Gambit (Uni Hero)

intelligence Hero

created by by MRnok14L | Last update: Dec 06, 2025

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COMPLEXITY

Poker

active ABILITY

Upgrades Poker

50/55/60/65

Roulette

active ABILITY

90/110/130/150

21/18/15/12

Ante Up

active ABILITY

60/70/80/90

6/5.5/5/4.5

Gambit

ULTIMATE

active ABILITY

Upgrades Gambit

125/225/325

70/65/60

Palming

passive ABILITY

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LEVEL

BONUS STATS

STRENGTH

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

AGILITY

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

INTELLIGENCE

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

DPS

DAMAGE

SPEED

RANGE

ARMOR

MAGIC RES.

SPEED

TURN RATE

VISION

ABILITIES

THIS IDEA CONTAINS A TOTAL OF 5 ABILITIES

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Poker

Roulette

Ante Up

Gambit

Palming

Active

Poker

Active

Roulette

Active

Ante Up

Active

Gambit

ULTIMATE ABILITY

Passive

Palming

BASIC

Poker

TYPE active

DAMAGE mix

TARGET MODE area

Active / Target point - Swiftly fling a magic card toward the target direction, striking the first enemy unit collided to deal a flat damage plus a percentage of your attack damage (w/ attack modifier), and a heavy but brief movement speed slow. Each strike of Poker makes the next increasingly stronger while repeating any previous effect. The 2nd strike deals a percentage of target‘s max health as magic damage. The 3rd strike steals a flat amount of gold and deals 1 magic damage per 1 insufficient gold. The 4th adds bonus stun. The 5th adds a small AoE. Effects are decided upon cast point based on the stack count at the time. *1 The stack count will revert to 2 for hitting the 5th (treating the next as if it already hit 2 times), or revert to 1 for missing the 5th, or start over from none if not casting more.
*2 In case of multi-hit, the stack count does not increase by more than 1 per cast. *3 Spell amp affects the flat damage and not the self AD portion.

CAST TIME 0.1+0.1

FLAT DAMAGE 30/45/60/75

AD AS DMG 70%

MS SLOW 75%

SLOW DURATION 0.5

STACK DURATION 15

MAX HP DAMAGE 2/4/6/8%

GOLD STEAL 15/30/45/60

BONUS STUN 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8

BONUS RADIUS 140/160/180/200

PROJECTILE RADIUS 40

PROJECTILE SPEED 1800

PROJECTILE RANGE 100% of cast range

CAST RANGE 900

50/55/60/65

Aghanim's Scepter

Upgrades Poker

The Poker stack count is at least 1 (going for 2nd hit), and will revert back to 3 or 2 when hitting or missing the 5th. Fling the main card along with +2 multishot (3 cards total per cast, 20-degree apart). Multishot projectiles can multi-hit with themselves. Each projectile has a different behavior in a shuffled fashion: One could strike 2 units (cannot hit the same unit anyhow); one will follow up with an additional projectile on a 1s delay (no effect if the caster is dead), and one will return to the caster's last position from the max distance if hit nothing. The ability icon tells the caster which one is to be aimed with for the next cast; The range indicator also tells which is which. Alt-cast to shuffle which is the main one you aim with. This does not trigger Magic Stick or similar. Shuffle cooldown: 0.6s

BASIC

Roulette

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE vector

Active / Target vector (drag-and-release) - Stage the target area (drag startpoint) as a roulette where a boule would be spinning for a few laps before landing at a cetain spot (drag endpoint) within it. The boule deals minor magic damage, mini-stun and knockback (110 distance in 0.11s) to enemy units as it hits them during the spin (1 hit per unit per lap), and then smashes the spot for a greater damage and stun to nearby enemies. The smash stun can pierce debuff immunity. The center of the roulette is an obstacle the size of 40 radius. The knockback direction is random but would never knock units outside (always inward if the displacement would otherwise exceed the roulette radius). The boule will start the spin from a random position in the roulette and end in the same position, and will move between 30─60 distance inward or outward once every 1/3 of a lap (3 times per lap) but would never go through the obstacle or leave the roulette. *1 The boule would bounce onto the roulette center before smashing into the spot in the last 0.5s of the roulette duration, which means all laps are done in 2s by default. *2 Destroys trees in the roulette radius. *3 Provides ground vision in the roulette radius. *4 Bonus AoE affects the roulette radius, obstacle size, spin hit radius and smash radius.

CAST TIME 0.3+0.2

ROULETTE DURATION 2.5

ROULETTE RADIUS 400

SPIN HIT RADIUS 100

BOULE SPIN LAPS 6

SPIN DAMAGE 20/25/30/35

SPIN MINI-STUN 0.15

SMASH RADIUS 220

SMASH DAMAGE 130/210/290/370

SMASH STUN 1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8

CAST RANGE 650/700/750/800

90/110/130/150

21/18/15/12

BASIC

Ante Up

TYPE active

DAMAGE magical

TARGET MODE area

Rush to the target location at 1200 movement speed, become unslowable, phased and untargetable (does not disjoint projectile) during the rush, and blast enemy units near the target loaction with magic damage and movement slow. After casting Ante Up, gain a stacking buff that adds gold cost for the next Ante Up to further increases its blast radius, damage, MS slow and cast range. Switch toggle to off to avoid stacking buff and consuming gold; Existing Ante Up buffs would still work. Alt-cast is forced if unaffordable. Can cast without facing target direction, making the rush omni-directional. Caster can still turn with 75% turn rate (25% slower) during Ante Up rush. *1 Untargetability does not disjoint incoming projectile, but it pauses enemy’s existing attack/cast animations if still within range plus a 250/350 buffer distance. Gambit Facet2 | Ante Up can still stack without enough gold by drawing caster’s health instead, at the ratio of 5 health per 1 gold.

