What Mozts said.
He doesn’t need to be nerfed the game needs another main tank to be able to be equal with him. Many have been saying this, many hope Hero 30 may be that.
That or they need to buff Orisa to be equal with him. That was the entire reason for adding her in the first place to my knowledge.
OP is talking about Rein being the only real tank in the game, therefore a must-pick. Just look at the shape and size of choke points in the original maps - it’s obvious the game was designed around him.
I don’t think nerfing is the right thing to do though, we just need more tanks capable of tanking as well as Rein, so players have alternatives if they don’t want to play Rein.
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God forbid we have synergy in a team game.
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Tanks don’t need buffs
They are already strong
You nerf what is too strong, not buff everything else to be broken.
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Synergy is fine.
Many Heroes have multiple weaknesses. But Lucio has a monopoly on team speed boosting AND a few Heroes have slowness as a big balancing factor (D.Va, Rein, Brigitte, McCree, etc).
Remove the balancing factor and we have a PharMercy-like situation, where if the synergy is TOO powerful, something needs to be done to limit its oppressiveness (or potential oppressiveness).
To put it another way…
Acceptable synergy: Mercy boosting Widow’s damage so a bodyshot is just enough to 1HKO a Tracer or Baby D.Va, but not anyone else.
Unacceptable synergy: Lucio removing the shackles of near-uniform 5.5mps speed for his entire team, allowing a team covering shield to move at 5mps+ speeds, and then allowing his team to swarm the enemies with no chance of them being able to escape.
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Did you say this about Mercy during Mercywatch?
I’m in exactly the same boat. I don’t want every freaking game to be about whether I’ll play my least favorite hero in the game, or else we lose. No hero should be this obligatory!
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Rein needs buffs, he hasn’t reached 100% pickrate yet
Cool. Still nobody cares.
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I don’t think so. People are starting to get upset about Rein’s high pickrate. There’s a lot of threads on the forum about this, including ones I don’t make.
The tank category is the most unbalanced and least diverse of any group. It’s down to basically three heroes you can play if you want to win. Even the most pessimistic views of the support category give it four.
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Lmao byebye 
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So you want people to use orisa/Winston more? Or hig/dva as main tank? If ow devs listened to this forum, the game would be so good that it’d have no players left .
Yes, I want Orisa/Winston/Hammond to be considered equally viable and usable to Reinhardt. And I want Hog to be consider the full equal of Zarya and Dva.
Uninstalled because of Pharrah - i will come back when she can not fly anymore
If OP isn’t a DVA main I’ll eat my hat. More whataboutism.
“DVA got nerfed! Whatabout Rein?!?! Whatabout Zarya?!?! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Bad for you then. Because they are situational a d always will be un that way. You want diversity. Right. What happens when someone picks an offmeta hero and you lose the match? It’s bad in those cases. The amount of ult charge hog feeds isn’t small by any means.
I bet not. We tankmains stick together
Uinstalling right now because of Torb btw
Tanks are different for each meta, based off of the balance of supports.
Rein is currently the only main tank that can perform the function needed by those healers in a more deathball style game.
Rein is NOT overpowered because of that.
If you don’t want Rein as a meta pick yeah sure I can get behind you on that, but needing to nerf him? Theres a reason why a post a few rows down has double the likes. And to go that far down is left to most casual readers to like something rather than the OP or just clicking off.
Uninstalled because: mccree moves too fast. Not coming back until they turn him to a turret.
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