Every time when Classic came we witnessed how the supposed F tier ultimate was actually much better than the current one. Does this mean that Artillery is H tier? like Horrible.
And it’s pretty hilarious to see some posts like: “D.va ultimate is worst” or “Cassidy dead eye just trash” and then “you forgot Bastion’s ult” and the answer “Ah, yeah, trash after Bastion’s one”. So everyone agrees that Artillery mode is the most garbage ultimate in the whole OW.
Let me give reasons why in my opinion this is so:
- Easy to counter or escape. Okay most DPSes ultimate easy to counter for the tanks like blocks, eatings and etc. Non tank heroes also have a escape abilities, BUT even without it that ultimate easily disables just using only WASD. When you try target one enemy using all three shots then it uses one escape ability and survives. Easy to dodge cause projectile need 0.5 second to drop
- Works bad even as zonning ultimate and as killing one. Radius small enough, and projectiles drops so long, so you would be in TOP-500 predictors to use it effectively
- You actually disable from the fight. When you focused on the battle you just need go away to safety position to use your ult. It would be okay, but only when you can kill. Just useless going away to do nothing (1st and 2rd points)
- Cancellable ultimate. Stuns, sleep and etc, just cancels your already trash ultimate.
Now examples. Doomfist ultimate works fine as the escape plan and as the assault one. So 2nd and 3rd point are not in Bastion’s favor. Junkrat also disables, but his ult uncancellable and not so easy to counter or escape.
So 1st and 3rd also are not in Bastion’s favor again. Even with similar ult, Artillery loses
Tank Configuration’s turn. You actullay in the fight and take the situation into your own. Tank ultimate if I’m not wrong was the only one DPS uncancellable ultimate in OW 1 (but in Classic it was cancellable). And Tank ultimate works fine as the true DPS one. Maybe some reasons why Tank was isn’t good in days of OW1:
Literally goes AFK for 1 second while going in to tank and going out from the tank. So you should use it predictevely which didn’t work sometimes. Too slow projectiles speed. 60m/s really hard to hit someone on mid range. So you should use rocket jumps or use high ground to waste ult form effectively.
Okay, how we can adapt Tank ultimate for the OW2?
- We are having too much mobile heroes so, projectile speed should be increased from 60m/s to the 90m/s like on Lindholm
explosive perk - Cause Season 9 changes Bastion should get increased damage per projectile from 205 to 255
- Ultimate duration need to be decreased from 8 seconds to the 6 seconds
That’s all in my opinion. Oh yeah, return repair as the basic ability and put grenade to the perk. Make grenade ability unavailable while Tank form is active. I think Tank with grenade would be too OP.