Anyone else have a deep hatred of Bastion? I know he sucks in a lot of ways, but he just seems so anti-fun.
I especially dislike his Ultimate, it's very frustrating. Just when you're about to kill off that annoying Bastion he ults, healing him and giving him an insta-murder cannon that's pretty much inescapable. It's the ultimate squishy destroyer.
You seen The Last Bastion? He's cute AF.
Seriously tho, mixed feelings all the way. His ult has the same BS as Genji's ult where it can't be canceled short of death. On the other hand, unlike Genji's ult you can't cancel the activation/deactivation animation, he still moves no faster than a normal character, and literally all tank abilities work on it (as opposed to Genji where NO tank can block the attack). He gains extra health but he doesn't heal when he ults. If he's at 1 health, he'll end up at 151 health. Since even Mercy could strip a good chunk of the armor off during the animation, one solution is to just keep shooting him and nuke him down quickly. The other alternative is to have everyone run and leave someone like D'va or Rein behind to eat the majority of the ult (and hopefully escape/get healed once their defenses run out). If Bastion were in the meta I would consider his ult OP, but too one-dimensional to be truly broken.
As for as the rest of his character, he's so bad he never gets used in my games. But at the skill level where he is used. On one hand, he's unfun, and results in boring stalemates. On the other hand, he's a gateway drug for new players entering the game who aren't good at FPSs (alongside Junkrat, turret characters, and "pure" healers). He also teaches players creative use of their abilities and cover, since he's good against a frontal charge but nothing else.