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Qualms of a Gangplank Main

Romenji·10/30/2015, 7:36:41 PM·2 votes·613 views

I am unaware, as I am fairly new to this community if I can speak out about the constant nerfing of GangPlank.

As the damage his barrels do constantly go down, the health he has continuing to go down, his survivability going down, predictability going up.

People cried saying the barrels did too much damage, and that they do but with how obvious their existance is and how easy they are to avoid or even defuse with range it's almost comical at this point. Yet he continuously gets nerfed. I rarely ever see a gangplank, and I rarely see him banned when I do ranked as most AP, range, tank champs faceroll him even when he's stacked and fed.

The only dangers his kit imposes is the weak-sauce ult's "Slow" and the CC removal and exceptionally weak heal. GP cannot jungle effectivly, he cannot mid, support or ADC yet most if not all top laners can carry and tank and dish out large amounts of damage. Why must this rarely touched champion who gets 1 new good trick must be nerfed constantly?

He can't tank, his damage is actually rather pitiful to most carries all save for his barrel. most AD items only go to +80 when AP goes to +100~120 so he pales in comparison to them. he's not even AA reliant as only his passive assists in it which has a hellish cooldown on its own. I don't believe I have to list the reason why most toplane champs are banned.

Would it be unreasonable to buff GP so that his barrels aren't his primary form of heavy damage. reward those that save barrels, make his ult more of a damage dealer instead of a team support. ontop of that I can't properly convey how piss poor his escapes are, his tanking is, his sustain nearly nonexistant especially with no mana return on his Q as poor as it was to begin with.

Every single solitary champion with a Dash, Irelia, akali, yasuo, renekton and many more along with every range champion and every CC using champion shits on GangPlank with no regard with their own survival because of how worthless GP is in a 1v1 engagement without a barrel. which everyone can see..

He can't even hold towers anymore as he has no mana sustain and most top champions dont even need mana, have no mana or have "energy bars" that recharge at an ungodly rate with little to no cost compared to mana reliant champs.

8 Comments

dangopee10/30/2015, 7:53:20 PM1 votes

They could have avoid all of these chain nerfs if they just had his barrels only ignore bonus armor from the beginning. Now he is gutted.

Sightless6610/30/2015, 9:44:32 PM1 votes

Why must this rarely touched champion who gets 1 new good trick must be nerfed constantly?

You heard it here first, 100% pick and ban in competitive play = rarely touched. No other champion is as contested in pro play as GP. Hell, even outside of it he's like the 6th or 7th most picked toplaner, and it might be higher if he wasn't banned 30ish% of the time. You're just wrong here. He's popular. This isn't even open for debate. He's doing well too, so it's not like there's something else suggesting he's weak.

The only dangers his kit imposes is the weak-sauce ult's "Slow" and the CC removal and exceptionally weak heal.

And the massive damage. Let's not forget the massive damage. Those barrels hurt, and you dance around that issue in your post but you never really give it enough credit. They really, really, REALLY hurt, and they aren't that hard to use.

or if you had 5 barrels and didn't use them, it powered up your ultimate or increased your parrlay damage.

So, pretty much you just want his kit to not have barrels anymore? That seems to be the central theme here. You don't like barrels. I mean, why else have a mechanic saying "you're stronger if you never use a central skill while fighting"? That's fine by the way. It's ok to not like a mechanic.

Gangplank was good. He was really, really good. He's been really good ever since his rework, and it had to be toned down. I understand and sympathize if you don't like how central the barrels are to his kit, or if you have other design complaints, but none of those actually mean that he's weak.

most AD items only go to +80 when AP goes to +100~120 so he pales in comparison to them.

That's a silly argument. AD and AP ratios are given different numbers to get around that issue.

Fowus10/30/2015, 10:21:30 PM1 votes

hes still pretty damn strong