he gets wheels for the next 4 seconds
Summon Ganymede, it basically flies around the enemy team and shows ult charge for a certain player, then flies back.
Rocket fuel. Gives him a 2 second speed boost of 40% that can be used to quickly relocate / retreat / whatever.
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This is called gamesense and would make the worst abilities in the game beyond diamond.
BIRD FLYING. BIRD NYOOMS!!! nyooming bird deals damage and steals projectiles of enemies like moira orbs and dynamites >:3
shhhhhh, i just thought of something random lol
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Hear me out alright… I know this seems a little crazy but what if he turned into a tank?
He would dry my tears during his Cinematic Video ;-;
tracer blinks with right click
So for a duration, projectile damage heals him? As in anything but beam or spray weapons. (in whichever direction the ability effects). That sounds kind of cool but people would lose their minds about it.
Call the arty, missile Bastion !
Just E for JB-2 strike ! 16 seconds cooldows, these olds missiles lauchers need to shake again !
He has 3 seconds to “gather” projectiles in a pile in front of his reticule to reduce incoming damage. The more projectiles he collects, the greater the benefit, to a set MAX. So if he sucks up 785 DMG, he can only use say 200 of it max to reload his gun and self repair. Would help keep him alive under heavy pressure and create interesting counter play opportunities without directly rewarding Bastion.
He could soak up that Widow and buy himself enough time to re position properly. I know they buffed his config deployment time to be faster for this reason, but i’m telling you, in Beta he had a shield he could deploy and that was kinda the right idea, but he was too hard to kill. [He actually was, it was nuts lol]
I think this magnetic thing offers the right kind of counter play, without benefiting Bastion too much, and still allowing valid hard counters such as Mei and Zarya etc to be used.
It would make Bastion viable and it would also fix goats as simply peeling him off would have a different dyanmic, and giving him sentry mode in ULT tank config actually makes him a threat instead of the current meta:
“Bastion ULTed, quick, kill him while it’s easier than it would have been in sentry config lool”
In Gigantic Hk-206 have the same thing, I was loving this game but now she is dead. . . sad.
Tracer has 4 abilities blink, recall, primary fire, pulse bomb
Soldier has 5. Helix, tac visor, primary fire, biotic field, sprint.
Eg as i said hero’s with 4 abilities tracer, reaper, bastion, etc are easier to play than most others due to less buttons to manage.
Aye, I was just pointing out the fact that blink is, by default, also bound to right click.
Landmines. just landmines.
I would rather see another new hero with landmine, eletric trap, and more trap.
But Bastion with landmine ? Nah, Imagine you’re on attack this would be the worst abilities in the game. Even Junkrat trap would be better.
I like this idea, and I think it could actually be tied to Ganymede because he doesn’t really show up during games but most epic or better skins for Bastion have a unique Ganymede skin(with the OWL and Overgrown skins being the exception) but other than victory poses, Ganymede only shows up in one highlight intro and 3 emotes… and Blizzard even gave the different Ganymede skins different chirps based on the bird
Why would the cooldown be longer than fortify when that ability gives orisa 50% damage resistence and immunity to CC???
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Yes, Tracer has a very well establish lore for why she can scoot 8m… so lets give Bastion that ability for no possible reason at all.
Atrocious idea. I am really fed up of it being insistently repeated.
Bastion already has a means to surprise people around corners by activating the reconfigure animation the moment you jump around a corner.
No, he is not lacking in mobility at all.
Because he doesn’t have to run to health packs not even slow down to self heal he doesn’t spend much time travelling even if it’s not at a high speed. He also doesn’t have to get as close so he doesn’t need speed to get very far in and very far back out again.
There is no logical or rational reason for Bastion needing any sort of speed or mobility buff, it’s just going by feel. He seem slow but he’s the same 5.5m/s move speed as most heroes.
Soldier needs sprint because he’s slowed down again by biotic field. He needs to sprint away quickly then stop sooner to begin using biotic field. Bastion is generally going to be quicker rotating around cover as Bastion heals as he travels and his sentry mode is reloading while in recon mode and vice versa, he now has plenty of ammo in recon mode.
No it would not, the reconfig times stacking will destroy any speed advantage
It would leave Bastion either too vulnerable or with a weapon that’s too powerful, impossible to balance against all other 29 possible hero matchups and with or without damage boost.
It could be a 1hp shield with 2 second duration and on a 20 second cooldown and it would have a massive impact on Bastion’s survivability as it stops all of this:
- Dva Nuke (damage doesn’t “overflow” shields, so a 1hp shield absorbs 1000 damage)
- Roadhog Hook
- Rein’s earthshatter
- First shot of Ashe, Hanzo, Junkrat, Phara, Widowmaker
- McCree’s flashbang
- Junkrat’s riptyre
- Soldier’s helix rocket
- Sombra’s hack
- Tracer’s pulse bomb scoring a direct hit
- Ana’s sleep dart
- Brig’s shield bash
- Zen’s discord orb (to set up an orb volley)
That’s a hugely underappreciated aspect of giving Bastion a shield as distinct from giving him any amount of extra health or healing. All those attacks that are an “instant” of damage can be negated by any amount of shield. So much CC is negated.
Yes, orisa or rein could in theory provide this but in practice players look after themselves, they keep track of what is a risk to them, they know what’ll get them and they can so often see the sleep dart coming but you just can’t kill the Ana quick enough.
Maybe 2 seconds is very short and 1hp is very low and could easily be removed by any other attack but delays in their attack buying you only a little bit more time is vital as your time to kill is already really short. Self heal is also good. Any amount of shield buying you just a bit of time makes a huge difference in having enough time.