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 it