Bastion, Junkrat, and previously Brigitte, are problematic.
Bastion, and Junkrat are destroying the low and medium levels of competitive becaause of their extremly low skill requirement, well medium skill for Junkrat, and their potential to do so much damage, with nothing stopping them.
Let’s talk about bastion first. Bastion was changed in 2017 or something, he was changed to do much more consistant damage, and by constistent, I mean 500 damage a second. This deletes any hero. You could say that Mei is a counter, but she takes time to freeze, and she will get deleted. Sombra was seen as a counter, but his spray can easily get her out of camo, and bastion can easily stop Sombra’s hack. But instead of addressing this, the devs have buffed him! ‘Because he was not picked enough’.
This comment can mean two things, both of which make me question the player-dev relationship. In my years as a low level player, 70% of the games have a bastion. I will ignore the fact that he is OP for arguement’s sake. However, with 70% pickrate, the devs must know that they shouldn’t buff him to make him meta because he is the core of the Bronze, Silver, Gold comps. So the devs ignored the low leveled players, which is 50% of the players. Otherwise the Devs are kind of obnoxious and don’t really care about the OP characters.
Saying this, they handled Brigitte very well. I think that the two problematic heroes are Bastion and Junkrat, arguably others, but they aren’t so one sided as those two. I believe that removing his 35% decrease of damage will balance Bastion, as simple as that, really. He can now be killed by widows, and other burst Heroes. If you increase Bastion’s healing, to even it out, but can only be used in recon mode, this will make bastion very balanced, and will bring to light Heroes like ana. If you really want, Damage can be even increased! But is ‘unkillability’ is the real problem, tied with the massive damage. Junkrat is the same for many reasons. his only counters are Mei and Widow. Junkrat just needs to have more power on his Trap, maybe, the trap deals 5 damage, but increases all damage received by 25% of something. reducing damage from 120 to 110 is all he needs.
Ahh, oof, I can breath.’
