These are his pickrates and winrates of all, bronze, and through GM on PC this week in comp. These numbers have remained pretty stable for awhile now.
All:
- pickrate: 0.63%
- winrate: 49.68%
Bronze:
- pickrate: 1.95%
- winrate: 45.03%
Silver: 1.01%
- pickrate 1.01%
- winrate: 47.28%
Gold: 0.65%
- pickrate: 0.65%
- winrate: 48.45%
Plat: 0.51%
- pickrate: 0.51%
- winrate: 52.83%
Diamond: 0.42%
- pickrate: 0.42%
- winrate: 53.06%
Master:
- pickrate: 0.38%
- winrate: 49.32%
GM:
- pickrate: 0.34%
- winrate: 55.45%
For reference, Torb and Sym were at 60%+ winrate when they got buffs. At really low pickrates winrates are always inflated. As you can see, as pickrate goes up, winrate goes down. As pickrate goes down, winrate goes up. That means at his highest winrate, his optimal pickrate is 0.34%. That is just about 1/3rd of 1%.
If he is meta, how can his pickrates and the ratio of pickrate to winrate being inverse be so absolutely terrible? Even his winrate isn’t as inflated as other heroes have been. That means he works at worst 45.03% of the time every 1.95% of the time at highest pickrate, and 55.45% of the time every 0.34% of the time. He loses almost half of his absurdly small amount of games. His average is under 50%.
Given this information, he is not meta. Bunker is meta, but Bastion’s pickrate and winrate have not gone up from before. The amount of times you’ll see Bastion in bunker is about the same as before Bunker became meta. Actually, I think he was played more on average before Bunker. Bunker is meta, but he just isn’t in it.
He’s also not even good in low ranks. He may be played more, but under 2% is still pretty bad and he loses way more often than he wins.
Bastion is not Meta.
