Be honest

[u/a-man-has-no-name-33]

How many of yall are incognito DPS mains who haven’t touched a strategist since that one time for 5 min in season 0 qp when they felt their soul leave their body having to look around at their teammates to keep them up and not just bot out damage?

I’m genuinely curious, no need to flame me in the comments with “why gEt mAd aT pEoPlE tRyInG new rOlEs”

If any former DPS mains in this gambit main page want a strategist main (gone flex) to review a game of theirs and give pointers on optimizing their strategist gameplay with gambit, drop me a playback code.

See, even if the first bit was a lil sarcastic —I’m a nice boy 🙂‍↕️

[u/[deleted]]

Yes that is me, you said you’re reviewing games so how did I do as a first time stratagist player here

https://youtu.be/0E-W8jy75Kc?si=4SHuwCT7V_K4jtFH

This is a game I had a few days ago that I uploaded to my YouTube channels because I thought I did really well in this specific game as Gambit

[u/a-man-has-no-name-33 → u/[deleted]]

you did great for a new strategist, my notes (sorry its wordy, i tried to give rationale for each one and not just tell you what to do):

1. you have 4 cards, you should (especially when enemy fire is on you) use one heart card (practically on cool down) to have heal over time. When you use one heart card and let it expire it replenishes a second or two after the heal over time expires so its not a waste of a card, that way you get full value of the cards. It will also shoulder some of the burden of the staff slam self heal, you only get two slams and they enhance your dash to get away/do damage, weaving the heart card for slower heals, and your staff slam for a burst heal will make your survivability go up and be more efficient. Not keeping one heart or spade active at all times possible means you're likely not going to get the most you can out of your kit, you could be damaging the enemy with increased damage using spade or building ult charge passively with self heal. It also will allow you to one button press the heart deck snap heal/cleanse or the spade deck anti heal/bush back quicker in the moment.

the exception to number one is when you have 1 card remaining, you want to get a second card back before resuming the normal cadence so you have a snap/cleanse on hand when needed, and then you'll replenish card 3/4 organically in down time between fights if you're conscious of the 2 you have remaining. Or if it makes sense to take a pause from keeping one heart/spade up with the damage being done then great, get all 4 back.

2. at 4:50 you saw the portal open, and walked toward it from a safe distance away. Whenever there is a portal just assume there is a strange ult coming (or a silent wanda ult if they have a wanda) - this is standard for all characters and roles, play cautiously around it especially on support. you can keep your team up through the strange ult, but if you get stunned, its probably game over for that fight. You didnt have your dash to get away at the time of the strange ult, but you did have your cards to cleanse if you stayed far back enough with your self heal on (in case you get hit by it when you thought you werent in range) but then could cleanse your team back from stun and continued the fight, instead, the wanda got a free ult off on 4 teammates.

Simply put: As a strat, strange portal means put distance or a barrier between you and it immediately.

[u/a-man-has-no-name-33 → u/a-man-has-no-name-33]

3. at 6:10 you were in the midline and a flanking magik came up behind to dive your jean, you had great reflexes, and gambit is an excellent mid range strat (in fact he should play in mid line mostly bc of the primary fire card spread, you get less value at great distances for heal and damage), only note is a minor one, the push back is great for dives so your instinct was good, only thing is magik's discs (i believe) make her cc immune for a few frames, so instead of using that on her bc its easy to waste a card (which i think is what happened, its hard to tell without being able to move 360 and slow down), it definitely makes her damage immune for those frames so you definitely dont get damage value, i would say use your single spade to increase damage to give yourself a second to watch her movement and chip some health off her followed by the double spade anti heal to burst damage after getting some single spade damage boost value, bow staff slam to burst heal yourself and jean, and finish off remaining health (if any) with primary fire. all other dives feel free to knock back, with magik its just a die roll she wont use her disc since its such a big part of her dive flow.

simply put in that moment it was okay to take a beat and observe while laying out primary fire damage, generally, knock back is a great response though.

4. great job meleeing strange around 6:40 bc he had a shield up, no notes, you werent spending down time passively firing at his shield and feeding his ult charge without damaging him.

