But Plat and Diamond are the most populous ranks respectively. They arenât even low, especially Diamond, which is above average. People in those ranks are fairly good at the game, and Rein is the most picked tank by a huge margin (like 10%) in both.
The only ranks not having issues with Rein are the highest percentile, which represents a small minority of players.
He also has the best range. I hate it how he can easily beat Widow in 1v1s.
I meant he has some mobility
And it is the best barrier. Sigmas barrier sounds good, but realistically projectile barriers are crap, because theyâre not dynamic. Rein doesnât have a cool down to being his barrier back up when it has hp. Itâs the most reactive barrier in the game.
Well, he beats her in a 1v1 because itâs an objective based game even by the rules of the duel mode 
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Rein is literally the worst tank unless youâre playing with a Lucio and only on certain maps.
Idk what OP is on about.
I wouldnât argue about Rein being OP or not, but he sure makes games very boring. At lower levels he is in a LOT of games (and I mean A LOT) and shooting at that barrier blocking up the whole choke with no other way around (unless you can fly in some form) gets pretty boring and repetitive pretty quickly.
Iâm looking forward to the changes to his barrier in OW2, but I think 1200 is still too much and really only compensates for 1 less tank shooting it. It will still stuff up chokes and make games repetitive and boring if he keeps his current pick rate.
Plat and Diamond are also perfectly balanced with every tank being equally viable. This is true now and it was true a year ago and 3 years ago. If you were balance around those ranks for the past few years we would have as many balance patches as we have had in the past 6 months. Therefore you balance around where the actual imbalance exists with an eye for the lower ranks to make sure you do not break anything.
If every tank were equally viable then why is it, when comparing only the tanks, Orisa has a 4% pickrate and Rein has 26%?
Because low ranked players have no idea how to play and think hero choice is somehow relevant to their gameplay when if they just learned how to play the heroes they are good at correctly they would climb to where your hero choice does matter.
Meanwhile if you go where the hero choice matters, there is a good comp for every single tank. Even Winston and Zarya who are generally considered to be the 2 weakest are very meta in Korea with the double bubble meta over there.
So yes every tank is viable. Just because low ranks are bad at picking heroes, and positioning, and mechanics, and matchups, and ability usage, doesnât change the viability of the heroes.
Is there anything they ARE good at?
Ummm⌠Theyâre good at telling people to switch off actual meta heroes? 
Just kidding, there are of course things lower ranks are good at, but itâs different for every lower ranked player. For example, some lower ranked have great mechanics, but just terrible at everything else. For some people itâs the opposite. Obviously theyâre in lower ranks for a reason so they canât be good at everything, but generally there is SOMETHING theyâre good at.
But Plat and Diamond are not low rank, and theyâre still having problems with Rein being OP
Low rank is a rank in which the basics of the game are not played correctly and the winner of the game is the team that plays the best and not based around what hero you choose. To that end Plat and Diamond are still low rank.
Once you reach a rank where people can do the basics right (or at least not as wrong) THEN hero choice starts to matter but until you reach those ranks you can pick any hero you want and any tank you want.
Edit: This is why Blizzard usually refers to âlowerâ ranks when referring to non GM versus low ranks to make that distinction about using data vs feelings.
Thatâs a definition only you use and no one else, hence why the Devs says lower rather than low, as you pointed out.
And thereâs good reason for that. Only ~30% of the playerbase can actually reach Diamond. As much as you slander it, Diamond (and above) are above average players, hence why only the minority if the playerbase reach that rank. And even with those players, Rein is still massively more popular than the other tanks
The truth is clear, and it doesnât care about your feelings: Rein being OP is not just a case of noob stomping.
Except when talking about lower they specifically have said they do not use data and the reason is simple: there are no balance issues at lower ranks only FEELINGS of balance issues which is not the same thing.
So you are right the truth is plain as day and I know it seems to hurt your feelings but it is what it is: Rein is OP at no rank because in the only ranks where he is picked there is no OP hero.
I donât recall the Devs ever saying they donât use data at lower ranks to balance tbh, so Iâd like to see some proof of that, as well as proof that when they say lower ranks theyâre refering to Diamond
Lol the hilarity of thinking a hero thatâs not even meta or being played is op.
âbloated kitâ
youâre just throwing forum buzzwords around because youâre mad a rein countered you.
hint: all his abilities are mutually exclusive, if heâs doing something he canât anything else
His kit is bloated, ever since they added his passive. He didnât need it, Rein had a high pickrate already, but people whined on the forums that they were occasionally getting countered so Blizz caved. How is that not bloated?
@Axafekt
Heâs the second most played hero in the game, only behind Ana. If thatâs not meta nothing is.
wanna know how i know you never played rein?