Return of a Bruiser-y Gangplank? (Trinity Force change discussion)

Hey there, Onwodori here.

GP is my guy and if you've seen my posts before you know that. And while some nerfs have felt unkind, a good 80% of them were needed. However, with *the Gangplank item getting a change, he needs to be scrutinized carefully again.

For those of you unaware, Trinity Force is being changed next patch to have more attack speed and 20% CDR at the cost of 20% crit chance, now lowered to 0 (It builds with a Stinger now instead of a Zeal.)

Long story short, losing 20% crit from a standard Gangplank build is a real pain in the arse. However! The additional CDR is rather nice to be honest. You can poke with sheen procs that much more and with changes to his barrels, more CDR is always good on the pirate lord.

So here's what I'm thinking. Since Riot has nerfed him all sorts of ways, why not play Gangplank in a different way? Not just a glass cannon and can crit-barrel-delete half of the enemy team *IF YOU'RE LUCKY. With all the marksmen in play, your barrels get picked off really, really easily.

Here's a standard GP build currently.

See how crazy expensive that is? Now this.

That is by and far cheaper and gives you nearly as much AD whilst making you very hard to kill via healing from barrel chains, surprisingly high health and max CDR for kiting and better heals via having more healthy.

It might not end entire teams, but it's got additional utility and has perks, IE, higher true damage with your passive that scales off of AD and not crit. Another note on your passive, you can chase people down here with slows and your passive speed burst, whittling people down instead of exploding them all at once.

Just an idea. He's not been weak of late but he's not been super strong either.

Let me know what you think, fellow GP mains!

-Onwodori