A few things I learned going from plat to masters as Rein: *Know your animation cancels.* Know what can and cannot be cancelled, _always_ to get a swing in before you shield, charge, shatter or fire strike, unless you cannot spare a second to use the ability. *Mind games* Only really in higher ranks, mind games are important, especially Rein vs Rein. Bait out abilities by playing seemingly Agro to bait a shatter or other abilities, without committing too much. You can also play as if you’re looking for an ult opportunity to extend how long supports hold onto their ults for, even if you don’t actually have an ult ready. *Fire stike for ult* You never want your fs available in a fight because you should be using it constantly in every opportunity you can, whilst trying to get as many hits as possible for the insane ult charge. *Shatter* On a related note, while shattering, use primary, fire strike, primary and then charge when the enemy begins to stand up (make sure you don’t charge into the open) and you may sometimes want to crouch fire strike to hit more targets if your charge has a large distance of knockdowns. *Charge* USE THIS LIKE AN ULT! I see way too many people charge as soon as they can. Charge is incredibly risky and CANNOT be animation cancelled. Use it wisely only to secure kills or stop abilities like hogs heal, not damage full hp tanks in the middle of the enemy team. *Rocket hammer* An INCREDIBLY underused trick is to aim _slightly_ to the right of your targets to get further reach (due to the rectangular hit box) So um... I should probably sleep now
Great information! Only thing I would add is an asterisk on the "Firesrtike for ult ". Once you've achieved your ult, stop using firestrike at range on enemies. Unless you can either guarantee a kill, or your team is engaged in an active fight and is putting pressure on the enemy team, using a firestrike while you have your ult is just feeding ult charge to the enemy healers. Also, one other instance to not use firestrike is when the enemy team has a junkrat and you are fairly certain he has his tire and is ready to engage with it. Saving a firestrike to stop an enemy junk ult can swing a fight in your teams favor.
As a rein main, I've learned i can only be as aggressive as my supports allow me. If i mean play with friends, they know I'm insane and i go for these risky plays, but they're there to heal me. If i play with some rando that happens to play dps support I'll have to adjust, sometimes even bring my aggressiveness down a notch.
@@kaimorris2970 so true. I was mad aggro on anubis temple and before second point was available I was balls deep using second shatter and got. Two ticks already.
@@thedukeconiosantiago9180 oh god dont even start me on TOA , that map is a nightmare with rein , your there getting shatter every 10 seconds and your healers are sat at spawn its a joke
Turtle _ if you have a mic, tell your team at the beginning of the match you are going to be aggressive, so that your team can be prepared, you would be surprised how much it helps
The Potato Assassin in season 5 i was bronze, when i came to pc i placed plat and fell into silver, and every game as long as people were in team chat and i was positive about it people listened, I’m glad to say I’m plat now and still climbing high and people still listen, unless you play on console, people almost always listen
@@MrGuitarfreak132 when that happens just go hog (if you can hit your hooks). I feel in my experience that gives me the best chance at least in lower ranks where people won’t play with you
1. Talk about matchups: How to play against sniper What to do against Mei/Reaper You must be able to change your playstyle. 2. Supports You can't solocarry without having a decent support-line. You also must look for them and stay (see ana) in the line of sight. 3. Mechanical Stuff: The range of your hammer is slightly bigger on the edge of your sreen, keep that in your mind. Also crouch before fire-stricking into earth-shatter to get a better angle on those enemies!
Well imo as long as the dps lineup can make value off of the space you create, you can make it a far distance before being stopped in your tracks. Healers are not everything, but they certainly do help
How come the other Reinhardt has a pin that works like a painful graviton surge while I literally go through people (I’m kidding I have to be extremely direct)
In low elo, tank can take all the spaces but team might not follow up. for dps, dps can get picks but tank may not push in. Support can do huge def ult, anti nade, immortal etc but team might not utilize it. Basically, if u wanna climb in low elo, just play selfishly(not toxic, just playstyle wise) Playing team game aint gonna grant result when teamwork isnt a thing.
Yeah, games on low elo are won and lost most of the time because of trickling and further snowballing. I'd say playing heroes which excel at 1v1 scenario with big teamfight ultimates and self-sustain abilities is your safest bet.
I noticed this very much last night when I played Hammy making space for my team and they all just watched me from a distance. This is why I became a Junk main.
This is 100% true cause from what I've noticed everyone plat and under can't or won't play as a team. But when I group up with my diamond and above players we definitely play more team focused.
