i can understand that, i've seen that shift towards fatter stuff too (or maybe ou teams are just putting on winter weight) and that's harder for gambit to prey on. the problem is, it's difficult to tell how much of this is legitimate adaptation and how much is just gambit warping the meta around itself. i'm sure that if, say, volcarona or roaring moon were still in the tier, there would be people making the same points about them—given enough time, the meta can "adapt" to virtually anything. i've also seen people experimenting with the "gee bill, how come ou lets you have two kingambits" strat (i.e. gambit + bisharp) and from what i've seen it works surprisingly well at keeping gambit healthy by letting bisharp substitute for it in a lot of early and mid-game situations where it would normally have to come in and get chipped. the point is, i still maintain that kingambit is broken and it's been warping the meta for so long that it's made it hard to even tell it's doing itHonestly, the higher I've climbed on the ladder the less broken I've found gambit to be. Every team and every player is so prepped for it by this point that I cant remember the last time I saw kingambit reverse sweep through more than two pokemon, and even then it usually only happens due to something like a lucky iron head flinch. Especially now that straight up HO is dying off in favor of fatter cores(from my experience), its usually being asked to come in a lot more which means plenty of opportunities to chip it. It also hates zap being the best mon in the metagame. Using this thing feels so hard sometimes with all the hazards and helmets running around, it really forces you to get a lot of turns right to make the most of it.