleep and anti to pressure him
Juno: Don’t be predictable during glide
Kiri: Suzu or TP
Lucio: Wallride and speed your team
Mercy: Good luck to rein to hit a mercy zipping around with 400hp
Moira: Fade the firestrike
Also there’s an item that reduces ability damage and another one that slows him for a couple of seconds in AP.
Idk, just be creative, there’s plenty of options to kill or avoid him.