Buff when?

Buff when?

Reminder if you think bastion is hard to counter you're shit at the game.

Does he really need one?

Besides his recon movement speed I can't see what else they could change without breaking him

I agree they should improve his turret speed.

He still has the highest non ultimate DPS in the game, and it's not that hard to hit with him due to his accuracy/ROF. His only downside is that he has no mobility skill and he has to go into turret mode to get that high damage but as long as you have teammates distracting the enemy team you can easily jump, go into turret mode and unleash death as soon as you hit the ground.

Couple him up with someone who distrupts the enemy team like Tracer or Winston and you can easily destroy entire teams; they have to either focus on you and be killed by the disrupter or deal with the the distrupter and be mowed down by you.

Give him back a shield, but make it a skill to replace his repair

If this was true he would be used more in the pro sceen, hell even more in high level ranked. But currently where im playing at which is rank 63 I've gotten him to work once in a competitive setting.

Not too hard to counter, when you know where Bastion is posted, and flanking him from behind

Bastion is hurt a little bit by hero limits as he's very strong against double Winston.

An issue he has that might not be fixable is that every support character can easily kill him at any range while staying out of his LoS.

>increase recon movement speed by 10%
>give him a new ability "form up"
>along with a new form "entrenched form"
>entrenched form functions similarly to the beta addition, has a frontal shield, can only turn around a 120 radius from when set up the form
>in this form his gun fires 25% faster
>to change into this form you must be turret mode first, takes about 40% long to change into than turret mode, and to get out
>also make recon mode to turret mode take 30% less time to switch

This will give him more "oomph" when he needs it, along with letting him play a better roll in surprise flanker with the other form having overall better mobility. Players will have to pick when to use entrenched mode carefully, as its limited mobility makes it easy to punish.

They wont buff bastion or torb because they dont want the lower skilled players to yell and scream

I had already accepted his fate and it sucks because hes my favorite character

Bastion feels weak because everyone makes an effort to counter him and place him as the top threat, because of their memories of first starting the game and being mowed down by Bastion.

Give him a mine launcher as his M2. Allow him to secure his flank or at least give him a warning before a Genji, a Tracer, and 2 Reapers come ruin him.
Hell, make it a spider mine, crawling after enemies. You either destroy it quick, or have to fall back to keep it from skittering over and taking 75 health out of you.

Either that, or find a way to buff his recon mode. Maybe 100 health/200 armor, with a little less bullet spread.
Going by his high health and decent DPS, he should be effective, but he's just too massive and slow of a target, making his high health vanish faster than any character other than Roadhog.

how to fix bastion

in turret mode he has no heal
instead that abillity is replaced with transforming into a much faster form that is similar to his tank mode but without any weapons, bastion can go into turret mode at 1/4th the speed in this mode but takes just as long to unturret and is tranformed back into normal bastion.

Don't stay in the same spot.

Get kills.
Move.
Get kills.
Move.

Never be in the same spot.

Meh, i've had pretty good luck with Junkrat against Bastion.

He's too 1 dimensional for simple buffs to fix.
Even Torb can at least move around and just use turrets for zone control.

Best I can suggest is give Recon mode some utility so Bastion has a reason to recon, like a tracker tag alt fire that gives his team true sight for a few seconds.

Yeah thats why they buffed mei right?

Faster turret set up time and more armour in recon mode(possibly even faster movement speed/higher jump.)

They need to disinstentivise staying in one place with him

O boy can't wait to see what competitive players think of this amazing buff!

Might be neat to remove his armor in recon mode, but give him 100% armor in turret mode in addition to movement speed and switch speed.

I assume being that his skill ceiling is so low, his mobility eventually becomes a hindrance.

When it gets to the point where teammates have to cover bastion at all, they lose.

He's becomes a wasted teleport use, a wasted harmony orb holder, a wasted nano boost etc etc

Give him walk speed similar to McCrees ultimate in his turret form
or
Give me a small Harambe like shield whenever he is assembling or disassembling his turrent form

That made me laugh harder than it probably should have.

Nah. He's already only like 2/3rds combat capable in recon. Any other class, down to a Mercy, can shit on him.
But that 100% armor in turret mode would be fucking neat.

I swear if you just give him a little more health and a shield he will be fine.
Not a big shield maybe like 500 health or something.

I do like the idea of his turret form being his central feature desu so I don't want him to become recon focused.
So I think just making him more survivable or being able to switch between forms more quickly would be the best solution.

Just make recon mode more viable so he's not only good as a surprise 1 life pick.

the most important thing that needs to be done is tightening the spread on that rcon peashooter so it's not a string of fuckin coinflips of how much damage he does at mid range. Make the falloff worse if you have to, but for fucks sake kill the shitty spread.

Get rid of his self repair and replace it with a limited burst shield that activates while he's firing his main gun.

While this is true, and I can destroy people with Bastion, I notice when I play against more competent players, I am often just forced into a shittier version of soldier.

He doesn't need a buff. I think he needs his transition speed between turret and recon mode to be slowed down, though.

>doesn't need a buff

massive shitter detected

He gets POTG in almost every match he's used in, so I don't see why that would be necessary.

He's fine as is.

the falloff is already pitiful, you can get like 4 headshots on low hp characters and not kill them

Give him back his old ult as a normal move in reconn mode only maybe?

He's not even relevant in most pubs.

Are you legitimately low 40s or something? Like i'm in mid 50s and I hardly see anyone pick him, and when they do they hardly get anywhere with him.

>He gets POTG in almost every match he's used in
yeah at level 30

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