u/Frost-Folk

Tl;dr questions:

-What role should he be played?

-What "type" of character should he be? Bruiser? Tank? Dps? Hit and run? Rushdown?

-Any recommended builds or items?

-Aspect or no aspect?

-Best way to combo/chain his abilities together?

I'm trying to get into Gilgamesh and feeling like he's in an awkward spot. I'm new to the game and into MOBAs entirely, so I'm sure that has something to do with it.

I feel like when I build him for crit damage (which is what most of his community builds seem to be), he's just so squishy. Maybe it would work for the jungle, but in solo lane he just doesn't seem to have the health to make it work.

But on the flipside, he also doesn't seem to have the damage to make up for it. It's not bad damage, just not enough to make up for the fact that I need to play more hit and run so I don't get squashed. Without the sustain to stay on the frontline, I'd like to be able to do a big bout of damage all at once, but he just doesn't really have that. It feels like his abilities would work really well on a tank, but he just doesn't feel tanky.

When I do build him tanky, it guts his damage for a very minor increase in survivability.

So should I be playing more hit and run, or trying to bully the lane and stay on the frontline? He feels somewhere awkwardly between the two.

All the info I can find on him is from when he released, and it seems like a lot has changed. All the community builds I see are also pretty outdated, and I'm wondering if that's part of the problem.. Since I'm pretty new I normally just use community builds, but they don't seem very good on Gilgamesh so I'm wondering if I should try to make my own and would like to know where to start.

I've heard that bruisers aren't in the best place atm, I wonder if that's what the issue is here. Should I just avoid Gilgamesh all together then?

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