So season 1 we saw Bastion reworked, and it’s not bad on paper but in practice it’s underwhelming. Damage wise? Pretty good but fluidity wise is leaving a lot to be desired. So what if we could rework him into a more viable hero?
This is what I suggest:
Self Repair Passive:
First of all, his hitbox and low mobility is a major weakness. In OW1 they compensated this with the self repair feature. How about implementing the support passive (but slower and less self healing) as a recon mode passive that caps off at the base 200 and doesnt restore armor. A new self repair passive. If he’s out of a fight for more than 3 seconds it will start to take effect and gradually will take effect.
Artillary Assault Rework:
A core fundemental of Bastion’s design is his AA (or turret/sentry). Originally you could pop in and out of it at will. Now it’s locked behind a 12 second cool down for roughly half the time of use. What if we increase spread on it to make it so he has to play closer than 20 meters (ideal 10-5 meters) and reduce damage to compensate for the up close assault. But to help overall as apposed to a traditional cooldown what about a fuel usage meter (think Orisa’s primary or DVA’s DM). In theory if you run through 8 seconds of it (the full duration) it will “overheat” and automatically put you back into Recon and it will be put on a short cooldown (8 seconds) then go back online. To prevent cooldown spam (like you pop out of it at 7 seconds and back in to circumvent the cooldown) You wait for as long as you used it up to 8 seconds. (IE use it for 5 seconds, the cool down is 5 seconds).
Tact. Grenade:
Tact grenade is… well it’s strong. It’s flexible in its applications as a boop tool for yourself or enemies to a strong finishing cooldown. So let’s remove the self damage to Bastions grenade and in return we reduce the total explosive damage it does (from 100-70)
Ult:
OH BOY! His ult is not the best. Without any aid it’s very easy to escape and hard to time with the movement of several heroes. Compared to more high value ults like Death Blossom, Rip Tire, Mei’s Blizzard, and so forth. I don’t think that we should bring back the original ult as I think we should embrace new over old. So what about a combination of the two? Slower movement than AA and you would arch his shots like a mortar, aim higher up the closer it shoots by you, lower, the further it would go.
Granted these are MY ideas for what could make Bastion not only better to play with or against but make him more viable, you don’t have to agree.