So tired of seeing him in every other game (in masters, before you say he’s bad above silver or whatever bs) its such a snooze fest. teammates refuse to counter and get melted all game. Just get rid of his turret mode. You deleted Mei’s identity by removing her freeze and Brig’s by getting rid of her providing armor, deleting her tankiness, and removing her stun. Give him something else already.
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I am slightly biased, but if Hog was able to cancel his turret mode, such as how he used to in the glory days… Well, maybe they would stop picking him.
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That should at least be a thing, IMO stuns cancelling his turret form
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What happened to bastion? Was he buffed? Did they give him back his healing?
Yeah, he had pretty substantial buffs. He’s strong rn but like…I think he’s fine tbh, although the random grenade kills annoy me but whatever. Maybe add what Buddha was talking abt with canceling his turret form with CC, idk. I don’t really struggle against him and respect his LOS.
A-36 Tactical Grenade
- Maximum explosion damage falloff reduced from 70% to 50%.
- Detonation time reduced from 0.5 to 0.35 seconds.
- Recoil adjusted to recover more quickly.
- Projectile size increased from 0.2 to 0.25.
- Impact damage increased from 15 to 30.
Configuration: Recon
- Reload time reduced from 1.5 to 1.2 seconds.
Configuration: Assault
- Transforming into Configuration Assault now repairs 50 armor health.
Configuration: Artillery
- Targeting state movement speed increased from 20 to 25 meters per second.
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Nah, it’s one of those heroes that either does nothing on a match or wins the match almost alone, I think because it’s an off-pick like sym
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revert him to OW1 bastion so I can rule lobbies with a noobstomp, so I can win tank 1v1’s, and so he can have a useful ult.
The good ol’ days, when you had a hard time defending and then playing the over-match; Bastion on top of payload with Rein shielding and steamroll the other team, what a pleasure…
I think it’s more like a “mental” thing, people saw buff, people play cuz “it’s OP now”. Same thing with Hanzo, Soldier, etc.
For me Bastion is still bad since their “rework” when they nerfed his infinite sentry form to a [REDACTED] finite form with CD and removed their repair ability for a [REDACTED] grenade.
Same reason I personally think unless you have really good aim, going Hanzo (or your DMG picking Hanzo) is literally a GG for you.
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Sorta… He gets 50 armor health Regen when he transforms. But he did get 6 buffs I think, so he’s pretty dang strong right now.
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The issue with bastion is he’s another one of those heroes where the tank role literally can’t interact with him without getting microwaved so you have to wait and pray your DPS kill him with range… and if they don’t? Go next ggs very fun game.
Not to mention a monkey could play bastion and get value. The hero just isn’t hard and is a snooze fest to play against.
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His assault formation needs to be put to 12 seconds it’s insane that it’s only on a 10 second cooldown when abilities that are ten times less useful like venom mine, teleporter, life grip etc are longer cooldowns. Him being meta is fine but his assault form is the only thing carrying him cause they’ve been consistently buffing it since release
His ults pretty good after they’ve buffed it multiple times
I mean…he has plenty of counters. I don’t think I’ve ever thought “GG go next” when facing a Bastion, even if they might have been good, he’s just not that oppressive if you know how to respect his LOS?
Off the top of my head you could simply go Sigma, Dva, or Orisa on tank to mitigate his sentry mode spam if you are struggling with that. Yeah it’s also up to your team to follow up on him but like, he just isn’t a “GG go next” character that you are making him out to be, especially when Pharmercy and snipers exists. A good sniper is much more threatening than a Bastion spamming a tank that’s out of position.
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Sigma can’t deal with bastion and if anything bastion counters sigma by literally removing his shield from field of play.
Dva defense matrix doesn’t last forever especially if you are also worrying about everything else you need to eat on the enemy team like anti’s, stuns, etc.
Orisa is probably the only other option but that’s just cause orisa is hard meta right now. But I’d genuinely rather lose a game than to ever log time onto orisa.
Also “respect his LoS” you can’t really do your job as a tank and take space… when a hero clicks a button and forces you to play LoS for several seconds. A dps shouldn’t be making free space like that.
Tracer is the most picked dps for literal years - it’s fine
Bastion is meta for a few weeks - the world is literally ending, kill it with fire
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He needs nerfs but knowing the devs they wont do it simply because his pickrate is below average on ladder. He’s insanely good, especially in top 500 but he’s picked less than cass therefore balanced in the devs eyes
For a second, I read this as though Hog had a turret mode.
Now I’m imagining Hog standing standing upside-down on all fours, unleashing a torrent of scrap from his mouth.
Sigma can eat and rock bastion (don’t know why you would just let him melt your shield? recall it and eat), Orisa can eat and spear bastion, Dva can matrix him for quite a long time if she her matrix is full and your team can follow up with dmg. If your team can’t follow up then idk what to say other than to…respect his LOS, sentry mode is on a cooldown so push when it’s over to take space?
Not saying that he doesn’t need nerfs, but he really isn’t that much of a menace that you are making him out to be. Can he be annoying to play against? yeah for sure, but I don’t think he’s as oppressive as other heroes in the roster.
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Can we just delete him from the game??