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Apex Legends Gibraltar guide abilities, tips and tricksUse Gibraltar’s abilities to great effect with these tips and tricks
Use Gibraltar’s abilities to great effect with these tips and tricks
Want to learn how to master Gibraltar and his abilities in Apex Legends?WhenApex Legendswas first released, Gibraltar was a laughing stock, widely considered the least viable character to use in any match. Now, it’s a very different story, and every game will see several Gibraltars running around, throwing down Domes and Bombardments, making things very difficult for their enemies. This guide should help you get to terms with his incredible kit as we walk you through the top tips and tricks for all his abilities, and much more.
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Apex Legends Gibraltar abilities
Gibraltar has access to three abilities:Gun Shield (Passive),Dome of Protection (Tactical), andDefensive Bombardment (Ultimate). The abilities combine to make Gibraltar an incredible defensive Legend. While others in his class require set-up, Gibraltar makes it hard to kill him and his teammates on the fly. He is a Defensive Legend alongsideCaustic,WattsonandRampart.
Each of Gibraltar’s abilities will be explained and discussed below. For the last year or so, he has ranked among thebest Apex Legends characters. He provides an intense amount of survivability for a team, making it really hard for enemies to get the angle or odds they desire.
Gibraltar tips and tricks
Gibraltar Passive tips: Gun Shield
Description: Aiming down sights deploys a gun shield that blocks incoming fire.
Gibraltar’s Passive, Gun Shield, doesn’t require much mastery at all, and without it there would be no saving him when under fire. With this Passive, every time you aim down sights as Gibraltar, after a brief delay a personal shield will flick on in front of you, covering a large section of your body from the front. You can, of course, fire through this shield, but enemies will have to inflict 50 damage to destroy the shield before they can start to damage your regular Shields and Health.
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Gibraltar Tactical tips: Dome Of Protection
Description: Throw down a Dome Shield that blocks incoming attacks. Cooldown: 30 seconds.
Gibraltar’s Dome of Protection is one of the surest and most immediate ways to alter the makeup of a team fight. This shield will deflect and absorb all gunfire and ability-related damage (includingBangaloreults), while allowing any player, friend or foe, to pass through its barrier. There is no way to destroy the Dome, but it will disappear after 12 seconds.
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Gibraltar Ultimate tips: Defensive Bombardment
Description: Call in a concentrated mortar strike on a marked position.
On the face of it, Gibraltar’s Ultimate, Defensive Bombardment, looks very similar to Bangalore’s Rolling Thunder ability. The difference is that while Gibraltar’s missiles deal just as much damage as Bangalore’s, Gibraltar’s Defensive Bombardment operates in a smaller circular area for 6 seconds, turning it into a more concentrated damage-dealing Ultimate. Moreover, the delay between throwing the marker and the missiles exploding is shorter for Gibraltar than for Bangalore.
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Apex Legends Gibraltar backstory
Makoa Gibraltar is easily one of the most positive and inviting people in the Apex games. The son of two SARAS (Search and Rescue Association of Solace) volunteers, he is big on helping others and protecting others.
That value comes from a hard learnt lesson too. After stealing his father’s motorbike with his boyfriend, they found themselves trapped in a mudslide. Gibraltar’s father saved them both, but lost his arm in the process. Since then, Gibraltar has taken the idea of protection with him wherever he has gone.
That empathy is why Gibraltar competes in the Apex Games now. Many of his friends had taken part in the past and never come home. He now fights alongside them to ensure his friends come back alive and well. His attitude and big personality have combined to make him one of the icons of the game.
And that’s pretty much everything we’ve got on Gibraltar for now. If you were a Gibraltar naysayer before, hopefully you’ve gained some more understanding of how this beefy tank of a Legend can be used to great effect in the right hands. For more information on the other Legends, check out ourApex Legends characters guide.
