Bastion

**Bastion** is a Tier 4 Upgrade evolving from Thorn, Palace, Artillery and Castle.

It is known for having high HP, powerful auto-cannon and body damage.

## Technical/Design

Palace's body mixed with Thorn's outer spike and Artillery's auto-turret attached on top. The large turret has the same power as an Artillery, with long range, decent bullet damage, speed and large FoV. The body itself has a lot of health and body damage combined, making a great anti-ram. However, you're slow.

Base Stats
 Bullet Speed
 Bullet Penetration
 Detection Range
 Health
 Body Damage
 Movement Speed

## Strategy

#### As a Bastion

You are a slow fortress that can't be rammed. Your long-range turret on it's own can deal serious damage when unaware. You can also attack from far away with it, and your health pool+body damage makes that rammers will almost never be able to kill you. This is great, and if you greatly increase your body damage/health will increase the anti ram-ness of the Bastion. It's one of the best body upgrades to use, in both farming polygons, fighting enemies, and a great survivality in modes like FFA or Crossroads. You must use defensive tanks/tanks that enhances farming power to maximize the potential of the Bastion. There's a wide variant of weapon upgrades that the Bastion fits well. Here are a list of weapon upgrades that the Bastion is most fittable to, from A to Z:Amalgam, Arsenal, Disperse, Executive, Hybrid, Manufacturer, Mechanic, Penta,Raider, Riot and Wave. These all fit well for the Bastion. Here are also a few tips to effectively play the Bastion.

* You must maximize Bullet Damage, Bullet Penetration, spending most of your upgrade stats on Reload, Movement Speed and Health. They will effectively make the Bastion a hard-to-kill target. You can maximize Speed if you wanted to retreat from battles quickly.
* If you're an Amalgam, Riot or Wave, your traps help solidify the Bastion's power. If you're a Wave your speed really helps the Bastion. You can assault using your speed, and if an enemy is fighting another enemy, kill them quickly using your devestating bullets! With your bullet spam combined with your long-range auto-turret can make you mightly carry teams in Teams gamemodes (if your level is high) Your extra traps has high penetration, and a power exclusively designed to kill other tanks. If any enemy encountered you when you're strong, they're doomed.
* If you play as Arsenal, Raider or Mechanic, you will have extra powerful auto-turrets that either excels at killing enemies short-range, or being able to annoy or even kill enemies long-range. Your traps helps well in both defense, and offense, killing Polygons is easier with them. In Teams modes you will be an useful card for your teammates to win. Overall, great firepower (close/long), lot of health and a long-range deadly cannon!
* If you play as Hybrid, in addition to your heavy-hitting devestation cannon and large drones nearly the power of Manager's, you also have both the long-range cannon designed for attacking and warning, high health and body damage! You are more powerful with the Bastion, however you are slower.
* If you play as Penta or Disperse, you have maximum farming power, and powerful bullet spam close-range! Penta is suitable for fleeing battles as well, and it's more focuses that Disperse, making fighting Celestials a bit easier, but it's bullet spam are weaker than Disperse's. Their bullets act as extra support blocking enemy attacks, or as to farm the score-filled insides of the Polygons.
* If you play as Executive or Manufacturer, you are defended by the long-range auto-turret, that can sense rammers and Alpha-Saws about to kill you. You also had a large healthpool, and a ram of Thorn's, it is difficult for rammers to ram you and survive. In addition to that are either powerful drones that can deal fatal blows to an enemy, or devestating Destroyer-Palace minions that can cause chaos to the enemies. Good for farming too.

#### Against a Bastion

Bastion might be a very powerful asset in enemy teams, and it alone is hard to kill, but the Bastion has it's own weaknesses. Be careful of ramming it though, as the Bastion is composed of both the health of Palace, and the ram of Thorn, It also has an Artillery turret that you need to dodge before ramming it. Still, there are way more effective ways to kill the Bastion. One of which is the infamous Riot-Inferno combination. It's many traps will prevent the Bastion from penetrating, and the Inferno aura to damage it slowly. If you are high-leveled, you can easily kill Bastions regardless of their weapon upgrade. Asides that, the Manufacturer also works. It's Destroyer-Palace minions, as mentioned above, can kill the Bastion quickly if it's not powerful enough. You must use Mothership in order to effectively kill the Bastion. Wave works well on killing the Bastion too. Since it's speed is slugish, you can also combine it with Inferno,Battalion and Bombard, to burn and assault the Bastion, attacking it with bullet spam madness, and outranging it's Artillery cannon, eventually killing it. It might be tanky, but the Wave can sap the Bastion's health off. Not to mention the Bastion's speed. If the Bastion is fighting another tank, suddenly attack the Bastion on it's back. It will die, and you might share it's EXP with the other tank that killed it. Inferno has been mention too many times by now, and it's still the most effective body upgrade to fight the Bastion. It's aura can sap the Bastion's health while it's speed prevents it from running out of the Inferno's aura radius. You can combine it with trap tanks or bullet spammer tanks to suppress the Bastion.

* Also, Marksman can work on countering the Bastion. It's range outranges the Artillery turret, and it's bullets hurt for the Bastion, even if it maxed it's health. Slowly kill the Bastion with your snipes, and if you combine it with Bombard to bombard it (literally), you can kill the Bastion. You must use Saw or Foundry to outspeed it and attack it in multiple directions.
* Alpha-Saws had a much harder time killing the Bastion, as it's health and it's Artillery cannon can cripple you, but still - you can kill the Bastion. Slowly advance through the Bastion, dodging any Artillery bullets. When you got close enough to the Bastion, fire. It will lose a good chunk of it's health. Repeat this a few more times, and it will die. If you have kept your health well. It is extremely difficult to do, and impossible if it's with it's teammates.

#### Matchups

* **Strong Against:**Rammers, Alpha-Saws, Octo, Hatcher, Mechanic, Horizon.
* **Goes Well With:**Quadruplet, Battalion, Heavy bullets tanks, Raider.
* **Weak Against:**Marksman, Inferno, Bombard, Trap tanks.