5 star gambit,s black sucks makes Shang chi and MThor useless

@BriMan2222 said:

@Warbringa said:

@Hellblazer666 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@Hellblazer666 said:
My 5 star gambit isn’t covered a lot but his black makes it so I can’t fire anyone’s red or purple but his. That makes my go to team of Shang Chi and MThor useless. Who should I team up with Remy?

Probably just skip those fights. It's crazy that they force us to do fights and lock out the only good characters.

Its weird 5 star gambit is the only one who has this **** ability. I will at least try for the gold token

If the devs wanna remove that part of 5 star Gambit in the future it would be greatly appreciated

A long time ago, Gambit used to be hands down the best character in the game. Then they nerfed him into oblivion....

Then they buffed him, and he's actually not bad now. I think alot of people just have had this idea that he's terrible for so long and never actually use him when he's buffed. FA cap and banner hulk suffer from the same stigma.

His numbers are high and at 672 he hits really hard. He's not bad but I'm not sure if he's good right now. The problem is that he's not fast enough in the free AP supports metagame. He was decent when things were a little slower.

Despite his terrible lockout, he is my all time favourite Marvel character, so I love to use him where I can (he was nearly even the DP for this account).

While boosted, he performs well with lesser or support characters. Ascended Iron May bumps his stats nicely alongside anyone who fortifies his CDs or can burst heal him. I've also paired him with Viper for giggles.

@Grantosium said:
It seems to me an issue that his red sets charged tiles to 3. It means he doesn't really play nice with teams that want charged tiles or with teams that want to remove charged tiles. (Yes, I know this is similar to MThor's Yellow and it hasn't been a problem for her.) Could work ok with Storm5?

I haven't put much ISO into my 2/2/3 Gambit. Had some success pairing him with Red Skull and Nico/Kitty/Hobgoblin against the goons. It helps that Red Skull pretty much completely neutralises the goons on his own. Lends himself a little to CD and repeater tile teams.

Figure there's characters that can use the purple and red without having to fire a purple or red themselves though. Multiple Man, Silver Sable or Emma5 maybe?

I have the most success just playing him straight -- cast his red and purple when you have enough AP for them, and just let him own those colors. Both abilities hit pretty hard when he's boosted.

He's really not suited to combo shenanigans, unfortunately. You could bring a teammate who likes the stuff he does. Toni Ho can do some damage off his repeater. Coulson/Hawkeye/Kang like the countdown tiles. Otherwise I'd just bring someone who does stuff with the other 4 colors.

To be fair it was goons again on day 3 of him as an essential so taking Red Skull made it impossible to lose on 2 of the 3 days. I've done the clears now so it's academic until next time he's essential, which might not be for a few years, possibly never again at this rate.

I kind of like the drawback on his power though. It does force some slightly different team building, at least when your team levels can't just clear the node with any combination. I'd be OK with them slapping this drawback on a few other characters.

I've also just thought of putting Clea on the team. Keep forgetting she exists but her yellow drains red slower than Gambit generates it.