The Silent Reinhardt nerf General Discussion 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…

After the latest patch Reinhardt feels very sluggish and slow.

When Reinhardt tries to swing his hammer while holding his shield, it takes an entire extra 1-1.5 seconds for the swing attack to start happening.

Same with Firestrike.

It’s even worse with more delay if you are jumping with the shield and try to swing.

Also if you try to shield jump shield jump cancel to move a bit faster no longer works. Everything that has to do with animation cancel has been removed or bugged out.

This is a massive bug that makes Reinhardt unplayable.

He is already enough buggy as it is.

Edit: Brigitte has similar but less noticeable problem:

Rein and Brig Shield sluggish after patch 1.26.0.3 bug Bug Report With Reinhardt and to a lesser extend Brigitte heroes: If you try to swing an attack after holding your shield, it takes an extra 1-1.5sec for the swing attack to happen. The game is waiting for the shield retracing/releasing animation to finish entirely before the swings start their own animation, which is considerably longer compared to just swinging your hammer with no shield up. Same happens with any other abilities and the shield.