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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!
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After fixing Bastion's ultimate bug, developers have put him back in the hero rotation for both Quick Play and Competitve modes.
Bastion Patch Notes (October 25, 2022) | |
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Configuration: Artillery | ・Can no longer be fired more than the three allotted charges. |
April 26 2022 | • The passive ability, Ironclad, has been removed. |
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April 26 2022 | • Damage increased from 20 to 25. • Weapon spread removed. • Fire rate reduced from 8 to 5 shots per second. • Total Ammo from 35 to 25. |
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April 26 2022 | • Renamed from Configuration: Sentry. • Turret form is now mobile with a 35% reduced move speed. • Cooldown is 12 seconds. • While firing, the turret has infinite ammo and deals 12 damage per shot from 15 damage. • Accuracy does not increase as you fire. |
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April 26 2022 | • Replaces the Self-Repair ability. • Grenades bounce off of walls and sticks to the enemies or ground it comes in contact with. • Each grenade can deal up to 130 damage once it detonates. • Can be used to do high jumps. |
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April 26 2022 | • In canon form, Bastion can send 3 Artillery shells out into the field, dealing damage in a large area. • Damage fallout is significant away from the center. • Projectiles can be destroyed or blocked. |
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Bastion (SST Laboratories Siege Automaton E54) | ||
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Role | ||
Ranking | ||
Total HP | ・ 300 ・ 200 (Base Health) ・ 100 (Base Shields/Armor) |
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Voice Actor | Chris Metzen | |
Nationality | N/A | |
Affiliations | None |
Unlocks after playing 30 games. |
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Configuration: Recon |
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Damage: 20 |
Description: Mobile, with a light-weight and highly accurate weapon. |
Configuration: Assault |
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Damage: 15 |
Description: A slow-moving tank with a powerful rotary cannon. |
A-36 Tactical Grenade |
Type: Ability
Cooldown: 8 secs |
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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. |
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 |
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Hero Skins | ||
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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) |
Hero Skins | ||
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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) |
Hero Skins | ||
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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) |
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.
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.
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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