Rein is disgustingly OP

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Funny how people complained about Orissa’s fortify when Rein currently has that on a passive :thinking:

His charge is broken. It can pin someone that’s not even in his FoV

His shield is so much better than Orissa/Sigma combined

His synergies with other characters is insane. NanoBoosted Reinhardt wouldn’t be as bad if the Lucio could Boop him away from your team but that’s not an option now :frowning:

Zarya and Rein is the most frustrating synergy currently being played. You are practically forced to run a mirror match because those 2 can dictate who wins the game.

Sigma, Orissa, Winston, Dva are horrible against them.

Blizzard is so biased when it comes to balancing. Dva was NOT more powerful than Reinhardt, so why the hell did she get nerfed?

Once again, no skill characters take over the game.

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Except it doesn’t prevent CC all together, infact it only weakens boops

But also can be a suicide button

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are we talking about 132 or 222?

either way

to be fair, this has nothing to do with him being “disgustingly OP”

this should have been fixed when the game came out
and this is just a dumb bug that the game has with a bunch of things
not a balance problem

and that’s just its broken hitbox, including when it just bounces people out of the way

if you actually mean because it’s supposed to have a large hitbox, then that’s a different story, he’s melee range, and it’s telegraphed, and puts him in a bad spot

it should have a bigger hitbox

again, to be fair, it should be
he’s stuck in melee range, and theirs are completely different

sigma having a dummy stronk shield that he can throw around and not have to be near would be broken (kinda like because it was already)
and orisa’s is on a cooldown meaning hers doesn’t have to regen while not blocking

i don’t disagree that other heroes should be brought up, but i actually really like rein in 132, and would prefer it if other heroes where around his power level

if they’re going to go for defend the king/queen, then go for it

for 222, eeehhh, the meta fluctuates all the time, and wasn’t rein literally a joke at some points?

there were countless videos of people freaking out how bad he was because he couldn’t play the game with all the CC

so, claiming bias is a pretty poorly thought out false accusation

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Dude rein sucks on quickplay on teams where everyone is spreaded. Winston is a lot more solid pick than him anyday on this mode

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Hes only op is you allow him to roam free. Stuns and mei freeze make him just like everyone else. But DVA is nerfed ands Zarya bubble will free him up.

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Reinhardt is allowed to be overpowered. He’s balanced as a must pick and everyone loves when Reinhardt is on their team that is why they always request him and don’t queue for him themselves.

No other tank is as healty as Reinahrdt is, the way he forces the enemy team to mirror him or else his game endingly powerful ultimate will just win the game. And of course that ultimate that casts in less than half a second has TONS of counters that all of his fans will remind you of, while also saying Sigma’s ultimate that casts in 3 seconds is overpowered and deserves to be interrupted with knockback.

There is no connection to the boring broken state of tanks and the fact that the game literally has paid people to play tanks for the past 7 months.

Everyone loves how the best tank in the a FPS game is a melee locked barrier baby sitter who simeltanously is very boring to play but also puts the enemy at a SEVERE disadvantage for not also running the exact same hero.

Its literally the peak of design.

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that’s… like a bug or something.

Rein is no-skill?

Either way, his competition has been trash for awhile now, no wonder he’s better then 'em.

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Funny how that passive only has half of the effect and doesn’t do anything about hard CC, which is the more important half of that ability. And doesn’t have damage reduction.

It’s also big, slow, and telegraphed, as well as blockable with CC. And it often puts him out of position if not used very carefully.

And Orisa/Sigma combined can shoot at enemies while using their shields.

Other characters have synergy too. Orisa-Sigma, Pharah-Mercy, etc. Rein doesn’t have too many really strong synergies, but he works well with a lot of heroes.

In the current patch. Nobody was complaining about Zarya-Rein when Orisa-Sigma was a thing.

Sigma and Orisa just got nerfed out of the meta. They aren’t good against anyone. Winston can be useful for tickling Rein through the shield or diving in and out while Rein’s mobility stops him from helping too much, and D.Va can deny ult charge with DM. Neither of them are great against Rein, but I wouldn’t say they’re horrible.

