No need to apologize, the only reason I made this thread was because I was interested in other people's opinions. I'm at SA silver. I don't know if you'd consider that low or high tier, but let's just say it was pretty difficult for me to get there because I'm not in a guild and mostly solo Q. What does 'high-tier play' Reim look like? I'd be interested in hearing actual opinions & play styles from players who uses Reim at any tier because I seriously suck with him.

So can we agree that Reim is officially the most useless character ever released? I mean maybe he just doesn't suit my play style... but let's face the facts: this character probably has one of the weakest early game ever, lacks mobility or any sort of escape, and the heal barriers can barely keep him alive in the heat of battle. His A ability is too slow which can be easily dodged, and if you go for tank then you sacrifice damage and Ult becomes practically useless - which makes him...

Awesome. Thx for the reply and keep up the good work!

Great job with the guide & sharing your knowledge, have tried it on several games and albeit not a lot of kills, was much more sustainable and able to provide assistance to my teammates. My only concern is, since this build doesn't pack a whole lot of damage due to the absence of Shatterglass, obviously it was meant to be more of a support character yea? Also totally agree with you... Reim's early game is just complete garbage lol.

Matchmaking in Solo Q is significantly more difficult to level up after the recent update, even FooJee commented on this in his most recent Twitch stream and he's Vainglorious.

Krul can be easily countered with Atlas Pauldron and if you're playing ranked games in SA, your support or jungler should have enough knowledge to get it mid game if they see a Krul, AP will render him fairly useless. I made a post recently regarding Krul & Atlas and for him to counter it is quite difficult without decent team backup. It's also one of the reasons, as someone mentioned, you don't see a lot of Kruls in pro teams because despite how powerful he *could be, one item could...

Almost same as yours, except I start with 2x Salvo however I go for Aftershock later depending on situation that is, if enemy gets AP then I may ditch one of the Salvos. Will make a few slight changes to my first post - I only encounter serious problems when a) entire enemy team focus solely on me in every gank b) if there is more than one player on enemy team who can stun i.e. glaive and joule or c) there's no one on my team who can stun, and finally d) my laner dishes out minimum...

Thanks!

For players who claim "skill tier will move you up if you deserve to be moved up" I strongly disagree. I'm basing the argument below strictly for RANKED SoloQ, not team play BTW. I currently have three accounts, one is at POA Bronze, one SA Silver and one at Hotness Gold. I'm trying to move the Hotness Gold account to SA gold and it's nearly damn impossible these day. Why you ask? One major drawback is the matchmaking system - I am strongly against being matched with players...

So a big problem I've been running into quite a bit recently is that at higher tiers, especially against POA opponents, the enemy team always build Atlas Pauldron (I'll just say AP) and it renders Krul completely useless. I can normally rack up quite a few kills before they get it but once they do, it's game over for me :( I've tried several things to counter this but none have worked to satisfaction. I've tried going tank, going bursty instead of attack speed, etc etc. To give you guys...