Reinhardt Mains still waiting for dev comments

[SirBitesalot-2941]

"What's going on?" - Every Reinhardt Main Ever

Hello! As many of us here have noticed after this latest patch Reinhardt feels a bit…well…different. And by different, I mean much worse. I think I speak collectively for all Reinhardt-mains when I say that we would really appreciate some kind of official response about this. I’m not even asking for a detailed response, just something like a “we are aware”, or “this is intentional”, or “wow, that’s news to us, we’ll look more into it”, or “haha, tough luck, home slice.” Anything at this point…

The Silent Reinhardt nerf

I am a GM/Top 500 MT player who primarily plays Reinhardt I came on today estatic to see the Hanzo nerfs however the first game I played with Reinhardt I could tell something was horribly wrong. Almost every animation cancel for Reinhardt has been removed from the game and their is absolutely no mention of it in the patch notes. This is completely horrendous, they effectively removed all of the skill expression out of this hero and the worst part is that nobody is talking about it. Am I just ins…

too much to do to care for your playerbase?

[HermaeusMora-21774]

It was to be expected. They’re basically opening the gates to throw Rein out of the must pick seat, and let the triple tank dive meta dominate until D.Va gets nerfed to the floor.

[January2035-2426]

It really is odd how much Rein can randomly change. Like, one update he gets more animation cancels, next update he gets none. One update he has his charge worth reduced to zero, the next update it’s his firestrike.

He must have some odd ties to the game’s code, because he’s always getting these odd random changes.

[McDuckington-11377]

Theyre too busy dickin around with their precious OWL to give any sort of crap what we think or want.

[ƔęX-1981]

I had a ‘pro’ smurf today (in Plat) tell me that Rein is so OP and broken. This happened when someone asked who had gold kills, and I said I had both gold kills and gold damage…and then the guy began to rant about how broken and OP Rein is and has always been…first time I’ve ever heard that. He was so earnest.

Odd.

Is he not one of the most counter-able heroes out there? Does he not have a ‘knock back’ issue which needs fixing?

Are the devs seriously going to nerf Rein? I hope not.

[SensualSpud-1202]

Well, Reinhardt is definitely broken, lol. But it has nothing to do with his kit or “being OP”.

What that player said is retarded. Rank doesn’t always mean that person instantly knows what they’re talking about. Rank just correlates mostly with mechanical skill and situational awareness, not necessarily comprehensive knowledge of each hero and common sense.

You can be in Bronze, but still read a bunch about analytics, hero tutorials, and whatnot to better your knowledge, but your mechanical skill may just be that of a Bronze player. Doesn’t mean you aren’t sharp. In other words, rank is not a direct reflection of intelligence and knowledge of the game.

Developers won’t nerf Reinhardt. He hasn’t changed since day 1 besides being riddled with more bugs than ever. He’s just constantly a subject of his environment.

Ugh…sorry…got ranty there. The only thing that triggers me is instantly seeing or hearing “Reinhardt is OP”. I’m just always like:

[Ƒocus-2869]

Don’t fret, he’ll probably be useable in a few years.

Probably.