Something that people on the forums don’t seem to understand is that for tanks and support, there will always be an alpha character. Because there are so few tanks and supports, there tends to be only one or two that are viable/meta at a time, and as such, of course the pick and win rates of those characters will seem inflated. Then, they’ll get nerfed, and suddenly there will be a new “OP” character that has a high pick and win rate.
Reinhardt is fine. It’s just that he’s the meta tank at the moment, so he’s appearing all the time. Nerf him and suddenly Ball or Sigma or something will be appearing all the time. It’s the way the game works.
Reinhardt is ALLOWED to be overpowered. Everyone loves how he forces himself to be mirrored. Everyone loves when there is a reinhardt on their team, despite not wanting to queue for him themselves.
He only deserves buffs to make him more balanced at his mandantory must pick status, as he is the defacto way the game is meant to be played.
rein has two stuns one can be easily countered and the other you have to simply move away from or play spread out you cant be serious enough to think rein is anywhere near broken
24 abilities in total can mess up a Reinhardt charge.
10 abilities in total can cancel channeled ultimates.
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Yep. He has been powercrept. Now that the devs are reducing powercreep on many heroes Rein also needs his powercreep toned back.
People need to stop pretending like this is the only version of Rein that has ever been balanced or top dog. His current version was only balanced in comparison to the other overly buffed heroes and plenty of those heroes are getting nerfed now.
It depends on how you look at it. Is Reinhardt OP or are Winston and Orisa just too weak in their current states? It depends completely on where the devs want tank balance to fit in. They can give Winston a slight buff and probably add like 100 to Orisa shields to emphasize her teamplay over her individual strength
I would like to note that the reason for all the horrible stuff that’s been going around tank roster for about half a year now have happened just because Sigma was added to the game and not just that, they added him in a state that was more broken than Brig 1.0 or Mercy 2.0. This is not an exaggeration. Let that sink in. We were fine before that and with taking 100hp off from Orisa’s shield and a bit of range from her Halt the meta would’ve been really good and balanced. Rip those dreams and rip this game
His M1 isn’t used for it’s CV, since it’s very minor. Charge is insanely easy to dodge and thus not very effective and shatter is an ultimate and one that Rein doesn’t rely on to get value.
Thing is, he has been nerfed recently already, reducing the power creep. (tanks power creep is increasing their barriers etc).
People forget, RH does not have a long range weapon. We are not supposed to go back to “goats” style of gameplay (the game was not supposed to be that way).
RH is supposed to show a dangerous presence, if people are in his area of range.
I see him as being fine the way he is, because again, He has a short range. If your stupid enough to be within his range, then u deserve to get a beating.
In terms of powercreep he hasn’t been nerfed if every other tank also has their barrier nerfed. It’s like when people selectively say X character was nerfed because there was a global ult charge nerf.
That’s not how it works, if all other barrier tanks got their barrier nerfed and many DPS are getting toned down then Reinhardt hasn’t been nerfed, or even stayed the same, he’s at a net positive in the end.