Critplank's first two items

Onwodori··1 votes·783 views

Hey there, Onwodori here.

I'm in an awkward place with GP because Armor Penetration is no longer as powerful as it used to be and Critplank is awkward in build until much later in the game and with snowbally assassins RAMPANT right now it is hard to scale gracefully into mid and late game, especially when your first two items are 3300 and 3600 gold (item 3078 and item 3031 )

This makes me wonder if a new build can be played with. Because GP is designed to have a very tough early game, would it ever make sense to either build Triforce and then go to something more immediately rewarding like item 3087 or inversely building infinity edge and then immediately item 3087 ?

I'm happy to build what-ever on GP, but I've always had a problem with item 3031 on ADCs and otherwise. When it's not your first items, it's so dang hard to stack up the awkward and large chunks of gold to build it. And for GP, it only does it's job 20% of the time if you don't have other critical strike items - for a fellow that only 'gets to auto attack' once every 3-5 seconds with his Q and E, that's really difficult to manage. That's an inherent problem with GP, but Armor Pen Plank sort of fixed that for awhile.

Anyways. I digress. CDR wise, item 3508 into item 3087 might make more sense anyways.

Thoughts? Ideas?

-Onwodori

8 Comments

Maximum Morde2 votes

Down with critplank, long live Tankplank!

Sahn Uzal2 votes

I've been getting a Steraks Gage second; lots of bursty champions out there, and it feels really fucking nice to have :P

Just TF > Crit is probably still better though, Steraks just feels nice xP

I'm testing essence reaver, I don't think it's worth getting unless you're selling stuff when full build; if you don't want to get an IE right after TF, you can always do this: item 3078 > item 3158 > item 1038 > item 1018 > item 3086 > item 3031 > item 3087

Onwodori1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Tidal Tyrant,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=54BZT1Ej,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2016-11-17T17:49:49.792+0000)

I've been getting a Steraks Gage second; lots of bursty champions out there, and it feels really fucking nice to have :P

Just TF > Crit is probably still better though, Steraks just feels nice xP

I'm testing essence reaver, I don't think it's worth getting unless you're selling stuff when full build; if you don't want to get an IE right after TF, you can always do this: item 3078 > item 3158 > item 1038 > item 1018 > item 3086 > item 3031 > item 3087

I've been building steraks real early on him too! I've even been so mad as to revive Tankplank, and I do it in the jungle even cause I have issues. There's so much farm there and you can carefully time your camps to last hit everything with EQ

item 1041 + item 2003 -->item 3057 -->item 1039 -->item 3078 I consistently get trinity force and boots by 15 minutes and often get some good map control too

The build ends up looking like:

item 3078 item 1413 item 3053 item 3060 item 3111 item 3083 It's silly but you never die and unleash considerably strong barrels every 5 seconds - more power than people think comes from just item 3078 and item 3053

Sahn Uzal1 votes

I prefer to just play J4 and Rengar when jungleing, kill people while loudly yelling MUUUURDEEER

Onwodori1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Tidal Tyrant,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=54BZT1Ej,comment-id=000200000000,timestamp=2016-11-17T18:50:06.793+0000)

I prefer to just play J4 and Rengar when jungleing, kill people while loudly yelling MUUUURDEEER

Alternatively you can blast Alestrom as your Tankplank your way to the top bruh

Sahn Uzal2 votes

if I were to play tankplank, my build would probably look like this item 3078 item 3748 item 3111 item 3053 item 3065 item 3742 And just try to 1-keg combo people, hitting them with the TH AoE. :P

Onwodori1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Tidal Tyrant,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=54BZT1Ej,comment-id=00020000000000000000,timestamp=2016-11-18T10:19:57.085+0000)

if I were to play tankplank, my build would probably look like this item 3078 item 3748 item 3111 item 3053 item 3065 item 3742 And just try to 1-keg combo people, hitting them with the TH AoE. :P

Yes indeed, slotting in Hydra is the obvious go to in lane but I'm that one weirdo that plays GP more in the jungle than anywhere else.

Cause I don't know.

Critkeeper1 votes

Because GP is designed to have a very tough early game

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