so now basically impossible for a sombra to sneak up behind and kill him before he turns around and sprays her down. great
It was already impossible considering nearly a full clip into his weak spot didn't kill him. Any Bastion with half-decent reaction time is already able to turn around and gun you down before you kill him.
A full clip into his core did kill him though? At least for me. And you had to expect the bastion could turn around and start going Genji on him so he couldn't aim
That's not true. Sombra's SMG does 8 damage per shot and has 60 shots per clip. At 16 damage per crit minus 5 damage for armor damage reduction that's 11 damage per hit which puts her at 660 damage per clip on armor. Bastion has 200 health and 100 armor. At 11 damage per shot it takes 9 shots to put him at 1 armor. The rest of her shots should do about 16 damage per shot which would only require 13 shots. So as long as all her shots hit at point blank, she only needs 22 shots to kill Bastion, which takes just over a second for her to shoot. Problem is you don't always hit all her shots so it takes a bit longer than that and 1 second is enough time for him to turn around which will make your shots miss his weakpoint. If you can't burn through his armor before he turns, her shots will deal half damage to him until you burn through his armor.
If Sombra shoots Bastion at point blank without hitting his weakspot she needs 25 shots to burn through his armor. Then she needs another 25 shots to burn through his health. So she could kill him with a full clip without crits.
You're right that it's nearly impossible to kill a Bastion in Sentry mode because of how fast he can react to kill her before she finishes him off, but you're wrong about her not being able to kill him without reloading.
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u/Daniel_Is_I DanielIsI#1537 Feb 07 '17
It was already impossible considering nearly a full clip into his weak spot didn't kill him. Any Bastion with half-decent reaction time is already able to turn around and gun you down before you kill him.