When I play Zarya, and shield the rein, they also use shield. This is not every Rein mind you, but still a lot I’ve come across.
Let Zaryas shield take its course, soak it, beef up the Zarya damage, don’t shield it. 
Do you call the bubble?
The rein might be oblivious. Or focusing on other damage.
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you’re not allways aware if the zarya have bubbled you or not because a lot of things might be going on and it isn’t like you go “oh i have bubble now i can go!” you kinda just have to trust the zarya that they know what they are doing because you won’t be able to utilize the bubbles properly otherwise.
what i usually do is assume they will bubble me when i need them to, if they don’t i’ll just assume they won’t after a while and play on that premise.
their reasoning could be because something else takes priority like bubbling a support that gets dived repeatedly and such and really i won’t argue with that, and maybe they had a bad reasoning in other cases but it’s their reasoning none the less
and i am not the one who will challenge them on that because it’s more likely they will get mad than actually take it to heart.
also when i play zarya, i usually go for more high value bubbles that will save lives like bubbling a hooked teammate and such and so forth.
basically the self bubble is for many things like saving myself or making me tanky in an interaction or just to get more charge, the projected bubble is for saving lives only.
Yeah I mainly use bubble for life saving purposes but when we’re pretty much camping the whole team and aren’t in danger, I bubble the MT. When I play Rein, and Zarya bubbles me, I de-shield, then re-shield again when it’s gone.
Rein Zarya, communication is everything.
Just a simple “bubble in 2, give me the charge” (or whatever variant you’d prefer) might be all they need to hear.
Or the other way round “do you have bubble?, i’ll get you some charge”
Or, if comms aren’t happening. Save it and bubble when he fire strikes.
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you do know that zaryas bubble stick out from reins shield? you don’t have to drop it? in fact you don’t pull it up before you need it, if you’re gonna fire strike you don’t walk out with shield up and then fire strike, you just peek in coordination with firestrike animation.
you only shield when you have to and that just happens a fraction later with zarya around.
it’s like with winston, you don’t drop winston bubble immediately, you do it after zarya bubble.
Does it actually get absorbed then? I had no idea Zaryas shield worked even when Reins shield is up.
If its at the extruding part of the bubble. Then you get charge. So you get charge of a lot of the splash damage Rein is trying to shield.
yes if they are shooting straight at rein, but they could avoid shooting straight at rein since his barrier is very wide.
let me ask you this, how often do you get shattered because your rein didn’t have his barrier up?
those are crucial moments because the rein knows the other rein has shatter, but he relies on you to bubble because it’s extremely difficult to pressure an enemy rein into shattering and being able to shield up in time because you can’t see enemy reins animation that well up close.
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This is why I always speak out that my shield is down. And cautious of the opposing tank so when his shield is down and the other Reins about to ultimate, I ofcourse bubble rein
If you know they have Rein, you could always save personal bubble and move to block it yourself.
If you don’t fully trust your Rein to do it.
basically if you’re rein with zarya you just have to be aggressive, be be aggressive yay!
and trust the zarya to do a lot of bubbling, that’s kinda the reason why you run those 2 together.
and if you really wanna do “the test”
you should try coordinating how to block a d.va bomb and a shatter at the same time with your rein.
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Ahh I love blocking ults with Zaryas bubble xD It’s satisfying
yeah but preventing both at the same time is one of the harder things you have to coordinate as a tank duo.
It’s because in the heat of battle, sometimes it’s hard for them to realize they’ve just been bubbled. If you use vc, you can just give the rein a countdown, like “Rein, bubble in 3” and they’ll know and play accordingly.
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Exactly the play.
The rein calls the pushes. The zarya just let’s him know when bubble is avaliable. Lucio the speeds them in, while Bap heals.
Add Mei and Cree to that and with a little practice you can roll people.
Shame in silver/gold/plat people just prefer Ana Mercy so you can never pull it off.
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If they’re not in VC, which they normally aren’t, then I ain’t going to stand there and type it.
Then Rein Zarya might not be your best shot.
Or you play zarya like you would in a Zarya Ball meta. A lot more passive, just in and around your supports bubbling when someone engages.
I play Zarya well, and prefer to play her, although I play Rein if I can’t. We win mostly when I play with Agonath as we communicate when we’re going to do things, which is a problem in lower rank, people don’t do it.
Well compared to other silvers… or well well.
Tanking in silver is just do the basics and you win.
Or play hog and flank.
As you say comms are poor, so they will never communicate if you do weird things.
It is why angry flank rein, or flank orissa (if you don’t have potato aim) work well.
Players in silver tend not to have the game sense, so won’t consider even half the variables of what you could do.