Greetings everyone, I am currently in low gold and Bastion is my second most played hero in the game. A problem with the current Bastion is that is Sentry Gun spread is unreliable at medium range and his overall survivability. He is a easy target for hit-scan heroes and Hanzo while his niche is supposed to be barrier busting. Despite this, there are heroes who can do this job if not better. The problem with Bastion is he has no mobility besides his ultimate. I don’t think we should buff or rework Bastion so he has more consistent mobility but we could instead buff or rework his survivability so it is better. A common play style with the old Bastion was the flanker play style. A bastion using this play style would have to have good positioning and were rewarded with the highest damage output in the game. But due to Hanzo and Widow being picked more and more, this play style may not be as efficient but I have a solution to this issue.
Bring back Bastion’s old barrier from the Beta
Before you reply, “You gold noob, Bastion would be broken.”, and to that I say, shut up and let me speak.
So the idea is to promote the said play style above while providing Bastion with more survivability. Now as the adjustments for the shield, I recommend it having health similar to a Brigitte or Orisa shield as having the old 3000 shield would be broken while perhaps adding a timer to the shield it is up similar to Orisa’s shield. The shield would activate while in Sentry and Sentry only, if this was in Recon and Tank, it would be broken. And obviously add a few buffs along with the shield such as spread reduction, HS added back but not 2x and a few adjustments to Tank and bada bing bada boom Bastion has a chance to be viable.