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Remember Gibby was being rescued by his dad, that's why he likes to rescue in Apex.
But today, Gibby dome is useless since if enemy sees his dome is up, they know Gibby is reviving/healing/recharging, they simply charge in for an easy kill. It doesn't give any protection.
Today, teammate looks at Gibby as a fat boy who is useless, the enemy main target, easy to die, has to keep revive & respawn him, always left behind, has to protect him, basically drag the whole team.
If we modified Gibby dome shield so enemy can't go in/out, teammates would like to stay close with Gibby for protection.
Here are some of the scenarios, With modified dom, when Gibby sees:
1. Teammate under fire, they could go inside Gibby dome for protection, the enemy can't go into dome and has to wait the time to expire. Teammate can use this time to recharge/heal. If the dome is inside a corridor/room, simply run another direction, the enemy can't follow, acting like a wall (defensive way to use dome)
2. If the enemy is inside dome when deploying, they get trapped inside while friends can bail out. We can use this time to run away or simply surround him from many directions so when time expired, it's shooting party. For enemy who likes to fight close distance, outmaneuver Gibby and hit his big butt, Gibby can throw grenade then dom, enemy trap inside for an easy kill. Are you dare to troll me now? (offensive way to use dome).
3. Teammate down, he throws dome to his teammate who is bleeding, revives them, gives a short time to recharge/heal itself since enemy can't go in (Gibby finally able to do his main mission, rescue teammate).
If Gibby can give protection, teammates would like to stay close with him and willing to protect him as well since they know Gibby will protect & rescue in return.
If you like to be protected by Gibby, give some XP, please.
as what @warslag said, the dome protection pretty useless inside building. Why dont rework his ability similar to that? Instead of creating a dome, why dont make it as barrier to their body for 3-5sec? Means the teammates wont receive any damage for tempoary but they must within in-radius togather with Gibraltar to receive the effect. It can be more useful and insane for Gibraltar that able to save his teammates from ambush rather than throwing the device that can be useful for enemies also.
The changes help, but still needs a little love.....
Passive.....the damage reduction and points buff seem spot on for a "tank", with purple armor and fun shield gives an equivalent 295 hp (if the damage reduction includes armor as well as health, 285 without)......fairly tanky, even accounting for his size.
Deployable......needs help here, it's a big "charge me" sign......maybe a change to be an enlarged version of lifelines revive shield, make it a mobile "fortress"? Tall enough to crouch for cover, low enough to shoot over, cover 90-120 degrees frontally.....
Ultimate.....only real change (and would include Bangalore here too).....remove the damn splash indicators. Have the warning come out with less of a delay (a nice stressed out "INCOMING!!!!!"), let Gibby make you pay for getting too close....
....on another, pretty unrelated note........howabout cookable grenades? 😃
the character himself I think is in a good place. I think his ult is fine too. His dome shield could use some help. Its a situational ability that's double edged as it can be detrimental rather than helpful at times. If you just killed another squad and need to res a teammate and you suspect a 3rd squad is coming do you drop the shield or no? If they don't know where you are it just serves as a beacon to your location. So its a double edged ability for Gibraltar sometimes but its rarely a high risk for other teams to charge a dome. It barely buys you enough time to res someone before the other team can come in and attack before your teammate has a chance to heal. Not because it doesn't last long enough but because they can get to you long before you can reset. I think the 20 sec cooldown is a waste of value as I certainly don't use it anywhere near that often. It should have a higher risk/reward for opposing teams.
My recommendation is to increase the cooldown to something like 45sec, but make it so anyone revived inside gets 50% or full shields restored or maybe shield cell's restore 50 shield instead of 25. Something to make the shield more valuable. Other teams will have to think twice about rushing it as your not guaranteed to have no shields on to of being low health inside and therefore easy kills.
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