Oh yeah , i remember tanking for ages , all around cart , pushing the hell of it ... just to die 5vs2 because my team was playing hard to catch snipers from spawn or diving before we even got to cart ... bad times ...
4 роки тому+20
I play Rein and I love it but man it really sucks when your healers don't heal you. 70% of my games have been with incapable healers...
@ Im a Healer main and by me its the opposite, i never get good tanks
4 роки тому+4
@@marweha7002 mmmm yeah I was once a Zen attacking on the Hanamura map, second point. This Rein is charging in from the choke and he's blaming me for not giving heals. You're not giving me any notice and you're out of range of my healing orbs, you dumbass. I need to stay behind natural cover in order to not get clapped as Zen. Everyone knows this. Also, don't expect crazy slap yo mama heals for someone who's getting focused down by the whole team cuz you wanna take the most dumb and direct path to the defense point!! 😂 At least I can admit when I do a dumb charge.
Mei's can be caught out of position so easily by Rein. Shield stops the freeze enough for her to run at you and blow coolies. Just don't get walled on narrow chokes, that's easy enough.
Mei is not that big of problem, beside ult. If go shield on smash, shield on before freeze then again smash if she go into ice, after two seconds press shift. And for reaper shielôd if got too close whack him, two swings and reaper can be totaled, or one direct fire strike and swing.
A rein is only as good as his supports let him be,that's my "wisdom" on the matter.If you don't have good supports,you can't push,since they think you're orisa and can take 1million dmg before healing you again.
@@bigschlong2121 then dont? I am just saying that you dont need a great healers or dps to do well as rein, sure you will not do as well but your job is to enable the healers and dps to do their job even if they are bad
I usually play Zenyatta and play near my tanks. Reinhardt is my favorite to play along side. He’s the first to get a balloon. And we dive when I’m transcending.
Amazing guide man. I still need to hop in a comp match and try some things you were saying, but I feel like I have become a better rein player already.
They're not sneaking them in, they are trying to grow their business while providing free education. It takes time, energy, and potentially money to make these videos, it's fine to skip em, but they are being straight forward about what they're doing.
When talking about shield stepping he definitely missed the part about jumping before you shield (which he did in the clip). You typically don't lose cover below the shield and you maintain most of the speed from the walk.
High Silver/low gold Rein player here... It is so hard to get the rest of the team to rally around the aggressiveness he now has to command. No, do not charge in beyond your healers but choke taking I've been pushing in and all of a sudden the DPS and healers have disappeared and are taking an entirely different path... Even with comms. I'll put these tips to the test and appreciate the breakdown
There has to be more to it than "You walk in and your team is gone". You're either pushing at the wrong time, pushing too hard against a comp that can punish you, pushing with low barrier health or regular health, pushing into enemy ultimates or abilities, or you are correct and your team is simply not playing around you. (At your rank, I can see that but I highly doubt it's fully just the fact no one plays around you.)
I feel like you should've covered the shatter follow up tech, that is, shatter, swing into crouch+firestrike to maximize damage, get another swing usually, and by the time the enemy start to get up pin a tank, and it'll already go towards your next ultimate charge
Im pretty sure, due that improvement of Reinhardt, Reinhardt can be used in multiple comp and metawise. Like dive comp and fast moving in comp. I am pretty sure in the upcoming Overwatch League we will see lots of Reinhardt comps. 470 Hrs on Reinhardt. Thanks blizzard. Reinhardt can really live up to Balderich.
I can't believe I got featured in an overwatch guide (I was SkyLord) 3:28 - 3:45. These guides in the past got me to mid-plat and still climbing. Keep up the cool vids! Good guides as always. Thanks for featuring me in one of your vids!
@@derekeano I am still working on it, it goes up and then back down. I got close to diamond about 150 sr off, but then I had a losing streak. So rn I average about 2750 sr.
This video was very well made. Ive been alot of rein since the game came out on and off in the gold elo. I had to screenshot it because it was crazy.. After watching this video I walked out of gold SOLO QUEUING! I went twelve and one then I hit plat. Thank you guys!
Great summary on Rein play and main tank habits. Spot on with your assessment of Charge plays. I average more Charge kills than your typical Rein main (per Overbuff/general experience) and I find that careful placement of a Charge will equal out to more kills than just spamming Charge as much as you think you can. Spacing lessons need shipped to the door of everyone at every rank.