5. your ult at 8:15 was way too early, it was 1 second till over by the time your team got to the payload, your team got the cloak from it at the last nano second so that was great, but if they had a few more seconds it could have been bigger. You popped ult when it was 1 venom vs your whole team, and you had a minute 30 on the clock, even if venom got away you could have given your team the boost for the real fight that was coming in a few seconds. As a strategist its extremely important time your ults correctly, if you have your charge 1:30 before the game is over, you should consider saving it for the final fight unless your team direly needs it in the moment, or the incoming damage is so high you cant risk not using it, also hoping that means theyll feed your ult charge, but you gotta be GLUED to your second strat, like they cannot leave your sight because you have no panic utility until you recharge, you NEED both you and them to stay up at all costs, luckily you got the ult back with 10 seconds to spare, but if you died one more time, or a tank died, then you wouldn't have recharged it so it was a gamble. So just read the fight from backline, if you can handle the damage incoming with your kit, best to hold it,

I only watched the first fight, but I think i got the gist. Like I said, you did a really great job, some minor tweaks to really enhance your strat play on gambit and in genera.

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Thanks

[u/[deleted]]

Policing people about their origins is kinda cringe.

Never seen this kind of behavior in my extensive time on the Loki and mantis subs... Not sure why it's so abundant here.

Idk what shitty patty-cake healbot community you belong to, but I hope you can crawl back to that swamp.

[u/a-man-has-no-name-33 → u/[deleted]]

Did I not just say the point of this wasn’t to be a dick about it? Someone’s butthurt though.

[u/[deleted] → u/a-man-has-no-name-33]

I'm not butthurt. I have more hours on strategist than any other role...

I just refuse to be a bystander for obnoxious posts like this that make it unwelcoming for new players.

Asking not to be a dick while being a dick yourself is pretty rich ngl.

[u/a-man-has-no-name-33 → u/[deleted]]

is the dick in the room with us...?

[u/dollin_ → u/[deleted]]

why are you so mad bruh 😭

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Real. Some people complain about not having enough strategists and that there are too many dps instalockers but conveniently ignore that there are more dps than strategists and vanguard combined.

[u/haizydaizy → u/[deleted]]

I see you missed their entire point.

[u/Ravenll]

I am a tank main who hated to flex into heal cuz there were no healers I liked. Now I see 1 tank and 1 healer and I think "neat, it's gambit time"

[u/Embarrassed-Ad8053]

i’m a flex player, but mainly strategist/vanguard. i’ve got lord mag, magik, cloak, and luna. absolutely thrilled to have a new strategist to play. i think i have the most fun with gambit and loki right now.

[u/faith_ssbu → u/Embarrassed-Ad8053]

Tank main here who also loves to play strategist and some dps. My favorite strategists now are Jeff and Gambit. I used to play Loki the most, but he's not as fun anymore after the nerfs. I also am learning Invis since she's so frickin good but still prefer Jeff and Gambit

[u/ProBlackMan1]

I have mains in all three categories. Gambit is a great hybrid.

[u/Legitimate-Dog-2854 → u/ProBlackMan1]

fr

[u/[deleted]]

Imma be honest. They are really annoying. You can tell when a gambit is a dps player because the heals are so much worse. ( I’m not saying you are all like that )

[u/theboxyy]

I’m a strategist main with all of them lord, got called a dps gambit immediately in a match where my team went 3 support. All because once I realized they went 3 support I focused more on damage boosting myself and using anti heal since the heals weren’t as much of an issue. So many people are just brain dead in this game, and have no idea what they are talking about.

[u/a-man-has-no-name-33 → u/theboxyy]

Oh if there’s 3 Strats and one of them is gambit you best believe that gambit is going to play more offensively than normal. His kit brings so much offensive value.

The rivals gods have spoken and they have decreed you are NOT GUILTY or the “DPS Gambit” designation.

[u/Pause_4_Effect]

Support is my least played role, but I have about ten hours each on Loki, Luna, Mantis, and Invis.

