Ive included some links to the older threads with spaces inside the URL because forum was designed by 3heads so I can’t post links.
There isn’t really much I can say about Bastion that hasn’t been in the previous threads, other than the passing of time and his now estimated 0.00% pickrate in GM according to Overbuff.
https : //www . overbuff . com/heroes
His supposed ideal meta came and wen’t with double shield, but during so he was mediocre at best and other strategies and heroes still worked better. Baptiste and Sigma were just as effective with Bastion as they were playing against him.
Other people tried to discuss the problem in the threads below, but the Overwatch team has made almost no effort in actually improving the status of Bastion, which is extremely upsetting as this complete lack of feedback from the team has been super disheartening to anyone who enjoyed playing Bastion.
https : //us . forums . blizzard . com/en/overwatch/t/bastion-is-being-forgotten-370-likes-5000-responses/32040
https : //us . forums . blizzard . com/en/overwatch/t/bastion-isn-t-being-forgotten-he-s-being-ignored/153427
Now here we are, Bastion as a hero is about as dead as a hero in Overwatch can be. Almost no-one plays him on twitch, even as a meme, and I can count on my fingers the amount of Bastions I’ve seen in my past 100 games. I understand that the devs are working hard on making and balancing Overwatch 2, but they have let this problem go for years without actually fixing it, and now i’m just hopeless.