Charge has been really buggy for me this patch. Seems I go right into them and they just bounce of my shoulders. I took about 15-20 clips from this season. My favorite was a charge right into a hog. I went right threw his big belly and he bounced twenty feet into his team. This happens if I turn into the charge or don't touch a single key. Very frustrating.
The last comp match I played, I had 40 kills as Rein and 20 charge kills. This is the upside of being able to tell your team to follow up after I charge
I am actually looking at learning to tank because of I keep running into issues where the tank does not move. I am new to the game, but I can normally pop off high priority targets and the tank just sit and does not seize the opportunity to move in. I know there are lots i can learn still an no where near a great player but i have learned to find and use the opportunities given
I've been Hard Stuck in Gold / High silver since BETA lol, when I main tank with rein and move forward to take space, I look back and my team is nowhere to be found. They are always fighting on their own 1 v 1's and or worst. Wow you say so many things i say to my team don't let them just gain free real estate, pressure them. When i say it, i try to make my dps understand hey if you guys utilize my shield you'll live longer. Now don't get me wrong i make mistakes like the best of them, but for the most part i just get paired with players that don't have a solid sense of the game.
@@ftj4441 Thank you for the pointers. I will for sure put it to good use. I love winston also, i just pick rein when the rest of the team asks for it and we may already have a zarya or hog you know.
I do agree with most of the points in the video, I don't with the fact of if you as a main tank don't be aggressive or don't push....your dps can't make moves. I'm a pretty aggressive Rein and my dps bout maybe more than half the time are just PASSIVE as hell and....leaves me to play a bit more passive myself. Idk think their needs to be a video bout dps and how to get picks.
One of the most frustrating things as a Rein main is not having supports you can rely on. When I want to create space for my DPS and I am playing aggressive and taking damage to my armor health line. So frustrating waiting for the healing that should be there, and it never comes. If this becomes a pattern in a game, it's probably best to switch off Rein. It could mean though that your healers are getting dove on and you aren't being situationally aware enough to peel for them. It's a delicate balance between maintaining the front line and protecting the team from flankers. It can be as easy as simple communication and making callouts to direct your DPS to focus the flankers while you maintain the front line, but in the platinum to diamond rank, that communication is either spot on or completely missing. It's critical for a Rein to communicate as much as possible with the team.
Btw if you’re playing comp and you’re in bronze silver or gold your healers are not going to heal you so try not to take to much damage so they can heal you but if your higher than gold you can be a bit more agressive but not too much like charging into the back line another tip is to walk through the choke and start a push i see a lot of reins not walking through the choke and waiting for the dps to kill most of their players just walk through but make sure your team comes with you also if you see a rein charging at you charge back so you stun them and tell your team that he’s stunned on the ground this is most of the time a guaranteed kill if your team help you kill them also its very hard to escape elo hell with rein because your team wont play with you and your barrier just thought i would share some of my tips ive learned from playing rein
I was able to climb to 4180 as Reinhardt, but I had to play easy-mode DPS heroes to get to high Diamond until I could actually accomplish anything as main tank. Although a good general guide, I feel it's very difficult to actually solo carry as Rein. The lack of competent healing and pressing W by teammates can't be underestimated in lower ranks. In Plat you'll be hard-pressed to even find teammates who chase the final unkilled enemy after a successful team fight.
I like playing tank but my god getting your team to come with you is a pain. Hanamura on ATK, tell your team I'm walking right through the choke follow me get up to enemy and nobody followed. Not a brain-dead charge in but mixed shield up body blocking. Happens again get flamed for feeding team wants a kill prior to going in. Stand by choke giving cover to team rein you're not going in and making space. ZzZ Classic Overwatch
Any time I've tried to play aggressive rein I push in and am drawing all fire heading towards point. And my team is still hiding behind the choke. So I switch to ball to at least touch point and it's 1v5 on me.and my team is still sitting at choke worried about a 5v1
Rein is not a solo carry tank at all. Because he is a very team based tank. He needs constant heals and constant back up from dps and off tank to be as effective as possible. Sigma is actually a much better play if your team isn't being aggressive enough. He makes the same amount of space but at a distance, the only problem is no body in lower, or higher ranks, no how to play with Sigma as a main tank. Sigma has great damage, can stop most ults entirely and has the most important thing for a tank live ability, just being able to stay alive. Learn Sigma and you got a chance to climb.
And what do we have to do when we are pushing as 2 tanks but the dps aren't here to apply pressure and prefer to go on their own ? Because it happens to me several times and I feel like I can't even reach my opponents with rein because they are free and their shield isn't getting poked.
