Would a new Gambit nerf help the game or is it too late and would a nerf create too much ill will? I’m sick of seeing so much Gambit, but I just champed him!
Why the need to nerf a good character?. Improve those who are not enough good ( Banner, Ock etc.) or create a good counter.
It s not fair to create a good one, a character which players spent time and resources to develop it and then broke their shiny toy
(Thoress, OML, XFW)…Just been there: no thanx!
If I didn’t have Gambit championed I would wait till the start of next season when a potential change could be announced. If nothing - champ away and use for another few weeks. Since the OP already championed him - enjoy while you can (be it one week or one month or more).
Rebalances are announced at the beginning of the off season - usually late Monday - and take effect the following Thursday (when the new season starts). From now, that’s one week, if one occurs this time around.
I find that for pvp climbing 50%DD and Thor are much better and less healthpack intensive than thorbit. I have a champed gambit and I use him less than the other two
If they nerf gambit they’d better let us sell him for double the iso, 5k hp and 2 x 5* tokens for every cover we invested in him . There will be sooo much ill will, i honestly dont think the game will survive another major 5* nerf. And will we ever be able to trust again ? how long until they nerf okoye then?
If over usage of a character is the problem then what they really need to do is FIX MMR so we actually have the option to use something other than the best character in the game for every fight
And you know that if they do “rebalance him again”, he’ll get a nerf which puts him right into the same class as 5* star Lord and friends not bottom of the pile but pretty close to it. Nothing will be held sacred anymore
Why do people should invest any money into this game? If they will nerf Gambit as they did with others prior ( OML. Thoress, XFW etc.) then there will be no guarantee that any other good character could follow the same path (JJ, Okoye, GThor, DD).
So what is the purpose?
No Nerfs but only Buffs, please.
Gambit is an interesting illustration of the idea that taking no action is still an action. His prior rebalance/buff was, what, a smokescreen to pretend they wanted to try to fix him? And since then he’s been the same OP Godbit for about 7 months, defining all subsequent 5’s as “compared to Gambit”.
His existence and ability set made Archangel a complete non-starter, made GRRR seem unimportant with his reliance on CDs and repeaters, and destroyed the viability of so many prior 5’s. Try running Beardcap vs Gambit and see how that goes.
Gambit nerfs spending.
At least Okoye sort of lets you start to have a fighting chance, but not facing Gambit with Gambit is tricky and unpredictable.
The devs have been treading a thin line. They created an OP character that basically counters anything the artificial “intelligence” does while building up a nuke. Do you think you would ever lose a match if you run Gambit vs a non-Gambit team (other than intentionally throwing it)? Gambit is essential to have in PVP, but now he’s fully locked in Classic Dilution Jail. No one who wants to enter the 5* tier should do so without Gambit, who is basically going to require a miracle to cover unless you are already really far along. So there’s little point in chasing new 5’s hard, and no way to chase Gambit hard in a viable way. That situation is not good for their business, which is dependent on people wanting the new thing (which justifies making that new thing as well). Spending a lot of development time and money on characters we all shrug at is not a sustainable business model.
So yes, nerfing a second 5 will make some question their spending, but there is absolutely no guarantee that any dollar you put into entertainment will be viable in the future. God, all the dollars I spent on now unusable tech and games in my past. All those games sitting around with “online” functionality but shut down servers.
If you turned his black from a passive auto ap generator to a 9-12ap active move that returns 7 purp and 7 red. keeps him pretty solid. still has devastating potential but removes the automatic ap generation/destruction. they could even just make the change for pvp and leave him as is for pve.
even in his current state, he’s really not that difficult to beat, if you have your own gambit of course.
You don’t need your own gambit you just need 50% thor and DD the only thing to nerf about gambit is his purple which renders any pve event as trivial thats all everything else is fine. Because if he gets nerfed then there would be another 5* to aim at who will be used all of the time and you are back to the beginning again. One character will always be better than the rest
I have played maybe 2 matches with Gambit since I got Okoye(champed first day in LL) and used one health pack in pvp. Still hit 1200 easily. Gambit/Bolt are still the most unpredictable team on defense but Okoye/50%Thor are definitely the kings of offense. Level 500 Gambit gets one red off then I wipe the whole team. Okoye making your most trivial, under covered, under leveled 3s hit harder than most champed 5s is just ridiculous. For example, in the recent Daken event, his blue was hitting for 30k damage on each side. Enough to one shot most 5*s so Gambit is a non-issue.
Yeah, like I said, Gambit is still the best on defense. My Okoye is 457 without the boost and could easily beat 550s, I use 500 as an example because at that level Gambit is still a completely trivial affair. I don’t even look at enemy levels anymore.