How to fix Gibraltar

Appreciate the suggestions around his dome shield. The team is planning to make some changes around Gibraltar at the start of Season 1. 

Major balance changes:

• Hit box size reductions and optimizations for Caustic, Pathfinder and Gibraltar

  • We’re better sizing hitboxes to character gear & model

  • Since these adjustments have a MAJOR impact on the game, we want to make sure there aren't any major bugs, so we didn’t want to rush them out

  • If these adjustments prove to be insufficient, we’ll consider additional adjustments during Season 1

There's more to read on addressing Legend balance and hitbox feedback if you want to check it out below.

Live Balance Update

https://answers.ea.com/t5/News-Game-Updates/Live-Balance-Update/m-p/7641591/highlight/true#M16

It might be better to increase the hitbox sizes of the smaller characters as well.

Wraith and Lifeline are just really hard to hit. I see people struggling to land a shot when unloading a full magazine on them.

Not to mention Wraith's stupid Naruto run makes her the only one to duck when moving

I had one idea if it should be possible for Gibraltar only or his crewmates to be able that they can fire through his shield, but the enems fire cannot pass.

Otherwise i believe strenghten his passive shield could be good aswell.

I feel Gibraltar overall is a great character one of my favorites. His dome shield is clutch in the game the only thing that I would even consider to adjust would be for people to go in or out of it should take damage. After all it is a energy shield. I feel you guys are doing an awesome job overall I'm going down the right paths for all these legends.    

   On a side-note question I asked what can be done about people hiding from the Bangalore and Gibraltar's abilities in buildings.  Could or shouldn't some of these buildings be almost demolished .  you'll still have the protections of the buildings but just have to keep moving. Staying in them could be not a good idea.

Gibraltar simply suffers from bad design. He is built to be a durable character, but he is big, has the same health as everybody else, has no additional mobility, and his passive only works when his aiming down iron sights, which is too slow to be used in a close range gunfight, and makes him stand out like a sore thumb at sniper ranges. His dome prevents both himself and the teammates inside from attacking through it, so it impedes both teams. That is not a net benefit. Worse, the best tactic with the dome is run-and-gun tactics where you pop in and out of the dome, and due to his large hitbox and low mobility, he is the worst at that.

His saving grace is the fact that popping his ultimate and throwing down a dome allows him to perform emergency revives like nobody else, but the extremely long charge time of his ultimate limits this. The best buff I can think of for him would be just making his ultimate charge much, MUCH faster. It synergizes with his dome in a way that his passive just doesn't.

EDIT: Buffing his passive so his shield activates instantly when he aims down iron sights, rather than with a 1 second delay, would also help.

Rather then sizing down give I only play gib I would like all his skills made better like shield having higher hp maybe 175 also make ult charge faster as well as dome being more usa leblebas a ability for your team since dome just causes a rush that gives will have hard time winning if it's a shotty rush

Looking forward to Gibraltar tweeks I rally like the character. 

As for hitboxes you can only make Gibraltar's hitbox so small or wraiths hitbox so large before hits start lookin like they don't make sense. I think what will inevitably have to happen with our two tank characters because of their large models is they will have to either have a small damage reduction (i'm figuring something around 10-15%) or a buff to their base health to make up for their larger size. 

As for the shield. A wall would make for different tactical play over the dome, but it would eliminate the ability to drop your ult right on top of yourself while shielding.

Gibraltar's passive is good but I think the shield should cover his head. The shield doesn't have that much health anyways and as it stands now you just aim for his head and it's like he doesn't even have a passive.

I think all these together would make him actually feel like a tank and make him fill his role in a viable way. 

The dome shield is the least of this legends problems.  You can use the dome effectively np.  His hit box and how weak his aim shield is are the true issues with this guy.

I've played gibby and caustic only to get extra xp from the battle pass but both characters are horrible,  there really is no effective strafe shooting with them cause there both boat anchors and there hit boxes are still huge.... there's literally no professional streamer/ players that use them as the main cause there really that bad...all characters should be somewhat equal these 2 are in a class of there own...