So clickbait title aside:
Bastion is useless in mid to high level gameplay and he needs a rework. Maybe you guys are planning on him after torbjorn, but I need to talk in case you aren’t.
-His ult is in most situations less useful than turret form. It’s only good competitive uses are to one shot players during a Zen ult, or to reach an unpredictable location; it’s main use. Reaching places Bastion “surely couldn’t be”.
-His playstyle relies on stupidity. Either he’s waiting for some idiot to not check his corners or he’s expecting a genji to reflect in his face too early. He needs to have more active ways to secure kills, like being able to win a 1v1, more on that in a sec…
-He is too slow. He has no movement options, I get that is part of his character but that makes him fundimentally unable to compete in a game so dynamic as Overwatch, even if he sees a threat coming, his only option is to shoot until him or the enemy is dead. Hoping your enemy will waste their options, or having to bait them out is his only defensive measure.
With all this in mind I propose a rework which is easily buffed or nerfed and not only makes him competitive but keeps what was originally fun about him and emphasizes it:
Increase all of his reload times a lot except for recon (and nerf recon damage if necessary), since his reload works even while he’s in a different form. Allow him to switch between all three forms at any time. Tank form does less damage, still useful in a one on one, but not a one shot, give it like, 8 shots and each does 50 damage 4 shots to kill a squishy (it’s hard to hit with because it’s a slow projectile), it also retains it’s same knock back on himself, but maybe a little less on enemies, yes it would still do self damage, so you have to know when to run instead of just having an escape option ready (since you can heal all the damage done by it between tank shots it’s still useful to get into positions out of combat, but wastes repair when in combat, also allows risk/reward for a higher skill cap). Recon and turret are unchanged except for the reload thing. His ultimate brings up his old frontal barrier pre-patch, except it works in all forms and only lasts maybe 10 seconds with an extra 500 hp, maybe have it instantly reload all forms too. All of this combined destroys his neche hero status, and puts him on a level playing field with the roster, while keeping old mechanics, and introducing new ones that further increase his skill cap.
Rant over, but on a more sentimental note:
I haven’t played overwatch in months, I miss this game that took over my life for a year and a half, I miss the thinking man’s shooter dream that the overwatch team once had achieved. I’ve loved Blizzard since my dad told me my drones could turn into a hive for my Zergy lings…
I was a die-hard blizzard fan, until you started ignoring me. You have a massive community, your minorities are now also large groups. Bastion mains unite! Stand against the tier lists!
), I didn’t remove Ironclad, I tied it to self-repair. So Bastion still has the 20% damage resist, but only when he’s repairing.