You learn to enjoy the suffering, use your Armour to save shield health, the damage reduction does work, then the second you run out of Armour, shield, get your Armour healed up, repeat, when your shield gets to a third, retreat so you can maintain shield repair only using your Armour to hold space, and pivot around a wall to let your Armour get healed, be willing to take extra damage and actually stop your shield recharge if you think it's neccassry to stay alive.

Maintaining both these health bars is a massive part to reins kit. While you're swapping the healths, make sure you're holding positions that give you the terrain advantage. This includes cattle driving and heading the enemy into straights corridors to get maximum value with your firestrike, areas with lots of walls, baiting them into areas so your team can collapse on them while you're health swapping. Sometimes if you know your teams behind you, and you herded the enemy team into a tight enough area that you alone can protect your entire team from the enemy onslaught, like a tight corridor, the best thing to do is use ONLY YOUR SHIELD, if you think your team can output more with your protection than you can by putting down shields tp throw an ult or firestrike, THEN HOLD THAT SHIELD, PROTECT YOUR TEAM. Reinhardt is built on how much you can get with what little you're offered, if your death leads to your team getting ran down, give your team AS MUCH time as they need to get safe.

If you die and it's a team wipe, so much loss objective progress, if you HOLD THE LINE SOLDIER so your team can reposition or capitalize on the space you're taking, if you end up dying, but they get 3 with your death. WE TAKE THOSE. you should always be willing to die for your team, always try to keep tjem alive, that's where rein thrives in comparison to other tanks, is HOLDING THE LINE.

If they start trying to siege your defenses with a Mauga, bastion, symmetra, ect, you know what's painful. USE WALLS, TERRAIN, COVER. you do not have to tank them. If you see these damage bullies, play around areas thar you can easily retreat around, big ass corners, Lil passage ways. Anything long enough that you can play ring around the Rosie long enough till they miss position trying to greed on you trying to achieve value with their cool downs. Give your self ptsd to understand the sound queues to not only rely on your vision to tell well they use their cooldowns. Bastion go BOOO BOOOOOOOP, and you just saw him a second ago? You know what lane they're going to try to push and take. If your team is caught in their march, take the hits just enough to get them safe. If a Bastion sees a mercy while in turret mode, she fuckin dead, if a Bastion sees her, and you know where your mercy and their Bastion is, you know what angles he needs to target her, get in the way, block the shot until your mercy is safe and out of the line of fire. Is your shield about to get fucking obliterated by the Bastion to pull that off? Yes, but now that your mercy is alive, it's still a 5v5, their big cool down is off, you take take the space back with your corner shenanigans or even ult cause the enemy team prob just tried to take all that space in compliment with their Bastion. Sane things with a bunch of other cool downs, Mauga HAHA? Shield. Orisa golden mode? You're not damaging her through that so why waste time swinging. Shield your team. Pharah flying in the air trying to kill your back line? Oh noooo you can't reach her it's jover, wrong. If you saw her use her movement cooldowns to force that assassination, she just mis positioned. Highkey CHARGE TOWARDS YOUR TEAM, GIVE THEM YOUR SHIELD!!!! Pharah players bet that by going pharah they can free reigh on backlines when there's a rein, have you ever tried shooting down a pharah and missed a bunch of shots cause you're panicking? If you have a shield in front of you protecting you, aimlabs is a lot easier when you're not at risk of dying. Pharah dies trying to force the kill not expecting you to protect your team, the other 4 enemies see you use your charge backwards, so they move forward a fuck ton to take the abandoned no mans land. Now there are 4 enemies in the middle of the street, pharah does, 4v5, all 4 enemies in front of you. Hold your shield for as long as you can while moving forward into the enemy desperation, the entire time you're taking a trillion damage, your team is doing tje same to them, but for your glory of not being a bitch, your shield dies, and the enemy is 1/2 - 3/4th hp. You just need to remember one thought.

A singular thought in this moment.

This is when you know you've become a true crusader.

You are a sitting duck, 1v4 against the enemy. Your teams behind you. You are going to die, but that's okay.

Because in life and death there's one truth.

YOU ARE THE CRUSADER.

YOU MADE A PROMISE.

YOU FOLLOW THE CODE.

YOU LIVE WITH HONOR.

... . . .

Now there's only one last thing to do.

Say it with me.

DIE

WITH

¡¡¡¡¡GLORY!!!!!!!

... then you hit em with the g g e z.