Is Reinhardt's Earthshatter broken?

Personally I’m not too sure about this. What do you guys think of it?

Area stunning ability type
50 damage per enemy
2 m, 20 m range
Lasts 2.5 seconds

No, It’s very fair. It’s actually a little meh in my opinion.

It’s basically a slightly stronger EMP, which lasts for about 1/4 of the time

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No. Completely countered by the everpresent shields, immunity to disable/movement debuffs, and just immunity to everything (reaper mei)

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One shield and it’s nullified, one little line of sight issue and it’s nullified. Building it fast requires a madman Rein, and if you can’t deal with a swinging Rein, you’ve likely lost anyway, so no. I think it’s alright.

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If you mean covered with pesky bugs, then yes… yes it is broken.

There are many times you shatter and the enemies who are clearly standing directly in front of you are allowed to just waddle away afterward unhindered. The same issue goes for Seismic Slam (considering they are literally the same move), but it matters less for that due to Earthshatter being an ultimate.

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Broken as in buggy as hell? Absolutely.

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Only if by “broken” you mean very buggy and in need of fixing.

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For some reason it feels a bit more… buggier now? I don’t know it just feels like it goes through shields (sometimes) and I know the probability of the enemy Rein’s shield being slightly off the ground but that’s not always the case.

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Oh yeah, I think it needs a look at if buggy is what you mean. I think often the reason people just waddle away is cause of some small line of sight issue, and that often shouldn’t be how it is.

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More often than not the bugs are it not hitting someone it should. There’s a lot of internet videos out there of people obviously getting hit but not going down.

But yes, sometimes there are some weird timing things with shields too. In those Rein v Rein battles that can be frustrating.

Bottom line is Blizzard needs to just do a quick sprint fixing Reinhardt bugs.

Good point there. Hopefully the minor bugs to shields get patched or it’s gonna cost the team to lose a teamfight.