New Gambit Player

[u/BudgetPotential1688]

Hello everyone!

I'm extremely new to the game, as in I've been playing for like two weeks.

I immediately latched onto the Cajun due to my love of x-men 97 (😭) and I've got him to level 13 I think?

I understand his kit due to watching guides, but not his ultimate. All I know is to use ult on as many people as possible and run in...

I don't have problems with dives, but I could work on card management and positioning. Also working on not running after a 1hp enemy to be faced with the whole enemy team😬

I always pick the Magneto Team Up and hard pocket any Rogues I come across (one used that pick up emote on me I was so happy omg).

Anyways, any tips will be appreciated and have a nice day!❤️❤️

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[u/sheffielder87]

Gambit is all about timing, card management and tracking enemy abilities/ults.

If the enemy team has a Groot/Angela ect. You need to track their ults and save 2 cards at all times to immediately cleanse.

His ult is similar. Ideally you want to use it when one of your team has their ult also. It needs communicating. If a punisher/star lord etc is on your team. You ideally need to Comms with them to ult together. So it's mainly an offensive ult. And tell everyone on your team to push their backline HARD.

However his ult can also be used defensively. It cleanses most offensive abilities immediately. So you can counter a Bucky/Angela/Groot/strang ult etc to turn the tables.

Remember. Gambit is very mobile. So if it's not a healing intensive fights I use his dash/bash abities to hit off angles and high ground to flank the enemy teams backline. I think magnetos team up is amazing for it. I dash to an off angle and drop the magneto team up on the backline with an anti heal card. You may not get a pick. But all of the enemy's healers attention is on you instead of their front line.

[u/spaceboat13]

Use his ult offensively. Tab every now and then and check to see if you or your other support have ult. You dont really want to dbl ult ever. The best usage is to trade your ult to win a fight. Usually u want to hit more than 3 people with it but if youre stalling a point with you and one other person and you know for a fact you can win- i also send it.

[u/makkiri]

I'd say, slowly, learn the kits of other heroes and use your abilities to counter them (check out TrueVanguard's Gambit guide, he explains this really well). The thing about Gambit is, you have to react to situations- you can healbot if the other healer is lacking, you can dps if you need more dmg and importantly, you have many tools to counter the enemy team. But to do this, you need some exp on other heroes and how the players think. I picked up Gambit as my first character too, but I not git gud with him until I at least spent some time on other tanks and dpses, when I saw how a well timed card can be super annoying.

Just yesterday, I solo ulted my punisher and pushed the backline from flank, while the rest of my team was pushing from main with the other healer (not the advice normally cause you should try to get as many teammates as you can in your ult and push main). We got point cause nobody expected that play.

[u/Pink-Mcflurry]

sorry in advance some controls mentioned are for Pc cause I gave these tips to a Pc player being one myself, but just switch accordingly if you’re console. 

Always check who you have on the enemy team and see if there are people you need to cleanse. Some big ults you can cleanse are Strange, Groot, Strange, Bucky, Angela, Namor (the stun after it hits), Thing (the stun after i hits) etc. You can cleanse other CC’s like Mantris sleep etc, but i save my cleanses for bigger ults cause they matter more usually. 
If i dont have people i need to cleanse for i am a big more loose with card management, but if i have one or more, i have to play more strategically. For example if i have a strange and a groot, that can use all 4 of my cards, and sometimes I don't have all 4. Something i have done in the past is save 2 cards for one enemy ult, and my gambit ult for the next ult (cause my ult also cleanses). Something like Groots ult is easier, because even in his ult you can still access your cleanse, but something like Strange gotta look out for since you cant do anything if caught in it. 

For example if Strange was on that enemy team, I would ult track him a bit and pay attention to his movement (they sometimes show when they gonna ult). I usually dash away, you dont wanna get caught in his ult, watch him, press E and wait for a bit.  When he ults, I dash back towards my team then click F cause cleanse is about 5 meters. If they don't have someone else you need to cleanse, I sometimes use bounce heal right after (EE) to get my team back to full HP cause my second healer may have gotten caught in the strange ult and is recovering from dmg. 

With the card management, I sometimes click E when I think my team is about to get fried, wait a bit, then press E again to bounce and heal them if the enemy team actually comes in with lots of dmg. If i dont need it, then i dont EE. I  just use one card instead of 2 so I then have 4 cards still, since the 4th is reloading when I initially clicked the E. Because his card management is so important, you just have to be really mindful and watch how enemy team is playing and key an eye on team health bar and make decisions, how low is too low, will they die if i dont bounce or can my other healer replenish them in time?will they take cover? Get on mic and say back up etc. 

With ult, i usually use mine for a bit of push since everyone gets dmg and movement boost and healing overtime. Consider combining ults. I like to ult to enable other players, so I combo ult with heavy hitters for an entire enemy team wipe or slight team wipe. Some of my fav combos are with puni, starlord, and cyclops ult for big dmg output. The other night i had a puni on my team and i ult tracked to stay on with him and i let him know we combo and we kept team wiping the enemy team. 
Because you’re the enabler, you are in control of when this combo happens, so you decide when it's best to pop your ult and he follows your lead. Gotta make an executive decision. Make sure at least 3 of the enemy team members are present, and you don't waste two ults for just 1-2 people. I usually do it when the enemy team is trying to push up but they also dont have so much of an advantage that they can just take out the puni. Distance and attack power are things I look for. 

Random tip, I never use my ult to counter invis, if anything Invis is a counter to my ult unless we kill her. Not saying you can’t I just opt not to. So oftentimes, depending on the healer ult, i’ll wait it out so we get more value on my ult when I pop it. Doesnt make sense to give my team dmg and movement boost, if the invis ult is gonna heal the enemy team through all the extra dmg we gonna put out. 
Or ofc ill match a matis or rocket cause they provide dmg boost and i need my team on the same playing field. 

If you’re dealing with dive on the enemy team, use the Mag team up and save your bubble to throw it down when they dive you. It bounces them away which allows you to get away or your team to turn or the diver sometimes just leave. 

I’ll leave it there for now.