Gangplank is doing EXACTLY what old Nidalee was doing but far worse

Trash MammaI··2 votes·740 views

Sitting in lane farming safely with basically no way to stop it (without a gank or 100-0'ing) then landing one spear (or barrel in GP's case) then suddenly your opponent has no HP and has to go b or die from the next hit. Not to mention ever since everyone started copying the barrel thing it's been more and more infuriating trying to dodge them, considering he can throw them a galaxy away and gets a massively retarded speed boost + slow on them when they connect.

It's not fun to play against someone sitting at their tower clearing waves then just so happens to land ONE ability from a distance not many champs can trade from and suddenly he gets ahead.

"just destroy the barrels' I'll give that some leniency on ranged champs but melee champs have barely any chance to react before he blows one up from a bush. It's a lot easier early game with the slow ticker to do than it is late game where by time you reach the barrel he's already about to explode it

Nidalee was doing the EXACT same thing as Gangplank is doing now and he's not being nerfed meanwhile Nidalee got an entire rework because of how unhealthy ONE ability was, the rest of her kit was fine.

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Omen463 votes

TahmKench If i must step in... Friend, in as a connoisseur of morse- er, top lane champions. I must say that gangplank has some good laning early. Remember more importantly though. It's about you getting your meal- gold i mean...

bear with me. Gangplank will place a barrel yes? Now they may not taste good, but they'll hardly harm a tank. In his CD the barrels hp will drop to 1. As a trick, make it look like your going to hit it, then just before you get in range. stop. He likely will blow it up, useing more of his mana, and costing him in the long run. Just remeber, to start the feeding... L-Laning. You just need to out-sustain and fight for the minion gold.

And if you don't like me as a counter pick, well that's fine cause i'm not the best fish in the sea... there are those tastier, and less tasty if you so desire. Picks for me would range about:

Amumu Illaoi Urgot Sion XinZhao Mordekaiser

just remeber to try and land your poke, trick him, and do practice destroying those distasteful barrels. it can be done, escpecially if your playing good mind games.

happy hunting...

DragonManSquid2 votes

He has a terrible laning phase. If you are having trouble punishing that, why are you pushing him under tower?

Trash MammaI1 votes

He might not have godmode damage like riven or fiora but his laning is far too safe for someone that can 2 shot a team of tanks

ßurst2 votes

Gangplank is trash tier right now he can't stay in lane against anyone and he's been repeatedly nerfed. If anything he needs some buffs. He's a late game scaling champ that barely has a positive win rate late game.

Trash MammaI1 votes

Farming from tower and healing back any damage done is considered to be trash tier now? Guess i've been out of the meta far too long

ßurst1 votes

Thats exactly why he's bad jayce is practically a better gp because he can actually win lane, Gp has been eh ever since they changed triforce to not give crit, his power spike takes longer and he's more limited to builds, if the enemy team is smart at all, if you get even to half hp the dive against gp is effortless and he'll pop probably just as fast if not faster than an adc under that tower

Caytheles2 votes

Get better? gangplank is pretty weak right now.

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