Does anyone have any tips on shield management? I try not to hold it up for too long so it doesn't break, but that often leads to getting shattered-- however, when I'm holding it up longer, it gets burned through quickly and we get shattered anyway. Thanks ~
A few things I learned going from plat to masters as Rein:
*Know your animation cancels.*
Know what can and cannot be cancelled, _always_ to get a swing in before you shield, charge, shatter or fire strike, unless you cannot spare a second to use the ability.
*Mind games*
Only really in higher ranks, mind games are important, especially Rein vs Rein. Bait out abilities by playing seemingly Agro to bait a shatter or other abilities, without committing too much. You can also play as if you’re looking for an ult opportunity to extend how long supports hold onto their ults for, even if you don’t actually have an ult ready.
*Fire stike for ult*
You never want your fs available in a fight because you should be using it constantly in every opportunity you can, whilst trying to get as many hits as possible for the insane ult charge.
*Shatter*
On a related note, while shattering, use primary, fire strike, primary and then charge when the enemy begins to stand up (make sure you don’t charge into the open) and you may sometimes want to crouch fire strike to hit more targets if your charge has a large distance of knockdowns.
*Charge*
USE THIS LIKE AN ULT! I see way too many people charge as soon as they can. Charge is incredibly risky and CANNOT be animation cancelled. Use it wisely only to secure kills or stop abilities like hogs heal, not damage full hp tanks in the middle of the enemy team.
*Rocket hammer*
An INCREDIBLY underused trick is to aim _slightly_ to the right of your targets to get further reach (due to the rectangular hit box)
So um... I should probably sleep now
better than the video.
Yeah go to sleep kid
Great information! Only thing I would add is an asterisk on the "Firesrtike for ult
". Once you've achieved your ult, stop using firestrike at range on enemies. Unless you can either guarantee a kill, or your team is engaged in an active fight and is putting pressure on the enemy team, using a firestrike while you have your ult is just feeding ult charge to the enemy healers.
Also, one other instance to not use firestrike is when the enemy team has a junkrat and you are fairly certain he has his tire and is ready to engage with it. Saving a firestrike to stop an enemy junk ult can swing a fight in your teams favor.
I win mind games by being unpredictably retarded. "If the rein was smart he's do this now" haha nope.
More helpful than the video lol
14:35 every rein main has been there
Thank you for not promoting Gameleap a million times in the video. Means a lot :)
Aaaa man
Once is enough. He knows that~
@@thenexus7343 Does he tho?
Me: Claims space
Enemy Junkrat: It's free real estate
As a rein main, I've learned i can only be as aggressive as my supports allow me. If i mean play with friends, they know I'm insane and i go for these risky plays, but they're there to heal me. If i play with some rando that happens to play dps support I'll have to adjust, sometimes even bring my aggressiveness down a notch.
Exactly , without good healers, (which are so rare) rein is mind numbingly boring
@@kaimorris2970 so true. I was mad aggro on anubis temple and before second point was available I was balls deep using second shatter and got. Two ticks already.
@@thedukeconiosantiago9180 oh god dont even start me on TOA , that map is a nightmare with rein , your there getting shatter every 10 seconds and your healers are sat at spawn its a joke
I dual main Rein and Ball specifically so that I have an option to swap if I’m not getting healed
@@kaimorris2970 it's like that sometimes tho that one match was just incredibly lucky for me
"Its ok when your body gets damaged"
Healers: Actually, we are dps
Me: MUST KEEP SHIELD UP
Why I have a memory of moria dps and Lucio reddit?
Then you wait for the red dot and remove the shield - let them feel the enemy widow dps if they want to ...
Next time they WILL heal you ....
How to solo carry rein : Dive
You will carry your team, down to bronze in no time.
Trust me
And your team didn't follow your dive.. happen a lot
You should always charge into the team and shatter into shields trust me
Hugh grection nah I just charge the widow of the edge and earth shatter gold Orisas
Laugh
Can’t play aggressive as Reinhardt if my team won’t. It’s almost impossible to solo carry as rein
Turtle _ if you have a mic, tell your team at the beginning of the match you are going to be aggressive, so that your team can be prepared, you would be surprised how much it helps
@@vet2978 you act like people on ladder listen to comms, i've had games where i can comm the entire time and the team tell me i wasnt talking.
