It seems like every game i’ve played now in overwatch 2 the enemy team as soon as they start loosing in anyway they go bastion, and some how he seems harder to counter now then in overwatch 1. All i ask is there to be less health on him of needs to reload faster in turrent form because it seems all too common to see a mercy boosting a bastion as well as an anna supporting him or zen and every time if plow though all defences. PLZ DEVS HELP.
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Use corners and high ground. If he’s on high ground get behind a wall. If you get out and deny him his turret form he’s basically nothing.
*Turret…
No, he doesn’t need a nerf.
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You basically just have to hide when he’s in turret form. There is a very little chance you will kill him if he’s being pocketed but once it’s on cooldown he can’t really do much.
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Bastion is a none issue, sure a bastion switch can take you by surprise… Once.
But there are so many ways to deal with him now. sigma, Dva, and Orisa can ruin him, he moves incredibly slowly cannot heal himself anymore and has a massive hitbox just focus him from cover, get in his face with grasp spin or matrix. Or stun him
I find torbjorn 100 times worse. Any time someone switches to torb the milisecond they start losing it should be a priority to target them. Always ruin the fun
LOL I literally made fun of a team today for doing this.
It happens in pretty much 50% of all casual matches.
They INSTANT the enemy DPS realizes they don’t have the skill to win, the switch to a permanent high-DPS cannon that takes zero skill and they just hold down the trigger behind a shield.
And it works quite often.
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Bastion is an easy kill for Tracer and Hanzo, absolutely one sided as long as you track his cooldowns. He should be an easy kill for any hero really, as long as you stick near cover and have some patience and restraint. You can headshot him in turret form, just shoot the glowing blue core in his back for free easy crits.
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i think you misspelled tracer and pharah.
The irony of saying that with a McCree pfp is incredible.
idk about tracer but Junkrat, Bastion, Pharah and Symmetra are the four horsemen of the Bronze apocalypse.
While Bastion is easily countered in his form, I do feel that “finite duration transformation” Heroes can be a bit of an issue.
All their strength is pumped into their alt form, which can sometimes make them a bit too powerful. Bastion is thankfully counterable by just not interacting with his form. You just hide or kill him with peek shots. Other Heroes like Rammatra are a different story…
junkrat has been less annoying since ow2, though ive never played him to know the changes were if any. in ow1 he was def my top list of get mad. but parah is easily a top pick once they realise a loss is incoming, since almost nobody will look up and shoot at her. my best counter for her seems to be bap since im support usually and just spamming as i can. ana if they are bad at pharah XD
Know what. No, no. I’m tired the people who says character shouldn’t be fixed just because they play comp and got plat. I agree Bastion need to be more skilled in his abilities rather have turret mode be form of crutch. Everytime I see bastion kill or get potg, it’s always by turret mode. Not normal gun, not grenade, not artillery. Turret mode.
I think players of bastion should be less reliant on turret mode to save the game and rather themselves as a player. I want see a bastion get potg because he quickly broke a Rein’a shield, grenade one player, and managed to kill two more with his normal gun. Not just shooting wildly into a crowd he managed to get behind by jumping down from platform.
I think players who relies on one ability of a character to win a game is a crutch that is frustrating.
Anyone who says “I’m plat therefore you suck” is worst tyoe of players on Overwatch I swear. This is almost as bad as Fortnite players who sweats as hell. This is Overwatch, a game meant for everyone. Not just you.
Bastion doesnt need nerf, he needs to be removed from the game but he is clearly the developers pet cuz he is not getting nerfed but everyone complains.
Its always the tacktik called all for Bastion where you just make sure bastion survives, when he gets pocketed, you dont need turret to get potg because he deals as much damage as in turret mode
Bait him into turret form, hide until it ends, shoot his gigantic hitbox, gg.
Depending on your tank you might not even have to bait it because low ranked Bastions will just use their turret without thinking.
We’re seeing bastion quite regularly in owl right now.
Maybe, after buffing literally every part of his kit, countering him may not be this straight forward anymore.
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Yeah, while this is a necroed thread, it’s aged quite well considering the mess we are in now.
And it could have been solved had turret mode been made an ult. They had tank mode right there to make his alt form, and they just threw it in the bin.
Literally exactly what I was hoping they’d do for bastion when I knew they were reworking him.
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