D.Va wasn’t ridiculously powerful, but the three-second boosters were too short of a CD. It was a nerf to the CD, not necessarily a nerf to the hero.

Besides, Rein is pretty much the only good MT. Hammond gets shut down by CC, Winston has similar issues, and Orisa just got a hard nerf. I’d be pretty confused on what people are actually playing if Rein wasn’t meta.

Once again, people spam the forums with tilted frustration.

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It’s obv when thread is a bait & this is a clear one.

Ignore and move on.

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You made this fake forum account to troll people on posts, yeahh your schtick won’t work here bud

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I’d say DVA’s high health, armor, mitigation and crazy mobility makes DVA by far the easiest tank to play correctly right now. DVA is the low skill champ. Never buff her again.

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This is a bad thread, but I do honestly think Rein ends up overtuned more often than not. His resistance to being knocked around is still one of my least favorite changes. We had a tank for resisting CC and standing in place with a shield already. If I manage to get behind Rein’s shield as Lucio and boop him, I think I more than earned that 2 seconds of delay. Now there’s no point.

Ironically kinda makes it more fun with Hammond though, as it separates the team better.

Still, I can’t help but think that Rein survived being a stable of GOATs meta and walked away with net buffs while everyone else got nerfs.

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dva is better than zarya.

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Favoritism, that’s why. Poor Winston has been hard countered by almost everything in the game that has a gun and only twice I think they buffed him.

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“Funny how people complained about Orissa’s fortify when Rein currently has that on a passive :thinking:”

A: He doesn’t, his shield is all-in-one, that means if the team let it breaks, he gets punished, hard.

“His charge is broken. It can pin someone that’s not even in his FoV”

A: High risk, high reward. He can die in the process.

“His shield is so much better than Orissa/Sigma combined”

A: Because HE IS the shield, he can’t place it everywhere he likes but where he is. And without it, there’s not much he can do for the team.

“His synergies with other characters is insane. NanoBoosted Reinhardt wouldn’t be as bad if the Lucio could Boop him away from your team but that’s not an option now :frowning:”

A: He can still be put into sleep or be thrown away by Roadhog or be stopped by D.Va’s ultimate.

“Zarya and Rein is the most frustrating synergy currently being played. You are practically forced to run a mirror match because those 2 can dictate who wins the game.”

A: Do you Sombra and Winston much? This synergy can counter them with ease. Sombra disables them. Winston isolate and disrupt them for the others to put them down.

“Sigma, Orissa, Winston, Dva are horrible against them.”

A: Sigma and Orisa are indeed nerfed, and are bad matches against them, but not Roadhog and Winston. If D.Va or Roadhog keep Reinhardt busy, Zarya won’t be able to synergy with him.

“Blizzard is so biased when it comes to balancing. Dva was NOT more powerful than Reinhardt, so why the hell did she get nerfed?”

A: Yes, a thing we can agree in parts. Blizzard likes to play deaf many times, or get eternal prejudice against certain heroes, like Mercy for example. And about D.Va, in a 1v1 fight I find it hard for her to miss all those close-range shots when a Reinhardt engage her, so she can melt him if he comes too close without shield.

“Once again, no skill characters take over the game.”

A: It’s not like that, Reinhardt depends and rely SO MUCH on the team to do anything relevant himself, as alone he practically becomes free meal. Roadhog for example can be much more independent and a threat, even when isolated.

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What does this phrase even mean? By the definition of those words, it’s wrong.

I must have missed that vote because the game is more fun without Reinhardt.

You should try playing a game with actual good design then.

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It’s almost like literally ruining Orisa, Sigma, and Baptiste would have made their direct competition, that isn’t being hindered by power creep, used more

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Eating the right things with defense matrix is one of the most gamesense intensive things in this game. Compared to what? Zarya bubbles? Roadhog?

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Haha DVa is so horrible against him
Zarya pickreate in OWL 0.6%PR
DVa ~80%PR

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Just because winrates aren’t recorded for quick play doesn’t mean pickrates aren’t too.

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