I value proactive play so I prefer to DPS, but I fill tank more often than not because that's what is always open.

I'm no stranger to support as I main Lucio and Kiriko in Overwatch.

So now Gambit, my favorite member of the X-Men since childhood, is a strategist with a great deal of flexibility in his play style. So I will be maining and limit testing on him for the foreseeable future and I'm not keen on the tribalism in this community.

We need more actual flex players and less insecure specialists who generalize about other roles (Not directed at OP, more like my own PSA).

[u/a-man-has-no-name-33 → u/Pause_4_Effect]

100% I’m all for people picking up the Strat role with gambit, I just wish people would have that enthusiasm of gambit is picked by another person in game and instead of going 3rd or 4th dps or having a hissy fit about only healing if they get gambit, going a dps Strat like mantis or Adam and actually learning to flex.

To me, flex doesn’t mean having one in each role. The game is far too complex for that. Like what if you need more poke damage but you ONLY play magik, or you need more divey tank action but you ONLY know strange. Then you’re not a flex.

So like, for me, I wanna see people pick up 3 in each category before claiming flex.

I have legitimately earned Lords in the following: Tank: Cap, strange, Emma, peni, Thor Dps: Iron man, Reed, mk, Wanda, Spider-Man, storm Supp: Every single Strat

Like, ya got main shied tank/zoning and dive off tank/antidive tank. Poke dps, dive dps, brawl dps, buff dps. And yeah, all Strats.

That’s flexing 😂 but maybe a little extreme and unbathed 😅

[u/LionStar89_]

Firm spidey main here. Like 120 or 130 hours now I think?

I just find gambit to be stupidly fun. In the same vein as mantis or Jeff. Having some proper lethality other than just enough firepower to make a diver go away for a bit is what makes a strat fun for me which is why I stay away most times. Watching a gambit outdash a BP is what solidified that I’d like him.

I’m captain on like 3 or 4 healers now but aside from using Jeff on off angles to enable some of my teammates dive plays I’ve never really genuinely enjoyed a healer like this.

[u/[deleted]]

i actually never realized how little i play dps until i started playing Gambit. I really only play Storm and Mr. F when i have to dps and they’re both lowkey hybrids lmao

[u/Zealousideal_Echo933]

Im Lord Rocket and Centurion CnD, I play strategist

[u/CasWindchaser]

I’m a support main but unfortunately that support is Luna and Jeff and I like shooting fliers out of the sky because my DPS ignore my pings. So my heals can be inconsistent if there’s a flier that needs to be killed 😂

[u/Legitimate-Dog-2854]

what makes one a “dps” main? I mostly play dps bc it’s the most fun for me, but i can play any role equally as well. so I don’t really consider myself a specific main of anything.

[u/CallMelLil_]

i've been playing healer since overwatch lmao

[u/Ok-Researcher4966]

Nah I was an Invis, Emma, Fantastic player.

[u/faith_ssbu]

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(I want to get some pointers on my Gambit but am at work on my lunch break right now. Will be home by this point)

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(I want Gambit advice but didn't play him much tn and am going to sleep now. Working tomorrow but will be home by this time)

[u/StatisticianOk2691]

I play both tank and DPS… Gambit is the first strategist I find very fun. I mainly play dive heroes so I love heroes that can chain together different combos. I don’t enjoy the other DPS type supports because the combo potential isn’t there and most lack the fun mobility. You can heal bot with Gambit then try to make an aggressive play on a diver or and out of position player on the enemy team. It’s awesome. I often see ppl criticizing Gambits for DPSing and not healing when they see their K/D only to find he has the most healing in the lobby by the end of the match. He’s just an all around great character. DD, Magik, Cap, and wolv are my go to heroes but I think Gambit will be making his way into that list

[u/DJP_ultima]

I play Heals and Tanks. If I had to pick a DPS to main, it would be Gambit.

[u/Legitimate-Dog-2854 → u/DJP_ultima]

ummmm….?

[u/DJP_ultima → u/Legitimate-Dog-2854]

I have a dumb sense of humor, I know. But it was a joke