No one's talking about Bastion's nerf

Literally everyone who is paying attention to things other than their health. It’s easy to do, especially when there’s heals coming from elsewhere. It’s also worth noting that the best time to use self-repair is when you’re near full health because it means more armour uptime.

It also means you can use it in preparation for incoming damage without wasting it.

It’s more of a buff than a nerf. He will no longer waste his healing resource because his healer topped him off or he held it too long, and the delay is only 1/4 of a second which really won’t even be noticeable. It’s faster than you can say “1”

Because Sym was actually on the verge of something nice. The buffs she got were finally adding up to a good hero for the double shield - which may or may not be a phase thanks to Sigma being recently released, and they hit her with a nerf in less than 2 weeks.

Reaper’s 50% life steal, which everyone and their mothers knew exactly how stupid would be, literally broke low ranks and was a terrible idea, but stayed in game for months.

Now Sym has a tiny window of being a good niche pick and we can’t wait for a goshdarn season to see what happens?

Sym will still be good against double shields, which will no doubt be a comp. Sym will be picked against Sigma. I think the devs just noticed she was melting him a bit too easily without much effort. She could kill him in just over 2 seconds on her own

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Every good tank keeps one eye on their hp/shield and the other one the fight. Bastion mains also does this.

So do a couple of other DPS, some of which are much more prominent than Sym. There’s no reason to not wait and see a single season what would happen. McCree had 55 FTH for 3 months.

Sym got nerfed as fast as broken Ironclad Bastion. It’s unreal.

Yes, and just like keeping your shield up for longer than you need to can cause you to waste it for no gain, so did self-repairing. Now it doesn’t.

Are you telling me you’ve never once been paying attention to something else and not taken your shield down at precisely the moment where you no longer needed it up, resulting in it taking damage it didn’t need to take? Please.

Nope, hardly broke it. Rein mains can’t afford to have their shield broken, that voiceline will annouces incoming team kills.

bbastion got a burf so its fair

I don’t play Bastion- my understanding is that this now happens consistently instead of sporadically. Can someone confirm?

Just rework this terribly designed mess of a hero…

Isn’t this also a big nerf to tank form? Does it even apply to his ultimate? Healing between shots to cancel out self damage used to give a bit more healing than you inflicted on yourself. Wonder how much that is affected.

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No… There’s several others in line before Bastion.

Bastion has NEVER been top meta… unless you’re talking about no limits, in which case 2x Winston, 2x Lucio, and 2x Tracer were the norm.

Bastion, is stationary… Therefore, aim at him and profit. Yes, he can wipe in some scenarios, but REALLY not many.

NOT MANY.

He’s not a problem that requires nerfing.

As a T500 Bastion main this nerf destroy totally the self heal trick he had in Tank mode.
It make Bastion just horrible to play while nerfing his flexibility.