Rein Mains or even people who play a lot of Rein, please help me understand charges.
I am a support main, I hardly play tank. But ever so often I’m like : “Sure I’ll be the sexy German man”.
I go to charge, and people just bounce away like XQC’s OWL Career. Yet when I move away from an enemy charge, I get sucked in from the Black Hole from Interstellar.
What are the nuances to charging?
The suck happens when you aim your left armpit at the enemy
Get close and charge, longer the distance bigger the changes of failure.
While shorter distance makes the charge difficult to predict or stop in time.
Along with what jaakk said, the range with reins charge can be broken sometimes but Its best to be completely out of his line of sights, he’s like a sentient train, even when you think your far enough that you won’t get hit, you can still get hit.
left side is more reliable
right side boops more often
only time you should go for long distance charges is if you’re in a hallway, which is like only 5 instances in the game
never charge an enemy rein who’s staring directly at you unless your own team is on top of you and the red team rein’s isn’t, or you know he used charge
if you hop at the end of the charge without colliding with a surface, you briefly maintain momentum and get a bit of an extra boost, which can be used for cool bhop techs if you know the rollouts, or for a pretty cool shatter itself
ideally you want to charge short ranges against heroes who can’t stop you or easily avoid it (like genji, tracer, ball)
if you know a cc has been used, they’re usually free game
remember that you can charge people out of flux, and grav, including transcending zenyattas
charge deals some damage to constructs like torb turrets and sym turrets
doomfist is usually not a good hero to try to charge since he’s hyper mobile and also can knock you down
brig also is a bad choice because she can either whipshot you and mess up your trajectory, or knock you down with bash
mei synergises surprisingly well with Reinhardt and can set up surprise shatters, easy wall pins, and free pins by freezing tanks
there are some instances where you can pin people through objects, like the side of cars or even walls, but it’s sketchy at best
Left side: Vacuum
Right side: Boop
Is that intentional or and oversight?