Gabriel (Hero)

Gabriel is a playable Hero Character in The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Gabriel is unlocked only through acquiring 250 of his specific Hero tokens. When unlocked, he starts at 3 stars.
He is of the Scout class and has the Hero Leader trait of Mysterious Ways. He also has Retaliate, Iron Skin, Power Strike and Dodge.
==Leader Trait — Mysterious Ways==
Gabriel has a {0}% chance of dodging melee attacks, and a {1}% greater chance of having his traits activate.
As a leader, each member of your team gains these bonuses.
Level	+ Dodge Chance	Lucky Chance
1 	4% 	9%
2 	10% 	15%
3 	10% 	16%
4 	11% 	16%
5 	11% 	17%
6 	12% 	18%
7 	12% 	19%
8 	13% 	21%
9 	14% 	23%
10 	15% 	25%
== How to use Gabriel ==
Gabriel is considered maybe the worst scout in the game due to his poor Leader Trait. The small extra dodge chance (which stacks with other Dodge traits) will not help much, and in any case you are not supposed to get hit anyway. Similarly the boost in Lucky is of relatively little value. This means Gabriel is really only used around once per year, when he is the Star Hero in the Challenge. His Lucky and Dodge stack with other lucky and dodge traits.
Gabriel's LT is defensive, so it is possible to make a tank version of Gabriel, then with DR and Health badges, or just go with the normal setup of 3 Damage and 3 Critical Damage badges. Similarly, traits should be the normal for a scout so Weakening, Lucky, Ruthless and Strong / Power Strike. If you keep Dodge on him he will have a pretty good dodge chance, but it won't be of much help really in any kind of scenario.
One possibility for Gabriel is as a GW PvP defense leader, to maximize Mercer's and another ranged teammates bullet dodge chance. Lvl 10 bullet dodge is 40%, and the maximum possible lucky you can have is 25% (from Gabriel at lvl 10) + 25% Lucky at lvl 10 + 40% from gear so 90%. This gives a bullet dodge chance of 40 * 1.9 = 76% - compared to 66% without Gabriel in lead. Additionally you get a 28.5 % melee dodge chance without any gear or dodge traits. Add in gold bullet proof and gold hazard suit and you have 50% chance of hits being body shots. Add in silver stun resistance to avoid getting stunned from the hits that do get through.
=== Testing Gabriel's LT ===
JMorrison did a test with gabe way back and concluded that his Lucky is added at the end of the calculation, that is that with 20% normal lucky and 19% from Gabriels LT, the chance is X * 1.2 * 1.19 (which is slightly better than X * 1.39). Later testing by Gallifrey and Jubjab, however, showed this to be incorrect and his leader traits stack as normal together with other lucky (and dodge).
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