I don’t see many people picking him anymore and when they do they get melted.
Yes yes. It’s a different game so standing there with a shield doesn’t work anymore. But considering that’s Reins whole shtick I think he might be too weak for the current version of Overwatch.
His damage is fine and his charge rework is great. I don’t know if he needs a health buff or a shield buff.
Standing there with a shield is the wrong way to play him I feel. You use that shield to get closer not to hide behind.
I think he actually does really good damage once you get up close but of course he can still die quickly because he doesn’t have a “defensive” skill like other tanks can throw on themselves.
I know and I agree. I obviously didn’t mean to just stand still when doing it. But even so Reins just don’t seem to last as long anymore. Like, Rein might be the weakest Tank atm. Maybe Winston.
Hes not even top five tanks now
I think it’s way too early to talk about balance. The game isn’t even playable half the time so let’s hold off on buffs.
But as for rein? I feel like he is a mid-tier tank. People don’t often pick him because he gets melted, but he’s not the worst imo, still has some maps that work well for him.
Reinhardt has been the defecto tank for ages, so I think most people are just in the mood to use the tanks they have loved for ages and new stuff.
Otherwise, Reinhardt has a shield. Of course he’s one of the more powerful tanks because shields will always be incredibly good unless they gut it more than what is there. He takes 30% less dmg from all sources and has one of the most armor of any character.
Shatters are even more game making with only 1 tank getting in the way at all and x4 200hp heroes to shatter. I’ve been having good Reinhardt games.
I personally feel like Doomfist is the weakest Tank. He is however way less appealing than Winston and D.Va that’s for sure.
Rein needs a team suited to him for him to be viable.
He needs Lucio for the speed boost & bap or ana for the nano / Lamp.
Rein has always been a pushing shield tank, should be used only when teammates are near death or taking heavy damage, Pointblank charge can disrupt and insta-kill players, while the Ranged strike can be used to target their healers.
Reinhardt is incredible now, he feels so much better to play.
The double blast helps so much at range and you are able to swing tons more with two healers dedicated to healing you and less tanks knocking you around.
The improved charge is just icing.
he feels really, really awful to play when going against an enemy Orisa as their tank. She can just keep shooting and rotating cooldowns while you have to stare back at her and hope your team can take her supports out before you eventually run out of shield and die
mix that in with an enemy Zen on their team and there’s no room to swing either or you get melted instantly
I’ve had really good games with Rein so I can’t really say he is weak you just gotta be really aggressive.
I won’t be surprised if he’s hard meta in OWL. Very good synergy with Kiriko.
In the metal ranks, where I play, as someone who was always on the aggressive sides for a MT player, I’ve been having a lot of success. Cancellable charge is actually kind of insane as one can use it to close gaps to lonely squishies who just don’t have the DPS to kill you in time. It takes maps Rein used to struggle with and makes them a lot more viable for the hero.
Overall it also must be said the map pool is limited right now. Maps where Rein struggles, long range poke favored maps, are not available such as Havana.
Overall I don’t think Rein presents an issue now.
Orisa just counters rein in every possible way. All of her abilities stop his charge. I can see her getting a nerf.
He’s the most support dependent tank in the game by a landslide. You can’t play him as a shield bot. You have to pair him with supports that will allow him to get in the enemy team’s face and brawl.
Kiriko and Lucio are the best for that, with Ana and Brig behind those two. If you coordinate a brawly raid boss Rein comp, you can run over people like crazy.
If you don’t however, he’s a bottom tier pick.
he is dangerous in the right hands, and the right situation. had a rein on my team the other day that just kept charging in away from the team, and I was getting super annoyed with it (as I am a support main, trying to keep up with him and his decisions). but then he made the suggestion of going Lucio+Bap and the entire game changed. He was super aggressive, forcing the rest of us to play aggressive. and we absolutely crushed the other team. we won the game, and Rein had double the amount of Elims and Damage that either of our DPS had.
Doomfist is by far the weakest tank right now
Nah, a good Doom is much better than a good Junker Queen right now. There’s just much less of them. They still pull out Doom every now and then in OWL, so it shows that he does have his moments. Junker Queen has nothing other than being much easier to play.
No, he is much stronger than in OW1, and other tanks should be closer in performance to him and doomfist than the insanity that is Dva, Sigma and Zarya, and Hog when Kiriko-chan becomes available in comp.
Not to mention Kiriko can negate his ult if timed right which I find very entertaining to do.