Joe Rogryn Experience - Push, Bonk, RIepeat
 Ogryn Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

This is a true tank/control Ogryn, not a shield-plant simulator. The goal is to make everything in the room fight you while keeping it staggered, bleeding, brittle, and generally regretting its decisions.

Your basic melee cadence is:

H1 → Push → H1 → Push → repeat

The Slab Shield's H1 gives you a strong overhead heavy for damage, bleed, stagger, toughness generation, and Heavy Hitter stacks. The push resets you back into H1 while staggering enemies and, more importantly, triggering Attention Seeker to taunt them and Brutish Strength to apply Brittleness. Keep cycling the two and you can lock down surprisingly large groups while your team kills things without having to constantly fight for their lives.

Beat Them Back, Frenzied Blows, Heavy Hitter, and +5% Rending give the shield enough offensive help that you aren't helpless when Crushers, Maulers, and other elites are actually in your face. Skullcrusher + Brutal Momentum further reward staggering enemies and landing H1s on weakspots. Aim for heads whenever possible.

The build generates a lot of Toughness through heavy attacks, while Don't Feel a Thing adds Toughness damage reduction when the fight gets ugly. The curios are deliberately built around Toughness, stamina, gunner resistance, and ability regeneration. The extra stamina is particularly useful because pushing is part of your normal attack rotation rather than something you only do defensively.

The Rumbler is the problem solver. Adhesive Charge + Shattering Impact lets you stick Ogryn elites, apply Brittleness, and put meaningful damage into targets the shield struggles with. Against tightly packed elite groups, don't be afraid to fire a grenade into the mess simply to scatter and stagger everything before going back in with the shield.

Shield planting should be the exception, not the playstyle. It's there when you're the last man standing and need a few seconds to recover, or when concentrated ranged fire is making normal engagement impossible. Most of the time you should be actively pushing, attacking, taunting and repositioning enemies.

Your job isn't simply to survive damage.

Your job is to make sure everyone wants to hit the 900-pound idiot with the shield instead of your teammates — and then not let them actually hit him either.

Push. Bonk. Repeat.

If it ain't staggered, it ain't listening.