I’m pretty sure nobody actually enjoys spending 25% of their Overwatch game chunking down shields. Rein has been a must-pick or near must pick since release and has seen no nerfs, and every single map is designed to enable him to remain the defacto oppressive shield tank.
The day they heavily nerf or rework Reinhardt, is the day this game officially dies.
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He is one of the most iconic heroes in the game and his stats are fine. He does not need a rework. He needs a player-base with a backbone. 
Oppressive shield tank, ok lets see.
Phara (knockback E), Junkrat (bye shield), Winston (jump pack > make him out of position + tesla piercing trough shield), D.va (mindlessly shootin from far with infinite ammo + rockets), Doomfist (should i even comment this?), Brigitte (shield bash goes trough shield and she can just shift and pushes you away right after), Bastion (where did my shield go), Mei (whats going on i cant move), Roadhog (lets just walk trough his shield, LMB hook and LMB couple times more), Tracer (lets have fun with granpa Rein and spin circles around him then lets stick a bomb on his butt).
Oh my so oppressive tank, totally undefeateable, a must pick.
Orisa is 10x stronger than reinhardt just fyi. You just have no clue how to play against a reinhardt which is even so damn easy, but there, I explained it down to you with some humor to lighten up your day.
Enjoy.
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Maybe it’s because he has next to no competition? The only competition he has, is Orisa, who is far more situational. Give us another shield tank who can compete with both Rein and Orisa, and you’ll see Rein’s pick rate drop.
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For a sec I was thinking he needed a fix to him being the largest pinball in the game right now
You forgot Lucio, hop behind him and boop him into your team, Moira and her balls of succ, shuriken weeb and his dash, bow weeb and his million dps, Sombra and her ability to make your existence hell, and a sh!tton other heroes. Rein is countered by almost every hero in this game.
No, please leave Reinhardt be. He doesn’t need a rework. He’s fine. Just because you don’t enjoy shields doesn’t mean he’s a problem. The reason he’s seen few nerfs (few not none because he did have an earth shatter nerf), is because he’s balanced. He’s always been balanced. He’s the model for a main tank.
No reworks for any tanks, ever. #noMoreReworks
The only change he needs changed is his buggy animations.
If the rework would make him feel like an actual tank again, I’d be all for it.
What if they heavily nerf his bugs into non-existence?
From the Ana nerf/Winston buff patch to Brigitte’s release Rein was way out of the meta. The game was just dive or counter-dive which used Winston or Orisa respectively. Rein only saw use on 2-3 points and this was even on much of the ladder, not just Contenders/OWL.
Unplayable, Rein without gamebreaking bugs isn’t the Rein i know and love.
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Most people in this game enjoy clicking left click once and running around behind a DPS or tank for 10 minutes. So why should a Rein player not feel the same joy by holding up a shield and being useful?
Can we not rework him?
Wrong…
I like your name 
Also… dont even try arguing with someone that thinks Rein is OP
I disrespectfully disagree, ya poop person.
IMHO… barrier breaking has to be a team effort. Certain heroes are better contributors to the barrier break than others, but nobody should be trying to solo barrier break. It takes at least two.
I find that ‘working on the shield!’ is a very useful callout. It lets your team know that you are investing damage output against the enemy barrier and most players (even in Bronze) are smart enough to focus their fire if they are in position to do so.
Barriers can be broken, flanked, or pierced. The worst situation is where everyone on your team is tackling the problem in a different way.