What’s going on, guys? It’s Librarian Husk here. I’m going to give you a walk through the armory to learn how to build your heroes and what things to consider.

Understanding Reinhardt’s Armory and Hero Builds

Starting off with Reinhardt. The example builds tab that they start you off with is a bit of a trap because often times the things they suggest isn’t necessarily the best available, but also you don’t really need it this simplified.

Like if you don’t want to think about it, you can just buy whatever is on this list. But I highly suggest, considering you do have the time to do it between rounds, to read through everything that’s available so that you know how to flex in the game based on what the enemy is doing to you so that you don’t instantly die or can make the best plays that you can.

So, first and foremost, what you want to do is read through the different powers. You get one of these on the odd rounds. And in the example builds tab, this is only a selection of them. So, you want to look through all that’s available. The powers for Reinhardt specifically, I’m going to say avoid barrier for now. Anything to do with barrier is just a little weak. Like the stats are low and the play style is passive, whereas the other things that exist help you easily take over the game.

Optimizing Reinhardt’s Abilities and Upgrades

And I suggest you actually delete the enemy team with Magma Strike. This is the kind of power that I highly suggest you consider early game because it’s a transformative ability that gives you an added effect. Often times a lot of the heroes will have a little bit of their ultimate, but this essentially is like a little molten core with your fire strike. So, kind of the same idea with two fire strikes launched in a row. You leave a trail of lava. This is good early game, but it also starts to scale up decently well. A little worse as they the enemy gets too fast and mobile, but until they figure out how to beat it, it’s going to dominate.

Now, what you can do after that, as the rounds continue, is continue to get ability power, which makes your fire strikes even more lethal. And let’s say around three or five rounds in, you can actually then stack the effects where now we can consider upgrading our earth shatter where after you use earth shatter, every rocket hammer swing launches a fire strike. So that gains the benefit of all of the boosts we got as well as the magma strike upgrade as well.

Also, I’ll say later in the game is where you’ll want to consider the upgrades to your ultimate because the enemy will start having their own escapes, extra survivability, extra stats, etc. And early game, you cast an ult. If you even get an ult, you probably just win the fight anyway. Whereas later game, you’ll want to have this extra punching power because now when we cast our earth shatter, we actually will get the fire strike upgrade to magma and have enough time to shoot two of these and then our normal fire strikes. So even more magma. So imagine there’s things on the ground and even if their stats are kind of insane, we can just keep pumping more and more lava into them.

And that’s generally what I think is the best way to think about your stadium builds is get your play style and emphasize it and stack on it. Even if it makes you kind of one-dimensional because that’s better than getting a little bit of barrier, a little bit of charge, a little bit of fire strike and splitting yourself up and not really having any impact. You really need the stats to start to get to their highest peak point and whatever your play is to have the most success in stadium or at least the easiest route to it.

The other thing to consider with any character is really maximizing your knowledge on what their items do. So here we have three tabs and ignoring these basic ones cuz these are for all of the heroes. So anybody can get these base upgrades. Don’t neglect them cuz a lot of them are interesting, especially the epic ones have very specific upgrades.

Reinhardt’s Hero Specific Upgrades

But the hero specific ones will be transformative to your play. So, this one gives knockback resist key if you’re trying to swing the hammer on the enemy because you can entirely be shut off by a Lucio getting a boop upgrade if you don’t have this. Extra attack speed for missing life. This will make you into a berserker. This one reduces your cooldowns on your abilities, which is going to be important for the dive Reinhardt play style. And yes, you heard me right. Refunding your charge when it’s interrupted. Not a huge fan of that one. I just don’t think that matters all that much.

Fire strike radius as well as fire strike projectile speed. Amazing for the fire strike build. But for the one I’m showing you now, the ability to fly during charge, this is insane. Anytime there’s an item that gives you mobility, try to consider it cuz it’ll give you an alternate play style and it might be required to interact with the wacky things you see in stadium. And if we want to consider our max mobility Reinhardt, there’s an item that gives him exo boots and another one that gives him a self-cleanse when he uses pin.

So now we’re going to go down a completely alternate route from the first R I showed you. So smashing here is pretty nuts where you’re going to get move speed and weapon life steal for 3 seconds stacking up to five times. So that’s something that if even if the enemy is sustainable and you’re not killing them, you are getting stronger over time. And important in stadium is move speed because it means you’ll be able to close the distance. And here’s another one that you might consider. Shield stampede. It increases the charge’s knockback power, but that’s not the main reason you use it. This holds your shield up as you’re pinning. So, we’re going to cleanse, hold our shield, and be able to dive into the backline. And with all of our upgrades to our hammer, we start hitting faster as we swing on them. And especially getting our cooldown back faster. But it’s key to have the reduction on the cooldown so that when you go aggressive, you can see that cool down go now very fast. Like I can go in, assassinate, and get out that quickly. So being able to move with pin as a dive style, get the cooldown back by hitting swings, that’s a synergistic play style. So we just showed you two different kinds of Reinhardt. Defensive with the lava strike dealing lots of damage from range or the aggressive one that’s going to mechanically take over the game.

