You heard me right, you know why? Because nothing brings a team of randoms together like a pirate ship comp!
Try running other various types of composition (2-2-2, GOATS, Dive, etc.) and you’ll have varying degrees of success, weather it be that people are unwilling or simply aren’t proficient with those heroes, but Bastion comps have always been a different story.
Not only are people more willing to run this, but your team actually works together! I never see such consistent unity among teammates in any other composition, so I feel that it’s necessary for Bastion comps to exist, both in part that it brings people to work together who otherwise wouldn’t and its prevalence in the meta right now is good for those who are inexperienced against it. You got to learn how to beat it some day, and this season is the season for it!
What are your thoughts?!?
Don’t tell me to swap off Widow,
Coolbreeze
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yeah no
it’d just be another really oppressive meta forcing you to pick the same 6 heroes(maybe you see variation in offtanks) that is really hard to counter, at least for lower ranks.
I like the weird spot overwatch is in now. What’s it gonna be next comp game? 3Dps ball? Dive? Rein zarya? Bunker? Orisa hog?
Seeing more variety in organized comps than I have in a long time
I think a lot of players struggle with dealing with Bastion comps.
For me, a Bastion comp is an automatic Mei or Junkrat pick.
Either to lift Bastion out of the bunker with an icewall, or to flank with Junkrat fly in and sit onto of Bastion with grenades blazing (Win or Lose, Bastion is dead).
Also Mei can cancel immortality field, by putting it inside an icewall.
And Mei Ultimate is great at shutting down bunkers.
Can even place a wall on the front tip of the payload, and then flank from the side. Which means Bastion would need to cut through half the pillars before he even gets one bullet on your team.
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I think pirate ship and GOATs are the two best examples of comps that are relatively easy to throw together and achieve strong synergy and results with a team of randoms.
I also think pirate ship in particular has a tendency to tilt the team facing it, which works wonders as it shreds morale. For whatever reason, people hate dying to off-meta heroes or “cheese” strats.
When the enemy team gets tilted, they stop coordinating and communicating, but most importantly they stop switching. When all it might take to counter a pirate ship is a good D.Va/Sombra/Junkrat/etc, players are much less willing to change when their morale is nonexistent.
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While I wouldn’t recommend it, one of the most fun games I ever had was an off-pirate ship attacking on junkertown.
I was grouped up with a friend, and we usually go Rein and Bastion for this map, but we had 4 dps-instalocks already. Normally we fill for tanks and supports as needed, but that day I wasn’t in the mood, so I told my friend to stay on Bastion.
I switched from Rein to Brig, and we set up on the payload like normal, except I jumped up and down repeatedly to get more shield coverage. Basically, I pretended to be a Reinhardt, shielded our Bastion, threw out repair packs if any of our god-awful instalockers who all ran off in separate directions happened to come near the payload, and stunned/flailed anyone who got too close to us.
It shouldn’t have worked. It didn’t work. We lost in the very last stretch of the third point. But for the first two points, and most of the final point, we absolutely crushed them. To this day I will never understand why a Brig/Bastion pirate ship with 4 flankers worked so well, but it was funny as hell.
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Absolutely, Sombra is my go-to when I see a pirate ship, typically at the start of a defense I’m Widowmaker, in that situation I will work on flanking behind the team so I can get a quick crit kill on the Bastion. I usually get the Mercy that’s attempting the Resurrect as they have no idea where the shot came from.
Don’t tell me to swap off Widow,
Coolbreeze
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Yeah, Sombra’s a great choice for countering pirate ship and GOATs, as I’m sure anyone who’s watched OWL knows. Unsurprisingly, comps that are all about staying in a tight group don’t react well to an AoE ult that completely disables their abilities.
swap off widow
No.
Don’t tell me to swap off Widow,
Coolbreeze
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I have no idea what you’re disagreeing with me about. 
i do
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I’ve had similar situations with “funny” comps. I have a track record dating as far back as season 9, where for some reason, whenever my team has gone 6 DPS in Hanamura, in diamond, they’ve all led to wins.
This was a total of 5 games, in those games we stayed our best DPS and never switched off, and won. I don’t knock any type of composition anymore.
Don’t tell me to swap off Widow,
Coolbreeze
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I love them because dismantling them (and often winning the match) is a hero swap away.
Coordination required to set it up, very little to no coordination needed to take it down.
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Yes, which in turn leads to the other team swapping off to something else, then hey look at that, we’re playing Overwatch the way it was intended. Weather I get steamrolled, I steamroll them, or somewhere in between, there’s always something to learn and I have a ton of fun fighting/participating in Bastion comps!
Don’t tell me to swap off Widow,
Coolbreeze
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Funny comps are the best, and a huge part of why I’m strongly against enforced 2-2-2. Another great game I had was defending on Volskaya. We ran quintuple support (and this was ages ago): Mercy (me), Lucio, Zen, Ana, and Symmetra (who was still considered a support at the time), and a Genji.
They never even touched the first point, we full-held them at the choke point.
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Anything is possible, that’s what people need to always remember!
Don’t tell me to swap off Widow,
Coolbreeze
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