Perhaps an unpopular opinion but I think that whilst he’ll be good by himself, he’ll be broken with a variety of partners.
Please vote/discuss and suggest counters to the more obvious combos.
that didn’t take long.
who had 2 weeks in the pool?
I’d say wait until they remove the boost to judge him. He’s op because he’s boosted to 500s and above right now
I can’t tell just yet. He certainly seems very powerful because he has both decent offense via his red, plus strong defense via his ability to remove all enemy specials regularly. And of course he is hard to deny.
But I think we may want to wait to see him in regular action (once he doesn’t have the new character boost and people have a better sense of how to fight him) before deciding if he is too good relative to the rest of the 5* tier.
But if it turns out that he can basically always proc red once or twice no matter what, then you are looking at guaranteed 14-28k damage (+match damage) each match and a hard counter to any strategy reliant on special tiles even at 450. If that’s the case, then the game might beneift if he were nerfed slightly (a la 3* if at release).
I also don’t think a 0/0/5 gambit is any concern for the game. he will be too squishy to use in PVP, and not particularly faster than other power combos for PVE grinding.
No, but 3* Gambit should be. He shouldn’t collect AP for black if he doesn’t have the corresponding purple or red covers.
Jesus, can we maybe wait until he’s actually in tokens, at least?
Dont have him as many others (and those who have him dont have much covers) so useless poll … 5* Gambit is fine for me so far, cuz 0/0/5 makes no sense for him since he is 5*.
This cant be said about 3* version, that i am trying to farm up to 0/0/5 and use with some 4* or even 5* heroes who have red and purple (Gwen already looks like a funny competitor with Gambit powering her stun and damage 
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Yeah, I’ve run into 3* 0/0/5 with champed Phoenix. If He gets 2 turns, you’re in trouble.
Fought an unboosted 451 gambit with 280ish 4* Grocket and Gams - my team was triple 475+ 5*. Had no bad cascades and my team finished with 1 toon downed, a second under 10k health and last toon with about 40% health.
Dunno how to quantify that as anything other than OP.
I’m conflicted all that AP generation and being able to fire a power every turn basically AND being able to override special icons is really powerful and probably is not great for balancing the game. That being said, I don’t think he will be nerfed because the whales will spend to cover him. Also he does exactly what the developers want to see, every fight there is a good chance you have to use health packs and they want people using them as fast as possible. Reason why some of some characters like thanos have not been nerfed but oml was
I think he’s a little over powered even while he’s boosted they should adjust him now
Its far too early to say.
Most events have had him mega-boosted and so we haven’t had a real change to establish his strength in regular pvp.
I do feel that Gambit requires a minor nerf which admittedly only impacts the 3* version. In my opinion having a 0/0/5 black Gambit (also known as a Gambattery) generating 3 purple and 3 red AP for the rest of your team to use is overpowered. There’s been plenty of good uses for Gambattery in both pve and pvp so far but thankfully none of those should impact high end competitive play.
Still, I think its pretty obvious that gaining 6 free AP every turn without a drawback is blatantly overpowered relative to other AP generators we’ve seen and should be nerfed on principal. My proposed nerf being to change the wording on Gambit black to read something like “Gambits allies cannot fire active red or purple skills so long as Gambit remains conscious”.
Whether or not the 5* gambit demands a nerf remains to be seen. It seems absolutely certain that Gambit will be the future of PvP and that’s not an inherently bad thing. We’ve had Thanos at the top for a long time now so a meta change is welcome.
Revisit this topic in a season or two and we’ll have a clearer picture as to whether or not Gambit is truly overpowered or merely top tier.
I’m just really curious as to whether 0/0/5 Gambit was an intended viable build by the devs when they tied his passive’s limitation to the colours of active powers that be actually has rather than just fixing the colours, or if it’s an oversight.
At one point everyone is op. Surfer was unstoppable upon release.
Oml and phx ruled the meta for sometime after. Or oml bolt if you were lucky enough to have a bolt back then.
Throw in a broken banner, a rarely seen goblin, widow cap and ironman and you had a few support options.
Then panthos. They had their moment of op glory and have taken the points and tears of many a tile flipper.
Now is the era of gambit.
I’ll reserve my judgement until the new character boost expires.
Sure, he’s a pain right now, but the level boost contributes quite a bit to that. He may be more manageable unboosted.
There’s an agenda. Time cost money. Haven’t you heard… shees, tokens he says. Where do you think you are ? MPQ ?
(/s)
Seriously now, he does seem very strong, but I agree that we should at least wait to see him in regular play & unboosted 
Saw this, disregarded entire post.
I’m surprised it took this long to ask for this nerf. I should go make one for Thor now so we don’t have to wait so long next time.
No he doesn’t need to be nerfed, if you nerf him go ahead and nerf medusa, rocket and groot, captain marvel, thanos and black bolt.
The thing with gambit is he just so happens to play optimally when played by the A.I unlike most other teams.
So you put him on a team with anyone that can get charged tiles out and he pretty much plays better than most other teams when played by the AI.
This is just so lazy. There are answers already available within the game. Why don’t you look at the rest of your roster re-read the abilities of some characters you think are “bad”. If you do that instead of posting another nerf this character post you might have fun.
There are solutions already in-game for everything you are complaining about. I took out Lvl500+ 5gambit with no problems and no more health pack usage than playing any other team. Same for grocket carol medusa 5lord the solution already exists just go look at your roster. As of right now there is no team that exists which doesn’t have the perfect counter to it.