The Potato Assassin in season 5 i was bronze, when i came to pc i placed plat and fell into silver, and every game as long as people were in team chat and i was positive about it people listened, I’m glad to say I’m plat now and still climbing high and people still listen, unless you play on console, people almost always listen
Thhiissssssssssss
Vet I’m a diamond-masters console player
If the team plays around rein, then yes rein can carry on many maps. Otherwise...
Yeah if the team splits up and won’t listen and follow you in it sucks!
@@MrGuitarfreak132 when that happens just go hog (if you can hit your hooks). I feel in my experience that gives me the best chance at least in lower ranks where people won’t play with you
@@maxcheese382 having hog as an extra dps definitely carries games in ranks where the only way to win is to get kills because everyone is throwing
@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 fuck hog
@@MrGuitarfreak132 amen ☺️❤️🙏🏾
1. Talk about matchups:
How to play against sniper
What to do against Mei/Reaper
You must be able to change your
playstyle.
2. Supports
You can't solocarry without having a decent support-line. You also must look for them and stay (see ana) in the line of sight.
3. Mechanical Stuff:
The range of your hammer is slightly
bigger on the edge of your sreen,
keep that in your mind.
Also crouch before fire-stricking into
earth-shatter to get a better angle on
those enemies!
Well imo as long as the dps lineup can make value off of the space you create, you can make it a far distance before being stopped in your tracks. Healers are not everything, but they certainly do help
you can watch the video of karq with shock, where he shows one trick against every hero. is really usefull
"you need to be pretty direct with the charge if you want to pin somebody"
yet here I am being sucked into a pin from 5 meters away
How come the other Reinhardt has a pin that works like a painful graviton surge while I literally go through people (I’m kidding I have to be extremely direct)
One time I charged in Paris point B and booped four of the team members but didn’t pin one of them, shit sucked
Really loving the tank series and content. Thx for covering it for us!
I’m in silver/gold and I basically can’t do loads of this because no one heals
In low elo, tank can take all the spaces but team might not follow up. for dps, dps can get picks but tank may not push in. Support can do huge def ult, anti nade, immortal etc but team might not utilize it. Basically, if u wanna climb in low elo, just play selfishly(not toxic, just playstyle wise) Playing team game aint gonna grant result when teamwork isnt a thing.
Yeah, games on low elo are won and lost most of the time because of trickling and further snowballing. I'd say playing heroes which excel at 1v1 scenario with big teamfight ultimates and self-sustain abilities is your safest bet.
I noticed this very much last night when I played Hammy making space for my team and they all just watched me from a distance. This is why I became a Junk main.
This is 100% true cause from what I've noticed everyone plat and under can't or won't play as a team. But when I group up with my diamond and above players we definitely play more team focused.
Oh yeah , i remember tanking for ages , all around cart , pushing the hell of it ... just to die 5vs2 because my team was playing hard to catch snipers from spawn or diving before we even got to cart ... bad times ...
I play Rein and I love it but man it really sucks when your healers don't heal you. 70% of my games have been with incapable healers...
welcome to sub-diamond games my friend.
Mmmm yeah it's sad
@ Im a Healer main and by me its the opposite, i never get good tanks
@@marweha7002 mmmm yeah I was once a Zen attacking on the Hanamura map, second point. This Rein is charging in from the choke and he's blaming me for not giving heals. You're not giving me any notice and you're out of range of my healing orbs, you dumbass. I need to stay behind natural cover in order to not get clapped as Zen. Everyone knows this. Also, don't expect crazy slap yo mama heals for someone who's getting focused down by the whole team cuz you wanna take the most dumb and direct path to the defense point!! 😂 At least I can admit when I do a dumb charge.
Skip to 10:47 if you want to go ingame and press F1 to learn what your abilities do instead of a 10 minute "breakdown".
Thanks
That's assuming dps know how to play fps games and dont demand you hold your shield up for them to camp behind you as a sniper on gibraltar
Rein is fun when the enemy is not running mei reaper. Maybe doomfist
Mei's can be caught out of position so easily by Rein. Shield stops the freeze enough for her to run at you and blow coolies. Just don't get walled on narrow chokes, that's easy enough.
neumie91 yea but then reaper engages with Mei and ur fucked
neumie91 just don’t get walled 4Head yeah no shit only problem is if the Mei has an IQ in the triple digits you’re getting fucking walled buddy
@@charleswashington3973 the average iq is 100
Mei is not that big of problem, beside ult. If go shield on smash, shield on before freeze then again smash if she go into ice, after two seconds press shift. And for reaper shielôd if got too close whack him, two swings and reaper can be totaled, or one direct fire strike and swing.
