In a few days, marvel rival will launch its fifth season, bringing back the Marvel Universe’s most beloved Cajun, Remy LeBeau, known to his friends and foes as Gambit of the X-Men. But! in front of you all their rivals Mains Leave aside your Moon Knights, your Daredevils, your Blades, or any other duelists you love to terrorize matches with, I have come with a request: Can we all support the players who have waited months and months for a new strategist to arrive by getting a chance to play that shiny new thing first?
The fact that Gambit – a character known for having an accent, being a wife guy, and violently exploding playing cards, in that order – was revealed this week as a strategist (in class) their rivals‘The role triangle, with the tanky vanguard and damage-dealing duelists, which primarily focuses on supporting the team through healing, crowd control and providing other buffs and debuffs) was already a surprise. But now that we’ve seen him in even more action before joining the game at the end of the week, Remy is looking pretty delicious their rivals‘Roster.
From what we’ve seen, Gambit has a very mobile playstyle that can quickly adjust between close and long range, as well as a toolkit that equally balances both defensive abilities – most of Remy’s abilities do some level of healing by default, and he can either prioritize individual targets or provide area-of-effect healing on top of cleanup status effects – and the ability to be more offensive – like an alternate set of cards that deal knockback and Swaps your burst healing for Anti-Heal (the ability to suppress or suppress the enemy’s ability to heal is reduced). Combined with an ultimate that moves away from the traditional healing area of other strategists in favor of a more aggressive speed and damage-boosting aura, Remy not only looks like a powerful disruptor. their rivals‘ Rooster…he kind of seems like a supporting character made for people who don’t like playing supporting characters traditionally.
their rivals That was already tried in May this year when Ultron was added as a surprise addition to the strategist role – the last time NetEase actually added a strategist to the game, and the first since Sue Storm, The Invisible Woman launched in January. but ultron bowed way Gambit’s toolkit has increased damage more than healing and created a type of problem that I fear is going to get worse with Gambit: players who typically play damage-focused characters like duelists are immediately locked in as the new support character and then don’t really fulfill their support role, either just because there’s a shiny new addition to the game or because they primarily saw them as damage dealers at first. want to play as and as supporting characters in the other.
their rivals There’s already enough trouble encouraging your player base to be spread more evenly across the role triangle. Strategist Main is already an under-represented part of the community and has spent parts of this year embroiled in back-and-forth balance changes, making the group fodder for everyone from meta power players to eager duellists who just want to dive head-blank into a team’s backline and wreak havoc among healers. Combined with the fact that Remy is the third strategist added to the game in its first year (compared to five duelists and three vanguards) that brings the group to 10 characters out of 44 so far, including Gambit, getting a new character has been a rare opportunity.
So I, a hapless Sue Storm main, who has spent the last year healing you from afar before getting attacked by everyone and your uncle (please stand near the forcefield; it’s there to help you), I’m asking you, my brave frontline duelist main, to just… let me and my fellow fellow players try out our shiny new thing for a bit so we can see how it works. I think it sucks if a character from the comics or movies you really like is added to the game and they play a role you’re not used to playing or they have a toolkit you don’t click with – as an X-Men fan I’ve been waiting years for a mutant strategist, even if I didn’t expect the first one to be Remi. But I’m sure we can all have a fun start to the new season and get some wins, if we aren’t all too hasty in trying and playing the hot new thing and over-balancing our teams in the process. We strategists can use this good-looking new character to keep you alive, and you can attack the enemy team with reckless, bloodthirsty abandon.
And hey, if you to do Give Gambit a try and he’ll be fun to play as a support, even if it doesn’t turn out the way you expected, welcome to the Strategist family. We’d be happy to feature you as the main character instead of another Spider-Man any day of the week.
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