My weekly post about Rein state

General Discussion
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Hey guys iI have over 3000 hours on Reinhardt and have some stuff to suggest.
Reinhardt’s shield_

Okay guys reins shield i essential to Reinhardt’s sustain. He is not like sigma, Winston, or old orisha(With shield) For Reinhardt to do something he has to drop his shield. He cant shoot and have his shield up at the same time. The amount of damage in the game is absurd. Reinhard’s shield is paper thin. At least sigma(has his eating ability) and Winston can jump away. orisa can harden, ramattra has his block… But Rein is screwed once his shield breaks. Lets not even get started on Rammatas, Orisas, and Junkerqueens ability to penetrate through Reins shield. Rein literally needs his shield to get close(because hes a melee tank) and its his only protection. By the time I drop my shield I already have health missing which is more pressure, ITs frustrating to get within swinging range just to get pushed back every few seconds. Not to mention ramatras slow down. Then if you get discorded there isnt any counter play you literally just have shield break and get bursted. Winston can jump away, dva can fly away, hog can self heal, orisa can deflect, junkerqueen has her shout buff, hog can self heal while moving, sigma has eat, zarya can cleanse, and wrecking ball can even swing away. What can rein do? nothing he is so damn immobile.

Fix
Make his shield 1600 hp or 2000 hp. Make it his normal walking speed?

Reins Abilities
Firestrike
I enjoy the new fires trike I think they actually made it better. Maybe some bleed damage over time to put a little more Pressure

Charge

Rein literally has to charge up be vunerable to every damn ability in the game, Then he has to land it and then he has to hit a wall. Its frustrating not being able to one shot reapers, mcree, etc, Not only that pin is useless against some of the beefy tanks it does nothing.

My ideas to fix it.
Crazy idea would be to let rein have a shield up while he charges or maybe even a armor boost during the charge that goes away a few seconds after the charge.

Reinhardts swing and speed.
Reinhardts primary is great but it is very frustrating to have someone down to one swing away from death and they end up winning the fight because theyre able to get away by literally just moving back. I ahve been literally inches away from a swing just do die. I’ve been at 300 health just to die to characters moving back.

How to fix
Maybe give rein a speed boost. hear me out. Winston can jump away, dva can fly away, hog can self heal while moving with damage reduction, orisa can deflect, junkerqueen has her shout buff, hog can self heal while moving, sigma has eat, zarya can cleanse, and wrecking ball can even swing away. What can rein do? nothing he is so damn immobile.

MY personal attachment to Rein. Look guys I love Reinhardt has a character. Hearing his swing hit squishies. His cinematic(which made me tear up). The synergy with my Anas <3 love yall(nothing better than a Nano boost shatter). The hype of my teamates calling me a gigachad Rein. Hitting the pins. It is all bliss. Just for blizzard to send him to the dungeons of bad characters. I just want to be able to play him again and have fun.

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rein mains accept that we don’t want another shield meta challenge minute 1 impossible

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I love Rein too and it’s legitimately sad that he was more fun to play in OW1 when you could be, and often were stunned out of shield and blown up by any DPS with some CDs to burn. Sucks that Rein has always been uniquely vulnerable to counters because he lacks range, but having a second tank mitigated this. A tank duo like Rein and Zarya couldn’t just be easy-countered by another tank.

Every tank meta thus far has been painful for Rein: Winston would just dive his backline, d.Va could straight up fly into and bully him, or dive his backline and both had vertical mobility and could play high ground. He countered Zarya, even at her most broken, fairly well though. Then you had Hog meta and now it’s horse meta and Hog has always been painful for Rein, while Orisa’s kit feels like it was designed by someone who was deeply bitter about being tank-diffed by Rein players because it’s literally designed to make him miserable.

If Ram and Sigma move into being meta picks after the inevitable horse nerfs though Rein will get his big moment. He counters Ram well, and he has always been able to bully Sigma too.

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Literally :rofl::rofl:

Only justifiable buffs rein needs is his firestrike back to 100 dmg which is coming next week and his pin back to 250 damage. Y’know the 2 moments of skill expression rein had where he actually has to aim and take risk.

Buffing shield and ult etc is just dumbing down the hero

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The only one that I thought of here was damage reduction on his charge. It’s a good idea

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My problem with rein now or any tank in general is tank pressure. You can only be in one spot wich leaves some many weak spots to attack.
Finding a pick or opening used to be challenging with 2 tanks on the enemy team.
But it felt rewarding to get a kill or get past a chocke point.
It took longer but the reward felt greater.
Now I see a rein and I can just ignore him or we burst down his shield and walk past a chocke for free.
Sometimes it feels like a tank is a king fighting the air in the middle of a big empty field while his people get slaughtered in the castle because the enemy walked around the field and the big iron gate got removed.
There is just not enough tank presence to apply pressure equally on the field and in the castle.

It has become too easy to get a kill or get killed and that makes every kill to me feel less rewarding.

Tanks should come in pairs.
You can’t devide tank pressure when there is only 1