Now let’s look at Zarya, but we’ll look at the items first as hers are pretty insane. This first one, blast proof boots, is an amplified version of the rocket jump perk in the main game. Very nuts. Another one is increased primary fire range by 20%.

Zarya’s Powerful Upgrades

Zarya‘s upgrades are game-changing, especially when it comes to boosting her primary fire range. Blast proof boots provide an amplified version of the rocket jump perk, offering enhanced mobility and tactical advantages in combat. These upgrades can significantly enhance Zarya’s effectiveness on the battlefield, providing her with a strategic edge in engagements.

Zarya’s Flexibility Perks

The combination of These two means you’re always going to be able to get to positions and fight whatever you want. These are the maximum flexibility perks for Zarya. If she has a weak matchup against Reinhardt, consider navigating the map to go fight squishies and avoid dealing more damage to shields. Creative positioning allows you to take over the game, especially when you can jump high, extending your primary fire range. This unique angle enables you to deal meaningful damage, influence fights with bubbles, and maintain sustainability. Consider these perks if you are countered by the enemy tank to navigate around them effectively. On the other hand, if you counter the enemy tank, invest in stats and brawling power to enhance your effectiveness.

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Zarya’s powers may seem like stat bonuses, but some stand out. Getting your ultimate earlier, even with a shorter duration, can be game-changing. Initiating fights with your ult before the enemy team can do the same sets a tempo advantage for your team. The major flex power, where the barrier knocks back and scales with energy, is particularly potent. Its AoE effect within 5 meters of the bubble applies to teammates as well, enhancing their offensive capabilities. Another notable power, Here to Spot You, allows you to teleport to a teammate and heal over time. While it offers great mobility, consider its impact on gameplay dynamics and the need for strategic positioning.

Maximizing Energy and Barrier for Zarya

So, I’m not sure if I love that one or not. What I do think is very good is increasing your overall max energy. That is nuts, especially when you combine with maybe getting a bigger barrier size or an extra barrier to your team. These are kind of fair. I don’t think they’re uh gamebreaking, but again, mainly you want to get these in order to make this happen more often. So, we’ll get the double bubble for your team and then maximum energy overall. So, this means I’ll be able to zoom to my team and bubble everybody almost like I’m playing Hulk in Marvel Rivals. Bigger bubbles and more bubbles means it’s going to be easier to gain charge so that you can actually get to that 150 value. Zarya definitely a character that scales well late game with all of the mobility and higher stat options she has.

The damage category in Stadium goes down a couple different funnels. You either can play to duel the other squishies in the game or manipulate the tank fight to target the enemy’s tank or create space on the tank line. May and Reaper are the best at that. Another thing to look out for in the powers is these one two punches. So hit your shurikens, then you stack up and deal more with your swift strike. These kinds of percentage-based combos are typically going to be higher value. I’ll show this on the tank so that we can see the damage upgrade. We hit them with two volleys of shurikens and then swift strike which will increase the swift strike damage.

This is important because if you want to have an assassination play style, use third person to get around, hit a few volleys and then slice through the team, that kind of has to be a kill. Like that’s the way that has to play out. Otherwise, you’re kind of wasting your time with your perks. That’s the core one. And then I think you can improve it by adding laceration which is the perk from the main game. You can get a refund on the cooldown for swift strike for a pretty cheap cost if it doesn’t do any damage.

So setting up pre-fight again if you have to flank. Using the cooldown to get a staging position first might be required. I often didn’t feel that was the case. But I like this one in theory. 50% swift strike width means you don’t even have to be good with it. Also, it can hit multiple targets on the enemy team when you’re upgrading the ability power. This is important. Keep that in mind because in the armory item system, you kind of are only going to be able to get a lot of either one of the three: Weapon, ability, and survival.

Genji’s Abilities and Strategies

So, your weapon is your shurikens, your ability is swift strike, and deflect. You’re going to have to choose which one you’re orienting around and which one you’re expecting to deal the damage and invest in that. Also, a cool one, you can add a deflect to your swift strike, which can be key to making sure that you actually can land it, or swift strike right at an enemy ultimate, for example. The outplay potential of this is pretty ridiculous.

