How do I beat bastion + tank shield in Quick Play? It feels like I need team coordination but since its quickplay, that doesn’t exist…so is there like a solid 3 step plan I can just type in teamchat ? (e.g. “”“I am Sombra, I will hack the bastion 2) When I hack, DVa dive in and matrix 3) Idk genji or someone kills him?”"") . Most of my games, bastion is the desperate pick but mows people down if he has a shield.
It feels like a lot of advice is like (sombra does a good job countering him) but when you actually get into game, theres the bastion + mercy healing + off tank + that 1 dps running back to help his buddy bastion
Typing in chat is too slow and easily unseen
I’d recommend either farming EMP and wait for the team to pish
or specially
Hack the bastion when the team is pushing
You don’t need to kill him, making him useless is enough
If you’re not on DPS, I think zen is the best one for killing him due to ez flank and good damage, or hog for hook when that shield goes down
Just wait for the team, if they’re not gonna play around you, you have to play around them, so when you see them finally pushing up as a group, even if it’s overtime, hold EMP for that
The only option I’ve been able to reliably work with which doesn’t involve a lot of team coordination is to play junkrat, wait for him to reload and suicide dive him while he’s doing it. Between your mine, your nades and your death grenades, you can usually kill him if you land on his head and die there.
If his shield isn’t great or if he has a wall behind him, you can also usually bounce grenades off the walls around him and bypass the shield.
but just realize bastion is immobile…so play quick heroes that can move around map and take angles…you can also go mei and block him off while people reposition
echo is also not bad against him…if you can get an angle…she can absolutely melt him from distance
Honestly, if you have a team that works together, playing Bastion with a shield into a bastion with a shield can be better. You just have to be mobile and always moving.
Now if it’s KotH map this is harder but if it’s payload with a bastion and a shield tank then you could beat them.
Unless it’s Reinhardt holding up that blue square it shouldn’t be that hard to break.
Orisa, Winston, and Sigma all have shields that any DPS or off tank can break long before CD resets. It is unlikely to keep bastion safe if more than 1 person shoots at it.
Roadhog is the best tank to counter bastion because he has shield break power not to mention it is extremely easy to hook a sentry mode bastion. Sigma is also pretty good because you can ricochet hyperspheres around a stationary barrier and drop him from sentry mode with an easy rock.
DPS you can go Sombra, Hanzo, junkrat, or even McCree if he is close enough that you can fan-the-hammer the shield. Mei wall works, but it also doesn’t exactly solve the problem.
I would… not recommend you try Pharah.
Bastion hard counters Pharah, NOT the other way around.
Support is like, zenyatta? I think that’s it. Bap only kinda works against a dumb bastion, but if you can drop the immortality field behind a corner that he can’t shoot it on, that works great.
Zen is probably the best bastion counter at very long range anyway, since the orbs have no damage falloff and you can shoulder peek after a full charge without really exposing yourself. Charge up 5 orbs, peek, repeat.
Pretty much what you figure out eventually is that it is fairly easy to counter Bastion unless the entire enemy team is devoting all of their resources to him, and that’s the point where people tend to stop playing Bastion.