Gambit never folds … or does he? Gambit was received very differently than other new characters, professional and high-elo players instantly labelled him as overpowered and he’s been subject to permanent bans ever since. While in lower ranked games, he isn’t banned as often. It’s definitely easy to miss the memo for what makes Gambit so great if you’re not utilising his ultimate to its full potential. So let’s go through some quick and easy to implement Gambit tips that will instantly improve your gameplay.
Spam Gambit’s Ultimate!
This is undeniably the best Gambit tip that anyone can share. But, why are we spamming Gambit’s ultimate? It provides 20% accelerated ultimate charge for your teammates over the next 8 seconds, any healing or damage outputted in that time will grant more progress towards their ultimates abilities. This ultimate provides huge amounts of value which isn’t documented on the scoreboard. For example, helping your Punisher charge his ultimate 5 or 10 seconds quicker than he usually would, could be the difference between the enemy team fully charging a strategist ultimate or not.
But that’s not all! Gambit also grants his allies increased movement speed and extra damage stats during his ultimate which provides a great foundation to grab some easy eliminations.
TWO Cleanses!
Dr Strange’s ultimate can make your team instantly lose the game, a team-wide stun with a huge radius that more often or not leads to multiple players imploding. What if you could cleanse that stun? Gambit NEVER Folds! YES – Gambit’s ultimate does actually purify his allies, cleansing them of any crowd control effects currently inflicted upon them. So, you can instantly render a Dr Strange stun useless! As long as you move out of the way quick enough to avoid the stun yourself and cast your ultimate.
Now, imagine if you could do this with a regular ability … Gambit doesn’t have to imagine! His Purifying Pick-Up ability is an AoE heal that also happens to purify his allies. Yes you heard right, Gambit has not one but TWO ways of eliminating stuns from his allies which is pretty overpowered for a proactive player in co-ordinated play.
Utilise Deck Bonuses
Gambit has access to two different stances that both provide a different buff and a unique set of abilities. His Healing Hearts deck provides 20 self healing per second while the Breaking Spades deck grants him a 10% damage boost; both decks have a maximum duration of 6 seconds. It’s very beneficial to hold onto that deck for at least a few seconds in order to take advantage of the buff instead of immediately casting the ability.
Gambit’s resource bar is a heavy burden, a singular card takes 8 seconds to recharge which emphasises the importance in squeezing every crumb of value out of his decks. The Healing Hearts deck is huge for survivability and keeping yourself alive in this hellish dive meta that is currently plaguing Marvel Rivals.
King of Surviving
Combine his deck healing with Bayou Bash and Gambit becomes unkillable. His staff slam heals for 60 health and holds TWO charges, each charge takes 8 seconds to recharge. For optimum gameplay, it’s imperative that you abuse this low cooldown. Keep your health bar topped up and NEVER sit on two charges if you need to heal yourself! Lots of players only combine Bayou Bash with his dash to create Gambit’s enhanced dash, Big Easy Impact, which is a huge mistake. While it does propel you further forward and deal increased damage if you hit all three instances, it only generates 45 healing. Handy knowledge to hold as many fights are decided on as little as a 30HP difference.
Keep Spamming Anti-heal!
Most of these tips are curated from spamming Gambit’s abilities because he excels by being as oppressive as possible. But admittedly, it can be a bit confusing when trying to remember all the buttons you’re supposed to press.
So let’s add another!
Gambit’s Breaking Spades deck grants him access to Explosive Trick which deals damage and, most importantly, inflicts an anti-heal effect for 4 seconds. As you probably know by now, there is an obscene amount of healing in Marvel Rivals, borderline TOO much, that often frustrates players. However there are few ways to apply anti heal currently which amplifies it’s value: Venom’s ultimate, Blade’s dash and ultimate, and Namor’s teamup with Hela.
Afflicting frontline vanguards with anti-heal usually works wonders in my experience depending on your team composition. If you have enough damage to burst through a Groot or Dino with duellists such as Punisher and Phoenix, applying anti-heal ensures the enemy tank’s premature death. Comboing Explosive Trick with your dive characters can also be extremely effective.
Strategists will often utilise the ‘patty cake’ method to keep each other alive or they might employ a third healer to maximise survivability which sometimes renders dive characters useless. Gambit’s anti-heal creates the perfect opening that your Black Panther dreams of by reducing strategist survivability. Spam Explosive Trick as often as possible for easy eliminations, but make sure you are keeping your teammates healthy at the same time!
I hope you learned a new trick to add to your arsenal and I wish you the best of luck on your climb!
