Long time rein main here and I just can’t do it anymore. we reins are supposed to be on the front line, supposed to be the shield for our team, all we are now are ult batteries for dps and stun locked for the entirety of our lives.
Had an Ana nano boost me in ranked so I could create some space on the point to keep the game into overtime. I couldn’t move an inch. Charge was stunned by doomfist, dragged back by orisa, shield slammed by Brig, knocked up and uppercutted by doomfist, etc etc etc.
This is every game to me. Play Reinhardt, get stun locked for ten minutes. Every game.
It’s making the game a horrible experience. Can tanks of any sort get some kind of diminished returns on stun locking?
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Have a Lúcio, Brigitte and Zarya to support you. Reinhardt is strong when he’s backed up but pretty bad on a team with no synergy
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Had a zarya. It didn’t help. It’s so frustrating to just have stuns layered on you and absolutely no defense than to hold your shield button hoping it will go up in time before you die. Then you die. It’s kinda the same when I play hog. Throw a hook, stunned mid throw, heal gas stunned, whole ho- stunned.
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You’re describing a situation in which 4+ people are focus firing you. That means:
- You’re doing your job
- None of your other teammates are being focused down.
- Your other teammates should be able to make picks because no one is paying attention to them.
I do think Crowd Control in a FPS game was a mistake, and massive tanks like Reinhardt should be naturally resistant to knockbacks/ups.
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I probably spend more time airborne as Reinhardt than I do anchored down like the anchor tank he’s described as being.
A weight system needs to be implemented into this game. Mario Kart has it figured out.
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Orisa needs fortify to be toggleable, SHE’S supposed to be anti cc, not rein.
Cc is supposed to counter rein.
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Synergize.
You can’t defend a point on your own. Pair it with someone else. Seriously, Rein’s kit was never to protect himself. It is to protect OTHERS.
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Why do you do this to yourself?
Rein’s weekness has allways been cc, but he was also the best close range meeele (how do you spell it?) Fighter.
Now, there are 2 heroes who not only have high ammounts of cc, but are also better meele fighters.
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My favorite is when you vounter charge a Doomfistx and while you are still getting up he has uppercutted from the ground and combo craps on you anyway. good times…
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It’s not like one of the kit abilities Rein has is a stun combined with an instakill on most heroes, and his ult one big multistun.
So unfair he gets stunned. 
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Yeah he has those two stun abilities with massive, slow, animations with predictable sounds that he announces to his enemies.
I guess I am doing my job if so many are focusing me but it doesn’t feel like it. Dps are always off on their own, while I’m just getting my face smashed in with nothing I can do again and again.
Coordination is an ugly word to anyone in gold.
No idea why the weight system can make orisa impossible to move more than an inch, but rein is sent into the damned atmosphere. And kept there so long as cooldown exist or his life does. Usually the former.
I think my favorite thing said here is that rein is supposed to be the best melee fighter with glaring weaknesses to make up for it. Now he’s not the best by a long mile and still has those glaring weaknesses.
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Has Rein ever actually been described as an anchor tank? Pretty sure that’s Orisa’s thing, and everyone just assumed it meant “grounded tank with a shield” so it must apply to Rein too. But Rein isn’t an anchor. Rein is made to move. Anchors sit in one place and hold there. It only made sense to play Rein this way before Orisa (the anchor tank) was released. Orisa’s working name was even “Anchora.”
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They refer to an anchor tank as the focal point as which the team is in orbit around. That they are where most of the fights stay near and are supposed to be hard to move. Hence, anchor. But rein is so easy to just shove aside now. And nearly every hero released is a counter to him in some way.
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When Orisa was getting launched, I am almost certain Jeff referred to her and Reinhardt as anchor tanks. They were our only tanks with big shields and low mobility. They were the only tanks where if you wanted to get full benefit from them as a team, you had to be anchored to them. Obviously, a Reinhardt is no good to you as a teammate if you never stay with him.
I take “anchor tank” as more of a description of a hero whose kit is best for when the team has to stay glued to them for a period of time.
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You do know rein is meta now, right?
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Cause stuns, yes. That doesn’t make it any less of a frustrating experience for someone who’s played him for so long. Not to mention those clunky long animations that can be stunned out of time and time again.
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But that definition would make Winston an anchor tank too (your team’s fights should revolve around his dive/bubble), and that’s just weird.
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You cant seriously be making that comparison
Duarte luta rein on alot of danger and can easyly doged,blocked or stunned.
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while i agree, mostly, can you imagine the hellscape that would be tanks having natural cc resistance…?
can you imagine it? it would have cataclysmic impact on the stability of the game. Think “the introduction of ironclad bastion on console” bad. whole games would be decided by which team had the better reinhardt. It would be more effective to play him as a dps than a tank because there would be no reason to play a cc susceptible dps when you could play a tank
the horror of it all. while i sincerely agree, I’ve been trying to get back into playing d.va since she was my first main and the stun meta makes me switch right back to a more comfortable healer for me. But please, think of how much it would just make goats a necessary strategy.
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Well, I’m making it.
I main Rein, and I like his kit which is essential for him to push through frontlines or secure entire teamfights with it. But to say now that I don’t like stuns when I am the one stunned, when I am using that as part of my kit the whole time, would not be sincere on my part, but that’s my own opinion.
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