My suggestion with Genji is you either build for swift strike and try to flank, or you can play more of a frontline style, maximizing for deflect. There’s lots of ways to upgrade deflect. One hit of your dragon blade is incredibly nuts considering luckily the dragon blade’s damage will increase with ability power because all of your abilities are all tied to the same thing. It’s all ability power. So, we can get move speed while deflect. We can get anti-beam coding on deflect. So, we actually can just fully 100% block beams. So, Zarya and May, which are very common, you can just straight up frontline against them.

There’s some here that I think are traps for Genji. Avoid upgrading your melee. However, I will say the one that lets you gain a little bit of life. This is kind of a cute one. Pretty cheap. 1,500. Just a little bit of life on a melee at the end of your combo. Sometimes that is okay to add in. But don’t increase its damage. I think that’s silly. I wouldn’t even invest the full power on it. Nor would I get healing while reflecting because it’s already your defensive cooldown and you might be completely invulnerable if you use it correctly. It’s better for the cooldown cycle to play out where you use your offense that you invested in and then use your defense to get out so that you can get your offense again as opposed to sort of vaguely living throughout the whole thing.

In the push-pull of hero shooters, you want to be able to confirm your limbs when you’re aggressing. Whereas this kind of power will let you be more flagrant with how much damage you take, but then when are you going to get your kills? It’s going to have to be with your ultimate.

Throwing the dragon blade would be insane if it didn’t cut the damage in half, but granted it does allow you to shoot it from range so that you are safe when doing it. I think this is a break glass if necessary power. If you’re going up against Zarya May Reaper, I can see why you would want this so that you don’t even have to get targeted when you’re in, but in general, you wouldn’t want to have to need this.

Reaper is a very simple hero with very straightforward abilities.

Optimizing Tank-Busting Abilities

and ask yourself, are you going to stay in front shooting the tank a lot or are you going to try to flank? I’ll buy the powers for both. This one will increase your attack speed as you’re bearing down on the front line. The more you shoot at it, the faster you’ll shoot. Kind of nuts. You’ll be able to delete a Reinhardt. This goes with that in my opinion because the more you’re shooting, you’re going to be spawning soul globes, which is similar to the ones that you used to have back in the day for getting in a limb. This restores life, ammo, and gives you move speed.

So, the combination of these two if you’re going to be more of a mainline fighter, pretty nuts. Love this build. Or, and this is the most fun one in my opinion, Shadow Step casts a mini death blossom with reduced damage. It’s only 50% though, and it being 1 and a half seconds. It’s actually can be a bit of a trap. If the enemy has any disables, then this will get destroyed. But just for the damage cadence alone, it turns your mobility ability, that’s usually the bad one, into an attack.

If the enemy has Cassidy or especially Anna, this can just be a death sentence because you’re stuck doing it. Now, I absolutely love this one. And even if you think about it, like you might even just cast it safely around a corner like this. You can’t even cancel out of this though, so you have to be very careful when you’re using it. But it’s actually devastating. 1 and 1/2 seconds even at 50% damage reduction is insane. The death blossom attack kind of nuts. You can use it just as a little bit of extra DPS if you put it safely in the front line, but you can just like ward off flanks and off angles onto the enemy by dropping right on top of them if they don’t have a way of dealing with it. It almost killed it just with that alone. I still have all of my ammo left. Pretty nuts.

May’s a good example because she’s the one that I think you almost always should go for ability power just based on if you wanted to shoot from range, you might as well play one of the other damage that are available. My favorite for her are the ones that spawn mini blizzards. You can turn your wall and cryofreeze into dealing mini blizzard damage, allowing you to really pick apart the brawl while being invulnerable, making the wall do an AoE attack. And then once you need to reload or heal yourself, then now your cryofreeze does an AoE attack. Pretty nuts.

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Maximize Your Damage Output

A lot of free damage is crucial in maximizing your effectiveness. Among the various upgrades available, the snowball transformation seems to be the most popular choice. While it has its merits, especially with the additional knockback and damage, personally, I find other upgrades to be more superior in terms of overall stats. However, the snowball transformation does add a touch of humor to the gameplay.

When considering support options, a significant portion revolves around healing abilities. Heroes such as Juno, Moira, and Mercy are prominent in this category. While Moira does offer DPS capabilities, it’s advisable to focus on healing, particularly in Stadium mode. Dealing damage in this setting can be challenging due to the increased health of targets. Even with critical damage options, prioritizing healing with Moira is generally more effective in this context.

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