Gladiator being subpar, disappointed in how underwhelming he is for a SUMMONER'S CHOICE CHAMPION

Needs a complete rework. I was looking forward to pulling him for so long, ever since he was announced in the summoner's choice. Compared to the other 2023 champions and champions in the contest overall, he is not great. Is my opinion on Gladiator shared among other summoners?

Comments

GaudyGMoney

Yeah, I think the consensus is more or less 'worst champ of 2023' (or at least, bottom 3). Complete dud from the get-go.

Marvelfan30

White tiger is coming next month can't wait for the ppl who voted gladiator to regret their decision

ItsClobberinTime

He sucks yeah but he doesn't need a complete rework, just a little more utility and damage and I think he'll be decent enough.

Real_Madrid_76_2

He was indeed the worst champ i believe this year. I feel kindred was 100 times better than him

BigPoppaCBONE

White tiger is coming next month can't wait for the ppl who voted gladiator to regret their decision

Gladiator took the trash champ hit meant for White Tiger. If White Tiger had won, you'd be salty about how she won the vote but stinks on ice with underwhelming abilities and no real purpose.

Killswitch01

White tiger is coming next month can't wait for the ppl who voted gladiator to regret their decision
Gladiator took the trash champ hit meant for White Tiger. If White Tiger had won, you'd be salty about how she won the vote but stinks on ice with underwhelming abilities and no real purpose.

There's really no way to guarantee that my guy

SandeepS

Knowing the community vote is there to bring a champ into the game rather than a herc level champ into the game, that should manage expectations going forward.

Wicket329

Couple things here:

1) People who didn’t vote Gladiator need to stop touchdown dancing over him being mediocre. Why are you happy? He’s in your game too. I didn’t vote for him either, but I still want him to be good and fun to play.

2) I think people are missing that Gladiator has an extremely unique playstyle that Kabam had never attempted before. It’s a very cool idea behind his kit, and I like Kabam taking big swings like that in their champ design. It may have missed the mark here, but I don’t believe it missed as widely as people are claiming.

The most populous class in the game is Cosmic. By far. The player base voted to add another Cosmic champ. A big swing was needed in his design.

3) Community Choice does not and should not equal overpowered champ. That’s bad design. Every champ should be good, every champ should be fun. That’s the goal. And that’s why the tuning program exists. So let’s just catch our breath until his tuning pass happens, yeah?

EdisonLaw

There are already a lot of threads on this topic already
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346325/gladiator-tweaks#latest
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/353739/so-kabam-want-us-to-forget-how-disappointing-the-summoner-choice-champion-was
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/353750/about-gladiator-totally-disappointed
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/353274/gladiator-tune-up

Let us hope that Gladiator gets the Summoner's choice treatment he deserves because right now it looks like Onslaught is our Summoner's choice

Colinwhitworth69

What we did not need was another post on the same subject.

There are 250-plus champs in the game. Don't like Gladiator? Use someone else.

EdisonLaw

@Colinwhitworth69 Agreed, these take up too much space in the forums

zDevil753

Knowing the community vote is there to bring a champ into the game rather than a herc level champ into the game, that should manage expectations going forward.

I do not want him to be completely overpowered, but it would be nice for him to at least be a decent champion. He sucks in battlegrounds due to a long ramp-up, and he does not even do much damage while fully ramped.

Nameless_IW

Simply put it this way "Gladiator Sucks!" - and thats being nice! He's not being used in any game mode, but only as a diversity option defender in Alliance War Defender.

Malreck04

Lmao today Nagase made a 2023 champ tier list and there was an entire blank tier separating gladiator from the rest of the champs

Kabam Miike

Of all the thngs that Brocolli did (most of them were awesome), the worst thing was saying that just because somebody is voted for, they are somehow special. They are not, and they should not be treated any differently from any other Champion.

Just like every other Champion that's been released lately, he will be undergoing the Balance pass, and is subject to change like many Champs before him have.

Since there are other threads on this topic that we have already addressed, we are going to close this one down.