How to Unlock Bastion: Redesign, Skins, and Abilities

Bastion is a Damage hero in Overwatch 2. Read on to learn more about Bastion, their weapons and abilities, their patch notes history, their backstory, and more!

Bastion Latest Buffs and Nerfs

October 25, 2022 Patch Notes

Bastion Back in the Game

After fixing Bastion's ultimate bug, developers have put him back in the hero rotation for both Quick Play and Competitve modes.

Bastion Changes

Bastion Patch Notes (October 25, 2022)
Configuration: Artillery	・Can no longer be fired more than the three allotted charges.

Bastion Hero Profile

Basic Information

Bastion (SST Laboratories Siege Automaton E54)
	Role	Damage
	Ranking
	Total HP	・ 300 ・ 200 (Base Health) ・ 100 (Base Shields/Armor)
	Voice Actor	Chris Metzen
	Nationality	N/A
Affiliations	None

How to Unlock

Unlocks after playing 30 games.

Bastion Weapons and Abilities

Bastion Main Weapon

Default Weapon

Configuration: Recon
	Damage: 20
	Description: Mobile, with a light-weight and highly accurate weapon.

Secondary Weapon

Configuration: Assault
	Damage: 15
	Description: A slow-moving tank with a powerful rotary cannon.

Bastion Abilities

A-36 Tactical Grenade	Type: Ability Cooldown: 8 secs
Effect: Fire a bomb that bounces off walls and explodes when it impacts enemies or the ground.
Reconfigure	Type: Ability Cooldown: 12 secs Duration: 6 secs
Effect: Switch between weapon configurations.
Ironclad	Type: Passive
Effect: Reduces damage taken while transformed.
Configuration: Artillery	Type: Ultimate
Effect: Become immobile and fire up to 3 powerful artillery shells.
Role: Damage	Type: Passive
Effect: Eliminations grant a burst of increased movement speed and reload speed.

How to Play and Tips

Excels at Narrow Maps with Flanking Routes

Bastion's reworked kit in Overwatch 2 shines in maps with tight corridors and numerous flanking routes. We suggest playing the robot in Push maps like Esperança and New Queen Street.

Bounce A-36 Tactical Grenade Off Walls

A-36 Tactical Grenade continuously bounces around walls until it latches onto an enemy or hits the ground. Take advantage of this unique characteristic by bouncing the grenade around blind spots and corners to take foes by surprise.

Boost Jump Height with A-36 Tactical Grenade

Similar to Soldier: 76's Helix Rocket jumps, Bastion can boost its jump height by placing its A-36 Tactical Grenade on the ground and timing its jump with the grenade's explosion. This can be useful for accessing places, shortcuts, and flanking routes that Bastion normally can't reach.

Configuration Assault Tips

Flank Foes With Configuration: Assault

Configuration: Assault works best when flanking enemies and gunning them down from unexpected angles. Position and transform near enemy blind spots or high ground to make the most out of Configuration: Assault's high-damage form.

Configuration: Assault Can Be Canceled

If you find yourself taking heavy firepower while transformed and need to retreat, you can exit Configuration: Assault early by pressing its ability button a second time. Use this tip to disengage from combat faster and keep yourself alive.

Configuration: Assault Can't Land Critical Hits

Unlike Bastion's Recon mode, Configuration: Assault cannot land critical hits, meaning that headshots are completely inefficient in that form. Prioritize aiming for enemies' center of mass and landing body shots to maximize Configuration: Assault's damage.

Use Configuration: Artillery Behind Cover

Bastion does not need a direct line of sight for it to fire Configuration: Artillery on crucial enemy targets and locations. Keep yourself safe by hiding behind natural cover before activating Bastion's ultimate.

Contest Objectives with Configuration: Artillery

Because Configuration: Artillery has a short delay before it launches each shell, you can preemptively fire this ability on your enemies as covering fire while your allies contest objectives. We recommend coordinating this strategy with your teammates by using voice communication or the in-game Countdown ping.

How to Counter

Deflect His Attacks or Mitigate

Bastion is one of the best heroes in terms of damage output. His Assault Configuration ability can take down multiple enemy heroes quite easily. One way to send all of his attacks back is to use Genji's Deflect ability. Zarya can also farm energy by using her shields either on her or her allies.

Finally, when it comes to countering Bastion's ultimate, Zenyatta and Lucio's ultimates can give healing buffs that can mitigate most of the damage.

Bastion Hero Counters

Bastion Skins

Base Game Skins

Hero Skins
Enlarge Antique (Legendary)	Enlarge Woodbot (Legendary)	Enlarge Gearbot (Legendary)
Enlarge Steambot (Legendary)	Enlarge Defense Matrix (Epic)	Enlarge Omnic Crisis (Epic)
Enlarge Dawn (Rare)	Enlarge Meadow (Rare)	Enlarge Sky (Rare)
Enlarge Soot (Rare)	Enlarge Classic (Common)

League Skins

Hero Skins
Enlarge Atlanta Reign (Epic)	Enlarge Boston Uprising (Epic)	Enlarge Chengdu Hunters (Epic)
Enlarge Dallas Fuel (Epic)	Enlarge Florida Mayhem (Epic)	Enlarge Guangzhou Charge (Epic)
Enlarge Hangzhou Spark (Epic)	Enlarge Houston Outlaws (Epic)	Enlarge London Spitfire (Epic)
Enlarge Los Angeles Gladiators (Epic)	Enlarge Los Angeles Valiant (Epic)	Enlarge New York Excelsior (Epic)
Enlarge Paris Eternal (Epic)	Enlarge Philadelphia Fusion (Epic)	Enlarge San Francisco Shock (Epic)
Enlarge Seoul Dynasty (Epic)	Enlarge Shanghai Dragons (Epic)	Enlarge Toronto Defiant (Epic)
Enlarge Vancouver Titans (Epic)	Enlarge Washington Justice (Epic)

Event Skins

Hero Skins
Enlarge Dragonfire (Legendary)	Enlarge Coffin (Legendary)	Enlarge Avalanche (Legendary)
Enlarge Gwishin (Legendary)	Enlarge Dune Buggy (Legendary)	Enlarge Stealth (Legendary)
Enlarge Overgrown (Legendary)	Enlarge Gift Wrap (Epic)	Enlarge Null Sector (Epic)
Enlarge Tombstone (Epic)	Enlarge Rooster (Epic)	Enlarge Overwatch Contenders (Epic)
Enlarge Blizzcon 2016 (Epic)

Bastion Story

Creation

The Bastions were originally created for peace keeping purposes. They also, however, possess the ability to rapidly reconfigure themselves into an assault cannon mode when danger is present. This function was abused during the Omnic Crisis, where they were turned against humans.

Omnic Crisis

During the Omnic Crisis, instead of protecting humanity, the Bastions were turned against them and became the bulk of the omnics' rebel army. After the conclusion of the battle, all of the Bastions were destroyed or disassembled, except for one, which would lay deactivated for years unnoticed.

Return to Peace

On a faithful day a curious bird pecked at this Bastion's face and body, awakening it from its long period of deactivation. It was reactivated with most of its combat functions gone. Now, it explores the world to learn more about it, preferring forest areas away from humans.

But be warned, when in danger, Bastion will return to its combat programming and eliminate any threat.

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