I understand that Gambit needs to be nerfed, because he is the best. At the same time, do some metrics and listen to your player base.
The player base just wanted you to get rid of the AP destruction. By the way, this was something you guys added after the first nerf of Gambit.
What you did was took out the AP destruction. Check. This was one of his most powerful abilities.
Ruined part of his utility with the purple tiles. Ok we understand, but brutal. Check. He is no longer top tier.
Reduced his AP creation by at least 33%. Ugh.. But ok. Middle tier but good synergy with Black Bolt still.
Destroyed his overall damage per turn ability with red damage reduction and cost raising. OMG. He is now garbage.
I am guessing your team should at least rethink the damage per turn, in fact you guys should never have touched his red at all.
Because, I don't think you guys understand what is DPS and how it translates to the game into damage per turn.
Basically, Gambits damage output that he would get you has been more than halved per turn.
So how about instead of turning him to useless garbage, perhaps do your removal of the AP destruction, keep the change to his purple. You can even do that **** repeater tile stuff, but don't touch his red, and how about give a little caveat to players and make red and purple abilities of other characters useful with gambit so he retains a little utility.
Otherwise Gambit will just be another useless character. Also don't expect your usage metrics to be accurate, because you guys are begging players to keep gambit, by promising us a legendary token if we play him after the nerf.
HoundofShadow said: They released counters to Gambit: AA, Cap(IW)). It doesn't work because the vets are usually interested in only:1) high damage ability2) ap/damage3) support ability that boost damage or ap4) doesn't require setup time to down opponent or in another words, direct damage.
It didn't work because to fire those abilities you needed AP - which Gambit drained from turn 1.
Also they were CD tiles - which Gambit overwrites.So please, don't speak for vets.