CAST TIME 0.2+0.3

MAX STACKS 5

STACK DURATION 7

GOLD COST PER STACK 10/20/30/40

BASE BLAST RADIUS 270/280/290/300

RADIUS PER STACK 15/20/25/30

BASE DAMAGE 50/100/150/200

DAMAGE PER STACK 20/30/40/50

BASE MS SLOW 10/15/20/25%

SLOW PER STACK 2/3/4/5%

SLOW DURATION 2.5

BASE CAST RANGE 300/350/400/450

CAST RANGE PER STACK 25/40/55/70

60/70/80/90

6/5.5/5/4.5

BASIC

Gambit

TYPE active

DAMAGE none

TARGET MODE none

Passive / Breakable - Once a while, when using an active basic ability that’s the last to go on cooldown in the kit, enhance it with bonus spell amp, spell lifesteal and cast speed. This ignores ultimates, passives, scepter or shard abilities, sub-abilities, abilities that are not your own, and item abilities. Active / No target - Become invisible and leave behind a strong illusion that will take your place to seamlessly continue your last action (including casting ability). Existing attacks and spells will be redirected to the illusion without interfering attack or cast animation for both enemies and allies. The illusion expires as the invis ends. During this invisibility, gain increased movement speed, and gain access to an identical set of your own basic abilities, which do not share cooldown with the original set. This set of abilities will always be enhanced with the Gambit passive component ignoring its cooldown. If not breaking the invisibility early, gain a short-lasting buff at the end, increasing your attack speed. *1 These speed bonuses can unlock the maximum speed.

PASSIVE COOLDOWN 12/9/6

BONUS SPELL AMP 30/60/90%

BONUS SPELL LIFESTEAL 30/40/50%

BONUS CAST SPEED 50%

CAST TIME 0+0

INVIS FADE 0

INVIS DURATION 4

BONUS MS 15/25/35%

ILLU OUTGOING DMG 80/90/100%

ILLU INCOMING DMG 120/110/100%

BUFF DURATION 3

BONUS AS 100/150/200

125/225/325

70/65/60

Aghanim's Shard

Upgrades Gambit

Share the full access of your items with the Gambit illusion, provided the two of you stay in a 1300-radius proximity. This does not duplicate items, meaning things like item usability (mute), usage, charges, cooldown, etc, would stay in sync. For example, Radiance would stop functioning on the main hero for the time being.

BASIC

Palming

TYPE passive

DAMAGE none

TARGET MODE none

Innate passive / Breakable - After not attacking for multiple times of your full attack animation (fore-swing plus back-swing) plus 50% of your attack interval, next regular attack hits twice in one instance. This is can be used with instant-attack. Alternatively, Palming bypasses disarm to deal only 1 attack. *1 In case of attack miss, both hits are missed together. Gambit Facet1 | Palming also adds +300 bonus attack range along with +300 projectile speed to the attack. Lv10R Talent [-1 Palming Charge-up Cycle]: Reduce the charge-up time from 4.5x to 3.5x of the full attack animation plus the base charge-up time.

CHARGE-UP CYCLE 4.5x

MULTI-HIT DAMAGE 100%

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

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SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

goes on CD when cast interrupted: YES

ADVANCED

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ABILITY MAX LEVEL

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SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

ADVANCED

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ABILITY MAX LEVEL

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SPECIFIED RULES

goes on CD when cast interrupted: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

ULTIMATE ABILITY

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

castable when leashed: YES

is breakable: YES

ADVANCED

AVAILABLE FROM LEVEL

ABILITY MAX LEVEL

This ability has no targets

SPECIFIED RULES

is breakable: YES

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AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

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AGHANIM'S SHARD

Upgrades Gambit

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+1 Ante Up Max Stack & -50% Gold Cost

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-30s Gambit Active Cooldown

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+7s Ante Up Stack Duration

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-3s Roulette Cooldown

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7% GPM as Mana Regen

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-0.5s Roulette Duration

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+60 GPM

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-1 Palming Charge-up Cycle

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MRnok14L commented 3 weeks ago

This one is quite tricky and took longer than expected to nail down. The core concept of Gambit lies in his namesake ultimate that he holds a wildcard up his sleeve. Making the effect randomized would make a big portion of the kit unstable and too hard to use, yet the design budget could be overspent if it's a basic ability. Ultimately, it took the form of something like a Refresher that let the player decide the kind of gambit they want. The second challenge was finding a proper utility or CC ability with AoE for a character that can do a good amount of spell-casts and right-clicks with good base movement speed plus a mobility-slash-traversal ability, and above-average attack range as well as good animation. These are what make Gambit valuable and fun to play in terms of the "base hero" characteristics compared to heroes that are kind of similar like Gyrocopter, Luna, Lina, Weaver, or even others like Morphling and QoP. After some attempts, it took the form of a theme-fitting Roulette that's kind of random in how it works to avoid being too good to be wielded by such hero archetype, nor too good on its own or just too potent with two boules. Lastly, Poker was simply made to revolve around poking that's neither too powerful on its own (by landing a single one) nor too inefficient for having to land multiple, after it appeared that it would require more than one spell to play a proper, bluff-able poker game of any kind. Ante Up was then finalized soon after with a greater emphasis of chaining multiple ones in quick succession to balance out its usage with the ultimate between other abilities.

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