This is the best guide I've seen for Reinhardt
All these plays in the video are when they are pocketed by a mercy
A rein is only as good as his supports let him be,that's my "wisdom" on the matter.If you don't have good supports,you can't push,since they think you're orisa and can take 1million dmg before healing you again.
this is not true but ok
d4s0n yo it is as u can’t solo push without heals without being killed
@@bigschlong2121 not if you are good, you should be able to push without taking too much damage
d4s0n yo what on ur own while the whole enemy team is shooting u yeah ok bro believe you and I mean when there’s no other teammates around you
@@bigschlong2121 then dont? I am just saying that you dont need a great healers or dps to do well as rein, sure you will not do as well but your job is to enable the healers and dps to do their job even if they are bad
This was crazy informative. Thanks for putting in time to explain Reinhardt.
This Lucio constantly booping at the start of the video is tilting me
THE DRAGON BECOMES ME
*dashes in*
*gets booped*
*misses slash*
>:(
I usually play Zenyatta and play near my tanks. Reinhardt is my favorite to play along side. He’s the first to get a balloon. And we dive when I’m transcending.
Amazing guide man. I still need to hop in a comp match and try some things you were saying, but I feel like I have become a better rein player already.
Still skipping the promos they try to sneak in.
They're not sneaking them in, they are trying to grow their business while providing free education. It takes time, energy, and potentially money to make these videos, it's fine to skip em, but they are being straight forward about what they're doing.
@@ThePhilocypher ++++, kids can't understand this. They'te watching video with useful content for free and they be like 'oh wtf ads noooo fck it'
@@pr3287 i skip It because It remaind me that i'm poor
When talking about shield stepping he definitely missed the part about jumping before you shield (which he did in the clip). You typically don't lose cover below the shield and you maintain most of the speed from the walk.
I'm learning a lot about Reins ultimate, Errshadderr.
High Silver/low gold Rein player here... It is so hard to get the rest of the team to rally around the aggressiveness he now has to command. No, do not charge in beyond your healers but choke taking I've been pushing in and all of a sudden the DPS and healers have disappeared and are taking an entirely different path... Even with comms. I'll put these tips to the test and appreciate the breakdown
I climbed up to plat like a season ago. Don't play rein under plat cus ur team are bimbos
There has to be more to it than "You walk in and your team is gone". You're either pushing at the wrong time, pushing too hard against a comp that can punish you, pushing with low barrier health or regular health, pushing into enemy ultimates or abilities, or you are correct and your team is simply not playing around you. (At your rank, I can see that but I highly doubt it's fully just the fact no one plays around you.)
You're really good at explaining man that was super clear, thx for that
I feel like you should've covered the shatter follow up tech, that is, shatter, swing into crouch+firestrike to maximize damage, get another swing usually, and by the time the enemy start to get up pin a tank, and it'll already go towards your next ultimate charge
15:06 He’s not GM he’s Diamond
You rite damn
Fnuggi bro all these clips are different people
He’s masters
Close to master
Octavio Perez no it’s say GAMELEAP
Im pretty sure, due that improvement of Reinhardt, Reinhardt can be used in multiple comp and metawise. Like dive comp and fast moving in comp.
I am pretty sure in the upcoming Overwatch League we will see lots of Reinhardt comps.
470 Hrs on Reinhardt.
Thanks blizzard.
Reinhardt can really live up to Balderich.
This is actually really helpful and has good points and cores on how to play rein
I can't believe I got featured in an overwatch guide (I was SkyLord) 3:28 - 3:45. These guides in the past got me to mid-plat and still climbing. Keep up the cool vids! Good guides as always. Thanks for featuring me in one of your vids!
Skyler Swiderski That’s great. Did you climb higher than plat since then?
@@derekeano I am still working on it, it goes up and then back down. I got close to diamond about 150 sr off, but then I had a losing streak. So rn I average about 2750 sr.
This video was very well made. Ive been alot of rein since the game came out on and off in the gold elo. I had to screenshot it because it was crazy.. After watching this video I walked out of gold SOLO QUEUING! I went twelve and one then I hit plat. Thank you guys!
"Never let your Rein shield get broken"
6:45
Great summary on Rein play and main tank habits. Spot on with your assessment of Charge plays. I average more Charge kills than your typical Rein main (per Overbuff/general experience) and I find that careful placement of a Charge will equal out to more kills than just spamming Charge as much as you think you can.
