Gunslinger - 3v3 Deathmatch Build

Intro

Gunslinger is a class that uses three stances: pistol, rifle and shotgun. Pistol acts as a mobility stance, rifle as long range damage and shotgun as close range damage. Gunslinger has very high mobility and really good damage output. The hardest part of the class is managing stances and not dying since she is one of the squishiest classes. She performs really well against ranged classes.

Build Breakdown

• Spiral Flame is your catching/poking tool. Can be used to knock up opponents.
• Focused Shot is your second strongest sniper skill. Used to peel, if you have picked the Flash tripod, or do some ranged damage. Knocks down opponents.
• Perfect Shot good damage with some cast time. Can be used to zone enemies away, hits targets without them having much time to react.
• Catastrophe strongest sniper skill. It is mainly used during a combo. Has push immunity.
• Sharpshooter is a filler shotgun skill. Used as a combo finisher.
• Last Request is your main shotgun damage skill. Has some movement with it.
• Hour of Judgment is a filler shotgun skill.
• Dual Buckshot is a second to go shotgun skill.
• Quick Step is your mobility skill. Can be used to catch people. Has push immunity.
• Somersault Shot is a movement skill. Has push immunity.
• Peacekeeper is a movement skill.
• Dexterous Shot is a movement skill. Can be used to catch people.
• Spiral Tracker debuffs the opponent and gives you 10% extra crit chance. 6 second uptime. Used to confirm catches or extend combos as well.
• Bullet Rain is a movement skill with paralysis immunity. It is used to avoid getting staggered while self-peeling.
• Death Fire is a movement skill with good catching capabilities. You only have to tap the skill.
• AT02 Grenade is your hard CC tool. Use this to ensure a combo.
• High-Caliber HE Bullet is the better ultimate due to it having a very fast cast time. Can use Eye of Twilight for more damage but can easily miss the target.

Stats

750 Swiftness, 249 Domination or Specialization, 1 Crit. Domination for more damage with combos, Specialization for more damage with rifle poking.

Gameplay

Avoid running around in rifle or shotgun stance. Make sure you walk using the pistol stance since it is your mobility stance.

At the start, you should try to poke with your rifle. Using Spiral Flame as a starter is generally a good idea to get some quick damage off. After that, you should play not that far from your team, around the edges of the map, and try to peel opponents off if they catch your teammate using Focused Shot or AT02 Grenade. Try to look for isolated players who you can easily catch using Death Fire, Quick Step, Dexterous Shot. If you are facing a gunslinger, do not use Dexterous Shot first, use it after they use it.

General combo is: Spiral Tracker to confirm the catch, go either rifle or shotgun stance, use Catastrophe or Last Request, swap to pistol, use AT02 Grenade to freeze them, swap to the stance you were not in, for example, the shotgun stance, use Last Request into Dual Buckshot, the rifle stance, use Catastrophe into Perfect Shot. If you do not feel comfortable with your ping or skill, you can just use AT02 Grenade into Last Request or Catastrophe. Any skill should work just fine.

Your main weakness is melee characters. They generally have a lot of paralysis immunity, meaning your main catching tools, excluding AT02 Grenade and Focused Shot with Flash tripod, will not work. This is where you have to learn to abuse your main strength - mobility. Skills that launch foes into the air like Spiral Flame, Catastrophe, Perfect Shot and Last Request can be used to catch these opponents. These skills, however, will be pointless to some opponents who have immunity to being knocked up, therefore, you have to have a general knowledge of all classes to know this kind of information.

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Summary

• Make sure to always be in pistol stance when you are doing nothing. If you get caught off-guard then it is most likely 70%-100% hp loss.
• Your biggest damage stance is the rifle.
• Make sure to not tunnel vision on the person you combo. Gunslinger does not have many paralysis immunity skills during her combo, meaning she can easily be interrupted.
• Gunslinger is a really strong class in PvP due to mobility and poking potential, make sure to abuse it.
• Gunslinger is not an easy class to learn. It takes quite a while to get used to it so do not get discouraged.