A better Reinhardt
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honestly in this meta not really, rein gets shredded way too quickly to do anything and gets outranged by like, everyone
like you know the game is in a bad spot when rein is one of the worst tanks
I’m not gonna lie. Zen and bastion hurt a lot. Maybe I’m too old.
Doom can be annoying but having rein duel is amazing. I give you that.
I just sort of walk close enough to shotgun him, but far enough that he cannot hammer smash my face. I would say that it is a rather effective strategy overall. They usually swap to literally anything else once I demonstrate it for them.
Ramattra.
Bastion.
Mauga.
Zenyatta.
Reaper.
That is actually a good strategy. Although I think hog animations are a bit slower than rein’s. Often I manage timming firestrikes and shield. Until bait hook then charge.
Which can be really punishing on both sides mistakes. The first that does a mistake the other would hurt it a ton for sure.
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Everything these days counter or favors against Reinhardt.
I wish it was only Reinhardt…
I don’t know, cleansing earth shatter and watching my team blow him up says other wise.
When I learned that against ramattra punches I go all in or simply retreat regroup depending on my current hp, most of the time he didn’t became a menace anymore due his durability/damage in that regard loses to rein’s one. Lifting the shield is the worse thing rein could do against ramattra on that state tho.
Reaper somewhat about the same. But bait it’s wraith form prior to charge. But often using the swing animation properly and lifting shield in between it’s 2 shot combos.
Mauga not sure, but often I charge when he buffs himself. Doing somewhat a bit long one to spend his ability and make him to be in a bad spot. Dunno if both charges drops both down but in the past didn’t, the collision were weird, dunno if that changed.
Dunno if both charges drops both down but in the past didn’t, the collision were weird, dunno if that changed.
I’m 99% sure Rein charge acts like hitting a wall against mauga charge, instead of something like doom punch and charge, where it knocks both down.
Interesting. When they announced and enabled him for that period felt like orisa using javalin spin against charge in a perpendicular way. Both slided through each other. Which felt really weird for me.
Yeah, idk though, the collision still is pretty weird. Sometimes it does what I said, other times you get stunned, I need to look into how that interaction works. Orisa though, actually I have a story about an interaction.
It was on Paraiso, we capped first point and were in the streets area. I had shatter when we were fighting, the cart was pushed to the first corner where the mega health pack was. I press Q, and as I’m in the middle of the ult voice line, orisa javelin spins, and I was maybe a few centimeters off the ground, so my shatter wasn’t going off and I was stuck in the animation. Orisa ends up literally CARRYING me off the ledge down to where the mega was.
It would be better if I showed you, but I don’t have the replay 
in terms of tanks it indeed is.
Oh man I WISH mirroring the rein was the best thing you could do. Imagine all the rein duels you could have. Would be great if s9 brought him out of the gutters.
I think I know what you mean. In the past some weird stuff like that happened with me.
Not always their Textures are equal on to de x,y,z positions. Also some odd behavior in physics due some mismatches on netcode.
In years of OW i saw several weird stuff. Like playing ball I had a grapple that made me slingshot below the map and blinking me outside the eichenwald castle.
With rein and his charge collision also had some weird stuff too. Shatter also had weird iterations too.
I just had a game where I was Rein, against another Rein.
We lost the game, and he said EZ in match chat.]
That’s not a Rein player. a REAL Rein player wouldn’t do that. They would either say “I salute you” or do a Warrior Salute emote. Only a braindead DPS moron would do that.
That’s what re refer to as a braindead moron with zero skill and awareness who got carried.
That is all. I wanted to rant.
People with no skill who think they’re better annoy me. I look forard to tbagging them.
I don’t play Hog and I kinda do the same thing on Zarya and Ram as needed, but I feel it’s as much about the team as anything. If I’m left to whittle down the barrier all by myself - sometimes the DPS and supports simply aren’t in the mood, I guess? - doing this against Rein involves me giving up a lot of ground.
Maybe Hog’s barrier break is just that much better than my choice of tanks’. I dunno.
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The season 9 patch is going to be VERY interesting to say the least. It’s one of those patches i feel that could literally break the game if it goes south. It’s safe to say there’s a LOT riding on it now, but it would have been different if it hadn’t have been leaked so early
If it’s real, then my suspicion is that it’s going to make balance among tanks worse on the whole. Sigma’s already good, but his tools at denying damage are going to be even more effective because he can keep the DPS debuff off him. I can’t remember if, like Zarya, he wouldn’t get more HP, but if he does then… yeah. Then you get the likes of Rein and Ram who might benefit a little or come out kinda neutral. And then you get the losers. I feel that Hog’s currently in a good place since this latest nerf to his self healing but he’s going to be awful in a DPS antihealing world. JQ is kinda screwed, too. Mauga’s in trouble but everyone’s glad of that so we won’t talk about it.
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You really think so? I feel that the patch notes are the patch notes. They were ALWAYS going to be received poorly. Especially if I am interpreting them correctly. Tank and support players are going to be mad salty.
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