Spacing lessons need shipped to the door of everyone at every rank.
Charge has been really buggy for me this patch. Seems I go right into them and they just bounce of my shoulders. I took about 15-20 clips from this season. My favorite was a charge right into a hog. I went right threw his big belly and he bounced twenty feet into his team. This happens if I turn into the charge or don't touch a single key. Very frustrating.
At the first part that will affect rein is Macree Flashbang where he can trick u to look up and trowh it underneath the shield in order to stun u
Thanks bro. This is very appreciated.
The last comp match I played, I had 40 kills as Rein and 20 charge kills. This is the upside of being able to tell your team to follow up after I charge
Thanks for the help! I really apricate it.
Rein is a charecter that i always have fun playing
This guide is actually helpful thank u gameleap
I am actually looking at learning to tank because of I keep running into issues where the tank does not move. I am new to the game, but I can normally pop off high priority targets and the tank just sit and does not seize the opportunity to move in. I know there are lots i can learn still an no where near a great player but i have learned to find and use the opportunities given
yes please do make a guide on how to make space
Yo thanks for this video I watched this and made a rein one trick 1 month ago and I hit masters for the first time
thanks for the great guide
So many good tips!
I was playing rein even when he was out of meta sooooo
rein since 2016, get at me bro.
so excited about every word... could be much shorter... its 2020 and there are thousands of rein guides out there already. this needed more work.
wow this is really helpful!
*bunker on first point hanamura exists*
you can drop your shield for 0.1 seconds to bait out earthshatter cuz most reins will think your gonna ult (works better in the lower ranks)
Playing rein will help you become a chad. I'm more of man after playing rein like this
I listened to you as i was playing a comp match, i got a win omg
I’m Reinhardt and Lucio gang all the way in overwatch so this is great info
Love him, first hero played, and logged the most hours.
I've been Hard Stuck in Gold / High silver since BETA lol, when I main tank with rein and move forward to take space, I look back and my team is nowhere to be found. They are always fighting on their own 1 v 1's and or worst. Wow you say so many things i say to my team don't let them just gain free real estate, pressure them. When i say it, i try to make my dps understand hey if you guys utilize my shield you'll live longer. Now don't get me wrong i make mistakes like the best of them, but for the most part i just get paired with players that don't have a solid sense of the game.
@@ftj4441 Thank you for the pointers. I will for sure put it to good use. I love winston also, i just pick rein when the rest of the team asks for it and we may already have a zarya or hog you know.
I do agree with most of the points in the video, I don't with the fact of if you as a main tank don't be aggressive or don't push....your dps can't make moves. I'm a pretty aggressive Rein and my dps bout maybe more than half the time are just PASSIVE as hell and....leaves me to play a bit more passive myself. Idk think their needs to be a video bout dps and how to get picks.
One of the most frustrating things as a Rein main is not having supports you can rely on. When I want to create space for my DPS and I am playing aggressive and taking damage to my armor health line. So frustrating waiting for the healing that should be there, and it never comes. If this becomes a pattern in a game, it's probably best to switch off Rein. It could mean though that your healers are getting dove on and you aren't being situationally aware enough to peel for them. It's a delicate balance between maintaining the front line and protecting the team from flankers. It can be as easy as simple communication and making callouts to direct your DPS to focus the flankers while you maintain the front line, but in the platinum to diamond rank, that communication is either spot on or completely missing. It's critical for a Rein to communicate as much as possible with the team.
Btw if you’re playing comp and you’re in bronze silver or gold your healers are not going to heal you so try not to take to much damage so they can heal you but if your higher than gold you can be a bit more agressive but not too much like charging into the back line another tip is to walk through the choke and start a push i see a lot of reins not walking through the choke and waiting for the dps to kill most of their players just walk through but make sure your team comes with you also if you see a rein charging at you charge back so you stun them and tell your team that he’s stunned on the ground this is most of the time a guaranteed kill if your team help you kill them also its very hard to escape elo hell with rein because your team wont play with you and your barrier just thought i would share some of my tips ive learned from playing rein
Just tried him this week. He is super fun. I thought he was just a moving sheild.
Silver working towards gold Rein main here, thanks for this
Didn’t even know the steadfast thing with that said I learned a ton
go in game and hit f1.....congratulations you learned it in 1 second instead of a 10 minute video.
Indie Games Only mad bro?
