What do bastion mains think about the rework?

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I don’t play bastion but it really reminds me of the Sym rework because every abilitiy got changed. He feels like a completly new hero to me.

  • Different Primary Fire. I don’t understand why.
  • New moira orb-ish secondary Fire for some reason
  • No self heal. Again: Why?
  • He can move slowly in sentry mode but…he’s still a sitting duck so this won’t change anything about his survivability.
    And we know the devs. It will get houndres of compensation nerfs on top of it (less damage, no ironclad, …). We have to see if this ability will even be usable. Also Kolorblind was always opposed making Bastion move during sentry mode.
  • Ult seems cool but Bastion can no longer jump to high ground with it. It’s like Junkrat’s ult but with bombs instead.

So I’m very curious how bastion mains feel about this.

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Doomfist players are going to be upset, because bastion ultimate is possibly a better version of meteor strike offensively.

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Did we see if we’re able to self boost with the grenade?

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I can answer this for you by showing you both his pickrate and winrate. There is no reason to keep any part of his kit the same since it does not work in OW1.

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Bastion is dead.

Literally cannot heal, can move slowly to make yourself more vulnerable instead of less (More easily dived and less able to hide without the enemy displacing you)

And on top of that, the real mobility is gone.

Bastion is dead. Will never be played again.

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I don’t particularly consider myself a main of anything but I find Bastion to be a lot of fun and I think the rework looks awesome.

His ult is so exciting.

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I bet they are more concern about the new sombra now huehuehue

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As a doom main, Bastion is now my new main.

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I despise them. I might be switching to McCree now even though I am awful at him. Or maybe Zarya. The rework destroyed everything that made Bastion who he is and I think it also made him much worse competitively.

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Maybe don’t respond on threads that ask how Bastion mains feel?

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His winrate is litterally 60% in Gm. This makes sense considering his pickrate but still, you can hardly say he’s doing awful. His winrate is higher than average in Comp and QP for all ranks as well. In GM qp he’s not doing to well but he does have a 0.3% pickrate which isn’t bad for bastion, infact Reaper in GM qp is doing far worse and in comp.

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I cant say without playing it, but he seems much better on the rework

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I didn’t even tried to say anything negative about Bastion but again he does look underwhelming.

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This poll from the Bastion mains subreddit shows that they are pretty split.

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I wished he didn’t lose his self-heal. He’s got no mobility and he’s much larger than the other dps characters.

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Its not really what you said, it is the fact you went on to a forum post directed at Bastion mains and commented your own opinion despite the fact barely any Bastion mains had commented. Kinda ruins the purpose of the post, which is to give Bastion mains specifically a voice. Had a bunch of other Bastion mains responded I wouldn’t have really cared but there only at most 2. There are plenty of other forum posts discussing the rework. Feel free to share your opinion there instead.

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I could be wrong, but I think Bastion will be played way more in OW2 than he ever was in OW1. We’ll see.

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I think this version of Sombra will be less crippling to Doomfist due to the reduced ability silence duration, and the extra damage doesn’t mean much when he can just bug abuse away.

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This is what I seriously hate about this rework. I don’t play much Bastion but I find it so fun to just go mess around with his rocket jumps in custom games. And now they’re taking that fun away for what? 3 of Dooms ult put into one? At least his current ult is fun and unique.

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Personally i dont like it

i think not only new bastion is less mobile than current bastion overall, but also he just feels weaker

his gun seems really slow to shoot, and they didnt increase the damage to make up for it, alteast we werent told if there was, i think someone said that he had similar firerate to mccree? (2 shots per second) and still dealt the same damage? so thats like 20 damage per shot, so 40 damage per second so about the same damage as moira except you need to aim. seems ridiculously weak

tactical grenade seems…questionable, i just dont see where a tactical grenade fits the transforming robot more than a self repair, i really dont get whats the point of this ability at all, and why they decided to add it

from what the pros said, sentry was doing 66% less damage than live, That is 150 DPS

pretty much every other damage character in the game can do that with their primary alone, and bastion needs an ability to get that much??

also considering the fact that its on a 8 second duration and 10 second cooldown, that sees honestly terrible.

The removal of self heal will make bastion require a lot of pocketing, and as we know healing is a lot weaker in OW2, bastions hitbox makes him draw a lot of fire

His ultimate seems cool, but then again, since its inmobile, you are basically going to have to find a place to hide then ult, because unlike sentry mode, you are unable to defend yourself while shooting artillery, and also, no more rocket jumping

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