It’s not news that Bastion is not doing too hot right now, everyone knows this. His damage is perfectly fine but his survivability is just terrible. Blizzard cannot simply buff his numbers because the community would inevitably complain and they’ll have no choice but to nerf him back down to the point where he’s terrible again, so there’s no point in doing that.
Personally I believe the only way to make Bastion more viable is his kit needs to completely change. Perhaps he could fit in the game better as a tank hero instead.
Yea I think he kinda stinks
They gave him extra survivability many patches ago with the self heal/extra armor when using configuration: assault, but they bundled it with too many other buffs and made him a problem. They could give some kind of self-heal back to him without any other changes to make him more viable.
Giving Bastion his self repair again would probably fix his survivability issue, I’d like to see them test this out, make it his E ability at the start of a season and see how the community reacts but I honestly doubt they’ll be brave enough to do this.
If the community reacts negatively towards it then they’ll have to revert it and come to the decision that Bastion will need a full on rework if they want to make him more viable.
One minor change I can think of to help him at least a little bit is to remove the self damage from his grenade ability.
self heal would be great, a lot of supports also complain about having to “baby sitt” bastion. In this context he acts very similar to a tank because he is an easy target (large, relatively slow) and often is in the frontline.
So if I could heal myself from time to time without having to fully rely on the delayed heal passive, which makes bastion have to hide behind a corner longer than any fight takes.
Maybe reduce the 5 second delay on the heal passive for bastion to a 2.5 second delay, like supports have.
It really makes no sense to me how they gave him an ability that could be used mobility, and then took away his heals.
Sure its mainly a damage ability, but still.
Also, they could nake him not barn sized.
How many more reworks to make 5v5 work 
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i’d say rework him as a high damage tank but thats basically just mauga huh?
But i dont think bastion is bad, he’s just tank dependent. works well with orisa, rein, sigma. maybe ram. But with a dive tank? yeah he’s isolated easily.
The bot that cuts 360 damage a second? Nerf that guy?
Tank bast doesnt work the lore.
Just one more to rework 5v5 6v6 open q