The worst thing about climbing this way in low ranks(silver, gold, plat), is that your team cannot keep up with your pushes.
well its a team based game
@@vector2680 And that is a problem
That shield stepping was backwards, you want to deploy your shield while jumping in order to maintain maximum speed.
I was able to climb to 4180 as Reinhardt, but I had to play easy-mode DPS heroes to get to high Diamond until I could actually accomplish anything as main tank. Although a good general guide, I feel it's very difficult to actually solo carry as Rein. The lack of competent healing and pressing W by teammates can't be underestimated in lower ranks. In Plat you'll be hard-pressed to even find teammates who chase the final unkilled enemy after a successful team fight.
Please go more in depth on how to create space (also with low amounts of healing)
simple, dont be afraid to push in. tell your team “we’re pushing through the choke, go left” and just go. you also need a good team to do this though.
Me being aggresive to break the choke
My team is standing at the choke and do nothing
The enemy murder me
My rank life
Coach Mills: Charge is a very impactful ability
Also coach Mills: Most of the time the correct answer is to not charge
EXCUSE ME?
It's because most of the time it's impactful in favor of the ENEMY team :p
Why do Reins hold barrier after zarya bubbles them? Give yo girl some energy
Bubble goes trough the barrier. And when there's a Sniper with one Shot kill ability you want to hard shield....
Dereko you definitely a silver player
bubble goes through shield so zarya gets energy and the rest of the team is protected
Point is is they drop the barrier they get precious shield recovery :D
Good video with good tips
The biggest problem for me as a Reinhardt main is Roadhogs hook. That pig hooks me every time I charge and it waists it
How does current Rein compare to season 3 Rein? Just as strong? Stronger?
Thanks first game after watching this I got gold elims, damage, and highest kills ive ever had.
I like playing tank but my god getting your team to come with you is a pain. Hanamura on ATK, tell your team I'm walking right through the choke follow me get up to enemy and nobody followed. Not a brain-dead charge in but mixed shield up body blocking. Happens again get flamed for feeding team wants a kill prior to going in. Stand by choke giving cover to team rein you're not going in and making space. ZzZ Classic Overwatch
Any time I've tried to play aggressive rein I push in and am drawing all fire heading towards point. And my team is still hiding behind the choke. So I switch to ball to at least touch point and it's 1v5 on me.and my team is still sitting at choke worried about a 5v1
ty :)
Rein is not a solo carry tank at all. Because he is a very team based tank. He needs constant heals and constant back up from dps and off tank to be as effective as possible. Sigma is actually a much better play if your team isn't being aggressive enough. He makes the same amount of space but at a distance, the only problem is no body in lower, or higher ranks, no how to play with Sigma as a main tank. Sigma has great damage, can stop most ults entirely and has the most important thing for a tank live ability, just being able to stay alive. Learn Sigma and you got a chance to climb.
Can we see a Zarya guide as of season 24
I love this video
Once i legit tilted a the enemy rien by block 3 of his shatters in one game. same game fire sriked six people
14:43 "don't let them T-TAKE choke for free" lmao
I understand that the aggressive is better but how do I be aggressive on 2cp defence
Dont think i didn't see that kenzo reference ya cheeky bastard
Rein's fire frojectile can pass through shields :)
Thats good and all but the biggest problem is the team not pushing in with u
And what do we have to do when we are pushing as 2 tanks but the dps aren't here to apply pressure and prefer to go on their own ? Because it happens to me several times and I feel like I can't even reach my opponents with rein because they are free and their shield isn't getting poked.
Imagine all these clips you’re getting healed ever had a damage moira and Baptist on your team
I’m the opposite I become too aggressive find myself pushing alone lol
Please fellow reins. If your off tank is Zarya and she bubbles you. Put your shield down. She won’t be able to gain charge if you block the damage
This playstyle is good but my team never stays with me
Im a 3900 zarya on xbox and ive never touched gm is there any tips you can give me to gain that last 100 sr?
you can also have supports or dps who dont move in with you when you try to push and basically stand in spawn trying to get picks lol
The thing is, I do push the chokes and all the but my dps are too passive and never push, then my supports just sit on dps idk what to do
Fantastic video would love some higher level content
But with shatter usually when you do it you have to bait out his shatter am I right?
Does anyone have any tips on shield management? I try not to hold it up for too long so it doesn't break, but that often leads to getting shattered-- however, when I'm holding it up longer, it gets burned through quickly and we get shattered anyway. Thanks ~
this possibe if you have a good team yes.