Her ability to efficiently cycle her cooldowns makes her incredibly tanky, often likened to a raid boss. If you have any suggestions or comments, we’d love to hear from you on the MGN.gg blog, our YouTube channel of course, the new MGN twitter and our Discord – links for all of which can be found within the description of the video overview.Orisa has remained a dominant pick for several months, and even with a 5% decrease in Fortify's damage reduction, she continues to perform exceptionally well. Be sure to keep an eye out on MGN for more Overwatch 2 content. That just about wraps things up for our overview of the Sombra and Bastion reworks in Overwatch 2. Shoot off your grenade, wait for it to either stick it to an enemy or for the bouncing to end, and boom! Explodey goodness. It’s a bouncy ball…OF DEATH! Its bounce mechanics work similarly to Hanzo’s now-dead Scatter Shot. Don’t let the name fool you, it’s not some cookie-cutter generic FPS grenade. The fun part of Bastion’s new kit comes in the form of his new active ability: Tactical Grenade. Once activated, Bastion will latch himself onto the terrain and the player will designate three places on the map for Bastion to rain hell on.Īnd all that’s not even the fun part. Moving onto Bastion’s third and final form, his ultimate will no longer transform him into a tank, but into an artillery emplacement instead. Also, the Sentry form’s weapon will not require reloading in Overwatch 2, so you can fire away ’til everything is dead! Oh, and did I mention it’s getting a 40% damage boost? Yeah, Bastion’s going to bring the hurt. This will have a cooldown, and less movement speed than in Recon form, but there will be movement nonetheless. The falloff range has increased though, and these changes make Bastion less of a spam-like hitscan, and moves towards rewarding patience and accuracy in recon form.Īnd now, Sentry form! Bastion can move! No longer is setting up the mini-gun going to make Bastion a sitting duck and projectile magnet, he can now just move away when things get too hot. SsiRy545ax- Overwatch September 26, 2021 In Overwatch 2, Bastion will be able to move while in Sentry form. The firing rate in this form is much slower now, however, having been reduced by a significant 50%. If you’ve aimed right, you’re hitting the target no matter how long you’ve held the button down. Moving to his recon form, the one that most Overwatch players will recognize as Bastion’s standing form, his weapon will no longer have weapon spread while shooting in this form. It’s being completely removed from his kit in Overwatch 2, so you’re going to have to rely on your healer buddies a lot more hereon in. The one that is probably going to stick out the most, apart from his hat upgrade, is that Bastion no longer has the ability to self-heal in any of his forms. Although not listed, a key change is the fact that Bastion now has a hat, which makes his rework clearly the best of the bunch. While the changes are not obviously better compared to his existing form as Sombra’s is, there is certainly a lot to like with many interesting and fun updates to his new kit. Wowsers.īastion has gone through quite a dramatic overhaul too. The effect of hacking will now also reveal the location of all hacked enemies to your entire team, even through walls, much like Sombra’s passive worked on low-health enemies in Overwatch 1. With the passive damage increase, you’re going to be able to apply those hacks much more liberally with the new 3-second cooldown. The castable hack ability itself has undergone some pretty dramatic changes as well. Percentage-based damage is always really powerful, but will the removal of a second tank make this ability as potent as it seems on paper? We’ll have to wait and see, but with smaller health bars around, perhaps this ability isn’t as grotesquely powerful as it seems at first glance. To balance this huge AoE damage, the developers have taken the ability’s effect of removing shields.

Her ultimate ability EMP has overgone a damage-focused revamp also, with the ability now dealing a flat 40% of current HP damage as well as applying the effects of hacking to those hit. Furthermore, her damage from each pistol shot has been reduced by one but has had the overall spread reduced by 20%. The footage from the recent Overwatch 2 showcase suggests that this change alone has made Sombra a top-tier damage-dealing force in the second game. Sombra’s passive will now automatically give her a whopping 50% additional damage against targets that she’s hacked either through her ability or her ultimate.