Widowmaker’s biggest counter is terrain, or other Widowmakers. As it stands, the very premise of Bastion’s turret mode is to turret up in a spot where they likely won’t get shot at from a distance or overwhelmed. Which means, even if players all stopped complaining about this, as time goes by, Bastions will only…

*clears throat*

If you need to play a character whose skillset was “designed” to counter a character that was “designed” to cut through anything that moves within a 30 meter radius of it (this includes tanks) within 2-3 seconds, what do you call that?

I think you’re making too many assumptions about people, saying they…

Give that bot some recoil or an overheating minigun

If anything, I think increasing his spread after a certain distance would also do a lot as it wouldn’t make him as effective over all ranges.

The only problem I have with bAstion in his current form is that the play of the game does seem to oddly bias him for lord knows whatever reason. That said, play of the game is REAL messed up at the moment still as I’ve seen it show people who just get two kills and that’s it - also I don’t think it should bias…

While Bastion definitely has counters, there are a lot of issues at play here, some of which you addressed. The fact that it’s so incredibly easy to be highly effective with him is frustrating as an opponent, he is typically set up pretty far down range so you’re going to have to get past the rest of his team to get…