Despite his wiry frame, Gavin is the team's heavy hitter in Sunday Gold.

Gavin Dorsey is unassuming at first glance, but as it turns out he's an offensive powerhouse in Sunday Gold. Much more than just a hacker, Gavin can mix it up in a fight with devastating melee attacks that will leave his opponents reeling.

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Gavin is especially adept and shutting down electronic enemies like drones and cyborgs, a skillset that becomes invaluable later in the game. He also dabbles in chemistry for recreational and pyrotechnic purposes, enhancing consumable items for the team to use. His best skills make use of all his talents; maybe he's cut out for a life of crime after all!

Gavin's melee weapons pack some serious punch, especially against drones and other enemies weak against blunt damage. If you really need to hit an enemy hard, Power Strike puts a ton of damage into a single swing.

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This skill nearly doubles Gavin's weapon damage and gives him a healthy chance of scoring a critical hit. It doesn't even have an Accuracy penalty, though Gavin's base Accuracy is low enough that he still might need some help against dodgy foes like Security Drones.

The game's second and third chapters pit the team against a lot of mechanical and cybernetic enemies. Gavin is ideally suited for handling them, especially when he breaks up their turn order with Overload.

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When using Overload, Gavin deals damage equal to a percentage of the target's maximum HP. Better yet, the skill always inflicts Stun, taking dangerous foes like Security Turrets and Robotic Guard Dogs out of the fight for a turn or two.

Gavin's signature skill lets him hack computers and electronic locks using his universal decryption device, the Hack3rboy. Doing so requires solving a logic puzzle, albeit one that you'll get used to pretty quickly as you'll be playing it often.

Putting points into Hack reduces the AP cost of using the Hack3rboy, letting Gavin get more done in a turn. It's also useful if you happen to fail a puzzle, since you won't have to spend as many AP to try again. Leveling up this skill also reduces the overall difficulty of hacking challenges, so if the keypad screen is becoming your nemesis put a few more points into Hack and see if that helps.

Gavin's ultimate ability can't be upgraded, and honestly it doesn't need to be. EMP Blast may have a high AP cost, but the amount of disruption it can inflict on your opponents is worth the expenditure.

EMP Blast damages every enemy for five to fifteen percent of their maximum HP, regardless of whether they are biological, mechanical, or cybernetic. It also has an eighty-five percent chance to inflict Stun and/or Lethargic on enemies it hits. That's a fair shot of incapacitating the entire enemy team for a round!

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Since this skill costs so much to use, it can be worth having Frank set Gavin up with Motivate before deploying EMP Blast. This not only makes it more likely that the blast will hit every target, but gives Gavin plenty of AP to use on the critical turn and subsequent actions.

By spending a few AP, Gavin can modify consumable items, enhancing their effects and reducing or removing drawbacks. This is worth doing any time you're about to end your turn with a few spare AP left on Gavin.

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By stockpiling high-quality healing items, you'll be able to handle the game's later fights without having to spend AP or use Sally and Frank for restoring HP and Composure. To modify an item, simply click on it in the Inventory screen and look for the "Upgrade Item" button on the bottom right. The more Skill Points invested in Chemical Cocktail, the fewer AP Gavin will spend when modifying a med.

Gavin might be primarily a damage dealer, but he's pretty good at inflicting debilitating debuffs as well. Limb Strike is practically a must against bosses and single enemies, since it inflicts the Fracture status effect.

Enemies suffering a Fracture suffer major penalties to the Accuracy, Evasion, and Damage. Most enemies don't have any means of healing the effect either, so opening with Limb Strike will severely reduce a foe's overall effectiveness over the course of the entire fight.

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Unlike Bleeding, Fracture doesn't stack so once you've cracked a few bad guys' ribs Gavin can move on to other abilities.

If you want to really sow chaos on a group of enemies, Crude Grenade is the way to go about it. Gavin's seemingly-limitless supply of homemade pipe bombs is unsettling if you think about it, but luckily he's on your side.

Crude Grenade deals heavy damage to all enemies, though it can miss individual foes thanks to Gavin's lackluster Accuracy. Each enemy hit has an eighty-five percent chance of being afflicted with one of the following status effects:

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You can't rely on Crude Grenade to inflict exactly the condition that you're going for, but against large groups of enemies it's a very efficient attack. You can even use it several turns in a row to try and get as many debuffs on the enemy team as you can in a short period of time! Again, Frank should use Motivate to give Gavin plenty of AP and a nice Accuracy boost before you go on a bombing spree.

When in doubt, you'll always have plenty of value from having Gavin swing away with a baseball or cricket bat. The hacker generally deals much more damage with his melee weapons than with handguns, and pistol skills are generally better for Sally anyway.

Pouring points into Heavy Weapon Mastery can score Gavin up to a thirty-percent increase to his melee damage. That includes skills in the same branch such as Limb Strike and Power Strike, so you can rest assured that the Skill Points were well-spent.

Gavin is the most panic-prone member of the team. If his panic timer is ticking and you don't know what to do, just have him make a melee attack. It will get the job done until Frank can calm him down.

If you're facing a boss that uses counterattacks, have Gavin Guard instead.

Heavy Weapon Mastery also increases Gavin's Action Surge as it levels up. This means that Gavin recovers more AP when Guarding, so you can send him down to zero without fear - he'll be topped up as soon as he takes a turn to hunker down!

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